Category: good character

Junior doctor’s appeal against factual findings of sexual misconduct dismissed and limited weight afforded to good character: Shabir v General Medical Council [2023] EWHC 17 – 2 Hare Court

Posted January 4th, 2024 in disciplinary procedures, doctors, evidence, good character, news, professional conduct by sally

‘In a judgment handed down on 13 July 2023, Mrs Justice Hill dismissed Dr Shabir’s appeal under s40 of the Medical Act 1983 against the finding of facts of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) which resulted in his erasure from the medical register.’

Full Story

2 Hare Court, 5th December 2024

Source: www.2harecourt.com

Home Office sued by family of Windrush man refused UK citizenship – The Guardian

Posted December 11th, 2020 in assault, bereavement, citizenship, colonies, families, good character, government departments, immigration, judicial review, news, race discrimination by tracey

‘The family of a Windrush man denied British citizenship on the grounds that he failed a good character requirement are suing the Home Office to try to change legislation, arguing the rules are racially discriminatory.’

Full Story

The Guardian, 10th December 2020

Source: www.theguardian.com

An Oxford medical student stabbed her boyfriend with a bread knife. So why did she not go to prison? – The Secret Barrister

Posted September 29th, 2017 in alcohol abuse, domestic violence, drug abuse, good character, mental health, news, sentencing, suspended sentences, wounding by sally

‘Lavinia Woodward, the 24-year old Oxford student who pleaded guilty to stabbing her boyfriend with a bread knife, was sentenced yesterday at Oxford Crown Court for unlawful wounding. The case caused a splash back in May when, having entered her plea, the defendant was told by the judge that she was unlikely to receive an immediate custodial sentence, in part due to her promising medical career. Thus was born the tale of the rich, blonde, white Oxford student who was “too clever” to be sent to prison. “Too clever” appears in all headlines in quotation marks, notwithstanding that no-one in court, not least the judge, ever used these words; rather this is one of the those splendid auto-generated media myths, where one tabloid shorthand was adopted by all until everyone came to accept that these words must have been said.’

Full Story

The Secret Barrister, 26th September 2017

Source: thesecretbarrister.com

Refusal of citizenship to wife and children of Islamist extremist declared unlawful – Free Movement

Posted December 8th, 2015 in citizenship, families, good character, news by sally

‘The Secretary of State for the Home Department refused the citizenship applications of the wife and two minor children of an Islamist extremist on good character grounds. The refusal was justified by the Home Office as punishment by proxy which would have the effect of deterring other extremists. The High Court has declared that unlawful in the case of MM & GY & TY v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 3513 (Admin).’

Full story

Free Movement, 8th December 2015

Source: www.freemovement.org.uk

Regina v Hunter (Nigel); Regina v Saruwu (Joseph); Regina v Johnstone (Ian); Regina v Walker (Alan); Regina v Lonsdale (Paul) – WLR Daily

Posted April 30th, 2015 in crime, good character, jury directions, law reports by sally

Regina v Hunter (Nigel); Regina v Saruwu (Joseph); Regina v Johnstone (Ian); Regina v Walker (Alan); Regina v Lonsdale (Paul) [2015] EWCA Crim 631; [2015] WLR (D) 176

‘Only defendants with a good character or deemed to be of effective good character were entitled to a good character direction. Where a defendant had a bad character, a judge was not obliged to give a good character direction; he or she had a discretion.’

WLR Daily, 16th April 2015

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Curbing the Good Character Direction – Zenith Chambers

Posted April 29th, 2015 in appeals, civil procedure rules, crime, good character, juries, news by sally

‘A specially constituted fivemember Court of Appeal handed down judgment last week in the case of R v Hunter & Others [2015] EWCA Crim 631. The court heard a number of appeals concerning the circumstances in which a good character direction should be given and the extent of such a direction.’

Full story (PDF)

Zenith Chambers, 20th April 2015

Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk

Regina v D (P) – WLR Daily

Posted January 30th, 2012 in domestic violence, good character, jury directions, law reports, rape by sally

Regina v D (P) [2012] EWCA Crim 19; [2012] WLR (D) 10

“The fact that the effect of a good character direction might be undermined by the facts of a particular case provided no justification for a judge to decline to give any such direction.”

WLR Daily, 26th January 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk