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Pinewood expansion battle rages on the village green

Posted on November 27, 2009
In secluded Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, a rebellion is brewing. Pinewood Studio, host for 75 years to films as diverse as Oliver Twist and the James Bond franchise, wants to expand. But local residents disagree, and one is using a 19th-century law to fight back.

Court of appeal judges in Scotland increase prison terms for murder

Posted on November 27, 2009
The Scottish government has welcomed a court ruling that paves the way for killers to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

Gary McKinnon's hopes fade as Home Secretary says he is powerless to stop extradition

Posted on November 26, 2009
Hopes of a reprieve for Gary McKinnon, the British computer hacker facing extradition to the US, were dashed last night after the Government said that it was powerless to intervene.

Lawyers to pay back Ł25 million after damning report on legal aid scheme

Posted on November 26, 2009
Lawyers face having to return more than Ł25 million paid to them by mistake because of mismanagement in the running of the legal aid scheme.

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TV coverage means justice really will be seen to be done

Posted on September 30, 2009
Today is a turning point in the history of our legal system, not only because we have a new highest court in the land, but because the public will finally see justice at work.

The highest court in the land opens its doors to the public

Posted on September 30, 2009
It was dreamt up over a glass of whisky or on the back of a cigarette packet. That, at least, is the prevailing myth as to how the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom came about. Now, six years on, this landmark reform finally takes effect and today the court opens its doors for business.

Supreme Court opens as fears raised of US-style selection of judges

Posted on September 30, 2009
The judges of Britain?s first Supreme Court, which opens today, will face greater public scrutiny over who they are and their backgrounds, its new President has told The Times.

What lawyers think of Blair?s legacy - the Supreme Court

Posted on September 30, 2009
The creation of the United Kingdom?s first Supreme Court which comes into being today, has overwhelming support among lawyers ? and they also predict that it will flex its muscles to become more powerful, in time, than the law lords that it replaces.

Times Law panel: do they approve of the new Supreme Court?

Posted on September 30, 2009
* "The House of Lords seemed to me to work well enough and there was no need to spend Ł35 million plus on a new building and a new administrative system when government is awash with property . . . " John Davidson, general counsel, SAB Miller

More independent? Their lordships have never hesitated to make their views clear in the past

Posted on September 30, 2009
Today the law lords ? or the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords ? morph into the Supreme Court for the UK. It is a landmark in British legal history.

Views from Canada and South Africa: 'We owe a great debt to the work of the judges'

Posted on September 30, 2009
CHIEF JUSTICE BEVERLEY McLACHLIN of Canada

Shaping the Supreme Court ? the power of the presidency

Posted on September 30, 2009
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers comes to a judicial office of incomparable power in the community of democratic nations: the President of the Court chairs the selection commissions not only for new members of the court, but also for his own replacement.

Keeping an eye on the Supreme Court - online

Posted on September 30, 2009
In the United States there is comprehensive coverage of what goes on at the US Supreme Court and much else besides. Daily posts on ScotUSblog (www.scotusblog.com) mean that every American lawyer or anyone interested can keep up with the arguments and issues before the court.

The Supreme Court may have had a shambolic start but it's getting better all the time

Posted on September 30, 2009
The Constitutional Court of post-apartheid South Africa was built on the site of what had been Johannesburg?s most infamous prison. The origins of the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom are more shambolic than symbolic: not a fundamental transformation of society, but Tony Blair?s inept announcement, when Prime Minister, of constitutional reform without consultation at the same time as he dismissed Lord Irvine of Lairg, then Lord Chancellor...

Legal line-up: the justices of the Supreme Court

Posted on September 30, 2009
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers

How Bloody Sunday helped to future-proof the Supreme Court's IT

Posted on September 30, 2009
For the first time in any court in England and Wales, the public are about to see justice in action ? rather than rely for their knowledge of the justice system on dramas or footage from the United States. When the Supreme Court opens this week, it will have broadcasting facilities and other IT that make it the UK?s most technologically advanced court.

Pomp and circumstance: the new Supreme Court building

Posted on September 30, 2009
The Edwardians knew all about pomp and circumstance. When it came to civic buildings, nothing was too grand or too over-the-top. Even by these standards, however, the building now known as the Supreme Court was a bit rich. Odder still ? at a time when ?Edwardian Baroque? was in vogue ? the Middlesex Guildhall, as it was known, harked back to a much earlier time.

Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi were locked up in our court

Posted on September 30, 2009
Is it true that manors maketh the man? This is more or less the question put to me (without the sexist overtones) about the move of top UK judges from their snug ensconcement in the House of Lords into a new quirky building across the way. Would functioning in a different habitat under a new title affect the nature of their processes and the texture of their decisions?

Lawyer of the Week: Louisa Ghevaert

Posted on September 30, 2009
Louisa Ghevaert, a partner at Gamble & Ghevaert, acted for Melanie and Robert Gladwin in a case that won a last-minute change to the law in Parliament, extending the time limit for storing frozen embryos used in surrogate pregnancies from five to ten years.

Sheriff courts to take on more powers

Posted on September 30, 2009
A major expansion of the role of the sheriff court was proposed today as part of the biggest review of the civil justice system in modern times.

Some lawyers will oppose this. Tough ? it makes sense

Posted on September 30, 2009
There is no downside to Lord Gill?s report. The idea is it will improve access to justice for civil litigants and save them a great deal of money and time.

Nine elderly residents wait for judgment on closure of Underhill House care home

Posted on September 29, 2009
One of the UK's oldest women and eight other residents of a Midlands care home must wait another week to see if they have won their battle to stop its closure after the court case was adjourned today.

Family in custody battle over pet sheep

Posted on September 29, 2009
A family are in a court custody battle over a pet sheep.

Ł400m husband may have faked a breakdown, divorce court told

Posted on September 28, 2009
A businessman ordered by a court to explain the disappearance of his alleged Ł400 million fortune after his wife filed for divorce may have faked a mental breakdown to escape jail, the High Court was told yesterday.

Audit firms left unprotected against claims of negligence

Posted on September 28, 2009
Britain?s big four auditing firms have been left exposed to a surge in negligence claims after the Government refused to limit further the damages they could face.

Jack Straw?s plan to name social workers in family courts ?breaches human rights?

Posted on September 27, 2009
Plans to allow the media to name social workers in family court cases are being opposed strongly by judges and lawyers, who warn that the change could breach human rights laws. They have expressed ?grave concerns? that the latest tranche of reforms to open up the courts may drive away experts and violate children?s rights to privacy.

California dreaming of full marijuana legalisation

Posted on September 27, 2009
The smell gives the game away. A sweet herbal scent wafts from the medicines inside the smart display cases in the Harborside clinic in Oakland, California.

Expert opinions in family courts must be open to objective scrutiny

Posted on September 27, 2009
After decades of obsessive secrecy, supposedly to protect the interests of vulnerable children, the family courts will be required to open their doors a few centimetres wider as the Minister of Justice builds on rules introduced earlier this year that allowed some degree of media access but limited rights for them to report their observations.

Construction companies to fight OFT after Ł130m bid-rigging fines

Posted on September 27, 2009
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is facing a wave of appeals by construction companies that were fined nearly Ł130 million last week for illegally colluding on building contracts.

Black bra, red stockings: is that a fair cop?

Posted on September 26, 2009
ONE woman is dressed provocatively in a black bra. Another sports red high heels and stockings. Their long-haired male companions are dressed in scruffy blue boiler suits and the occasional riot helmet.

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