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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
25 June 2015
Al-Bashir controversy: has standing of the ICC increased?
Some will argue that the protests following events in South Africa show the world cares about the Hague court.
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir seemingly owes much to his influential friends in South Africa. Last week he hurriedly returned home from Johannesburg in defiance of a South African court order preventing him from doing so, pending a decision whether to enforce the outstanding arrest warrants of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
18 May 2015
Polish judicial Authority v Celinski: the end of Article 8 in extradition?
On 6 May the Administrative Court (consisting of Lord Thomas CJ, Ryder LJ and Ouseley J) handed down judgment in the case of Celinski and others, and established the proper approach to be taken in extradition cases (both at first instance and on appeal) where a requested person relies on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the right to private and family life).
29 April 2015
Private prosecutions for crimes of Universal Jurisdiction
Private prosecutions are a historic feature of the criminal justice system, and have persisted despite the creation first of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in 1879 and later of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 1986.
The first procedural step for any private prosecutor is to lay an information at a magistrates’ court. Section 1 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 governs such courts’ issuing of process; that is, on the laying of an information, the issue of a summons or an arrest warrant concerning the person named in the information (the suspect), in order to bring the person before the court to answer to the allegation...
16 April 2015
FCA identify cyber-crime as key risk driver in new business plan
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its 2015/16 business plan. It has identified technological challenges as one of the key risk drivers, while recognising that of course innovative uses of technology bring benefits to consumers.
29 January 2015
Should terrorists be tried before the ICC?
The display of strength in Paris shows a will to stand up to attacks; the next step could be crimes tried by an international court.