Archive for October, 2009
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Privy Council – the pool of judges
11 Oct 2009In an interview in the Financial Times two weeks ago, Lord Phillips complained about the disproportionate time that Supreme Court Justices spent…
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Supreme Court Website Update – Case Details Available
11 Oct 2009The Supreme Court website is now linking to the Court’s Case Management system which provides “Full Case Details”. At…
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“The selection commission invites applications”
10 Oct 2009Caught between the recession and swingeing legal aid cuts, many lawyers are considering whether a public sector job – the…
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Hacker sent packing
09 Oct 2009The application by hacker, Gary McKinnon, for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court has been refused. The appeal related…
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Interveners in JFS
09 Oct 2009In its first week the Court is making a number of “interim orders” which have not yet been mentioned on…
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Case Preview: Re B (a child) [2009] EWCA 545
09 Oct 2009This is the second of two appeals in children cases which will be heard by the Supreme Court in its…
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Video of Supreme Court on C-Span
09 Oct 2009The US public service news network, C-Span has a 38 minute video of last Monday’s first appeal before the what…
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“Should we all have a say on who sits on the Supreme Court?”
08 Oct 2009In an article in today’s Times with this provocative headline, long time legal columnist and top court advocate par excellence…
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Case Preview: Re I (a child) [2009] EWCA Civ 965
08 Oct 2009In this case the Supreme Court will decide an issue relating to the circumstances in which the courts in England…
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New Privy Council website now operational
07 Oct 2009Yesterday we blogged about the lack of news concerning the promised new Judicial Committee of the Privy Council website. Today it is…