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Big news : more live streaming of court hearings – good news or not?
This week has seen news that the Crown Court is to begin to live stream sentencing remarks. Hot on the heels of that announcement came reports that the Court of Appeal will soon begin to live stream appeals in some family cases. There has been quite a lot of coverage...
One appeal, Two Bakers and Three tries at a fact finding
In D (Fact-finding appeal) [2019] EWCA Civ 2302 (20 December 2019) Lord Justice Baker gives the lead judgment concerning an appeal from His Honour Judge Baker. The upshot is that, the question of the child's injuries having been the subject of two attempts at fact...
Behind Closed Doors – BBC Radio 4’s legal drama
Monday 13th- Friday 17th January 2.15pm This is a guest blog post from Clara Glynn. Clara is a Scottish based writer and television director with Hopscotch Films. I write Behind Closed Doors, which is now in its fourth series. My background...
Interim privacy injunctions: a change in the rules to improve the recording of data
In 2017 a new list was created in the Queen’s Bench Division, to be known as the Media and Communications List, and Mr Justice Warby, a media law specialist, was put in charge of it. The list was designed to deal with the broader range of media-related claims than was...
Tafida Raqeeb: Costs Judgment
In 2019, we reported on the tragic case of Tafida Raqeeb. Raqeeb v Barts Health NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 2531 (Admin) and [2019] EWHC 2530 (Fam)). As a brief reminder, Tafida Raqeeb, now aged 5, experienced a catastrophic brain injury in February...
The perennial pantomime of ‘Divorce D Day’?
This post originally appeared at Linked In and on the Pennington Manches Cooper website and is re published with thanks. Its author, Tony Roe, is a consultant at Pennington Manches Cooper and tweets as @tonyroedivorce. The first working Monday in January 'dubbed...
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