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The Hilary Legal Term ends on Wednesday 27 March 2024.  The Easter Legal Term begins on 9 April 2024.  Inforrm will have a short break and our next Weekly Round Up will be on 8 April 2024. Continue reading

On Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 February 2024, the High Court heard an appeal against the 2023 decision to deny Julian Assange permission to appeal his extradition order. The hearing was Assange’s final bid in the UK courts to prevent extradition. Continue reading

The High Court in Belfast has struck out the libel claim brought by former IRA member, Gerry Kelly, against writer Malachi O’Doherty in relation to two 2019 interviews in which he alleged that the claimant had shot a police officer in the head during the 1983 Maze prison escape. Continue reading

Happy New Year to all Inforrm readers! The Hilary Legal Term begins on Thursday 11 January 2024 and ends on Wednesday 27 March 2024. Continue reading

On 1 December 2023, Mr Justice Jay handed down judgement in favour of the defendant in the case of Dyson v MGN Limited [2023] EWHC 3092 (KB). The defendant published an article which characterised Sir James  as “the vacuum cleaner tycoon who championed Vote Leave due to the economic opportunities…before moving his global head office to Singapore.  In other words kids, talk the talk, then screw your country, and if anyone complains tell them to suck it up“. Continue reading

Policing Minister, Chris Philp unveiled plans at the Conservative Party Conference this week to allow the police to use passports, the police national database and the immigration and asylum biometric system in order to catch criminals. Continue reading

Prince Harry faced two days of cross-examination this week as Fancourt J continued to hear the trial in the case of Various Claimants v MGN. Continue reading

On 10 May 2023, Fancourt J began hearing the trial of four claims in the Mirror Group managed “hacking” litigation. The cases include those brought by the Duke of Sussex, Nikki Sanderson, Fiona Wightman and Michael Turner. Continue reading

On 25 to 27 April 2023 there was a hearing in the case of Grant v NGN and Duke of Sussex NGN before Fancourt J. NGN applied to strike out claims by Hugh Grant and Prince Harry on limitation grounds. The claimants argue that the delay in filing the claims resulted from the newspaper’s concealment of its staff’s behaviour. Continue reading

The new Easter legal term begins this week on Tuesday 18 April 2023 and finishes on Friday 26 May 2023. Continue reading