tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64357823813987768882024-03-05T07:23:39.513+00:00OF INTEREST TO LAWYERSEvery now and again I will post something of interest to some Lawyers
A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.comBlogger354125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-25909208999416273372016-10-19T08:51:00.001+01:002016-10-19T08:51:13.095+01:00New ChancellorIn this <a href="http://ofinteresttolwayers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/lots-and-lots-of-new-lord-and-lady.html">post</a> in 2013 I noted the elevation of Etherton J to Chancellor and the elevation of Vos J to Vos LJ in response.<br />
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Well now its Vos LJ replacing Etherton Ch (who is now MR) to become Chancellor of the High Court and leader of the Chancery Division. Congratulations to him...<br />
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Her Majesty The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Vos as the Chancellor of the High Court with effect from 24 October 2016. This appointment follows the elevation of <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/master-of-the-rolls-sir-terence-etherton" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039); border: none; color: #4c2c92; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sir Terence Etherton to the post of Master of the Rolls</a> on 3 October 2016. The Right Honorable Lord Justice Vos was called to the Bar in 1977, and took silk (QC) in 1993. He was appointed as a Justice of the High Court assigned to the Chancery Division in October 2009. Between 2005 and 2009 he was a Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, and a Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands between 2008 and 2009. He sat as a Deputy High Court Judge from 1999 until 2009. He was the Chairman of the Chancery Bar Association from 1999 to 2001 and of the Bar Council in 2007. He was President of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary from June 2014 to June 2016. He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013.</div>
A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-32562359877538844182016-09-13T18:10:00.000+01:002016-09-13T18:10:03.087+01:00New Faces in the Court of Appeal<a href="https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/statement-on-supreme-court-appointments-process.html">As Lord Toulson reduces the ranks of the Sup Ct by his retirement</a> (although he joins Lord Dyson ex MR on the Supp List of Sup Ct Js) and <a href="http://www.4newsquare.com/news/article.aspx?id=302">begins his new career at 4 New Square</a> and as<a href="https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/announcements/master-of-the-rolls-sir-terence-etherton/"> Etherton starts out as MR</a>, and we await a new Ch, in the meantime there are some new appointments to the C of A:<br />
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Hot footing it over from being Chair of SIAC (who will replace him there?) this well respected commercial lawyer will now be a junior boy in the C of A for the short term...<br />
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<b>MR JUSTICE HENDERSON</b><br />
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Or Lancelot to his friends, who will leave behind the Ch D (there since 2007) for the C of A. He keeps up the number of Balliol alumni in the C of A. He is an All Souls Fellow.<br />
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<b>& TO ADD TO THE MALE RANKS - MRS JUSTICE THIRWALL</b><br />
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who had been lately in charge of the Breasts Implants litigation...appointed to the QBD in 2010 and former head of 7 Bedford Row...<br />
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A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-47457455794950622982016-09-12T08:57:00.001+01:002016-09-12T08:57:46.212+01:00BREXIT, WHAT BREXIT?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9uvMnzFVr_8t1bOA3gA0b9ZMu_EhiI50llOJS2wST19-n7BlV4XCdXECNNLQH83ls7ECrUkek5hqLUqy60rsS6XbBkq4EQvG0fJihTzeLOayPD40Mj20DOTRKRwpwRProNlyvs3ZUrdRd/s640/blogger-image--2037367466.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9uvMnzFVr_8t1bOA3gA0b9ZMu_EhiI50llOJS2wST19-n7BlV4XCdXECNNLQH83ls7ECrUkek5hqLUqy60rsS6XbBkq4EQvG0fJihTzeLOayPD40Mj20DOTRKRwpwRProNlyvs3ZUrdRd/s640/blogger-image--2037367466.jpg"></a></div>Imagine we are post BREXIT. Imagine there is before the Court a UK Regulation which implemented an EU Directive - say Public Procurement - although you could choose from loads of Regs (food, employment, cars, product safety etc etc..)<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">which I suspect will not be repealed in the short to medium term....The Court does not quite know how to interpret and apply a particular provision of the Regs. The Court knows that the Regs were enacted to transpose the provisions of the Directive into English law. But the Court, post-BREXIT is free of the section 3 Euro Communities Act 1972 obligation to comply with the ECJ's famous ruling in Marleasing that domestic courts have to interpret domestic law so as to comply with directives. But should the post-BREXIT Court ignore the directive when interpreting the Regs? Probably not, if it knows that was what the Regs were for and that was the intention behind them, then why would it not consider the directive as an interpretative aid? And then say the CJEU had recently come out with a decision which clarifies what the directive means in a material aspect? Is the post-BREXIT Court not likely to do what it did pre-BREXIT i.e. Effectively apply directives and CJEU judgments? BREXIT means....?