“David Miliband, the foreign secretary, was accused yesterday of seriously misleading high court judges by claiming that the United States would stop sharing crucial intelligence with Britain if they agreed to disclose CIA documents showing how a UK resident was tortured.”
The Guardian, 23rd April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This week lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo detainee, return to court to challenge the ruling that he cannot see secret evidence that, he maintains, is central to his claim to have been subject to torture with the consent of the UK intelligence authorities.”
The Times, 22nd April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Lawyers for the government have admitted that a senior MI5 officer gave false evidence to the high court in the case of former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed.”
The Guardian, 21st April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service
Court of Appeal
“The Administrative Court did not have jurisdiction to entertain a claim that a public authority proposed to act in a way incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights where the matters brought up were within the purview of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.”
The Times, 6th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
EDO Corpn v Ultra Electronics Ltd [2009] EWHC 682 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 114
“The procedure for pre-action disclosure provided by s 33(2) of the Supreme Act 1981 was not available to a party where the underlying dispute he might have with the proposed defendant arose out of a contract which required any dispute to be determined by arbitration.”
WLR Daily, 1st April 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Consistent with the interests of open justice and the rule of law, an annex to an earlier judgment of the court, integral to that judgment but previously withheld so as not to prejudice confidential plea bargain negotiations in the United States involving the claimant, should be made public in accordance with the undertaking of the court at the time of that judgment.”
WLR Daily, 25th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A high court judge is due to rule today on Barclays’ attempt to ban the Guardian from publishing whistleblower documents about the bank’s tax avoidance schemes.”
The Guardian, 19th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today confirmed that notes showing Eddie Gilfoyle’s wife died at home when her husband was at his workplace were kept from the defence at the time of his trial.”
The Times, 27th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The US government should urgently release details about the treatment of a British resident who alleges he was tortured, a senior Labour MP has said.”
BBC News, 24th February 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
R (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service [2009] EWCA Civ 24; [2009] WLR (D) 63
“The Administrative Court did not have jurisdiction to entertain a claim that a public authority proposed to act in a way incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights where the matters brought up were within the purview of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.”
WLR Daily, 19th February 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“David Miliband, the foreign secretary, was last night facing fresh pressure over torture allegations after it was revealed that his officials asked the US for help in suppressing crucial evidence.”
The Guardian, 16th February 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Foreign Office (FCO) solicited the letter from the US State Department that forced British judges to block the disclosure of CIA files documenting the torture of a British resident held in Guantánamo Bay, the Observer can reveal.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A consultation on draft regulations made under section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 regarding the disclosure of information from the Department of Work and Pensions and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in order to facilitate the assessment of a defendant’s financial eligibility for legal aid at the magistrates’ court.”
Ministry of Justice, 12th February 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A novel issue, the striking of a balance between the public interest in national security and the public interest in open justice, the rule of law and democratic accountability, lay at the heart of the court’s consideration of whether to restore passages, summarising information relating to an arguable case of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of the claimant, which had been redacted from the court’s first open judgment at the request of the Foreign Secretary on grounds of national security. The rule of law required that the determination of where the balance lay was ultimately for the decision of the court.”
WLR Daily, 5th February 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Foreign Secretary David Miliband today defended the non-disclosure of US intelligence after a furious row erupted between the British courts and the American administration over the Binyam Mohamed case.”
The Independent, 5th February 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“David Miliband will make a statement to the House of Commons today on the alleged cover-up of the torture of Binyam Mohamed, a former British resident being held at Guantanamo Bay.”
The Times, 5th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The US has threatened to withhold intelligence from the UK if evidence of the alleged torture of a British resident held at Guantánamo Bay is made public. ”
The Times, 5th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Evidence of how a British resident held in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp was tortured, and what MI5 knew about it, must remain secret because of serious threats the US has made against the UK, the high court ruled today (4 February).”
The Guardian, 4th February 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The attorney general, Lady Scotland, must hand over to the director of public prosecutions detailed allegations of criminal wrongdoing by MI5 and the CIA concerning the treatment of a British resident held at Guantánamo Bay, his lawyer said yesterday. The demand comes in a 26-page letter, seen by the Guardian, sent to the attorney by Clive Stafford Smith, director of the legal charity Reprieve and the lawyer representing Binyam Mohamed.”
The Guardian, 5th December 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A company’s £2 million trawl through documents for a court case will have to be redone because lawyers had not agreed the terms of the search, the High Court has said. The ruling could change the way companies conduct disclosure, said one expert.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
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