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There was no doubt that a court hearing family proceedings had the power to control the use to which documents filed for the purpose of the proceedings were used. That power extended to the withholding of documents from parties where…
Meghan Markle, aka The Duchess of Sussex, this week succeeded in an application for summary judgment against the Daily Mail newspaper: HRH The Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Limited [2021] EWHC 273 (Ch). In a case which may well…
Where a company was not a United Kingdom company and had never had a registered office or carried on business in the UK, there was a presumption against extra-territorial effect when construing section 2(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987:…
Any competent journalist should know, without having to stop to think about it, that court proceedings were in a different category from proceedings in Parliament or other types of meetings which would have to be held remotely because of the…
In a webinar hosted by University College London Laws, chaired by Dame Hazel Genn and attended by over 2,000 viewers last evening, Dame Brenda Hale spoke about her career and meteoric rise through the judiciary to become the first woman…
The Applicant Trust sought a declaration from the High Court that it was lawful and in a child’s (C) best interests to discontinue mechanical ventilation. The likely consequence was that it would bring C’s life to an end. C was…
The Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 15 Stansted protesters whilst at the same time commending the trial judge on the way he handled an extraordinarily difficult trial which bristled with complex legal argument: R v Edward Thacker &…
The lack of appropriate placements for highly vulnerable children and adolescents identified in recent case law was described as long ago as 2017 as both disgraceful and utterly shaming.[1] It is evident from a judgment delivered today by Knowles J…
A Court of Protection judge found that the effects of the current Covid-19 pandemic placed him in an invidious possession. Notwithstanding that the Respondent, who lacked capacity, required urgent examination and treatment, it was simply not deliverable: University Hospitals of…
Five applications for writs of habeas corpus were today refused by the Divisional Court: Polakowski & Ors v Westminster Magistrates’ Court & Ors [2021] EWHC Civ 53 (Admin) Dame Victoria Sharp P, Holroyde LJ, Chamberlain J. The five applicants were…