</span>A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-40703453297441433882016-08-19T21:00:00.001+01:002016-08-19T21:06:20.337+01:00New Chief Coroner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judge Lucraft said: “Judges are human beings and sometimes they give the impression they are aloof from the society they are part of. I would like to think judges have become more human, or given a human face.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Norwich Crown Court was one of the first courts in the country to trial a “paperless” system in December, and Judge Lucraft said he would use his laptop and iPad in court.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: “If you look around to most other industries, most have had to adapt to modern technology and go digital. I’m all in favour of it.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judge Lucraft has joined the Norwich Crown Court from London chambers, 18 Red Lion Court, where he worked as a barrister on some of the most high profile cases in the country.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was part of the team investigating fraud following the death of Robert Maxwell – the media mogul and former MP who was found dead in 1991 by his luxury yacht in the Canary Islands.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: “I was instructed about a week after he disappeared. It was the most interesting case I dealt with.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 50-year-old was involved with the Maxwell case for seven years and also worked on the investigation into allegations British Airways and Virgin Atlantic were price fixing passenger fuel surcharges.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2007 BA admitted it had colluded with Virgin Atlantic in fixing the charges on long haul flights from August 2004 to January 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BA was fined £121.5m which was reduced to £58.5m, while Virgin escaped without a fine after reporting the scandal to Office of Fair Trading.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He was also instructed to prosecute manslaughter and health and safety charges from the Hatfield rail crash in October 2000, in which four people died and 120 were injured.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Born in Southend, he studied law at Canterbury and went on to law school to study to be a barrister.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judge Lucraft was called to the bar in 1985 and spent most of his career specialising in fraud cases and road accidents.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He applied to become a judge after his experiences of hearing cases as a recorder.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: “I have sat quite a bit as a recorder and I enjoyed the challenge of sitting. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It is very different from being a barrister.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judge Lucraft will commute each day from Ely, where he lives with his wife and three sons, aged 23, 21 and 17.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said: “I’m expecting to see the complete range of criminal offences that take place in Norfolk.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a speech at the court on Wednesday, Judge Nicholas Coleman welcomed the “injection of fresh judicial blood”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With Judge Alasdair Darroch and Judge Peter Jacobs, recorder of Norwich, nearing retirement, more changes at Norwich Crown Court are likely.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judge Coleman said: “We all hope, and indeed expect, you will embrace and continue all that is good in the administration of justice of this renowned crown court.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Court staff numbers are reduced. The bar is under pressure. Yet through it the system doggedly persists in delivering first class justice. I’m sure you will contribute handsomely to that precious commodity which we all hold dear – namely a fair trial for all accused, no matter what they are said to have done.”</span></div>
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Jonathan Freeland has written in the holiday edition of the New York Review of Books that :<br />
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"[the 48%] are realising that though they never had much affection for the institutions of the EU, they were attached to what British membership meant for them: a society that was open, not closed, that was accepting of diversity and pluralism, and that offered its young the chance to live, work, or fall in love in any one of twenty-eight countries".<br />
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I am one such remainer who has wept into his Italian coffee lamenting the end of the 60 year experiment in Euro integration which has been brought crashing to the buffers by a marginal majority of his fellow country men and women. Freeland suggests that so many voted to leave because they had nothing more to lose because of their state of economic woes. It is however, a tragic indictment of society when so many people do not understand where the country's wealth comes from. Whilst they might be unemployed, living in less than affluent areas, dependent on benefits and jealous of the immigrant workers apparently employed and earning in their stead, nevertheless to bight the hand that feeds them (like the Welsh villagers with massive signs at the entry to their burgh which proclaims how its recent innovations were made viable by massive EU funding or the Lincolnshire country dwellers who voted to leave the Common Agricultural Policy because of the Polish fruit packers stealing their jobs and spouses...) is a ludicrous act of folly.<br />
