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Joshua Rozenberg

@JoshuaRozenberg

4 years

Deeply sorry to hear that Jack Merritt was murdered in the terrorist attack at London Bridge. I interviewed him at Warren Hill prison about the course he ran for prisoners and university students: A fine young man, dedicated to improving people’s lives.

BBC Radio 4 - Law in Action, Jailhouse Law

Inside the prison where inmates study alongside law students.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Speculation in @thesundaytimes today that Lord Pannick QC was paid £250 an hour to represent @thatginamiller in the @UKSupremeCourt last week. In fact, he represented her pro bono — charging no fee at all.

Prorogation court battle: You take the first swing, my learned friend. I’ll strike next

Proceedings at the Supreme Court are normally as dry as dust. I have endured (and enjoyed) many. But last week’s battle in the UK’s highest court made for high drama and compelling viewing — and not...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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I wonder if the couple released without charge by police investigating the Gatwick drones will sue newspapers that named them for invading their privacy, following the example of Sir Cliff Richard.

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4 years

Mixed Millers from the attorney general. Moral: know your cases before taking on another QC

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I understand the @UKSupremeCourt will indeed be giving judgment in the Miller/Cherry prorogation cases at 1030 tomorrow Tuesday.

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If Boris Johnson were to advise the Queen to prorogue parliament to ensure the UK leaves the EU on 31 October, the courts would be likely to hear an urgent application and then declare his advice to be unlawful: well-argued advice from Lord Pannick QC

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I am mystified by this report in the @thesundaytimes . Surely Cummings knows that the @UKSupremeCourt hears appeals from lower courts? It does not grant orders in response to first-instance applications. The High Court can move extremely quickly. Its orders stand until overturned.

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“The government is to …make it illegal for Parliament to extend the process beyond the end of next year.” Not so. It would not be “illegal” for parliament to change the law in a year’s time and allow an extension. Any law can be repealed by a later one.

Brexit bill to rule out extension to transition period

The move comes as MPs gather for the first sitting of the new Parliament after the general election.

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3 years

And now they really put the boot into the @attorneygeneral

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6 years

Lady Hale’s new portrait, commissioned by Gray’s Inn. Hers will be the only portrait in the hall to show the sitter smiling.

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2 years

BREAKING Giuffre v Prince Andrew: case settled

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5 years

No decision tomorrow morning from the @UKSupremeCourt on the prorogation appeals. Tuesday looking increasingly likely. We’ll know more during the day tomorrow.

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4 years

Dominic Grieve says the law officers should have stopped this legislation. He would have resigned if he had been asked to support this bill. And the position of @RobertBuckland is untenable too. There are unwritten limits to what law officers can approve.

IBA's Human Rights Institute

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Urgent IBAHRI meeting - Wednesday 7 October 1800 BST - on the #InternalMarketBill . The Bars of #England and #Wales , #Scotland and #NorthernIreland will discuss the serious challenges to the rule of law. Register here:

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The @Conservatives promise: “We will ensure that judicial review is available to protect the rights of the individuals against an overbearing state, while ensuring that it is not abused to conduct politics by another means or to create needless delays.” Yes but what does it mean?

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Russia has been formally excluded from the Council of Europe after 26 years. The decision, which takes effect today, was made by the committee of ministers.

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3 years

Duchess of Sussex wins summary judgment on the claim for misuse of private information, and on the other issues in the copyright claim. Judge says there there should be a trial limited to issues relating to the ownership of copyright.

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Lefty lawyers? Or professionals attacked by ministers for acting professionally. What does @RobertBuckland make of the prime minister’s comments, I wonder:

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Associated Newspapers say they will ask the Duchess of Sussex to pay their legal costs of in excess of £50,000 after the couple refused their offer to deal with the strike-out issue out of court. She will also have to pay her own costs for the hearing last week.

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17 silks from @1CrownOfficeRow tell @trussliz they are "dismayed" by her "inadequate defence" of the Brexit judges.

