“Andy Coulson’s legal fees relating to criminal investigations into alleged illegal activity at the News of the World while he was editor should continue to be paid by News International, the court of appeal has ruled.”
The Guardian, 28th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina v Jaddi [2012] WLR (D) 347
“Where the questions of whether an asylum seeker had come to the United Kingdom directly from a country where his life had been threatened after staying in Italy for a few days and whether he had made a claim for asylum as soon as reasonably practicable in the United Kingdom had not been fully investigated by immigration control after false identity documents were presented, the defence under section 31 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 should have been made available to him and the facts were for the jury to decide.”
WLR Daily, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Murderer Jeremy Bamber and two other killers will have their appeal against spending the rest of their lives in prison heard in the European Court of Human Rights later.”
BBC News, 28th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An appeal is to be launched into the ‘lenient’ sentence of a taxi driver who murdered an office worker in Swindon.”
BBC News, 27th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Where restraint orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 were later set aside, the remuneration and expenses of the management receiver appointed under those orders were not recoverable either out of the assets of the companies to which the restraint orders related or from the Crown Prosecution Service.”
WLR Daily, 23rd November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“In R v Riat the Court of Appeal provided valuable guidance concerning the approach that the domestic courts should adopt when hearsay evidence is tendered in criminal proceedings.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 26th November 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
In re Press Association [2012] EWCA Crim 2434; [2012] WLR (D) 343
“The court did not have the power under section 4(2) of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 nor under section 1(2) of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 to make an order anonymising the name of a defendant. It was for those responsible for decisions relating to publication to ensure that the provisions which protected the public identification of a complainant in sexual cases were obeyed and they did so, not because there were enjoined to do so by judicial order, but because it was a statutory requirement.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“When exercising its discretion as to whether to grant an order for the disclosure of information, which included the disclosure of personal data about identifiable individuals, the court was not confined to weighing the impact of the disclosure on the individuals concerned against the value to the claimant of obtaining the information, but was entitled have regard to other relevant factors including the strong public interest in allowing a claimant to vindicate his legal rights and whether the making of the order would deter similar wrongdoing in the future.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The provisions of Schedule 21 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which enabled the court in a case of exceptional seriousness to sentence an offender to life imprisonment with a whole life term as the specified minimum sentence, were not incompatible with and did not contravene article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms provided the judge specifying the minimum term was satisfied that, taking into account all the aggravating and mitigating factors, the element of just punishment and retribution required the imposition of a whole life order.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has overturned an order made by a Cambridge judge who said a convicted rapist could not be identified by the media.”
BBC News, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Pomiechowski v District Court in Legnica, 59-220 Poland [2012] EWHC 3161 (Admin); [2012] WLR (D) 331
“It was acceptable for a European arrest warrant to contain particulars of both convictions and accused offences.”
WLR Daily, 9th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v YDG: Regina v ZSB: [2012] EWCA Crim 2437; [2012] WLR (D) 332
“Where a judge had directed, pursuant to section 29 of the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996, that there should be a preparatory hearing, and the conditions of that section were satisfied, he had no power to revoke his direction.”
WLR, 20th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Two employment cases, about Facebook and train tickets respectively, indicate the difficulties of deciding where human rights may or may not be raised in disputes between private parties – neither defendant in these cases was a public authority.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st November 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Attorney General Dominic Grieve has been criticised for refusing to intervene in the case of Danny Nightingale, a soldier who pleaded guilty at a Court Martial recently to illegal possession of a gun and ammunition. Apparently Danny Nightingale’s solicitor intends to appeal, presumably against the sentence of 18 months detention. Grieve refused to intervene following a written request to do so from the Secretary of State for Defence, Philip Hammond.”
Head of Legal, 20th November 2012
Source: www.headoflegal.com
“Lawyers for an SAS soldier detained for possessing a pistol which he said was given as a war gift have launched an appeal against his conviction.”
BBC News, 21st November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has upheld the principle of whole life sentences for the most dangerous of offenders, saying it does not breach human rights.”
BBC News, 21st November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (Gujra) v Crown Prosecution Service [2012] UKSC 52; [2012] WLR (D) 330
“The Crown Prosecution Service, in deciding whether to use its statutory power to take over and discontinue a private prosecution on the ground that there was insufficient evidence, was entitled to apply the same test as that applicable to Crown prosecutors when conducting public prosecutions, namely that a prosecution should not be continued unless it was more likely than not that the defendant would be convicted.”
WLR Daily, 14th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An SAS veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan will lodge an appeal on Wednesday against a decision to jail him for possessing a pistol and live ammunition at his home in Britain.”
The Guardian, 20th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five leading judges are to rule on appeals by four convicted criminals against their whole-life tariffs.”
BBC News, 21st November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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