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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
28 May 2015
Magistrates order payment of prosecution costs in excess of £10,000
Earlier this month Flintshire Magistrates’ Court ordered David Pickup to pay £10,384 in prosecution costs after he was found guilty of speeding. With summary trials usually attracting prosecution costs of £500 to £1,000, this was an extraordinarily high sum to be awarded.
26 May 2015
New criminal offence for illegal workers – will it have any impact?
David Cameron has announced his plans to introduce a major Immigration Bill which will provide for a new criminal offence of illegal working as part of a raft of anti-immigration measures. The primary purpose of the new offence is to prosecute illegal workers so that their wages may be seized as the proceeds of crime under the confiscation regime. The offence will apply to migrants who have entered the country illegally as well as those who came to the country legally, but have overstayed.
18 May 2015
Michael Gove is given 100 days to abolish the Human Rights Act
Michael Gove, the new Justice Secretary under the Conservative government, is being tasked with the abolition of the Human Rights Act 1998 (“HRA”) as contained in his party’s election manifesto and a key part of the new government’s 100-day policy offensive. The Conservative party promised that the HRA would be repealed and replaced with a British Bill of Rights.
22 April 2015
Contempt of Court: Jurors in the dock
As a result of recent, high profile, instances of contempt by jurors, amendments have been made to the statutory regime for juror contempt by the introduction of Sections 68-77 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. The principal effect of this legislation has been to create specific criminal offences to deal with contempt by jurors.
15 April 2015
Access to justice of greater concern to public than free healthcare?
An online poll commissioned by the Criminal Law Solicitors Association (CLSA) and conducted on 1st and 2nd April 2015 by YouGov has revealed that a higher percentage of those questioned consider that British Citizens have a fundamental right to access to justice than to healthcare which is free at the point of use.