Tom Little QC appeared for the Attorney General, the Solicitor General and the Crown Prosecution Service in all four unrelated cases involving five notorious offenders including Wayne Couzens. The applications were heard by a five judge constitution of the Court of Appeal comprising the Lord Chief Justice, the President of the Queen’s Bench Division, the Vice President of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Divison), Mr Justice Sweeney and Mr Justice Johnson. In upholding the whole life order in Wayne Couzens the Court of Appeal accepted Tom Little QC’s submissions. The judgment will be a necessary reference point in the future in any case in which a Judge is considering whether to impose a whole life order or not. The judgment can be found here.
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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