“Last year the Divisional Court upheld the Home Secretary’s decision to prevent a dissident Iranian politician coming to the United Kingdom to address the Palace of Westminster: see that decision here and my post discussing the ‘Politics of Fear’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“One could be forgiven for thinking the campaign to halt or defer the main planks of the civil justice reforms devised by Sir Rupert Jackson is still in full swing. To be fair to the refusniks, the impression that all was not settled has been given in part by the last-minute approach the Ministry of Justice has taken to issuing details on implementation. If the government and the senior judiciary had yet to say what was to come on, respectively, damages-based agreements and big-ticket costs budgeting, perhaps they were still open to persuasion?”
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th March 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“In a judgment which is sure to provoke heated debate, the High Court has today ruled that the banning of an advert which read ‘NOT GAY! EX-GAY, POST-GAY AND PROUD. GET OVER IT!’ from appearing on London buses was handled very badly by Transport for London (‘TfL’) but was not unlawful or in breach of the human rights of the group behind the advert.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The involvement of solicitors and barristers in crafting witness statements in big-ticket litigation has neutered the current regime and it should be replaced by a system of witness summaries and live evidence-in-chief, a Bar Council working party has recommended.”
Litigation Futures, 26th March 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.co.uk
“The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has begun an investigation into whether newspaper photographs showing Vicky Pryce serving her prison sentence might have breached its code of conduct.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Guardian analyses the controversial clauses that have sparked a heated debate over the cross-party plan for a new press regulation regime.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This is an interesting appeal in relation to the counting of storeys for HMO licensing purposes. It actually repeats an argument dealt with in an appeal in a criminal prosecution of a Mr Williams by Cotswold District Council from way back in 2008 although the result here was different (see ‘Recount Your Storeys’ (2009) 12 JHL 1).”
NearlyLegal, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“News that Oxford Brookes University is discontinuing its legal practice course (LPC) because a drop in applications means it is no longer viable has sent a shock wave through the legal education market, as we await publication of the much-anticipated Legal Education and Training Review (LETR).”
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th March 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.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
“In El-Dinnaoui v Westminster CC [2013] EWCA Civ 231, the Court of Appeal found that the offer of a flat on the 16th floor of a block to a household which contained a person with fear of heights was perverse. The offer of accommodation was ‘in the teeth’ of the medical evidence. How could the case have got this far, one might well ask? At heart in this case, there is something interesting about the reception by homelessness officers about medical evidence (see comments at the end). The final point by way of introduction is a hat-tip to Debra Wilson at Anthony Gold who, I’m told, took Mr El-Dinnaoui’s appeal pro bono (and won).”
NearlyLegal, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“This month we saw eight-month sentences handed out to Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce for perverting the course of justice. Both had been warned to ‘be under no illusion as to the likely sentence’ – the judicial way of saying, ‘expect a custodial sentence’. Of course, the lawyers would tell you that this was inevitable as the courts treat such crimes severely.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“In May 2012, the Home Secretary announced a review of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED), which came into force a year earlier in April 2011, as an outcome of the Red Tape Challenge. The review is focusing in particular on levels of understanding of the PSED and guidance, the costs and benefits of the duty, how organisations are managing legal risk and ensuring compliance with the duty and what changes, if any, would secure better equality outcomes. It is being overseen by a steering group, appointed by Government Ministers, largely drawn from public authorities.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Legal protections preventing the inclusion of unfair contract terms in consumer contracts should be extended to apply to less formal notices, such as those included as part of software end user licence agreements (EULA), law reform bodies have said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th March 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“On 21st March 2013 the House of Commons Justice Committee published a report (HC 962) on the functions, powers and resources of the Information Commissioner. It is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the current role and future prospects of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).”
Panopticon, 25th March 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“Today we will see the beginning of the end of the passage of the Justice and Security Bill through Parliament: the process commonly known as parliamentary ‘ping-pong’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Female offenders should receive more targeted support to break the cycle of crime and abuse many of them face, Justice Minister Helen Grant said today.”
Ministry of Justice, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Deirdre Fottrell, barrister of Coram Chambers, reviews recent cases involving human rights issues which are of significance to family lawyers.”
Family Law Week, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.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
“An inquest jury has criticised procedures and practice at the UK’s biggest jail following the death of a prisoner, jailed for stealing a gingerbread man in the 2011 riots.”
The Guardian, 26th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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