“The home secretary, Theresa May, has said police are examining evidence seized over the recent arrest of Islamic cleric Abu Qatada to see if he can be prosecuted in UK courts.”
The Guardian, 18th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“On 4 April, a matter of days after the cuts to civil legal aid were brought into effect, Chris Grayling has announced the Government’s intention to cut legal aid for prisoners seeking to bring proceedings for judicial review of decisions relating to their treatment or the conditions of their confinement. He complains that £4 million pounds in legal aid is spent annually on such complaints and says that they can be perfectly adequately dealt with by the internal prison complaints system. His justification for the cuts makes neither financial nor constitutional sense and begs the question, what are his true motives?”
LegalVoice, 18th April 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“Randy Northrop is a Californian and a wanderer in spirit. He lives with his family aboard MY Cannis – see the pic. He got fed up of ‘living in a grotty council house in a rough area’ of Bristol, so bought and renovated this former Thames tug. And nice inside it sounds too – two open fireplaces, several flat screen TVs, a music room and grand piano.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“This consultation paper sets our proposals for reform of the fee remissions system, which ensures that access to justice is maintained for those individuals on lower incomes who would otherwise have difficultly paying a fee to use court or tribunal services.”
Ministry of Justice, 18th April 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Home Office was successful in defending Immgiration Rules changes introduced to test migrant’s English language capabilities”
Home Office, 17th April 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
“A couple from Oxford have been convicted of attempting to pass off a Nigerian baby as their own and bring it back to the UK.”
Home Office, 17th April 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
Extradtition, Deportation and Human Rights (PDF)
Edward Fitzgerald QC
Inner Temple Reader’s Lecture Series, 18th March 2013
Source: www.innertemple.org.uk
Supreme Court, 17th April 2013
Supreme Court, 17th April 2013
“Don’t be taken for a ride over parking tickets – know your rights on private car parks, penalty charges and your right to appeal.”
The Guardian, 18th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It will usually be ‘extremely difficult’ to persuade a court to revise a costs budget that contains mistakes, even if the other party has not been misled or suffered prejudice, the High Court has warned.”
Litigation Futures, 18th April 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Supreme Court
Jones v First Tier Tribunal & Anor (Rev 1) [2013] UKSC 19 (17 April 2013)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Dixon v R [2013] EWCA Crim 465 (17 April 2013)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Woolway (Valuation Officer) v Mazars LLP [2013] EWCA Civ 368 (17 April 2013)
Olympic Airlines SA v ACG Acquisition XX LLC [2013] EWCA Civ 369 (17 April 2013)
Reeves (Listing Officer) v Northrop [2013] EWCA Civ 362 (17 April 2013)
George v The Ministry of Justice [2013] EWCA Civ 324 (17 April 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Banwaitt v Dewji [2013] EWHC 879 (QB) (17 April 2013)
Renpower Investments Ltd v Clark Willmott LLP & Anor [2013] EWHC 800 (QB) (17 April 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Family Division)
A and S (Children) v Lancashire County Council [2013] EWHC 851 (Fam) (17 April 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The LexisNexis Bellwether Report, Survive or Thrive?, takes the temperature of independent lawyers, sole practitioners and owner/lawyers in smaller law firms, to see how they are dealing with the current financial, regulatory and legal climate.”
Legal Week, 17th April 2013
Source: www.legalweek.com
“The UK supreme court has ruled that readers who open articles via a website link are not breaking the law, overturning the high court’s ruling that browsing was a breach of newspaper owners’ copyright.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“We are all aware that there is no general entitlement to permanent accommodation via the Part VII route (R v Brent ex p Awua). So it is interesting to find a s.204 appeal where it was argued that the Appellant had a legitimate expectation of permanent accommodation in preference to anything else that the Council might offer.”
NearlyLegal, 17th April 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“Two men and a woman have been found guilty of the murder of a teenager whose body was found in a playing field in east London.”
BBC News, 17th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A juror will be prosecuted for contempt of court after allegedly writing on Facebook that he wanted to “f*** up a paedophile” during the trial of a convicted child sex offender.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A paralysed builder who has required round-the-clock care since a car accident 23 years ago has applied to the high court to be allowed to die with the help of a doctor, carrying on the legal fight begun by another seriously disabled man last year.”
The Guardian, 18th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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