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Earlier this year Mr Justice Warby was appointed to the newly created role of Judge in Charge of the Media and Communications List. We look at what this means in practice and how it will affect the future management of High Court media claims. The new list Speaking at the Annual Conference of the Media… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes the Grenfell Inquiry, data protection, media regulation, yet more Brexit, plus two sadly missed judges and a regulatory scheme that few will mourn. Grenfell Tower Inquiry Progress and protest The Guardian reported that “Grenfell survivors may boycott public inquiry unless they get bigger role”. Fifty survivors and… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary focuses on marriage and divorce, land ownership, Brexit, and media regulation, plus law and injustice from around the world. Family law Divorce reform campaign The President of the UK Supreme Court, Lady Hale is the latest prominent figure to lend her public support to a campaign to modernise the… Continue reading
In this guest post, Tor Butler-Cole explains how judges have approached end of life decisions in recent cases in the Court of Protection. Although aimed primarily at a medical readership, it provides a useful introduction for anyone unfamiliar with this type of case. Prompted by interesting discussions with doctors on Twitter, and because it isn’t possible to… Continue reading
By David Burrows Consent: mental capacity and understanding What does ‘consent’ mean when applied to such situations as living apart for two years and consenting to a divorce; consent of a birth parent to adoption; or consent to the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement or settlement of matrimonial financial negotiations? This article looks at two… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and commentary includes criminal dishonesty, police investigations, historic victories in the courts, historic counsel remembered and an extremely historic statute. Plus news good and bad from foreign lands. Crime Dishonesty – what remains of second limb in Ghosh test? A recent Twitter thread prompted a discussion on the effect… Continue reading
A judge sitting in the High Court has taken judicial activism to new levels by effectively laying down the law on flirting at work. Or so you might think, after reading a report of one of his judgments in The Times. [Spoiler: he has done no such thing.] In an article entitled “High Court judge… Continue reading
David Burrows questions the idea that politicians can grant a “right to justice”, as opposed to providing the means of access (such as legal aid) or removing the obstacles (such as excessive court fees) to a right we already have. The Right to Justice (Fabian Policy Report, September 2017 ) (the Report) produced by an informal… Continue reading
In this guest post Barbara Rich discusses the judgment of the English High Court on the disposal of the body and funeral ceremony of Ian Stewart-Brady in Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council v Robin Makin [2017] EWHC 2543 (Ch); [2017] WLR(D) 670 Reginald (“Reggie”) Kray, the survivor of the notorious twin brother criminals who flourished in the East… Continue reading
This week’s roundup of legal news and comment includes online convictions, Brexit confusion, legal reporting and women in law. But first, here’s a picture of the MOJ. Courts Online prosecutions and HMCTS Reform The HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Ministry of Justice announced last week that using a system developed in partnership with Transport for London… Continue reading
