“MPs will vote on Monday on the final form of the government’s justice and security bill, which radically expands the use of so-called secret courts.”
The Guardian, 3rd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An alliance of more than 100 human rights groups, legal experts and free press campaigners has called on MPs to vote against government plans for ‘secret courts’ – branding them “a charter for cover-ups” that will seriously undermine the principles of British justice.”
The Guardian, 3rd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former head of the judiciary, Lord Woolf, has thrown his support behind plans to allow more civil courts to examine secret intelligence in private.”
BBC News, 4th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Supreme court president and deputy strongly defend access to legal process as fundamental to rule of law.”
The Guardian, 13th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Judges should be given the ‘maximum amount of discretion’ in deciding whether or not to order a secret court hearing under the justice and security bill, Ken Clarke has told MPs and peers.”
The Guardian, 12th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This lecture focuses on the question of whether justice in relation to markets is entirely to be seen as being procedural – that justice is a matter of securing the conditions of non-coercive economic exchange between free individuals. Or is justice also about social justice- that is to say about the proper distribution of resources and a concern about the outcomes of markets? If justice is about social as well as procedural justice how can we arrive at criteria for distributive justice if all moral values are seen as subjective? Should we not rather see market outcomes, in the words of the economist Fred Hirsch as being ‘in principle unprincipled’?”
Lecture by Professor the Lord Plant of Highfield
Gresham College, 29th January 2013
Source: www.gresham.ac.uk
O’Cathail v Transport for London [2013] EWCA Civ 21; [2013] WLR (D) 31
“An employment tribunal’s decision to refuse a claimant’s application to adjourn a hearing could not be set aside by the Employment Appeal Tribunal unless the tribunal had erred in law.”
WLR Daily, 29th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Children could get in trouble with the law simply for being ‘annoying’ under the Home Secretary’s new scheme to replace Asbos, senior police, crime commissioners and councils have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Key amendments to government plans to expand secret courts may have reassured many Liberal Democrats MPs but do not give enough ground to satisfy civil liberties groups.”
The Guardian, 29th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has reiterated the importance of accurate budgeting once wide-ranging reforms to civil court costs and procedures come into force from April.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Judges will decide whether civil cases involving national security can be heard in secret in a climbdown by the Government.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Extending secret courts to ordinary civil justice cases would see the UK ‘stoop to the level of repressive regimes’, the Law Society warns today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The publication of three draft statutory instruments (SIs) that will implement part of the ‘Jackson’ reforms to civil court costs and procedures shows that the Government remains intent on a 1 April start date, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“In assessing whether an individual would be at risk on return to a member state, the fact that the receiving state was itself bound by the same Conventions and Community law as the sending state was to be regarded as obviating the risk unless there was a systemic failure in the receiving state. Unless there had been such a failure, the person was adequately protected: he had his rights against the receiving government and, if necessary, the possibility of recourse to the European Court of Human Rights from the receiving country.”
WLR Daily, 16th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Court of Human Rights has a bad press in Britain – but for thousands of desperate people it is their last shot at justice.”
The Independent, 14th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Phillips & Co (a firm) v Bath Housing Co-operative Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1591; [2012] WLR (D) 372
“A solicitors’ claim for costs, billed but not yet fixed by assessment or agreement, fell within the phrase ‘debt or other liquidated pecuniary claim’ in section 29(5)(a) of the Limitation Act 1980.”
WLR Daily, 11th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov (No 8) [2012] EWCA Civ 1551; [2012] WLR (D) 366
“Where a judge had heard pretrial evidence on an application for committal or in litigation commencing with a freezing order in the nature of cross-examination of a principal litigant or important potential witness and had come to some conclusions about it, he was judging the matter before him, as he was required by his office to do. If he did so fairly and judicially no fair-minded and informed observer would consider that there was any possibility of apparent bias.”
WLR Daily, 28th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An independent commission is being launched on Monday to examine how to cope with deep cuts to legal aid at a time of complex benefits reforms. The Low Commission, named after its chairman, Lord Low, will hold its first public meeting this week as law centres and Citizens Advice centres across the UK begin turning away those seeking advice.”
The Guardian, 3rd December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Peers delivered a series of humiliating defeats on Wednesday night to government plans to introduce secret courts.”
The Guardian, 21st November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“We ought always to strive to streamline our judicial system, but our right of access to justice should not be lightly interfered with.”
The Guardian, 19th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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