‘Disciplinary panels hearing cases of judicial misconduct will have lay majorities, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the judiciary have decided, as part of a major overhaul of the system.’
Legal Futures, 9th August 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has considered the extent to which judges are required to respond to requests for clarifications in judgments.’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th July 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Judges are using Wikipedia to research legal issues and allowing it to influence their reasoning, ground-breaking research has discovered.’
Legal Futures, 28th July 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The rules on witness statements should not be seen as encouragement to go through them “with a fine-tooth comb” to identify “as many instances of non-compliance as possible for use in trench warfare”, the High Court has said.’
Legal Futures, 25th July 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Britain’s first openly gay senior judge will lead a review into the impact of a historical ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces.’
BBC News, 19th June 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Speech by the Lord Chief Justice: Slynn Lecture.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary , 16th June 2022
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘Lord Reed, Donoghue v Stevenson – 90th Anniversary Conference.’
Supreme Court, 6th June 2022
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
‘The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos, gave the CiARB Roebuck lecture on Wednesday (8 June 2022). He set out how an integrated digital justice system can be created using common ‘data standards’ governed by the Online Procedure Rule Committee. The lecture explains how this common and consistent approach.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary , 10th June 2022
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘The “high number of instances” in which the Supreme Court has reversed its position on the law and adopted approaches more favourable to the executive has created “the troubling appearance (even if it is only an appearance) of the politicisation of the judiciary”, MPs have warned.’
Legal Futures, 9th June 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Ministers have acted improperly by questioning the legitimacy of judges when they do not get their own way, creating an impression that recent supreme court decisions favourable to the government may have been a response to political pressure, a parliamentary inquiry has found.’
The Guardian, 8th June 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The strengthened rules on witness statements should not be used as a “weapon with which to fillet” essentially insignificant failures to comply, a High Court judge has said.’
Legal Futures, 27th May 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘In Park v Hadi and Another [2022] EWCA Civ 581, the Court of Appeal (Holroyde, Stuart-Smith and Warby LJJ), reaffirmed the principle that a judge may, of her own discretion, grant relief from sanctions without formal notice or without any application at all. The Court went on to issue guidance as to how this judicial discretion ought to be exercised, observing that a judge should always act in accordance with the overriding objective and will likely only exercise her discretion to grant relief sparingly.’
Farrar's Building, 5th May 2022
Source: www.farrarsbuilding.co.uk
‘Actor and political activist Laurence Fox has failed in his bid for the first libel trial by jury in a decade over a social media spat between him and three public figures he called “paedophiles” on Twitter.’
Law Society's Gazette, 18th May 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has issued a stern rebuke to lawyers who ran up massive costs and lumbered the court with voluminous bundles.’
Law Society's Gazette, 16th May 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Lord Reed, London International Disputes Week.’
Supreme Court, 11th May 2022
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has considered the question of whether it is fair and appropriate for a Court of Protection Judge to visit the person who lacks mental capacity and about whom the Judge is being asked to make a best interest decision.’
Family Law, 5th May 2022
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Domestic abuse allegations were “troublingly” downplayed by a judge in a case that exposes systemic issues with the family court, a leading barrister has warned.’
The Independent, 20th April 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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