“The Master of the Rolls Lord Dyson is expected to decide whether the former chief whip, Andrew Mitchell MP, can break a costs order restricting his legal spend on a defamation claim against The Sun to £2,000.”
The Lawyer, 3rd October 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The president of the Supreme Court has urged the government to tread very carefully when considering whether to restrict the ability of people to bring judicial reviews.”
Litigation Futures, 3rd October 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Britain’s most senior female judge has expressed disappointment at the failure of her male colleagues to promote another woman to the top of the judiciary.”
The Independent, 2nd October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Lord Justice Leveson, the man behind the report into the future of press regulation, has been made the third most senior judge in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 26th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A leading judge has called for more cases in the Court of Protection to be made public.”
The Independent, 19th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
What Are Care Proceedings For? (PDF)
Zenith Chambers Munkman Lecture, 16th September 2013
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
Address to the National Bench Chairmen’s Forum Conference: “A Review of the Year” (PDF)
Lord Justice Gross, Senior Presiding Judge
National Bench Chairman’s Forum Conference, 11th September 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“A High Court master last week more than halved a proposed budget in a quantum-only cerebral palsey case, it has emerged. Leading costs lawyer Matthew Harman told this week’s PI Futures seminar in Manchester that the master also refused to hear any argument on hourly rates.”
Litigation Futures, 12th September 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Sir Nicolas Bratza, until last year president of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, said that although the court has been ‘demonised in the popular press and elsewhere as the elephant in the room, a kangaroo court and a Mickey Mouse tribunal’, the work of UK courts in applying the ECHR has been ‘exemplary.’ ”
Law Society’s Gazette, 5th September 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has taken the highly unusual step of ruling that a judge should have recused himself from hearing a wasted costs order against a party’s solicitors given the comments he made about them in his substantive judgment.”
Litigation Futures, 27th August 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Valedictory addresses for Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice.”
Judiciary Of England and Wales, 15th August 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The most senior judge in England and Wales has rejected calls for specialist courts to deal with child sex abuse cases.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Supreme Court, 31st July 2013
Valedictory address by Lord Dyson for Lord Judge: Retirement of the Lord Chief Justice (PDF)
Speech by Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls
Judiciary of England and Wales, 30th July 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
McGraddie v McGraddie and another [2013] UKSC 58; [2013] WLR (D) 323
“An appellate court should not interfere with the trial judge’s conclusions on primary facts unless it was satisfied that he was plainly wrong.”
WLR Daily, 31st July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Government proposals to restrict legal aid for judicial review will turn the clock back 50 years and perpetrate ‘significant and damaging injustice’, a retired Court of Appeal judge has warned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 29th July 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The courts will not be privatised, but ways to generate more income and capital for investment are under review – as are ‘difficult decisions’ about court fees, it emerged yesterday.”
Litigation Futures, 26th July 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“A high court judge has said a couple have committed ‘financial suicide’ by spending £850,000 on legal bills during their divorce.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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