by Paul M | Dec 16, 2020 | Comment, Transparency News
The main purpose of this post is to show how to find cases and other materials on the site of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute, better known as BAILII. There is a separate post explaining what BAILII is and where it came from: All about BAILII – part...
by Paul M | Dec 3, 2020 | Comment, Trends
“Throughout the crisis, we have supported the judiciary in their prioritisation of cases to ensure the most urgent cases could be heard, and supported the implementation of the President of the Family Division’s guidance on urgent cases and remote hearings which was...
by Paul M | Oct 10, 2020 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Following an earlier consultation, there has been a comprehensive rewriting of the rules of court dealing with the procedure to be adopted in relation to contempt of court. There are new rules in effect from 1 October 2020 in both the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) and...
by Paul M | Aug 25, 2020 | Consultations, Transparency News, Trends
The Lord Chief Justice called it “the biggest pilot project that the justice system has ever seen” and said “there will be no going back to February 2020”. Remote court hearings would have come sooner or later, but thanks to Covid-19 they came at us fast, in March...
by Paul M | Aug 3, 2020 | Analysis, Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
In the second such case in a month, a judge has refused to recuse herself at the request of a litigant, but on this occasion the Court of Appeal has reversed that decision and ordered that she step down from the case and let another judge take over. In the...
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