“Government proposals to extend the use of secret hearings in cases where evidence might compromise national security are a radical departure from the UK’s ‘traditions of open justice and fairness’, MPs and peers said today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th April 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights has now responded to the Government’s consultation on the proposals set out in their Justice and Security Green Paper Cm 8194. The idea is to extend ‘closed material procedures’ so as to be available in all civil proceedings, i.e. not just in some highly restricted national security contexts such as deportation appeals before SIAC (the Special Immigration Appeals Commission), control orders, and their successor regime known as TPIMs.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Parliament’s joint committee on human rights (JCHR) has produced a unanimous report on the government’s justice and security green paper that is as precise and persuasive as the green paper itself is unfocussed and unconvincing.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three senior judges have issued a groundbreaking judgment that strengthens the media’s right to see documents used in criminal cases.”
The Guardian, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Thomas Hammarberg, the European commissioner for human rights, calls Liam Stacey’s 56-day sentence excessive.”
The Guardian, 1st April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Plans to allow cameras into courtrooms would risk turning trials into media circuses and could jeopardise defendants’ safety, ministers were warned last night by a leading solicitor.”
The Independent, 29th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The head of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has said it made a ‘serious error’ in its handling of the Mark Duggan shooting.”
BBC News, 28th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An article in the People newspaper claiming Charlotte Church had drunkenly proposed to her boyfriend at a pub karaoke night could be seen as defamatory because she was a ‘star’, a high court judge has ruled.”
The Guardian, 28th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It was coincidental that this cricket libel case and Lady Justice Arden’s speech on media intrusion and human rights ‘Striking the Balance’ came out on the same day.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“New legislation should be introduced to force search engines to delete privacy-invasive material from search indexes if the companies do not take action voluntarily, a committee of MPs has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Television cameras are to be allowed into courts for the first time to film the sentencing of serious criminals.”
The Independent, 28th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“High court privacy injunctions have been given a clean bill of health by a special committee of MPs and peers which were set up in the fallout of the Ryan Giggs gagging order.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The complex web of commercial and regulatory issues that surrounds sport is occupying an ever-increasing amount of lawyers’ time. That was evident at the Law Society’s Sports Law Conference, held at Chancery Lane last week. It may be true that, as Charles Russell partner Simon Johnson told the conference, ‘a sports right as such does not exist’. But that has not stopped the rights and laws that affect sport from developing into a unique combination of problems whose resolution requires a growing cast of legal minds.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The supreme court’s unanimous decision in Flood v Times Newspapers, handed down on Wednesday, gives some comfort to the media in what are otherwise gloomy times for journalists when the reputation of the news gathering and reporting trade, mid-Leveson inquiry, is hanging by a thread and the threat of statutory regulation looms large.”
The Guardian, 21st March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Tangled web, this one, but an important one. Many will remember George Galloway’s Mariam Appeal launched in response to sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1998, and the famous picture of GG with Saddam Hussein. Well, the Appeal was then inquired into by the Charity Commission, and this case concerns an attempt by a journalist, unsuccessful so far, to get hold of the documents which the Inquiry saw. But the Commission took the 5th amendment – or rather, in UK terms, a provision in the Freedom of Information Act (s.32(2))which exempted from disclosure any document placed in the custody of or created by an inquiry. Cue Article 10 ECHR, and in particular the bits which include the freedom to receive information.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Magistrates have called for the failure to get a television licence to be decriminalised after it emerged more than 3,000 people were taken to court every week for not paying the fee.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“High Court judge Mr Justice Vos has ordered firms involved in the wave of phone-hacking cases to find a more efficient method of working or risk their clients being forced into a group litigation order [GLO] represented by a single firm.”
The Lawyer, 19th March 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Publicity from the phone-hacking inquiry doesn’t necessarily prejudice the cases of those arrested in the scandal.”
The Guardian, 18th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Times misled the High Court during its attempt to name a detective as the writer of an anonymous blog, the newspaper’s then legal manager admitted yesterday.”
The Independent, 16th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Judges are becoming too eager to speak out, appear on television programmes such as MasterChef and criticise government policy, the head of the civil judiciary has warned.”
The Guardian, 16th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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