“Top lawyers put fossil fuel bosses on trial in the UK’s supreme court to explore whether environmental destruction could be considered an international crime.”
The Guardian, 5th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Courts must allow the media an opportunity to challenge any discretionary reporting restrictions they place on a criminal hearing following changes to court rules for England and Wales.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Potential jurors in the trial of Vincent Tabak, the man accused of murdering Joanna Yeates, have been warned not to do any background research on the case.”
The Guardian, 4th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The trial of the police officer accused over the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests in April 2009, has been set for October 2012.”
The Guardian, 16th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nearly a third of crown court hearings in the East of England which do not go ahead as planned are adjourned due to legal teams not being ready on the day of the trial, the BBC can reveal.”
BBC News, 12th September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has announced that the ban on broadcasting in courts is to be lifted. Broadcasting will initially be allowed from the Court of Appeal, and the Government will ‘look to expand’ to the Crown Court later. All changes ‘will be worked out in close consultation with the judiciary’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th September 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Some judges fear that the presence of cameras in court rooms might encourage their colleagues to put on a performance.”
The Guardian, 6th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In the coming weeks and months we will see a succession of alleged rioters face justice. Already 1,000 people are being put through courts that have been been sitting through the night to cope with the numbers. Police and emergency services have been tested to their limits, and we can expect the laws of contempt to be similarly tested in the aftermath of these extraordinary events.”
The Guardian, 10th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A jury has decided a convicted murderer from Shropshire killed another man in the county 17 years ago.”
BBC News, 14th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The supreme court has outlawed intelligence services’ use of secret evidence in court to conceal allegations that detainees were tortured.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Sun and Daily Mirror published three stories after the arrest of a suspect in the hunt for the killer of Joanna Yeates that could have ‘prejudiced’ and ‘impeded’ a trial, the attorney general, Dominic Grieve QC, told the high court on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A key teenage witness in a murder trial went online within minutes of giving evidence to mock the defendant, a court heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Kenneth Clarke has said he recognises the ‘appalling’ treatment of Milly Dowler’s family at her killer’s trial.”
BBC News, 28th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The family of one of Levi Bellfield’s murder victims has hit out at the way his defence was handled during his trial for the killing of Milly Dowler.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The judge in Levi Bellfield’s trial could not spare Milly Dowler’s parents the trauma of giving evidence.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, is considering whether to put newspaper and broadcast editors in the dock for contempt of court after a judge dismissed the jury in the Levi Bellfield trial at the Old Bailey, blaming media coverage.”
The Guardian, 24th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s courts will see sweeping changes in favour of the victims of serious crime in the light of the Milly Dowler murder trial, the victims’ commissioner has vowed.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Defendants must be able to put their case – ‘however appalling’ – fairly before a court, ex-director of Public Prosecutions Lord Macdonald has said.”
BBC News, 26th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Atrium Medical Corpn and another v DSB Invest Holding SA [2011] EWHC 74 (Pat); [2011] WLR (D) 202
“High Court proceedings for declarations as to whether a product incorporated technical information, thus ultimately resulting in the determination of whether royalties were due, fell within the definition of ‘intellectual property litigation’ in regulation 3 of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents Higher Courts Qualification Regulations 2007 and therefore a patent attorney litigator was an ‘authorised person’ entitled to conduct the litigation and to exercise rights of audience in relation thereto.”
WLR Daily, 21st June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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