The Times reports that last Thursday the English Court of Appeal ordered the Metropolitan Police to delete photographs of peaceful protesters demonstrating against the arms trade.(The case is Wood v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2009] EWCA Civ 414.)The Times reports the Court's order was stayed for a month to allow the police the …
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The House of Lords last week held in R v JTB [2009] UKHL 20 that s 34 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 abolished the defence as well as the presumption of doli incapax.Doli incapax (Latin for 'incapable of deceit') is the legal doctrine that children can't commit a crime because they don't know …
I get occasional email updates from Oxford University Press in the UK. The latest lobbed into my inbox this evening.I'm impressed by the range of texts on offer to our UK counterparts:Effective prosecution, discussing the new system with Crown Prosecuting Service (CPS) solicitors involved in advising investigators in the custody suite The Blackstone Police ManualsGeneral …
I have a contested hearing in a bit over a week, where one issue is the return of a subpoena seeking all complaints or findings made against one of my key witnesses.Happily for me, I wrote some commentary on precisely this topic in Chapter 12 on subpoenas.A number of the cases I want are English …
The Poms do things a little differently to us. (No offence JS.)Their upper house of Parliament also doubles as the ultimate appeals court in the land.But only the twelve Law Lords perform the judicial business of the Lords.All that is about to change.The date for this change is now set. Come October 2009, the Supreme …
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