All News articles – Page 1561
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There's still scope for debate on miscarriage of justice compensation
by Dr Michael Naughton, director of the University of Bristol Innocence Project Last week (11 May), the Supreme Court handed down its landmark judgment on what constitutes a ‘miscarriage of justice’ for the purposes of statutory compensation.
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Criminal procedure
Adjournment - Disclosure - Due diligence - Adjournment of trial date R (on the application of Arshad) (claimant) v Southwark Crown Court (defendant) & Mohammed Butt (interested party): DC (Lord Justice Thomas, Mr Justice Kenneth Parker): 5 May 2011 ...
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Deaf to Denning
I was amused to read the Obiter piece of 12 May entitled ‘Running in the family', about the Law Society president’s daughter being admitted to the roll. I too was witnessed being admitted as a solicitor, more than 30 years ago, while my father, Sir John ...
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How to run a defence
Jeffrey Gordon, criminal defence solicitor at EBR Attridge in London, had a busy month in April. Not only did he complete his 60th year in practice, but he was also one of only 18 athletes to finish their 31st London marathon (and, at 77, was ...
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Public sector equality duty
If you want a sombre take on equality then seventeenth-century poet James Shirley is your man. For he reminds us that we all share a certain mortal destiny. And since death will eventually lay ‘his icy hand on kings’ so ‘Sceptre and crown/Must tumble down/And ...
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Pointing the finger at ideologies
In ‘Equality law is victimising Christians’ (28 April), Andrea Minichiello Williams makes the statement, ‘law cannot be divorced from Christianity’, while criticising totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism.
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Ian Tomlinson inquest proves we have moved forwards
Thirty years ago, I was the researcher for an independent inquiry into the death of Blair Peach. It was run by a bright young secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties, Patricia Hewitt. The case of Ian Tomlinson brought ...
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Intellectual Property
Broadcasters - Costs capping orders - Deception - Unfair advantage - Trainee solicitors (1) A&E Television Networks LLC (2) AETN UK v Discovery ...
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Max Mosley, the media and UK privacy laws
What better evening to launch the second edition of Tugendhat and Christie’s The Law of Privacy and the Media than the day on which the European Court of Human Rights handed down its hotly anticipated decision in Mosley v the United Kingdom? On 10 May, ...
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That’s religious progress
In her article about ‘Christian persecution’, Andrea Minichiello Williams writes that, for hundreds of years, ‘most of the great advances in public life, in health care, education and social provision, came as a result of Christian conviction that cares for the good of all’. If ...
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Telecommunications
Dispute resolution - Jurisdiction - Mobile telephony - Telephone charges British Telecommunications Plc (appellant) v Office of Communications (respondent) & (1) Everything Everywhere Ltd (2) Hutchison 3g UK Ltd (interveners): British Telecommunications Plc (appellant) v Office of Communications (respondent) ...
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No win no fee agreements are blamed for rise in medical negligence claims
No win no fee agreements have been blamed for a sharp rise in the number of medical negligence claims. The Medical Defence Union says claims increased by almost 20% in 2010 after several years of stable figures. More than half of the ...
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Chancery Lane seeks ‘pause’ to reforms of legal aid
The president of the Law Society has written to justice secretary Ken Clarke calling for a pause in the proposed legal aid reforms. Linda Lee said the proposals ‘amount to a fundamental reshaping of the legal aid scheme’, removing from scope many areas of law that ...
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Law Society launches Excellence Awards
The Gazette will shortly be seeking a Legal Personality of the Year as one of this year’s Law Society Excellence Awards. For the second year running, we will be inviting readers to nominate lawyers who over the previous 12 months have made an outstanding contribution to ...
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Sack Clarke? Be careful what you wish for Ed…
Dark clouds fill the sky over the Ministry of Justice, with Ken Clarke getting rained on from a great height. And to a large extent, he fully deserves his soaking. Even appearing to distinguish between ‘date rape’ and ‘serious rape’ (he ...
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Clarke mulls privacy law
Ministers, newspaper editors and celebrities will turn their attentions to the Royal Courts of Justice later this week for a landmark development on injunctions. On Friday Lord Neuberger (pictured), master of the rolls, will issue a report on the use of injunctions by a committee of ...
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Is government living up to the military covenant?
The notion of the military covenant, that members of the military and their family are owed fair treatment and proper support, in return for risking their lives at the discretion of policy-makers, is sound and accepted. Feelings run understandably high when anyone claims that the ...