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Lord Burnett, lord chief justice, tells me at a news conference that senior judges are considering offering new MPs and peers a short briefing note about constitutional boundaries. He says it was “unfortunate” that four MPs and a peer wrote to senior judges about a pending case.

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5 years

Just listened to Lord Trimble on @BBCr4today . Still mystified by his proposal to take legal action over Brexit. Against whom? In which court? And for what breach of the law? Happy to be enlightened.

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2 years

Unforced errors by Archie’s lawyers: hospital deserves credit for patience and forbearing New post, free to read

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5 years

Thanks for all the people who’ve thanked me for my tweets today. And thanks to @SkyNews for sponsoring them. I’ll be live-tweeting the government’s arguments tomorrow morning but unfortunately I have other commitments after that.

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Hale: no explanation before the court of why it was necessary to suspend parliament for five weeks. We are bound to conclude that the decision was unlawful.

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The lord chancellor was under a statutory duty to appoint a reviewer of secret justice two years ago. He has not done so. What has he got to hide? And is @RobertBuckland now acting unlawfully? My latest @lawsocgazette column:

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7 years

Charlie Gard: Melanie Phillips (in whom I declare an interest) lays into the US right’s arrogant, unthinking cruelty

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5 years

Law in Action returns to @BBCRadio4 at 4pm: . In the 35 years since I presented the first edition, I can’t remember a time when there has been more action in the law. As @davidallengreen likes saying, constitutional law is not meant to be this interesting!

BBC Radio 4 - Law in Action, Legal lessons from Brexit

Joshua Rozenberg asks what we can learn about the law and the constitution from Brexit.

www.bbc.co.uk

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4 years

Samira Ahmed wins claim against BBC to be paid same for presenting Newswatch as Jeremy Vine was paid for presenting Points of View.

Judicial Office

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4 years

The judgment in Samira Ahmed v BBC handed down by Judge Harjit Grewal in the Central London Employment Tribunal is now available online:

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Grieve for the rule of law Former attorney general lays into Conservative lawyers New piece, free to read

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I hope that readers (including my wife) will forgive a rare, self-indulgent, personal tweet so that I can wish @MelanieLatest a happy 45th wedding anniversary.

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The @UKSupremeCourt has now confirmed that judgment will be tomorrow, Tuesday, at 1030. The justices in attendance at the hand-down of the judgment will be: Lady Hale Lord Reed Lord Wilson Lord Hodge Lord Lloyd-Jones Lady Arden Lord Kitchin

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“An unusual submission”. Slightly later than promised, my analysis of today’s ruling dismissing Suella Braverman’s attempt to persuade the Court of Appeal that manslaughter sentences passed on PC Andrew Harper’s killers were unduly lenient:

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Several members of the executive committee of @SocConLaw including @neill_bob (chair) are “deeply troubled” by what the government said yesterday. They say: “Upholding the rule of law is a fundamental principle of sound government, knowingly and deliberately breaching it is not.”

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6 years

Judge puts terrorist right on Islam.

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Hale: order in council is void and should be quashed. Parliament has not been prorogued.

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Can you believe sex is immutable? Not according to an employment judge — but will the appeal tribunal agree? My preview of the @MForstater appeal starting today:

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1 year

Time to kill the bill MPs and peers say Bill of Rights Bill should go no further New post, free to read

Time to kill the bill

MPs and peers say Bill of Rights Bill should go no further

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5 years

Lady Hale demolishes the Reith Lectures delivered by former “deeply respected colleague” Lord Sumption:

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So let’s just think this through. A government minister is thinking of starting legal proceedings against an independent body sponsored by his department for exercising its discretion in accordance with laws which that government has refused to amend, despite universal criticism?

Danny Shaw

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6 years

Latest #Worboys . A high bar to judicial review success but release would probably be halted pending legal challenge

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Leading barrister refuses to be intimidated. Dinah Rose QC says she won't pull out of hearing in London next month.

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Explaining why his wife and daughter (who gave birth yesterday) are not at his valedictory, Sir James Munby says the interests of the child are paramount. He receives a rare standing ovation.

