“The Queen’s Speech sets out the government’s legislative programme for the next
year. Here is a guide to all the bills in it.”
BBC News, 8th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ahead of the 2013 state opening of parliament, we look at how long the Queen’s speech has been over the last two decades, and how many bills it introduced.”
The Guardian, 7th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Hundreds of thousands of people who care for elderly or disabled relations will be given new rights to state support for the first time, Norman Lamb, the Care and Support Minister, says.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Consumer rights covering products such as cars and white goods are to be extended to apps and music downloads in a consumer bill of rights to be unveiled in the Queen’s speech on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 6th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Commonwealth Law Conference: Equality before the law – Speech by Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, 18th April 2013.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 24th April 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Tailoring the law on vicarious liability (PDF)
Lecture by Lord Hope of Craighead
Lord Taylor Memorial Lecture, Inner Temple, 23rd April 2013
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
“Speech by Helen Grant MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Originally given at Capita Conference, London. This is a transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered.”
Ministry of Justice, 22nd April 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
Extradtition, Deportation and Human Rights (PDF)
Edward Fitzgerald QC
Inner Temple Reader’s Lecture Series, 18th March 2013
Source: www.innertemple.org.uk
“Britain’s most senior female judge has warned that her colleagues on the bench may lack common sense because they have lived ‘sheltered lives’.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Should judges be socio-legal scholars? (PDF)
Speech by Lady Hale
Socio-Legal Studies Association 2013 Conference, 26th March 2013
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
“In my Presidential address I want to examine ‘compensation culture’. This I imagine is something with which W. S. Holdsworth, notwithstanding his truly encyclopaedic knowledge of English law, would have been unfamiliar. We can let him off though. The term was apparently not coined until 1993; when it first appeared in The Times newspaper in an article by Bernard Levin entitled Addicted to welfare.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 15th March 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
The Application of the Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules (PDF)
Speech by Master of the Rolls
District Judges’ Annual Seminar, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The courts are ‘very aware’ of the dangers of feeding media perceptions of a compensation culture, the Master of the Rolls has said.”
Litigation Futures, 25th March 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“‘Throughout the web of the English Criminal Law one golden thread is always to be seen, that it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner’s guilt subject to what I have already said as to the defence of insanity and subject also to any statutory exception
No matter what the charge or where the trial, the principle that the prosecution must prove the guilt of the prisoner is part of the common law of England and no attempt to whittle it down can be entertained.’
Per Viscount Sankey in Woolmington v DPP [1935] AC 462 – emphasis added.
There cannot be an English lawyer who is unaware of this paragraph in Viscount Sankey’s judgment in Woolmington. Many non-lawyers who have chanced to read the Rumpole stories will also be as aware of, if not as attached to, it.”
Full story (PDF)
Zenith Chambers, 19th March 2013
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
Half a Century of Change: The Evidence of Child Victims (PDF)
Speech by The Right Honourable the Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Toulmin Lecture in Law and Psychiatry, 20th March 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Jack Straw served continuously on the Labour front-bench for 30 years- from November 1980 until October 2010.
He was a senior member of the Labour Cabinet for the whole period of the 1997-2000 Labour Government. He served successively as Home Secretary (1997-2001), Foreign Secretary (2001-2006), Leader of the Commons (2006-7), and then Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary (2007-2010).”
UCL Constitution Unit, 7th March 2013
Source: www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit
“Research should be carried out into the long-term affects on those who give evidence about sexual abuse when they are a child, the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, has urged.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Human rights will be a politically live issue at the next election. Leading on the issue will by the Conservative Party, urged on by elements in the media such as the Daily Mail with a commercial interest in resistance to any law on privacy deriving from human rights. So, the Working Men’s College has done well to identify this topic for exploration. This evening is a celebration of the college’s stated aim to ‘engage positively with the past, while finding new ways to pursue its founders’ aims into the 21st century.’ ”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Should the Decision of the Foreign Secretary be Justiciable?
Louise Christian, Senior Consultant and Head of Public Law, Christian Khan Solicitors
Inner Temple Reader’s Lecture Series, 18th February 2013
Source: www.innertemple.org.uk