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What we must do now, however, is to ensure that what remains is not so bad. We must demand the re-enacting by Parliament of all of the EU Laws from which we have benefited for so many years. The Equality Act, the Food and Product safety regime, the free movement of people, goods and services and mutual recognition of civil and criminal judgments, warrants and sentences. Whether we join EFTA or make our own way with Brussels, we must do so. We are no longer (and in truth were never) an Island which could make our own way. Even the Empire was a series of mutual bilateral relationships with local rulers and ruling classes who acquiesced in British sovereignty (and as soon as they didn't, they became independent) which formed a massive free market which was required to provide remittances back to the motherland, which could not itself consume all that was being produced at home. It was the end of Empire and its market that put us in the way of the Common Market to begin with. <br />
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Put another way we need markets into which sell the expensive goods and services which cannot be all consumed at home. For example, the law firms and investment banks cannot all serve the people and commerces of the U.K. They need bigger international markets and that is why membership of the EU, for all of its downsides (which were not few) was absolutely necessary. Think of all the people employed by these massive monoliths who are dependent on open international markets. I am sorry that not all of the population can benefit directly from these rich corporations and firms, but the collective act of spite, to vote to leave because others are prospering ring and you are not, is to lop of one's noise at the terrible cost of the whole visage. It is all to fail to understand that it is the taxation on the profits of those international businesses domiciled in the UK who pay the benefits upon which quite a lot of Leavers rely on. <br />
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But it is time to wipe away our tears and our cast aside our sadness, Abientot Tristesse. We must now work hard, all of us, to ensure the best of a very bad job. We must remain as close to the EU and it's open markets as we can. We must look for opportunities elsewhere, in the East and in the US and we must keep feeding the voracious service industries on which all of us depend. There is no point pining for industry and manufacturing when all of our wealth comes from elsewhere. We must also keep our borders, our art, our culture and our hearts open. We must no close ourselves down and give in to the hate and racism which appears (at least to journalists, a 500% increase in hate crimes according to Freeland, and Facebook posters) to be on the rise - if it is on the rise, then we all have an obligation to stop it in its tracks and tracts. We must maintain our liberal society and must not retreat into our own physical and metaphorical borders.<br />
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I say "we", because the time for complacency in the metropolitan bourgeoisie might be coming to an end. We might have to join political parties and associations, we might have to do something, because when did nothing, little or at the very least not enough, we lost something and we better make sure we do not lose anything more or, worse case scenario, everything. So it is time to forgive the 52%, to find out what they need to feel vindicated, and then to work out a compromise which brings them the economic security they feel that the EU robbed them of, whilst stopping them from throwing the liberal baby out with the EU bath water. Apparently some of them are in a state of Regrexit.<br />
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So when we are back from which ever corner of the free sunny world we have retreated to in order to lick our wounds, it is time, mes comrades, for action. Not sure what and not sure when, but I am sure that it is time to break out of our cosmopolitan bubble, to see what is actually going on and to take some unspecific but yet decisive action (I'll have to polish off my bottle of Aperol before I have worked out what we should do)<br />
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Freeland says: "A whirlwind has torn through Britian, exposing rifts that have to be healed and destroying much that was precious. And no one seems to have any idea when, how, or if it can ever be made whole again" Well I don't know either, but I am prepared to give working it out a bit of a go. The Future started yesterday and we are already Late.<br />
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A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-69511461648864550462016-02-02T09:07:00.001+00:002016-02-02T09:07:12.083+00:00Trouble in the Colonies...yes really, in 2016...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/484129/51735_Wass_Inquiry_Web_Accessible_PDF.pdf">The report is here </a>but here is a taster...<br />
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b. <b>The administration of the St Helena Government and that of its departments have
failed to establish management practices, procedures and guidelines to ensure
safeguarding routines.
