Will writer Keith Webber guilty of stealing £280,000 from clients – BBC News
‘A will writer who stole more than £280,000 from clients over nearly three years has been found guilty of fraud.’
BBC News, 4th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Call for review of rape complainants’ treatment after woman’s death – The Guardian
‘A police and crime commissioner has called for a review of how sex offence complainants are treated by the courts after the death of a woman days after a jury acquitted a man accused of raping her.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Charity Commission not fit for purpose, warn MPs – BBC News
‘The Charity Commission is not “fit for purpose” and has persistently failed to tackle abuses of charitable status properly, MPs have said.’
BBC News, 5th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Crackdown on lenient punishments will see 14,000 fewer cautions issued each year – Daily Telegraph
‘Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, announces plans for legislation to ban police from giving simple cautions to repeat offenders and those who commit serious crimes.’
Daily Telegraph, 5th February 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of appeal rejects challenge over legality of stop-and-search powers – The Guardian
‘A woman who was stopped and searched by police after her Oyster travel card was refused has had a legal challenge dismissed by the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court fees could exceed legal costs under government plans, lawyers warn – Litigation Futures
‘The government’s proposals to increase court fees for commercial cases could lead to claimants facing a fee demand greater than their legal costs, litigators have warned.’
Litigation Futures, 5th February 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Lewis Dale guilty of murdering grandmother Irene Dale – BBC News
‘A teenager has been found guilty of the murder of his grandmother and the attempted murder of his grandfather in an attack “like the film Psycho”.’
BBC News, 4th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Command Papers – official-documents.gov.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Heibner, R. v (Rev 1) [2014] EWCA Crim 102 (23 January 2014)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Emmett v Sisson [2014] EWCA Civ 64 (02 March 2014)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Pullan v Wilson & Ors [2014] EWHC 126 (Ch) (28 January 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Binder v Public Prosecutor’s Office, Memmingem, Germany [2014] EWHC 133 (Admin) (03 February 2014)
Mills v General Dental Council [2014] EWHC 89 (Admin) (24 January 2014)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Euroil Ltd v Cameroon Offshore Petroleum SARL [2014] EWHC 52 (Comm) (14 January 2014)
High Court (Patents Court)
Cooke v Watermist Ltd [2014] EWHC 125 (Pat) (03 February 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
Legal aid cuts could put Britain’s reputation for impartiality and fairness at risk – The Guardian
‘Britain’s international reputation for justice is not just a matter of pride: it also earns billions in exports.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Keir Starmer’s call for a “Victims’ Law” – all heart and no substance – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
‘“From a victim’s point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose.. “What is needed is a fundamental rethink, leading to a specific and legally enforceable Victims’ Law, alongside a real and radical shift in attitude and approach.”
So wrote former DPP Sir Kier Starmer QC in an article for the Guardian yesterday in which he proposed a “Victims’ Law”.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 4th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexhange.co.uk
Ann Juliette Roberts loses police stop-and-search case – BBC News
‘A woman who was searched by police after refusing to pay a bus fare in London has had her appeal case over stop-and-search powers rejected.’
BBC News, 4th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Government of the Republic of South Africa v Dewani (No 2) – WLR Daily
‘A person who was currently unfit to plead, and might remain unfit to plead, was an accused person for the purposes of section 70(4)(a) of the Extradition Act 2003. It might be unjust and oppressive to order such a person’s extradition without considering whether an undertaking should be required from the requesting state to permit his return to the United Kingdom in the event it was found, after a reasonable time for further treatment in the requesting state, that he was likely to remain unfit.’
WLR Daily, 31st January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Das) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and others – WLR Daily
‘Where the Secretary of State for the Home Department intended to remove from the United Kingdom a person suffering from a mental illness, whether that illness fell within the definition in the Secretary of State’s immigration detention policy of a “serious mental illness” which could not be satisfactorily managed within detention, so that the person could not be detained absent very exceptional circumstances, did not depend on whether the mental illness was of a level of requiring in-patient medical attention or rendering the person liable to being sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983, but on whether in all the circumstances the person was “suffering” from the illness and the illness was serious enough to mean that it could not be satisfactorily managed in detention.’
WLR Daily, 28th January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
EVENT: The Bar Council – One Bar: one voice
‘An opportunity for the whole Bar to address the harmful effects of the Government’s changes to legal aid.
Speakers will include:
• Nicholas Lavender QC
Chairman of the Bar
• Nigel Lithman QC
Criminal Bar Association
•Timothy Fancourt QC
Chancery Bar Association
• Sarah Forshaw QC
South-Eastern Circuit.’
Date: 8th February 2014, 9.30am
Location: Great Hall, Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3TL
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
Finance and Divorce Update – Family Law Week
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published in January.’
Family Law Update, 2nd February 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Chilling’ Prestwich sex attacker is jailed – BBC News
‘A man who tried to rape a woman in a “chilling” attack while she was on the phone to police has been jailed.’
BBC News, 3rd February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
