“Proceedings in the court of appeal are due to be televised from Thursday [31st October], casting aside decades of judicial suspicion about the impact of cameras in the courtroom.”
The Guardian, 30th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The trial of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and others linked with alleged phone-hacking at the now-defunct News of the World will begin on Monday at the Old Bailey, kicking off what is likely to be one of the longest criminal trials in recent memory.”
The Guardian, 28th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Master of the Rolls speech: Hong Kong lecture – 18 October 2013.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 22nd October 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“British military operations are at risk of being undermined by human rights law and health and safety red tape, a research institute has warned.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The ruling by HHJ Murphy in Blackfriars Crown Court this Monday that a defendant in a criminal trial should not be allowed to wear a niqaab (face veil) whilst giving her evidence has prompted calls for a public debate about the wearing of face veils in public more generally. Adam Wagner has already commented on the case here. A summary and analysis of the decision follows below.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th September 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“In the first of a news series, Clive Anderson asks if overly aggressive cross-examination of witnesses in court turns trial by jury into trial by ordeal.”
BBC Unreliable Evidence, 11th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Attorney General emphasises the prosecutor’s role in making sure that trials are fair, politically neutral & human rights are defended. Originally given at the 18th Annual Conference and General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors, Moscow.This is the text of the speech as drafted, which may differ slightly from the delivered version.”
Attorney General’s Office, 9th September 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
“The Internet has changed the world and many say the law is struggling to keep up, writes Lyndon Harris.”
Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 17th August 2013
Source: www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk
“A man accused of infecting two women with the HIV virus has died in hospital.”
The Independent, 8th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A decision by the Financial Services Authority to take no further action against the addressee of a warning notice or decision notice did not become irrevocable or take effect as a discontinuance of proceedings unless it had been communicated to that individual by a notice in accordance with section 389 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.”
WLR Daily, 29th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A provisional trial date has been set at the Old Bailey for a 44-year-old man charged with the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985.”
The Guardian, 26th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Barclay and another) v Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and others (No 2)
“Where remedy could be sought in the courts of the Bailiwick of Guernsey and of the Island of Sark, there was great force in the argument that judicial review of advice given by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice to the Committee for the Affairs of Sark as to the compliance of legislative proposals for Sark with the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms should take place in those courts rather than in the High Court in London but where, as in the present case, the review was a further stage in a sequence of review which had entailed an earlier concession permitting review in the High Court, it would be wrong for the High Court to decline jurisdiction.”
WLR Daily, 9th May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The CPS has today published the final guidelines for Crown Prosecutors handling cases where more than one country or jurisdiction is investigating criminal conduct.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 17th July 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“An arrested person who resisted extradition on the basis that there was systemic corruption in the judicial system in the requesting country did not necessarily have to point to particular facts or circumstances affecting his case since such corruption affected everyone who was subjected to it and it was impossible to say that any individual who was returned to such a system would receive the right to a fair trial within article 6 of the Convention.”
WLR Daily, 10th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An asylum seeker has been detained for three years without trial at a Lincolnshire centre, a report reveals.”
BBC News, 17th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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