Extradition, Deportation and Human Rights – Edward Fitzgerald QC

Posted April 18th, 2013 in deportation, extradition, human rights, news, speeches by sally

Extradtition, Deportation and Human Rights (PDF)

Edward Fitzgerald QC

Inner Temple Reader’s Lecture Series, 18th March 2013

Source: www.innertemple.org.uk

Judges lead ‘sheltered lives’, warns Britain’s most senior female judge – Daily Telegraph

Posted April 8th, 2013 in judiciary, news, speeches by sally

“Britain’s most senior female judge has warned that her colleagues on the bench may lack common sense because they have lived ‘sheltered lives’.”

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Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2013

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Should judges be socio-legal scholars? – Speech by Lady Hale

Posted April 5th, 2013 in judges, judiciary, news, speeches by sally

Should judges be socio-legal scholars? (PDF)

Speech by Lady Hale

Socio-Legal Studies Association 2013 Conference, 26th March 2013

Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk

Compensation culture: Fact or fantasy? – Speech by the Master of the Rolls

“In my Presidential address I want to examine ‘compensation culture’. This I imagine is something with which W. S. Holdsworth, notwithstanding his truly encyclopaedic knowledge of English law, would have been unfamiliar. We can let him off though. The term was apparently not coined until 1993; when it first appeared in The Times newspaper in an article by Bernard Levin entitled Addicted to welfare.”

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Judiciary of England and Wales, 15th March 2013

Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

The Application of the Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules – Speech by Master of the Rolls

Posted March 26th, 2013 in civil procedure rules, news, speeches by sally

The Application of the Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules (PDF)

Speech by Master of the Rolls

District Judges’ Annual Seminar, 22nd March 2013

Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

Master of the Rolls hits out at “media-created perception” of a compensation culture – Litigation Futures

Posted March 26th, 2013 in compensation, judges, media, news, speeches by sally

“The courts are ‘very aware’ of the dangers of feeding media perceptions of a compensation culture, the Master of the Rolls has said.”

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Litigation Futures, 25th March 2013

Source: www.litigationfutures.com

Has The Golden Thread Finally Been Snapped? – Zenith Chambers

“‘Throughout the web of the English Criminal Law one golden thread is always to be seen, that it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner’s guilt subject to what I have already said as to the defence of insanity and subject also to any statutory exception

No matter what the charge or where the trial, the principle that the prosecution must prove the guilt of the prisoner is part of the common law of England and no attempt to whittle it down can be entertained.’

Per Viscount Sankey in Woolmington v DPP [1935] AC 462 – emphasis added.

There cannot be an English lawyer who is unaware of this paragraph in Viscount Sankey’s judgment in Woolmington. Many non-lawyers who have chanced to read the Rumpole stories will also be as aware of, if not as attached to, it.”

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Zenith Chambers, 19th March 2013

Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk

Half a Century of Change: The Evidence of Child Victims – Speech by The Right Honourable the Lord Judge

Posted March 21st, 2013 in child abuse, children, evidence, speeches, witnesses by sally

Half a Century of Change: The Evidence of Child Victims (PDF)

Speech by The Right Honourable the Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Toulmin Lecture in Law and Psychiatry, 20th March 2013

Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

Jack Straw – Dilemmas of a Foreign Secretary – UCL Constitution Unit

Posted March 21st, 2013 in ministers' powers and duties, news, speeches by sally

“Jack Straw served continuously on the Labour front-bench for 30 years- from November 1980 until October 2010.

He was a senior member of the Labour Cabinet for the whole period of the 1997-2000 Labour Government. He served successively as Home Secretary (1997-2001), Foreign Secretary (2001-2006), Leader of the Commons (2006-7), and then Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary (2007-2010).”

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UCL Constitution Unit, 7th March 2013

Source: www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit

Call for research into effects on children of giving evidence in abuse cases – The Guardian

Posted March 21st, 2013 in child abuse, children, evidence, news, speeches, witnesses by sally

“Research should be carried out into the long-term affects on those who give evidence about sexual abuse when they are a child, the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, has urged.”

