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Beginning of the end for the “Super Injunction”?
A high profile panel has been formed to review ‘super injunctions’, which have recently been used with varying success to halt media coverage of controversial legal disputes. Super injunction...
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Illegal video supply convictions stand despite failure to comply with...
Regina v Budimir and another; Interfact Ltd v Liverpool City Council [2010] EWCA Crim 148; [2010] EWHC 1604 (Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 166 CA and DC: Lord Judge CJ, David Clarke, Lloyd Jones JJ: 29 June...
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Master of the Rolls calls for more restraint from Strasbourg judges
The Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger has given the first lecture to the meeting of the newly-formed the European Circuit of the Bar. Along with the contributions of Lord Judge, Lord Hoffmann and...
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What to do with ‘cold cases’ when they eventually heat up
R v. H & others [2011] EWCA Crim 2753 – read judgment. One of the most popular ideas in crime fiction is the ‘cold case’; the apparently unsolved crime which, through various twists and turns, is...
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Why Stephen Lawrence killers were sentenced as juveniles and under old law
Updated | Two of Stephen Lawrence’s killers Gary Dobson and David Norris have been sentenced to minimum life terms “at her Her Majesty’s Pleasure” of 15 years 2 months and and 14 years 3 months...
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Courts should take note of Strasboug’s doctrine of deference
R(on the application of S and KF) v Secretary of State for Justice [2012] EWHC 1810 (Admin)- read judgment This case about prisoner’s pay provides an interesting up to date analysis of the role of the...
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Costs budgets – now with sharp teeth. If you want more than your budget, apply.
Elvanite Full Circle v. AMEC Earth & Environmental (UK) Ltd [2013] EWHC 1643 (TCC), Coulson J read judgment The Jackson reforms, which are designed to stop lawyers spending too much of their...
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Plebgate and costs budgets – The Sun off the hook for big bucks
Mitchell v. News Group Newspapers 27 November 2013, CA read judgment We all know the story about how Andrew Mitchell MP may, or may not, have tried to barge past policeman in Downing Street with the...
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