c. There is a lack of continuity when managers are replaced. There is a failure of overlap
on handovers or a failure to create best practice manuals to ensure that incomers
learn from past experience and benefit from prior reports.
d. Some of those responsible for directorial oversight were found to be inexperienced
and ignorant of best practice. This has resulted in their inability to question front-line
professional staff and hold them to account.</b>
e. The existence of previous reports and recommendations ought to provide a
touchstone for newly arriving staff; instead, new recruits appear to be unaware of
them. Consequently, lessons need to be relearned at regular intervals through the
intervention of yet more costly investigations, studies, reports and inquiries.
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f. We saw one example of employment gaps in Social Services whereby the only
qualified social worker on St Helena left her post in May 2012 and it was not until
June 2012 that the St Helena Government even started advertising for qualified social
workers to work on the island. Claire Gannon was appointed to take up the post in
early 2013. St Helena Social Services had been without a qualified social worker on
the island for a period of nine months. Claire Gannon was presented with a chaotic
and unmanned Social Services Department on her arrival on St Helena. Her lack of
recent experience in front-line social work meant that she found herself completely
out of her depth. Although this cannot excuse the unprofessional behaviour she went
on to exhibit, it should be recognised that Claire Gannon was not properly briefed for
the task that confronted her when she arrived on St Helena in February 2013.
1.49 In addition to the systemic failings, the Inquiry did find that, during the current
incumbent’s tenure, Governor Capes’ attention was specifically drawn to matters which
required urgent consideration by an email from Viv Neary, the Child Protection Coordinator
for British Overseas Territories, in March 2012. These included the lack of a formal
arrangement for fostering children on the island; and the fact that the only qualified social
worker was due to leave in May 2012 with no replacement ready to take over.
1.50 Neither of those two matters was resolved by the Governor, and his failure to heed
the warnings given to him directly impacted on the complications that arose during the
Child F adoption case in late 2013 and early 2014. The full facts of that case are addressed
in Chapter 8.
1.51 The Inquiry Panel was disappointed to learn that one of the legitimate complaints
made by former Police Constable Anderson in his letter of November 2012 remained
unresolved at the time of the Inquiry Panel’s visit to St Helena in March 2015. Mr Anderson
specifically complained about a case in which a sex offender had been convicted on
Ascension Island and sentenced to a community order by the Ascension Island Magistrates’
Court. The man in question was deported to St Helena, where he breached the community
order. He was brought before the same Chief Magistrate who had sentenced him and who
was now presiding over the St Helena Magistrates’ Court. The legal position was that the
St Helena Magistrates’ Court had no power to deal with the breach of a community order
which had been imposed by the Ascension Island Magistrates’ Court. In giving his judgment
in October 2012, the Chief Magistrate made it plain that this matter required urgent action
and that the passing of an Ordinance would resolve the matter quickly. <b>Despite the fact that
former Police Constable Anderson had specifically drawn attention to this legal anomaly,
the St Helena Government had failed to deal with it by March 2015, when the Inquiry Panel
visited the island. We can find no excuse for this oversight.</b></i>A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-26145918868105387092016-01-23T17:15:00.001+00:002016-01-23T17:16:13.379+00:00All Change Please! All Change!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lord Justice Briggs has published a very interesting report: <i><a href="https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/civil-courts-structure-review/civil-courts-structure-review-ccsr-interim-report-published/press-summary-of-the-ccsr-interim-report-from-lord-justice-briggs/">"Civil Court Structure Review - Interim Report"</a></i><br />
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4.Banning medium value civil claims from the High Court - so High Court judges can go and sit in the Court of Appeal (which could be reduced to just the one LJ per Court like the Crim Div) The report mentions Senior CJs sitting in the C of A Civ Div - steady on a minute!!<br />
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5.Banning the QBD from the Rolls Building. so that the TCC, Commercial Court and Chan D roll into one combined business list?<br />
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6. Banning oral renewals of refused permission to appeal paper applications - they are just too expensive!<br />
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7. Banning county court multi track final decision appeals to the Court of Appeal - first stop the High Court with the second appeals test protecting the C of A from County Court riff raff appeals. Bloody good idea this -<a href="https://civillitigationbrief.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/part-36-the-compensation-recovery-unit-and-costs-a-significant-court-of-appeal-decision/"> see the recent decision of PI cases and CRU produced by a C of A composed entirely </a>of former practitioners who could put what they know about PI and CRU on a very small sized postage stamp...quite expensive process of appealing to Supreme Court to put that house back together....<br />