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Very sorry to hear this. Lord Kerr was only 72 and retired just two months ago. His judgment in the Patrick Finucane case was much admired and he was one of the most progressive members off Lady Hale’s court. This picture doesn’t do him justice: it misses the twinkle in his eye.

UK Supreme Court

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3 years

With great sadness the Supreme Court learns of the death of Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, former Justice. Lord Reed, President of the Supreme Court’s tribute is available to read here:

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Judge: I want to deal with nonsensical notion that this is being decided by me because of a system of socialised medicine in this country.

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But the bill says the PM “must seek to obtain … an extension … by sending … a letter”. Sending the required letter with a covering note saying “please ignore the next letter” would not comply with this requirement. And the EU could ignore the covering note if it chose to.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

5 years

The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph: Johnson 'can legally stop Brexit extension' #tomorrowspaperstoday

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It looks as if Lady Hale hopes to produce a reasonably complete judgment over the weekend representing the view of the court — or of a majority if they are split. Individual sections could be written by different justices. Much better than a bald decision with reasons to follow.

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5 years

Top team for Gina Miller challenge in London tomorrow: Lord Chief Justice of E&W (Lord Burnett of Maldon), Master of the Rolls (Sir Terence Etherton) and President of Queen’s Bench Division (Dame Victoria Sharp). Can’t be televised under current rules, unfortunately. 1030 start.

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6 years

If you really think that junior counsel doing criminal legal aid work make £500 an hour, nothing I can say will persuade you otherwise.

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@JoshuaRozenberg @JoanneMcCartney @owenbowcott So the £500 an hour brigade won't take cases paid for by the state because the price is low. And Joanne McCartney Labour agrees with them.

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Very pleased to see how much @davidallengreen and I agree. His piece here: Mine here: No cribbing on either side

A bill of rhetoric

First glimpse of human rights reform suggests it is full of holes

rozenberg.substack.com

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Assange loses public interest challenge to absconding allegations. Senior district judge dismisses all five arguments put by his lawyers last week. “He should have the courage” to come to court, she says.

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5 years

The case IS justiciable.

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I am hoping to live-tweet the procedural hearing today in Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers. It’s not being streamed onto a public website but the High Court cause list indicates how people can access the remote hearing. I’m currently waiting to be let in.

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Good morning from the @UKSupremeCourt . Lady Hale is expected to deliver a summary of the court’s judgment in the Miller/Cherry prorogation appeals at 1030. This will be live-streamed and televised. I’m in the court media room and plan to live-tweet (threaded) what’s said in court

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Good morning from R (Miller) v Prime Minister, in the High Court of England and Wales (Divisional Court). Gina Miller represented by Lord Pannick QC. PM represented by Sir David Eadie QC. Judges are Lord Burnett CJ, Sir Terence Etherton MR, Dame Victoria Sharp President QBD.

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3 years

Assange wins. US has 14 days to appeal.

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Pannick reminds Lord Reed that his court had no trouble finding that employment tribunal fees were too high (in the Unison case) without saying what level would be lawful. So this court can declare that five weeks prorogation was too long without saying how long would be ok.

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I hope to live-tweet some of the lockdown regulations challenge hearing that starts at 1030. Claimants include Simon Dolan, a businessman. Defendants include Matt Hancock, health secretary. Claimant’s counsel is Philip Havers QC. Defendant’s counsel is Sir James Eadie QC.

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Now is not the time to introduce major reforms of the jury system, however temporary and however limited. And senior judges should not be flying kites for the government, not least because the wind can change. My latest column for @lawsocgazette now online

Flying a kite in a storm

The middle of a crisis is not a golden opportunity for a radical rethink of jury trials. It is the worst time of all.

www.lawgazette.co.uk

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A rare (indeed unprecedented) selfie to celebrate 50k followers as I wait for my bus after the Lord Mayor's dinner.

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Good morning. I’m not at the @UKSupremeCourt but I plan to follow the livestream all day and live-tweet the arguments. The court is hearing separate appeals that raise similar issues: is the PM’s advice to HM to prorogue parliament justiciable? And, if so, was it lawful? (thread)

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Sorry that Frances Gibb is retiring from @thetimes after covering legal affairs for longer than any of us (she started in 1982 and I began in 1984). She writes a fine valedictory piece today, reporting the reactions of the judges she annoyed. Good journalists have few friends.

