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Now updated with today's appeal ruling.
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The House of Commons gave David Lammy’s courts and tribunals bill a second reading by a majority of 101 yesterday. Just 10 Labour MPs voted against the government, though dozens abstained on principle.
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Today is make-or-break day for the government’s planned jury reforms. If enough MPs vote to give David Lammy’s courts and tribunals bill a second reading, opposition may be containable. If not, ministers may be forced to make concessions at a later stage.
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The Charity Commission is not having a very good time. It faces allegations that it failed to investigate 30 charities and community centres with links to the Iranian regime because it feared being accused of racism. And it lost the case I previewed on Friday.
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The High Court is expected to rule shortly on whether it would be a breach of parliamentary privilege for judges to consider a claim brought by the Charity Commission against the parliamentary ombudsman.
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“Any decision about the care and treatment of a mentally incapacitated adult, including the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, must be taken in the patient’s best interests,” judges said this week. That conclusion cannot possibly be correct, a KC told me. rozenberg.substack.com/p/life-and-d...
Banning the IRGC: a problem, certainly. But why hasn't the government resolved it?
And mediating Donald Trump’s claim against the BBC
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David Lammy’s courts and tribunals bill will be debated in the Commons next Tuesday, 10 March. The bill itself has received relatively little attention since it was published last Wednesday afternoon. What does it say?
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The prime minister has said that the the UK and its allies are permitted under international law to use or support force where self-defence is the only feasible means to deal with an ongoing armed attack and where the force used is necessary and proportionate.
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Now updated with new developments.
The criminal justice system must “identify and pursue medium- and long-term change,” a senior judge said at the criminal courts improvement group’s first conference yesterday at Guildhall in the City of London.
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Sir Keir Starmer took his family to Poland during the recent parliamentary recess so that his two children could learn about their family’s Jewish roots, the attorney general told me earlier this week.
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The justice secretary David Lammy is expected to publish his court reform bill this afternoon. We’re told it will be very much in line with what ministers have set out in recent months. “We have stuck with the plan,” a government source said yesterday.
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The deputy president of the UK Supreme Court and two other justices had been due to spend today hearing an appeal by a vet from Bedfordshire who had been struck off for “disgraceful conduct”. As it turned out, the time they spent preparing was entirely wasted.
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Family judges should not normally grant permission for expert evidence to be given in children proceedings by an expert ‘psychologist’ who is neither registered not chartered, the president of the High Court family division ruled in a judgment on Friday.
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I have written a slightly whimsical column for today’s Law Society Gazette, recalling the one of the managing clerks who formed the backbone of the solicitors’ firm where I trained as an articled clerk more than half a century ago.
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This year, Gray’s Inn is marking 400 years since the death of Sir Francis Bacon, one of the most influential figures in British intellectual history and a lawyer whose career was deeply intertwined with the inn he joined at the age of 15.
Watch my new video.
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The justice secretary David Lammy has been asked to respond within two weeks to a series of pointed questions from members of the all-party Commons justice committee. MPs wrote to him last Friday raising concerns about proposed reforms to the criminal courts.
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How is it possible to enforce a judgment from the courts of one state against the government of another? That’s the topic I discuss on this week’s episode of A Lawyer Talks. My guest is Jehad Mustafa, a partner at Farrer & Co who specialises in state immunity.
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A High Court claim by nearly a thousand university students who say that they were not given the tuition they had paid for has been settled. See update here:
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Home Office lawyers were deeply concerned when they learned last week that Palestine Action had successfully challenged a banning order made in July by the former home secretary Yvette Cooper.
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A judge in Florida has ruled that Donald Trump’s defamation claim against the BBC will be tried next February, unless resolved in the meantime. District Judge Roy K Altman scheduled the jury trial in Miami after dismissing a preliminary challenge by the BBC.
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The attorney general, on an official visit to Australia, has expressed the government’s outrage at the terrorist attack on Jews celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi beach. But Lord Hermer KC also offered some optimistic reflections at the Great Synagogue in Sydney.
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The director of public prosecutions has expressed his support for two of the proposed reforms that have emerged from Sir Brian Leveson’s criminal courts review. But Stephen Parkinson was more guarded about government proposals to limit the right to jury trial.
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An asylum seeker cleared of a public order offence after setting fire to a copy of the Koran while standing near the Turkish consulate in London may have his acquittal overturned after a hearing next week.
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A cruise line defending a claim for £10 million brought by an employee who slipped in a toilet has been allowed by a judge to rely on a surveillance video filmed secretly through her kitchen window. P&O Cruises says the claim is worth no more than £25,000.
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It would be rash of David Lammy to assume that Lord Justice Warby will not be throwing his wig into the ring, I wrote a week ago. Two of Warby’s predecessors had left the Judicial Appointments Commission early to seek a more senior judicial post. Now Warby?
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After months of uncertainty, the government is pressing ahead with its plans to curb trial by jury. Legislation is to be introduced “next month”, a minister says. Sir Brian Leveson expects the bill to be published even sooner, he tells me on A Lawyer Talks.
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Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked a judge in Florida to reject a preliminary move by the BBC in the president’s multi-billion-dollar defamation claim over an edition of Panorama broadcast in 2024.
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Efficiency measures proposed today by Sir Brian Leveson will not be enough by themselves to deal with the “truly appalling backlogs that have developed in our criminal justice system,” the former judge says in part two of his report to the justice secretary.
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