Day 9: Transcripts of “deeply personal and intrusive” messages between Labour politician David Blunkett and his lover Kimberly Quinn were found in a safe at Britain’s biggest newspaper group, the hacking trial heard today. Continue reading
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Month: November 2013 (Page 7 of 9)
Our readers are reminded that the Government’s consultation on Costs Protection in defamation and privacy claims closes tomorrow, 8 November 2013. Under the proposals, the present costs regime for these cases – involved “Conditional Fee Agreements” and recoverable After the Event insurance premiums – will be abolished and replaced by “qualified one way costs shifting” (QOCS). Continue reading
This interview originally appeared in the Kings Review and is published with permission and thanks.
King’s Review recently talked to Baroness Onora O’Neill, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, crossbench member of the House of Lords, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Cambridge. Continue reading
In the case of R (Ingenious Media Holdings) v Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs ([2013] EWHC 3258 (Admin)) Sales J has rejected an application for judicial review by Ingenious Media Holdings plc and Patrick McKenna, who complained that a senior official in HMRC had identified them in “off the record” briefings. Continue reading
Day 8: The News of the World targeted the phone of England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson over a four-year period, the Old Bailey heard today. Continue reading
Mr Justice Mann, the managing judge in the Phone Hacking Litigation, has today dismissed applications for strike out and summary judgment in four phone hacking claims brought against Mirror Group Newspapers (Gulati and others v MGN [2013] EWHC 3392 (Ch)). Continue reading
Emmanuel Frimpong, the Arsenal midfielder, caused a stir on Twitter last week by implying that he had been omitted from the first team squad for an important Capital One Cup tie against rivals Chelsea because of his race and nationality. Continue reading
Day 7: Journalists at the News of the World repeatedly told Surrey police that they had listened to messages on Milly Dowler’s phone, the hacking trial heard today. Senior members of staff investigating the 13-year-old’s disappearance told the force that the paper had heard her voicemails on at least three occasions, the Old Bailey heard. Continue reading
Day 6: Andy Coulson will take the witness stand to clear his name, his barrister told the hacking trial yesterday. At the end of the prosecution’s three-day opening statement, Timothy Langdale, QC, told the jury that they had heard “only one side of the story.” Continue reading
In the case of Re J (A Child) ([2013] EWHC 2694 (Fam), the President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, considered an application for a contra mundum injunction by Staffordshire County Council. He emphasised that the only proper purpose of such an injunction was to protect the child and refused to make an order in the wide terms sought by the Council. As a result, he allowed the publication of video footage and photographs of a baby being removed from its parents. Continue reading
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