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Very sorry to hear that Lord Steyn died yesterday. The retired law lord famously suggested in 2005 that judicial review was something not even a sovereign parliament acting at the behest of a “complaisant” House of Commons could abolish. Not often you see that word.

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7 years

Interesting to see that this required an Act of Parliament. You might have thought the Royal prerogative would be sufficient.

Parliament Archives

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80 years ago #EdwardVIII #Abdication Act passed in both Houses with no amendments, immediately passing the throne to #GeorgeVI @RoyalFamily

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By sacrificing his own job, Cameron has bought Britain three months’ breathing space. My legal analysis of Brexit.

Brexit won the vote but for now, we remain in the EU | Joshua Rozenberg

By not triggering article 50 of the Lisbon treaty immediately after the referendum, David Cameron has bought the UK more time to negotiate terms

www.theguardian.com

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Free online course designed to teach young people about the judiciary of England and Wales launches next week: Covers the work of the judiciary, judges’ portrayal in the media and how to understand judgments. Requires three hours a week for five weeks.

The Modern Judiciary - Online Law Course - FutureLearn

Explore the role of the judge in the UK legal system to understand what judges do and why it matters with this free online course from King's College London.

www.futurelearn.com

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All in all, then, almost a complete victory for the duchess as far as I can see. No doubt Associated Newspapers will announce appeal. And there’s still a possibility of a hearing on some issues. But I don’t expect that will happen. There’s likely be be some sort of deal on those.

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Judge: it’s pure nonsense to say that this is being decided by a judge because we have a national health service in this country.

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4 years

This in response to my tweet about Jack Merritt, murdered in the London Bridge terrorist attack.

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@JoshuaRozenberg Utterly lost for words. I too met him at Warren Hill. His open heartedness, his drive and his faith in the redemption of prisoners through education shone out. He saved lives through his work.

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Lord Neuberger says that if the Internal Market Bill is passed and is then challenged in the courts, the judges will either be on a collision course with the government or will be seen as craven. Either you sort out problems in court or you have civil war, he adds.

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By a majority, Court of Appeal allows migrants' appeal on whether Rwanda is a safe country. Lord Chief Justice dissents. He believes they won't be sent back to their countries of origin. Case now seen as likely to go to UK Supreme Court

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Hale: the power to prorogue is limited. A decision will be unlawful if it frustrates the ability of parliament to carry out its constitutional functions.

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Barrister resolves long-standing problem of Jewish husband refusing to allow former wife to remarry by bringing private prosecution against him for offence of controlling or coercive behaviour: Innovative thinking by Anthony Metzer QC of Goldsmith Chambers

Landmark case sees woman obtain get after launching private prosecution against husband for...

'For the first time in the UK, a private prosecution was successfully commenced against a get refuser'

www.thejc.com

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This reveals a number of misconceptions by “senior Tories” — for example that the jurisdiction of the @UKSupremeCourt is significantly different from the jurisdiction of the law lords in the 1980s/1990s; and the Wednesbury test for judicial review was ever interpreted literally.

Guido Fawkes

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Tories Prepare for Court and Boundary Reform

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Warby J: The defendant’s factual and legal case [on copyright ownership] both seem to me to occupy the shadowland between improbability and unreality. The case is contingent, inferential and imprecise. It cannot be described as convincing, and seems improbable

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Brexit update: @UKSupremeCourt says 11 justices will sit, not 9 as first announced: Lady Hale, President; Lord Reed, Deputy President; Lord Kerr; Lord Wilson; Lord Carnwath; Lord Hodge; Lady Black; Lord Lloyd-Jones; Lady Arden; Lord Kitchin; Lord Sales. Lord Briggs is missing.

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Ill-timed attack on leading QC: campaigners behave recklessly by identifying Dinah Rose with her clients. New post, free to read

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Non-law graduate sues Daily Mail for copyright breach and wins agreed damages (plus costs). Surely a law career beckons?

