Judicial appointments: new boys at the supreme court – The Guardian
“Who’s in and who’s out of the top tier of the judiciary? Joshua Rozenberg’s money is on Lady Hale for deputy president.”
The Guardian, 27th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Category: courts
Jackson implementation lectures restart with patents court success story – Litigation Futures
“Reforms to the Patents County Court (PCC) – including a costs cap – have been a “considerable success” and enabled more people to bring cases, the first Jackson implementation lecture in nearly nine months has revealed.”
Litigation Futures, 26th February 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Intellectual Property Litigation: Implementation of the Jackson Report’s Recommendations – Speech by Mr Justice Arnold
Intellectual Property Litigation: Implementation of the Jackson Report’s Recommendations (PDF)
Speech by Mr Justice Arnold
AIPPI UK, 14th February 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Religious courts and Sharia divorce – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“If you glanced at the front page of The Times for 1 February, with its headline ‘High Court opens way to Sharia divorces’, you could have been forgiven for thinking that the court had made some important pronouncement on the role of Sharia (Islamic law) in divorce proceedings. The story’s first paragraph would also have led you naturally to that conclusion. ‘The prospect of divorce cases being settled by Sharia and religious courts’, it says, ‘has been opened up by landmark legal decision.’ So it would have come as a bit of a jolt to read the start of the next paragraph: ‘A Jewish couple have had their divorce settlement under Beth Din, rabbinical law, approved by the High Court.’ As this indicates, the case (AI v MT [2013] EWHC 100 (Fam)) says nothing whatsoever about Sharia.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 4th February 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
TV cameras to be allowed into court of appeal – The Guardian
“TV cameras will be allowed into the court of appeal for the first time from October and senior judges will be offered training before appearing on camera, the lord chief justice has revealed.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Lord Judge ‘troubled’ by court camera plan – Law Society’s Gazette
“The lord chief justice has voiced opposition to the government’s plan to allow the filming of sentencing in the Crown court.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 30th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Tomorrow’s Lawyers: a virtual judiciary – extract – The Guardian
“Is court a service or a place? And what is the scope for the ‘decomposing and multi-sourcing’ of judicial work?”
The Guardian, 29th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Zakrzewski (Respondent) v The Regional Court in Lodz, Poland (Appellant) – Supreme Court
Supreme Court, 23rd January 2013
Almost £2 billion in court fines and confiscation orders remain unpaid – Daily Telegraph
“Nearly £2 billion in court fines and confiscation orders remain unpaid, official figures show, as the Government admitted it needed to do more to tackle the debt.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Off with his head: Recent developments in severability – Hardwicke Chambers
“Adjudicators are increasingly called upon to adjudicate upon complex, multi-faceted disputes. It is now well established that ‘a dispute’ can encompass several discrete issues and the TCC has striven to avoid an overly legalistic approach and to apply common sense when deciding whether a claim encompasses ‘a dispute’ or not.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 7th January 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
What has the European Court of Human Rights ever done for us? – The Independent
“The Court of Human Rights has a bad press in Britain – but for thousands of desperate people it is their last shot at justice.”
The Independent, 14th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Legal challenge to put an end to court papers – Daily Telegraph
“Saying you’re going to end the legal world’s reliance on paper sounds almost as audacious a claim as announcing you’re going to stop banks paying bonuses. Graham Smith, however, believes his small London-based business is set to revolutionise the way trials and other hearings are managed all over the world by doing exactly that.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court custody suites criticised by prisons watchdog – BBC News
“Women and children awaiting trial are being kept too close to men in court custody suites, a watchdog has found.”
BBC News, 8th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
More trials being disrupted over interpreter failings – The Guardian
“Nearly 200 trials were disrupted or postponed in England and Wales in the first quarter of the year because interpreters provided by a private firm failed to appear, according to a damning report by the select committee.”
The Guardian, 14th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal: Criminal Appeals Heard More Quickly – Judiciary of England and Wales
“The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) heard appeals against conviction and sentence more quickly last year than in previous years according to the Court’s annual report published today (Tuesday 11 December).”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 11th December 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Unmeritorious appeals ‘clogging the arteries’ of CoA – Law Society’s Gazette
“Increasing numbers of ‘unmeritorious’ appeals could have the effect of ‘clogging the arteries’ of the court of appeal, the registrar of criminal appeals has warned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 11th December 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Votes for prisoners – opening the door? – BBC News
“Polls suggest the public are incredulous at the idea. And, famously, we all know that it makes David Cameron physically sick.”
BBC News, 19th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Equal pay claims: should equal pay claims be brought in an ordinary court? – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“As Harvey points out in Division K, there have been inconsistent decisions over the last year on whether equal pay claims can be brought in an ordinary court, the obvious point being that in a tribunal a claimant must claim within six months of leaving the employment whereas in a court action the limitation period would be six years.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 19th November 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
More criminals to escape courts under new police commissioners, magistrates warn – Daily Telegraph
“More offenders will be ‘let off’ with cautions and fines following the introduction of police and crime commissioners, magistrates fear.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
