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Jackson at a Glance

Neil Smith, Janna Purdie and Virginia Jones summarise the Jackson reforms and set out the key changes for practitioners On 1 April, Lord Justice Jackson’s costs reforms are due ...

31 March 2013

Beware of the dog

The difficulties of identification evidence are well known. Nöel Sweeney examines how these difficulties increase when animals are involved, and asks ... did the lady bite the ...

28 February 2013

How much should we know?

Senior judges have for good reason long resisted all attempts to undermine the secrecy and anonymity that attaches to juries. Does the internet now threaten this, asks Adam ...

28 February 2013

Tarnishing: “The lamp that shows that freedom lives”

Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 poses problems for the public interest in an effective jury system – Peter Yates explains the thinking behind the Law Commission ...

31 January 2013

Representing families of the dead

Demonstrating the nature of his practice and what drives him forward professionally, LALY Legal Aid Barrister of the year, Leslie Thomas, recounts the case of Sean Rigg Over the ...

31 December 2012

When is Supreme better than Grand?

Following R v Riat & Others and R v Ibrahim, Oliver Weetch, who appeared in Riat for the appellant (Wilson) whose conviction was quashed, considers the law relating to hearsay ...

31 December 2012

A sorry tale

David Hislop QC on the consequences of legislation drafted in haste On the 18th September 2012 the European Court of Human Rights gave judgment in the case of James, Wells and ...

30 November 2012

Forced marriage (November 2012)

Charlotte Rachael Proudman on the law surrounding forced marriage and the developments surrounding its criminalisation On Friday 8 June 2012 the Government announced that forced ...

31 October 2012

Time for the first FGM prosecution?

Neelam Sarkaria asks whether it is time for the first prosecution under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 The making of an allegation of Female Genital Mutilation is ...

31 October 2012

Time to change the rules?

David Wurtzel examines the giving of evidence by children, their cross examination and section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 On July 24 we marked the ...

31 October 2012

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