‘Under a new exception to copyright law, anyone will be able to make a funny parody or mash-up from existing material. But do the courts have a sense of humour, asks Adam Rendle.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Panellists include:
Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Commentator and Journalist (Chair)
Felicity Gerry QC at 36 Bedford Row
Jenny Earle, Director of the Prison Reform Trust’s Programme to Reduce Women’s Imprisonment
Lord Ramsbotham GCB CBE
The Right Honourable The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers KG, PC
A short video of interviews with ex-offenders will be broadcast at the event.
We will also be releasing a policy paper with unique research to all attendees in the coming weeks.
Points for discussion:
Explore the impact of imprisonment on female offenders and the wider community
Examine the current penal system and whether it is fit for purpose
Discuss alternatives to prison based on the needs of the individual’
Date: 11th November 2014, 6.00pm
Location: Prince Philip House
Charge: Free, registration required
More information can be found here.
‘Chris Grayling’s eight-page strategy paper ‘Protecting human rights in the UK’ promises to ‘restore sovereignty to Westminster’ through a parliamentary override, breaking the formal link between British courts and the European court of human rights.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The High Court has overturned a cost judge’s refusal to grant relief from sanctions that prevented claimant lawyers from recovering their success fees, and instead accused the defendants of “unreasonable and opportunistic” conduct.’
Litigation Futures, 6th October 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The announcement this week of a new Conservative Party plan to repeal the Human Rights Act, ‘Protecting Human Rights in the UK’, has brought to a boil a cauldron of incredulity (pictured) about the Government’s attitude towards the law. The response from human rights lawyers and advocacy groups has been swift. Liberty describes the Conservative Party plan as ‘legally illiterate’. The several ways in which that is true have already been the subject of detailed exposition. Indeed, Liberty’s response is even more accurate than it might first appear. If the Conservative Party plan is legally illiterate then it is best read as a political tactic to assure its supporters that it is the party of anti-European sentiment.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 5th October 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Two men who posed naked in the bath with a pet rabbit before torturing and killing it have been spared jail.’
BBC News, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A revised Local Government Transparency Code is to come into force in England next month, the Department for Communities and Local Government has announced.’
Local Government, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘How should we approach applications for relief from sanctions made by the other side? Elliot Kay considers a recent and useful decision of the High Court.’
Zenith PI Blog, 6th October 2014
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘In October 1989, the Guildford Four were released from jail. Their convictions for blowing up two pubs in the Surrey town during an IRA bombing campaign had been quashed.’
BBC News, 4th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Thousands of people who have taken out payday loans from firms other than Wonga should also have their interest and charges wiped out, say consumer and legal experts.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The former police marksman charged with the murder of Azelle Rodney has been named for the first time as Anthony Long.’
The Independent, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A man who strangled his 16-year-old pregnant girlfriend with a scarf has been jailed for life for her murder.’
BBC News, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Growing numbers of domestic violence victims are being quizzed by their former partners in court due to cuts in legal aid which have led to a rise in litigation-in-person cases, family law specialists are warning.’
The Independent, 5th October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for making bogus bomb detectors that he claimed could find missing Madeleine McCann.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A woman who engaged in sexual activity with a 14-year-old boy after a drunken night out has been jailed by leading judges who overturned her “unduly lenient” non-custodial sentence.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who claimed plastic devices he made in his garden shed could detect bombs and find missing Madeleine McCann has been jailed.’
BBC News, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A former News of the World news executive has admitted he was involved in phone hacking, 16 months after pleading not guilty to the crime in the Old Bailey. Ian Edmondson’s about-turn marks the final chapter in the phone-hacking trial that ended in June with the conviction of Andy Coulson and the acquittal of Rebekah Brooks, both former New of the World editors.’
The Guardian, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The court in Canning v Network Rail [2014] EWHC 2104 (QB) treated an application to rely on supplementary witness evidence as an application for relief from sanctions. The Mitchell considerations therefore came into play.’
Zenith PI Blog, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘Karia, R (on the application of) v Leicester City Council (Sir Stephen Silber, acting as High Court Judge) [2014] EWHC 3105 (Admin) (30 September 2014. In a robust judgment Sir Stephen Silber has asserted that neither the ordinary laws of judicial review, nor the Equality Act nor the Human Rights Act require the courts to micro-manage the decisions of public authorities. Indeed the latter two statutory powers are not designed as a back door into a merits review of a decision that is restricted to the court’s review of the legality of a public sector decision.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd October 2014
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Ben Conlon, former head of the pupillage committee at 3 Temple Gardens, has launched a judicial review arguing that the Visitors to the Inns of Court should made up only of High Court judges.’
Legal Futures, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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