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The Guardian, 20th March 2013

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

What will happen to human rights after the next election? – UK Human Rights Blog

Posted March 20th, 2013 in elections, human rights, immigration, news, prisons, speeches by tracey

“Human rights will be a politically live issue at the next election. Leading on the issue will by the Conservative Party, urged on by elements in the media such as the Daily Mail with a commercial interest in resistance to any law on privacy deriving from human rights. So, the Working Men’s College has done well to identify this topic for exploration. This evening is a celebration of the college’s stated aim to ‘engage positively with the past, while finding new ways to pursue its founders’ aims into the 21st century.’ ”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 20th March 2013

Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com

Should the Decision of the Foreign Secretary be Justiciable? – Louise Christian

Should the Decision of the Foreign Secretary be Justiciable?

Louise Christian, Senior Consultant and Head of Public Law, Christian Khan Solicitors

Inner Temple Reader’s Lecture Series, 18th February 2013

Source: www.innertemple.org.uk

Family Mediation Council’s Professional Practice Consultants Conference 2013 – Speech by Lord McNally

Posted March 15th, 2013 in arbitration, dispute resolution, families, legal profession, speeches by tracey

“Family Mediation Council’s Professional Practice Consultants Conference 2013, speech by Lord McNally, 14th March 2013.”

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Ministry of Justice, 14th March 2013

Source: www.justice.gov.uk

Cyber Crime – Speech by James Brokenshire

Posted March 15th, 2013 in computer crime, crime prevention, internet, speeches by tracey

“Speech by James Brokenshire on cyber crime on Thursday 14 March 2013.”

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Home Office, 14th March 2013

Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk

The case for the prosecution: independence and the public interest – Speech by the Attorney General

Posted March 15th, 2013 in Crown Prosecution Service, police, prosecutions, public interest, speeches by tracey

“Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP considers some options for reform of prosecution policy. Originally given at Queen Mary University of London School of Law, 13th March 2013.”

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Attorney-General’s Office, 13th March 2013

Source: www.gov.uk/ago

Police ‘should be given more powers to charge offenders’ – Daily Telegraph

Posted March 14th, 2013 in Crown Prosecution Service, news, police, prosecutions, speeches by sally

“Police should be given more powers to decide whether to charge offenders in routine, non-contested cases to free up prosecutors to focus on more serious crimes, the Attorney General has said.”

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Daily Telegraph, 13th March 2013

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

“Frantic” firms creating hump of CFA cases that will take years to clear, says QC – Litigation Futures

Posted March 8th, 2013 in fees, law firms, negligence, news, speeches by tracey

“The 1 April Jackson reforms start date is creating a ‘hump’ of conditional fee agreement (CFA) cases that will take years to clear the courts, a leading clinical negligence barrister has predicted.”

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Litigation Futures, 7th March 2013

Source: www.litigationfutures.com

Every case, a managed case: Using the Criminal Procedure Rules – Speech by Nicholas Moss, JP

Posted March 8th, 2013 in case management, criminal procedure, judges, speeches by tracey

“Nicholas Moss JP, a member of the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, talked about the origin of, and context for, the Criminal Procedure Rules and explained the Committee’s role.”

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Judiciary of England and Wales, 8th March 2013

Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

Helena Kennedy takes Theresa May to task over human rights laws – Daily Telegraph

Posted March 8th, 2013 in human rights, news, speeches, torture, treaties by tracey

“Theresa May is wrong to claim that judges should be more willing to deport
foreign criminals, according to Helena Kennedy QC.”

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Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2013

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Jackson implementation lectures restart with patents court success story – Litigation Futures

Posted February 26th, 2013 in costs, courts, news, patents, speeches by sally

“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.”

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Litigation Futures, 26th February 2013

Source: www.litigationfutures.com