The Law Society, London Criminal Solicitors’ Association and the Criminal Law Solicitors Association apply for permission to appeal a High Court decision that rejected their challenge to the lord chancellor’s reforms of the way duty solicitors are provided to those accused of a crime.
R (Law Society) v the Lord Chancellor; R (London Criminal Solicitors Association and others) v the Lord Chancellor
Arthur Simpson-Kent, the partner of former EastEnders actress Sian Blake, appeals his whole life sentence for murdering her and their two children after learning she was going to leave him and take them with her. Watch the broadcast, in association with Sky News.
32-month prison sentence appealed: Joseph Smith was jailed in February for causing death by dangerous driving.
Appeal against sentence: Azhar Islam Khan, for tax evasion. Criminal defence solicitor jailed for 18 months in January for lying about income from his Wembley-based City Law Solicitors in order to steal more than £60,000.
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