All Criminal justice articles – Page 135
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NewsBar Conference 2013: Barristers urged not to return instructions
Dominic Grieve QC also advised barristers not to boycott the controversial Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates.
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Opinion
No mandatory reporting of child abusers
Prosecuting professionals by association with other people’s child abuse is both misguided and sinister.
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NewsTerror law detainees entitled to solicitor
Ruling follows a Law Society intervention in a judicial review against the Metropolitan Police.
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NewsCocaine addict solicitor jailed for helping dealers
A Lancashire solicitor who tipped off drug dealers with information about a police investigation has been imprisoned for three years.
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NewsBarristers are watched over like naughty children, says chief
Legal regulation too cumbersome and too expensive, bar chair tells conference.
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Law Report
Sentence
Defendant pleading guilty to attempted arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered – Defendant being sentenced to two years’ imprisonment – Defendant appealing
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NewsAttorney general warns bar against boycotts
The government is prepared to 'look elsewhere' for lawyers to conduct serious cases, Dominic Grieve QC tells barristers.
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NewsStellar cast of lawyers in phone-hacking case
Eight defendants face various charges following the closure of the News Of the World in 2011.
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NewsPeers advise government to rejoin EU crime-fighting measures
A House of Lords committee says the government should apply to rejoin more crime and policing measures in addition to the 35 already identified.
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NewsMinistry tries to stave off VHCC boycott
A statutory instrument implementing 30% fee cuts will be laid tomorrow.
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NewsChancery Lane seeks further changes to legal aid reforms
The Law Society has responded to the government’s second legal aid consultation.
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NewsCrime victims to get right to address courts directly
From December, judges will take into account victims’s personal statements when determining sentences, the victims’ minister says
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Law Report
Criminal law
Defendant appealing against conviction – Whether insanely held delusion on part of defendant being attacked or threatened causing him to respond violently entitling him to acquittal on basis of reasonable self-defence
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NewsBoycott could cause cases to collapse
Major trials could collapse from next month if barristers carry out a threat to boycott criminal legal aid work in protest over proposed fee cuts in very high cost cases.
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NewsCost-cutting axe falls on pioneering court
North Liverpool Community Justice Centre will close its doors next spring.
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NewsSociety backs challenge to advocacy quality scheme
The High Court will hear the challenge to QASA at the end of November.
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NewsMinistry stands by Grayling evidence after bar chief challenge
Justice secretary’s evidence on the pay for a typical VHCC case is ‘not inaccurate’, says the Ministry of Justice.
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News
MoJ cancels £75m in unpaid court fines
Shadow justice secretary attacks 50% two-year increase in cancelled fines.
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OpinionGrayling faces a new problem
The lord chancellor says all the bar’s problems are not down to him. But the government must prepare for a looming issue.
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NewsBar chair challenges Grayling’s sums
Lord chancellor under fire for claiming QC’s fees average £135,000 on high cost cases.