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29 Mar 2021 15:26
Reflections of working in courts and tribunals during the COVID pandemicAs essential workers, courts and tribunals staff have worked throughout the pandemic. Here, some of our people reflect on their experience of working on the frontline. Nicholas Blackmore is a County Court Bailiff based in Hampshire. Although some of his work, such as evictions, stopped because of more...
29 Mar 2021 15:23
Trials with multiple defendants: progress in the Crown CourtRecovery work in the criminal courts is moving at pace. The outstanding caseload in the Magistrates’ Court is now almost 50,000 lower than at its peak last July. In the Crown Court between 4 January and 21 February, we listed an average of 309 trials each week – compared to 432 pre-COVID – with 241 more...
29 Mar 2021 15:19
Open Justice and Remote Inquests: Allowing public and media video access to hearingsThe principles of open justice and transparency are fundamental to our justice system. They must be cherished and protected as vital to preserve the rule of law. However, a simple legislative oversight at the start of the pandemic has meant that, whilst most other courts increased their more...
Life As A Barrister During Covid-19 – Sima Najma
It’s a year now since Covid-19 became the number one concern of almost everyone worldwide. It’s had an unimaginable effect on our lives, in every conceivable way. Families have been separated as people have had to shelter at home, while the lockdowns also caused the rest of us to stay in our homes more...
Barristers and Solicitors: The Differences Explained – Sima Najma
If you’re currently studying law, and wondering which direction to take your career, then I hope this will prove to be a useful tool in your decision making process. As you come to the conclusion of your undergraduate studies, the legal training for prospective Barristers and Solicitors will begin more...
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Britain’s Courts — Sima Najma
For an already under-pressure Court system, the Covid-19 outbreak has almost proven to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. During the first lockdown, Courts shut completely and only re-opened at the end of May 2020. That two-month shutdown caused hearings planned for the summer of 2020 to be more...
24 Mar 2021 12:05
UK Inquest Law Blog: What an Art 2 investigation does and does not requireWritten by Bridget Dolan QC Published: 12 February 2021 R (Grice) v HM Senior Coroner of Brighton and Hove [2020] EWHC 3581 (here) Will an inquest always be required after a homicide trial when there have been alleged failures by state agents to protect life? In this Judicial Review case Garnham J more...
24 Mar 2021 12:01
Lawyers Falling Out: Who Can Sue for What?In a world where it sometimes seems that everyone sues everyone else sooner or later Simon Wilton reflects on the decision in McFarland-Cruickshanks v England Kerr Hands Solicitors Ltd (t/a England Kerr Hands) and asks what potential there is for lawyers to sue each other when litigation on which more...
24 Mar 2021 11:56
COVID: one year onLast March, I don’t think any of us could have imagined the challenges we’d face in the next 12 months. Those challenges have come into every part of our lives. They’ve changed how, and sometimes where, we work; they’ve affected how we spend our free time; they’ve led to us missing our loved ones; more...
24 Mar 2021 11:53
Let’s support prisoners to turn their lives around, not force them onto courses which don’t workWhen Transform Justice was researching courses for those who committed domestic abuse, we asked what proof there was that they changed behaviour. In the case of the main statutory course – Building Better Relationships (BBR) – there was no evaluation which measured its impact on offending. 9 years more...
24 Mar 2021 11:14
Abortion in Northern Ireland: at the interface between politics and lawAbortion reform in Northern Ireland has had a fraught history, to say the least. Matters appeared to finally come to a head when in 2019, the UK Parliament enacted the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc.) Act 2019 (2019 Act), which created a duty on the Secretary of State to implement more...
22 Mar 2021 11:18
Re B: soldiers and the criminal process in Northern IrelandRe B’s application [2020] NIQB 76 was a challenge to a decision to prosecute a soldier for offences going back to 1972. Part of the small but politically divisive cohort of prosecutions arising out of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Re B provides a classic example of how courts approach the issue more...
Immigration Law Webinar - Quotes from Classic Immigration Cases: Old & New
Immigration Law Webinar - Quotes from Classic Immigration Cases: Old & New ‘Deportation, Article 8, Long Residence, Credibility, Asylum, EEA Law and much more’ In this webinar I go through some of my recent immigration law images which I have posted online. The webinar covers recent and older more...
16 Mar 2021 12:44
The road to Silk: How Giles Maynard-Connor QC achieved his career dreamGiles Maynard-Connor QC is a name that sounds right at home in the upper echelons of the legal profession. But this down to earth Yorkshireman does not fit the stereotype of a lawyer born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Giles’ elevation to silk, which takes effect today (15 March 2021), is the more...
16 Mar 2021 12:26
The Weekly Round-Up: Women’s Rights – a Long Way to GoIn the news: Women’s rights and gender equality issues have been at the forefront of the news this week. The appalling murder of Sarah Everard, abducted when walking home in London, has elicited a huge social media response. In particular, it has highlighted the problematic phenomenon of more...
16 Mar 2021 10:23
MA Briefing - Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts BillThe MA has produced a briefing on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill coming before Parliament this week. The briefing includes our members' views on: Increased maximum sentence for assaults against emergeny workers Serious violence duty Pre-charge Bail Prisoner custody officers Aggravated more...
15 Mar 2021 12:38
‘Revenge porn’ is a misnomerWhy we should replace ‘revenge porn’ with ‘image based sexual abuse’ and reform the mens rea of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 The digital world is becoming an increasingly dominant part of daily life. This has been thrown into sharp relief by the current public health crisis, which has more...
15 Mar 2021 12:34
Two important points to consider in international child abduction cases following Dorian Day and Sarah Tierney's success in the CoADorian Day and Sarah Tierney successfully represented the Appellant mother in Re G (Abduction: Consent/Discretion) [2021] EWCA Civ 139. The case highlights two important points for practitioners to consider in international child abduction cases: The exercise of judicial discretion under Article 13 more...
10 Mar 2021 16:47
Please donate to Advocate on PC renewal“I donate to Advocate because barristers who do pro bono work through Advocate provide a vital public service to those who would not otherwise be able to enforce their legal rights.” Derek Sweeting QC, Chair of the Bar Council Please support access to justice through Advocate, the Bar’s pro bono more...
The New Graduate Immigration Route
New Video - The New Graduate Immigration Route In this Immigration Law Update Video I look at Appendix Graduate introduced by HC 1248 which comes into force on 1st July 2021. The Graduate route is for international students who want to work following the successful completion of a course of study at more...
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