“Up to 50 court cases a day were delayed or postponed because of failures by a translation contractor to provide an adequate service,.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“New evidence of a civil courts service reaching breaking point has emerged with staff working to rule and one county court asking law firms not to increase its ‘already vast workload’ by chasing work in arrears.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th May 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Guardian reported yesterday that ‘MPs aiming to claw back powers from Europe have secretly interviewed candidates to become Britain’s next judge at the European court of human rights’. Oliver Heald MP said that a group of MPs from the three main political parties met the 3 candidates, Raquel Agnello QC, Paul Mahoney and Ben Emmerson QC. The aim is ‘to improve democratic accountability’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“MPs aiming to claw back powers from Europe have secretly interviewed candidates to become Britain’s next judge at the European court of human rights.”
The Guardian, 22nd May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A defendant dubbed a ‘pervert’ by mistake, a rabbit applying to be a Czech language specialist and solicitors using the Google Translate website to understand their clients: the debacle surrounding court interpreters has had its amusing moments.”
The Independent, 21st May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Courts in England and Wales will be more publicly accessible than ever before when television broadcasting is introduced, Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said today.”
Full press release, 10th May 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The civil and family court system is facing the prospect of chaos as the government prepares to cut face-to-face counter services and problems persist at the Salford civil claims centre, lawyers have warned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th May 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Television cameras are to be allowed to film courts in England and Wales for the first time, it has been announced in the Queen’s Speech. What can be learned from the experience in the United States and Scotland?”
BBC News, 10th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Despite controversy over the deadline, I doubt the European court will agree to hear Abu Qatada’s appeal.”
The Guardian, 8th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers are to announce plans to allow magistrates to sit on their own in community centres or police stations in a bid to speed up justice.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Almost half of the courtrooms handling the most serious criminal cases in London will be closed down during the Olympics, according to official plans.”
The Independent, 7th May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two interesting articles on the UK Human Rights Blog recently raised once again the question of the legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“In law, time can be everything. Every lawyer will have experienced waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat at the realisation that a time limit has been missed. Courts often have the discretion to extend litigation time limits, such as under rule 3.1 of the Civil Procedure Rules, but simple mistakes by lawyers rarely generate sympathy from judges. Even scarier, judges sometimes do not even have the power to extend time at all, however unfair the circumstances. The idea is to encourage certainty and predictability in the legal system.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Brighton Declaration is the latest Declaration (see previously the Interlaken and Izmir Declarations) on the future (and reform) of the European Court of Human Rights made on behalf of the 47 member States to the Council of Europe, the parent organisation for the ECHR. Brighton was the venue, the United Kingdom having taken up the six month Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe late last year.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Ken Clarke has said changes to the European Court of Human Rights will reduce ‘frustration’ over cases such as the proposed deportation of Abu Qatada.”
BBC News, 22nd April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Television cameras were yesterday allowed to record the sentencing of David Gilroy in the High Court in Edinburgh. This is the first time that sentencing in a UK court has been filmed for broadcast the same day – normally proceedings in Scotland are only occasionally filmed for documentaries to be broadcast weeks or months later and are heavily edited by lawyers involved in the case. Filming in most English courts has been banned since 1925.”
Legal Week, 19th April 2012
Source: www.legalweek.com
“The BBC reported yesterday that there’s ‘doubt’ about the deportation of Abu Qatada, following his arrest on Tuesday and now his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights – which the Home Secretary Theresa May says is out of time. So: is she right? Is the appeal out of time? How has the Home Office got into this apparent mess? And what if any difference does this appeal make?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“When imagined post-Nuremberg, the human rights convention and Strasbourg court was never supposed to be a substitute for national protection of human rights.”
The Guardian, 19th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Last-minute negotiations over the text of controversial British plans to reform the European court of human rights (ECHR) are focusing on the criteria for screening out cases and the leeway each country is permitted to interpret convention laws differently.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This piece asks whether, in the light of UK proposals for the reform of the ECtHR, and in the wake of the outcry in the UK over the Qatada decision (Othman v UK), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is taking an approach that looks like one of appeasement of certain signatory states.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
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