14/05/2018
Last year Tom Little QC successfully prosecuted Muhammad Rabbani, the Managing Director of CAGE, for an offence under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 following his refusal at Heathrow Airport to provide the PINs or passwords to his mobile telephone and laptop so that they could be reviewed. He appealed to the Divisional Court by way of Case Stated. The Divisional Court (Irwin LJ and Foskett, J) today dismissed his appeal concluding that Rabbani had been lawfully stopped and that the power to demand PINs or passwords without first determining if there was any confidential material on those devices was not unlawful, even though the Schedule 7 powers do not require there to be any grounds for detaining individuals and asking them questions.
This week we examine a decision on the tension between open justice and protection of commercially sensitive information (we understand, by the way, that on 25th February the Court of Appeal will hear the appeal in PMC relating to the circumstances in which anonymity orders…
This week we look at two decisions, both of which will be of critical importance to practitioners in pursuance of contested litigation. In one, unusually, without prejudice correspondence was admissible in a case involving fundamental dishonesty; whilst in the other, the court reviewed the authorities…
Following a 5-day liability trial in the High Court in Manchester, the Claimant’s negligence and Human Rights Act claims were dismissed by HHJ Bird sitting as a Judge of the High Court. The Claimant was a Type 1 diabetic who suffered from a history of…
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