Access to information about a legal case in open court is vitally important to any functioning democracy but is also necessarily subject to certain restrictions. In this case the Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK are seeking information about proceedings involving a former asbestos manufacturer.
Fraud and deception between cousins is the theme of this week’s case. When a forged signature was only exposed after the final judgment the question was whether the victim could return to the courts or if doing so would undermine the certainty that law in
In 2004 Tony Blair struck the now infamous ‘deal in the desert’ with Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The assistance provided by the British Secret Intelligence Service in rendering political dissident Abdelhakim Belhaj back to his homeland in the run-up to that meeting was almost certainly
Anyone who is online has some sort of relationship with an ISP or Internet Service Provider. These companies may occasionally be required to block certain sites but should they pay the costs of doing so or does it fall to the company seeking the website
Are you on email? You simply have to be these days but is our legal system and the administration of justice set up to deal with this technology? In this episode we explore that question in the context of a claim form that was served
The people of the Chagos Islands, a British Indian Ocean Territory, have suffered at the hands of UK foreign policy for nearly 50 years. In this episode we look at the decision to establish a marine protected area around the archipelago and in particular the
In Patel v Mirza [2016] UKSC 42 a panel of nine judges were asked when illegality should bar a claim. The question goes back almost 250 years to the case of Holman v Johnson (1775) where Lord Mansfield said “no court will lend its aid
When does criminal liability lead to civil liability? That was the question the Supreme Court had to answer in the Scottish case of Campbell v Gordon [2016] UKSC 38 in the context of the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969. A literalist approach to the