Two wrongs don’t make a copyright - how I took on the Daily Mail and won - Legal Cheek

Oxford University grad Louis Geary sued the newspaper giant after it published his naked calendar photos without permission

www.legalcheek.com

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Raab’s bill won’t work. Former judge says Bill of Rights Bill is neither necessary nor sufficient. New post, free to read

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Summonses against Boris Johnson quashed. Reasons to follow.

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Rare letter from 2 former Lord Chancellors on p64 of today's Daily Mail says Brexit judges were not enemies of people

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The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has told all judges that they will be using technology to conduct business which even a month ago would have been unthinkable. Final hearings and hearings with contested evidence very shortly will be conducted using technology (THREAD)

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Will killer die in prison? Judge to decide whether Wayne Couzens will receive whole life order. New analysis, free to read:

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Very sorry to hear that Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, has died. He was 103.

Benjamin B. Ferencz, Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor, Dies at 103 (Published 2023)

In addition to convicting prominent Nazi war criminals, he crusaded for an international criminal court and for laws to end wars of aggression.

www.nytimes.com

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Why Geoffrey Cox should stand firm: We would all be the poorer if being a backbench MP became a full-time job. New post, free to read:

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Appeal allowed in each of the 39 Horizon cases. All those convictions unsafe.

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I understand that @MoJGovUK has agreed to allow televising of judges’ sentencing remarks in the Crown Court of England and Wales. Announcement imminent. Excellent if true.

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“The thing about great cases is that what once seemed impossible now seems inevitable” — comment made by one of the lawyers involved after the judgment.

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Charlie Gard: hearing resumes 2pm. Meanwhile, here’s the full position statement filed at court by GOSH yesterday:

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Judge says there have been threats to doctors at GOSH and their lawyers. Says they will be dealt with as severely as legal system permits.

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But it was wrong. You may not think there’s much difference between charging a few thousand pounds and offering your skills without a fee in the public interest but Pannick is surely entitled to a correction, isn’t he? I thought that was what @IpsoNews was there for.

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Hale: Speaker and Lord Speaker can reconvene parliament, unless there is something of which we are unaware.

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Home Secretary wins her appeals in Shamima Begum case.

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The student body at the college led by @dinahroseqc has rejected calls for her to resign. “A lawyer should not be identified with the views of their client. This is a fundamental principle of justice and the JCR upholds this wholeheartedly and unconditionally.”

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Magdalen JCR passes motion over Dinah Rose controversy

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Important rebuttal to @RishiSunak from senior judiciary

Law Society Gazette

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Rwanda bill: deployment of judges 'matter for the judiciary'.

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Gina Miller case: the court has agreed that four other parties can make written submissions. They are Lady Chakrabarti, the Welsh Government, the Scottish Advocate General and the former Prime Minister Sir John Major.

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A bill of rhetoric: first glimpse of human rights reforms suggests it is full of holes My line-by-line analysis of what @MoJGovUK has said today, free to read:

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@JoshuaRozenberg

5 years

@eliistender10 Four words or fewer.

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@JoshuaRozenberg

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Link to reasons given by district judge for granting summons against @BorisJohnson on allegations of misconduct in a public office

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@JoshuaRozenberg

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Overwhelming applause for Lord Mayor of London as he tells Michael Gove at judges’ Guildhall dinner that City wanted to remain in the EU.

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@JoshuaRozenberg

2 years

Mance eviscerates Raab’s bill: former senior judge warns government not to unbalance constitution New post, free to read:

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Joshua Rozenberg

@JoshuaRozenberg

3 years

We’re all very sorry to see you go, Owen. And it’s particularly unfortunate that — as far as I know — the @guardian will no longer have a dedicated legal correspondent. The only London-based national news organisations with full-time correspondents are now @thetimes and @FT

Owen Bowcott

@owenbowcott

3 years

After 32 years on The Guardian, I’m closing my notebook and stepping down from the press bench at the end of the year. Huge thanks to everyone who helped me understand. Apologies for stories missed.

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