On 2nd April 2019, the Court of Appeal handed down a reserved judgment which rejected Max Clifford’s application for leave to appeal against his conviction. Tom Little QC was one of two advocates representing the Prosecution in the appeal. Although Max Clifford died in December 2017 section 44A of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 allows a narrow class of individuals to pursue an application for leave to appeal against conviction on behalf of the deceased. In this case, Max Clifford’s daughter pursued the out of time appeal. Max Clifford was convicted in 2014 of various historic sexual offences.
Tom Little prosecuted the case at trial. The Court of Appeal allowed the application for an extension of time to appeal out of time but then refused permission to appeal having considered the merits of the appeal. The Court of Appeal’s judgment is important in relation to the circumstances in which a Judge is entitled to withdraw issues of consent relating to sexual offences from the jury.
This week we examine an unusual arbitration case involving (or did it?) a foreign limitation period; and another 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…
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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