“A convicted killer has started a new High Court challenge to access forensic evidence that his lawyers claim could clear his name.”
BBC News, 21st March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Briton arrested over a Portuguese attempted murder case he thought he had been acquitted of 17 years ago says his world has been ‘turned upside down’.”
BBC News, 20th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Five Criminal cases you need to know from February
One Inner Temple Lane, 19th March 2012
Source: www.1itl.com
“The US-born pop singer PJ Proby has been cleared of benefit fraud after the prosecution dropped its case following the discovery of new evidence.”
The Guardian, 16th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Times misled the High Court during its attempt to name a detective as the writer of an anonymous blog, the newspaper’s then legal manager admitted yesterday.”
The Independent, 16th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
RB (Somalia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: [2012] EWCA Civ 277; [2012] WLR (D) 77
“Analysis of an asylum seeker’s speech carried out by a private Swedish company was admissible in asylum proceedings although the analysts were allowed to remain anonymous and the presentation of the evidence did not comply in a number of respects with practice directions for the immigration and asylum chambers of the First-tier and Upper Tribunals. The Upper Tribunal had a broad discretion with regard to the control of the evidence before it and had, within its case management powers, the power to waive non-compliance with a practice direction or a rule. Its obligation was to ensure that any expert report represented a genuine, objective view by those qualified to express it with sufficient reasoning and clarity to enable it to be challenged and assessed.”
WLR Daily, 13th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“As we reported in our summary of the decision earlier, the Supreme Court has confirmed that the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) has the power to order that certain witness evidence may be produced in conditions of absolute and irreversible secrecy.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 8th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The court is entitled to make an order for a witness to give evidence before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in such a way that the identity of the witness and the substance of the evidence remains confidential.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“For the purposes of quashing an acquittal on the ground that there was new evidence not adduced before the court in the proceedings in which the person was acquitted, evidence which had been available to be used in those proceedings but had not been used might be new evidence for those purposes.”
WLR Daily, 29th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Department for Education v Molyneux: [2012] EWCA Civ 193; [2012] WLR (D) 50
“Regulations E33(2A) and E33(3) of the Teachers’ Pensions Regulations 1997, as amended, did not impose an obligation on the Secretary of State, when considering an application by a teacher for an early pension due to ill-health, made pursuant to regulation E4(4), to request further information from the teacher where the submitted medical evidence did not disclose the incapacity to the degree required but, rather, imposed an obligation on the teacher to produce all necessary medical evidence, with the Secretary of State holding a supplementary power to exercise as he thought fit.”
WLR Daily, 28th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Rachel Langdale QC and James Robottom of 7 Bedford Row consider the jurisprudence and practical realities concerning the participation and involvement of children in proceedings relating to them.”
Family Law Week, 28th February 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“A rape victim who was spat at, beaten up and bullied over supposedly false allegations has finally seen her attacker face justice 20 years on thanks to advances in DNA technology.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former nightclub bouncer has been convicted of murdering a heavily pregnant teenager two weeks before she was due to give birth.”
BBC News, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“This Strasbourg decision is the end of a long saga. Our applicants Hardy and Maile lived near proposed Liquified Natural Gas terminals at Milford Haven. In 2003 and 2004, an oil refiner obtained various consents to enable the LNG to be imported, and the applicants challenged them in the domestic courts. But the image, and the identity of its participants, will tell you that the LNG started to arrive. But Alison Hardy and Rodney Maile were not easily deflected, and after a long battle through the domestic courts ended up in the Strasbourg Court.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th February 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Supreme Court has ruled it will decide whether private investigator Glenn Mulcaire must reveal which journalists asked him to hack phones.”
BBC News, 15th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Detectives and prosecutors are examining whether certain witnesses at the Stephen Lawrence murder trial may have perjured themselves while giving evidence, the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed.”
The Guardian, 14th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A radical Muslim cleric described as a grave threat to Britain’s national security could walk free on Monday.”
The Guardian, 6th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge has called for a change in the law on deathbed wills after an eight-year legal wrangle over whether a dying man’s sister offered him a ‘steadying hand’ as he signed all his possessions over to her.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“David Norris and Gary Dobson are to appeal against their convictions for the racist murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence in south-east London in 1993.”
BBC News, 30th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The expansion of secret hearings into the civil courts, proposed by the government as a means of protecting national security, will deprive individuals of the right to a fair trial, a parliamentary select committee has been warned.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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