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8. Banning the Employment Tribunal and EAT - lump it into the County Court whilst moving some of the housing jurisdiction of the County Court into the Property Chamber of the FTT (now that is a good idea).<br />
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Basically, shifting the deckchairs around on the deck of civil justice until someone provides some cash for some new judges, some new courts and some new IT. All in the finest make do and mend traditions of the justice system....<br />
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In other news there is a new crop of Deputy High Court Judges (e.g. <a href="http://www.4newsquare.com/news/article.aspx?id=267">here</a>) and a new President of the EAT: <a href="https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/announcements/president-of-the-eat-upper-tribunal-chamber-president-of-the-lands-chamber/">Simler J, with Holgate J</a> off to preside over the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal (what we used to call the Lands Tribunal!) Simler P better enjoy herself whilst it lasts - until the EAT is abolished....<br />
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Also congrats to the 8 new Honorary Silks - including Joshua Rosenberg, the long serving and distinguished journalist and Adrian Briggs, who's books always get through the odd private international law nightmare which I face from time to time:<br />
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Professor Robert Blackburn is a solicitor and professor of Constitutional Law at King’s College London. He has been recommended for his constitutional law work and in particular for his report on how a written constitution might work. He is the author of several key academic works and numerous articles, having written extensively on areas of constitutional law, including authoritative works on Parliament, the Monarchy, the electoral system, Crown proceedings and constitutional reform. His works include contributing four titles to Halsbury’s Laws of England. He has on numerous occasions been called to provide written and oral evidence to Parliamentary Select Committees and public inquiries on matters related to electoral and constitutional reform.</div>
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Professor Adrian Briggs is a legal academic and barrister. His nomination focuses on his book on private international law which is relied upon by the courts. He has been a full-time member of the academic staff of the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall, since 1980; and a non-resident member of Blackstone Chambers since 1990. He is an expert in private international law, in particular on the law of jurisdiction and foreign judgments. He is an author or editor of several significant publications, the one most frequently cited being Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments, now in its 6th edition. His Private International Law in English Courts, published in 2015, seeks to restate the subject in line with its increasingly European infrastructure and details; and Agreements on Jurisdiction and Choice of Law will be published in its second edition in the coming year. He has given advice to bodies charged with law reform, and with the scrutiny of proposed new laws, when and whenever invited to do so. He has also given evidence on English private international law to courts in several jurisdictions overseas.</div>
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Professor Sara Chandler is a solicitor specialising in landlord and tenant law and is also Visiting Professor in Clinical Legal Education at London South Bank University. She has been recommended for her work on pro bono and human rights. Professor Chandler has been instrumental in developing the concept of a clinical legal education, such that students give pro-bono advice to the public, under the guidance of qualified lawyers. In her career she has worked at a number of Law Centres and has made a major contribution to the voluntary sector through the Law Centres Federation and Network, where she was an Executive Committee member for a number of years from 1999. She has represented solicitors in the voluntary sector since 2002 on the Council of the Law Society of England & Wales. As a result she is a trustee of four legal charities, including the Access to Justice Foundation. She has also made a major contribution in the field of human rights and was the winner of the LUKAS Human Rights Worker of the Year Award in May 2014. She is the author of numerous articles and conference papers. She has held a variety of positions in boards and committees of the Law Society from 1992 to the present date.</div>
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Professor Jonathan Harris is a barrister at Serle Court chambers and is Professor of International Commercial Law at King’s College, London. He also holds a door tenancy at St Philips chambers. He was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 2006. He has been recommended for his work on private international law and in particular for having written the law in several jurisdictions on firewall trusts. He is joint general editor of Dicey, Morris and Collins, The Conflict of Laws and is also responsible for eleven chapters of the book. He is the author of a widely cited book on the Hague Trusts Convention and of a co-authored work on International Sale of Goods and the Conflict of Laws. He has also contributed to various major works and written numerous influential articles. He is the co-founder of the Journal of Private International Law and of the Studies in Private International Law book series. He is a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law and has actively contributed to the Committee’s work. He has advised the Ministry of Justice on many occasions and, in particular, in negotiations on EU initiatives in the field of cross-border succession and wills.</div>
