The Government has launched an examination into the reformation and restriction of judicial review proceedings, aiming to limit the public’s ability to challenge the Government’s decisions.
On Tuesday 23 June the Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland QC indicated that legislation could be passed that would allow trial without a jury in England and Wales.
Johnny Depp is suing News Group Newspapers (owner of The Sun) and its executive editor for libel after describing him in an article as an abusive husband in 2018.
A legal challenge against the government-led lockdown, headed by businessman Simon Dolan, came before the High Court on 2nd July.
The UK’s three biggest airlines, British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair, have filed a High Court action for judicial review against the government over the introduction of its 14-day post-travel quarantine policy.
With the economic difficulties many companies are facing, redundancies are inevitable, but letting staff go via Zoom or other video conferencing services could open up employers to claims of unfair dismissal.
The UK government is planning on setting the boundaries of judicial review to ensure that it cannot be used to conduct “politics by other means”.
A commercial court case has recently been held entirely via Zoom, with the footage livestreamed and later uploaded to YouTube.
Civil litigation rule-makers have passed temporary reforms (in effect until October 2020) to ease pressure on litigators struggling to meet deadlines and court orders due to the coronavirus pandemic having heeded the warnings of practitioners. The amendments will allow general time extensions and help litigators fulfil procedural obligations where they are unable to meet clients.
17 years after being found guilty of cheating their way to the £1m prize on TV quiz show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, ex-army major Charles Ingram and his wife Diana are seeking to appeal their conviction. ITV’s three-part drama, Quiz, tells a dramatised version of their story.