All Criminal justice articles – Page 117
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NewsRepeat offenders and the english language
If Obiter had a quid for every time someone uttered the words ‘upstream’ or ‘blockers’, retirement would be imminent.
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NewsMedia take-down plans ditched
Proposals to enable the attorney general to order media organisations to remove online archive material creating a risk of contempt are abandoned.
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FeatureRoundtable: future of the bar
The success of commercial barristers is reliant on an independent and viable publicly funded bar now under sustained attack. What to do?
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Sign language trial ‘big step forward’
Video crew recorded the signers so that, should a dispute over meaning arise, evidence could quickly be reviewed.
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NewsTalks look set to settle dispute over VHCCs
Bar leaders have met the Ministry of Justice several times over the past month to seek to resolve impasse.
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FeaturePolicing online abuse
The proliferation of complaints arising from social media poses difficult questions over how they should be dealt with.
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OpinionRebekah Brooks is innocent. Move on.
Everyone seems to have an opinion on high-profile trials, but justice is not Big Brother.
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NewsHigh court rules vulnerable defendants deserve equal protection
The court said the refusal by the Ministry of Justice to appoint a registered intermediary for a defendant with Asperger’s syndrome was unfair.
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NewsDate set for halted fraud trial
First Operation Cotton trial date scheduled as bar indicates a deal is close on fee cuts.
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NewsMishcon recruits former DPP
Sir Keir Starmer has joined Mishcon de Reya as a part-time consultant in its business crime group.
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NewsTrain all youth justice lawyers, says damning report
Cross-party group of MPs and peers calls for mandatory training for lawyers working in youth justice.
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NewsDisclosure of cautions breaches privacy rights, Supreme Court rules
Jobseekers need not disclose childhood and other minor offences to prospective employers.
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NewsBig fines to ‘criminalise motorists’, says Mr Loophole
Government plans to quadruple the maximum fines for some motoring offences and create a penalty of £10,000.
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NewsNick clutches at speed loophole
If anyone was going to spot a loophole in plans to raise maximum speeding fines, it was always going to be Mr Loophole himself.
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NewsLegal aid guidance unlawful, High Court rules
The High Court rules that the guidance issued by the lord chancellor on granting legal aid in exceptional circumstances for immigration is in some respects ‘unlawful’.
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OpinionLawyers and trade secrets
There may be serious knock-on effects on lawyers under EU plans to harmonise trade secrets legislation across the Union.
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NewsCore of ‘exceptional’ trial can be held in secret
The Court of Appeal named the two defendants and said that parts of their trial can be held in public, but the ‘core’ in secret.
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OpinionGrayling should embrace the fourth revolution
The lord chancellor’s Public Defender Service strategy illustrates the tendency of the state to grow, no matter what.
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NewsMagistrates’ fining powers to be unlimited
Maximum fines for most offences will rise by 400% and become unlimited in the most serious cases, under powers to be put before parliament.
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NewsPublic Defender Service adds three silks
The service now employs seven silks and 18 juniors, though ‘emergency measures’ have not materialised.