An application by the General Medical Council to extend an interim order of suspension upon a doctor for a further eight months was refused on the ground of incomprehensible and indefensible delay by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal, and a period…
A general medical practitioner who was found by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal to have dishonestly altered medical notes without indicating that they had been so altered, appealed to the Administrative Court against the findings and resulting erasure from the medical…
A Circuit Judge drew attention to the appalling impact of a failing justice system on the welfare of children: Re K (Inability to Instruct Guardian) [2022] EWFC B4: HH Judge Wildblood QC A year after the parties separated and seven…
An Approved Person appealed to the Upper Tribunal against a decision by the Financial Conduct Authority making a prohibition order against him following a criminal conviction. It was the first time the Upper Tribunal had to consider a case where…
A judicial review of a decision of the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute a young teenager for the death of another boy, a non-swimmer, after he had appeared to have been pushed off a ledge and into a river.…
Almost four years after spending a three day mini-pupillage with a barrister, a young woman took her complaint of unwanted sexual misconduct to the Bar Standards Board after reading that the barrister had been reprimanded by the BSB for engaging…
Following a revenge attack between rival groups in October 2004, 17-year-old Sam Hallam was convicted of murder, conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm and violent disorder, and sentenced to life imprisonment. His appeal was dismissed. Years later the Criminal Cases…
An experienced commercial litigation solicitor, representing himself as an appellant against a decision of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, was unsuccessful in the Administrative Court in his attempt to overturn findings which resulted in his being struck off the Roll of…
In this appeal by way of Case Stated against the decision of a District Judge, the Court of Appeal was asked whether the offence of encouraging or assisting the commission of an either way offence contrary to section 45 Serious…
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, delivers the judgment of the Court of Appeal overturning a High Court Judge’s decision to allow a claim for judicial review against the Minister for the Cabinet Office. The decision concerned the award of…
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman explains his combined complaints service against government and public organisations compared with those against the National Health Service. He speaks of the inevitable backlog created by the Covid pandemic and how his organisation expects…
Solicitors Regulation Authority v Soophia Khan & ors [2022] EWHC 45 (Ch) is a case in which a solicitor was sentenced to a term of six months’ imprisonment for failing to comply with two court orders to deliver up court…
The Court of Appeal Civil Division considers the applicable principles for judicial review of decisions made by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. In this case the Applicant had been convicted of murder and unsuccessfully appealed to the Court of Appeal…
Maurice MacSweeney from Harbour Litigation Funding explains litigation funding, damages based agreements and the help that is available for litigants. He talks about the availability of funding for solicitors’ firms, who may be handling a number of cases, as well…
Ian Forrester QC LLD, born in Glasgow and the United Kingdom’s last judge at the General Court of the European Union before Brexit, has practised law in New York, London and Brussels. He arrived in Brussels in 1973 as…
The tale of Christopher Craig (aged 16) who shot a policeman in 1952 in the course of burgling a warehouse, and Derek Bentley (aged 19) who suffered the death penalty for the act his friend committed. In this case the…
His Honour Nigel Lithman QC retired as a Circuit Judge just a few months ago and has just released his book “Nothing Like the Truth: The Trials and Tribulations.” In his engaging style, Nigel Lithman tells Baines Law about the…
What were the swinging sixties like? Was it all drugs and rock’n’roll, and did the leading pop groups at the time engender a culture of loose living? Discover how the establishment sought to defend the perceived morals of the time…
How was it that the death of a great dane in a remote part of the West Country sparked a political scandal and led to the Old Bailey trial of Jeremy Thorpe, then leader of the Liberal Party. Was a…
Listen in this episode to the tale of the Italian Banker linked with the Vatican and notorious P2 Masonic Lodge found hanging at London’s Blackfriars Bridge. Was it suicide or was it murder? The first inquest recorded a verdict of…