“Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published in August.”
Family Law Week, 11th September 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“The Internet has changed the world and many say the law is struggling to keep up, writes Lyndon Harris.”
Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 17th August 2013
Source: www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk
“A solicitor who refused to comply with a legal ombudsman decision to return files to a client has been fined £5,000 for contempt by a county court.”
Solicitors Journal, 14th August 2013
Source: www.solicitorsjournal.com
“A Russian wife has been awarded one of the highest divorce settlements ever made by an English court after a judge ruled that she should receive more than £53 million from her ex-husband.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Do CPS press conferences after charge risk prejudicing a trial, asks Dan Bunting.”
Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 10th August
Source: www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk
“One of the country’s most senior judges has asked a legal regulator to consider striking off a law firm over its last-minute bids to block the deportation of failed asylum seekers.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The incoming Lord Chief Justice has asked the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to consider a law firm’s continuing fitness to practise having found its senior partner in contempt of court.”
Legal Futures, 9th August 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“On 29 July 2013, two men, Mr Davey and Mr Beard, were sentenced to two months’ immediate custody each for contempt of court. On 23 July 2013, they were, despite their protestations of innocence, found to have committed contempt of court. The transcript is available here.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 5th August 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Bedfordshire Police Constabulary v RU and another [2013] EWHC 2350 (Fam); [2013] WLR (D) 319
“There was no power whereby a police force could apply for a person to be committed to prison for contempt of court for breach of a forced marriage protection order where the police themselves were not the applicants who had obtained the order. The relevant departments of state should give urgent consideration to improving the effectiveness of forced marriage protection orders and the means of enforcement.”
WLR Daily, 26th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“It might be that the sanction of committal for contempt for ignoring orders of the court in respect of providing proper financial information in divorce proceedings may be more likely than before – partly in view of the new climate intended to be fostered by the ‘Jackson’ reforms.”
Sovereign Chambers, 22nd July 2013
Source: www.sovereignchambers.co.uk
“Jurors should be given clearer instructions on the dangers of using the internet during trials, Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General, has said after two jury members were jailed for contempt of court.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two jurors have both been jailed for two months after being found guilty of contempt of court for misusing the internet during crown court trials.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jurors who use the internet to research court cases cause ‘absolute chaos’, Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General, said today.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A mother who went missing with four of her children during a care dispute with her Spanish ex-husband has been cleared of being in contempt of court for breaching a High Court order.”
BBC News, 24th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The modern-day perils of using the internet while serving on a jury were all too evident today as two former jurors were brought before the High Court.”
The Independent, 23rd July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who refuses to tell his ex-wife where their six-year-old daughter is has been jailed for a second time.”
BBC News, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Google has been threatened with criminal proceedings by the information commissioner’s office (ICO) over data secretly collected by its Street View cars in the UK.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“On 24 May Mr Justice Tugendhat handed down the judgment in McAlpine v Bercow [2013] EWHC 1342 (QB), finding that Mrs Bercow’s tweet carried a defamatory meaning. Following the judgment it was announced that Bercow had accepted an earlier settlement offer, saying that ‘today’s ruling should be seen as a warning to all social media users’. Although Twitter litigation is no longer new (the site has been the form of publication in a number of cases, most notably Cairns v Modi [2012] EWHC 756 (QB)), McAlpine is the first to really tackle the peculiar nature of this social media genre and could mark a key moment in social media use.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th June 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A fitness instructor who attacked a judge and knocked off his wig has been jailed for 18 months after admitting contempt of court.”
The Independent, 4th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman jailed by a ‘secret court; for trying to take her dying father out of his care home and fly him to Turkey has spoken about her ordeal for the first time.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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