Silence is golden, justice is blind
An imaginary judgment, dealing with section 98 of the Children Act 1989 and rights to remain silent…. The Court is dealing today, I was sorely tempted to begin this judgment with ‘we are...
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Following the recent media outrage (or mock outrage, or manufactured outrage, or slow news day outrage or perfectly appropriate outrage, depending on your standpoint) , there is now a practice...
View Article“Rubric’s cube”
Anonymity and human interest stories. And Re K – part 3 There’s an interesting new judgment up on Bailli - Re K (A Child: Wardship: Publicity) 2013...
View ArticleRhubarb* and custody
(*Story contains no rhubarb, but was prepared in an environment where there is a risk that rhubarb, rhubarb pollen (?) or rhubarb dust may have inadvertently contaminated the contents ) A...
View ArticleContempt of Court and right to silence
This is an intricate, but important, decision by the Court of Appeal. A man here was sentenced to six months imprisonment for failure to comply with an order, and the Court of Appeal overturned that...
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