Juries or Judges: Who should decide your fate?
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.
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July 14, 2020
Pirates of the Defamation: Depp sues The Sun
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.
July 14, 2020
Forget Crowdsurfing, say Hello to CrowdSuing: Crowdjustice campaign for judicial review of lockdown reaches High Court
A legal challenge against the government-led lockdown, headed by businessman Simon Dolan, came before the High Court on 2nd July.
July 9, 2020
Fly Me To The Courts: Airlines’ challenge to UK quarantine policy progresses to the Courts
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.
July 2, 2020
Zoom Straight To An Employment Tribunal: Is being made redundant via Zoom legal?
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.
July 1, 2020
It’s All Under Review: Boundaries to be set on Judicial Review
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”.
June 30, 2020
Zooming into the Future: Success in UK’s first online trial
A commercial court case has recently been held entirely via Zoom, with the footage livestreamed and later uploaded to YouTube.
May 2, 2020
This is Coronavirus Court: Procedural changes made to ease coronavirus burden on litigators
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.
April 30, 2020
Is That Your Final Answer?: “Coughing major” conviction to be appealed
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.
April 28, 2020
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: High Court delay deemed “inexcusable”
Sir Geoffrey Vos, Chancellor of the High Court, while pronouncing the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the case of Bank St Petersburg PJSC v Arkhangelsky, called a delay of 22 months by the High Court “inexcusable”.
April 24, 2020