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Anne-Marie Hutchinson OBE is a solicitor who specialises in international children’s cases. She was nominated particularly because of her efforts to get countries to sign up to the Hague Convention. She was awarded the inaugural UNICEF Child Rights Lawyer award in 1999 and an OBE for her services to international child abduction and adoption in the 2002 Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. In 2004 she was selected as Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year for her work with the victims of forced marriage and in 2010, she received the International Bar Association’s Outstanding International Woman Lawyer Award. She has been involved in many of the most important court cases in her field of expertise. She is involved (amongst many areas) in work promoting the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. She has recently provided advice to lawyers and government officials in Japan in advance of Japan implementing the 1980 Hague Convention. She has also been active bringing to the attention of many other governments around the world other important issues related to the field of children law. She also speaks regularly on issues concerning international family law. In the last year she has delivered talks to a number of agencies and/or conferences, including to the Prime Minister’s UK Government Girl Summit, held in London.</div>
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Joshua Rozenberg is a non-practising solicitor. He has been recommended for his work as the pre-eminent legal analyst of modern times. He is an honorary bencher of Gray’s Inn, best known as a leading legal journalist and commentator. After taking a degree in law, he became the BBC’s first legal correspondent. He then joined the Daily Telegraph and is now a freelance writer and broadcaster, contributing to a range of outlets. He presents Law in Action on Radio 4 and his work includes four published books.</div>
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Professor Ian Scott qualified as a solicitor and a barrister in Victoria, Australia, but moved to the UK in the 1960s and joined the academic staff of the Faculty of Law at the University of Birmingham. He has been recommended particularly for his work editing the Civil Procedure Rules. Throughout his career he has maintained an interest in civil procedure and judicial administration, and has contributed significantly to the English and Welsh legal system through writing, lecturing and Government committee work. Over the last 25 years Professor Scott has contributed greatly to the reform and development of Civil Procedure in England and Wales. He was first editor of the Civil Justice Quarterly (from 1979 to 2006), and in 2007 became General Editor of the White Book, having been a member of the editorial team since 1989. For 25 years he wrote and edited Supreme Court Practice News and more recently Civil Procedure News, compiling at least ten issues every year.</div>
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Professor Clive Walker has made a major contribution to the UK law on terrorism over many years and has been regarded as an international expert in this field since the 1980s. He has been recommended for his work as an adviser to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation and for his contribution to the UK law on terrorism. He has written several authoritative books and articles on counter terrorism legislation and has researched this area extensively. He advised Lord Carlile QC when he was Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation and also assists the current holder of this role, David Anderson QC. Professor Walker’s work was important in the introduction of TPIMs (Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures). He has also regularly assisted professionals involved in counter terrorism work.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><b><u><br />Parker J retires</u></b><br /> <br />Sir Kenneth Parker (70) was called to the Bar (G) in 1975, took Silk in 1992 and elected as a Bencher in 2002. He was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1999 and a Recorder in 2000. He was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Information Tribunal and National Security Appeals Tribunal in 2001 (now known as Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber) and Judge of the First Tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber)). He was appointed a Recorder in 2005. He was appointed a Law Commissioner and approved to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2006. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) in 2009 and a Judge by Request (Upper Tribunal (Immigration Appeals Chamber)) in 2010.<br /><br /><b><u>Tony's bro (the one who went to Balliol) takes over the Commercial Court from Flaux J</u></b></span><br />
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From January 2016, Mr Justice Cranston will succeed Mr Justice Ouseley as Judge in Charge of the Administrative Court.Cranston was once Solicitor-General under Blair and now he is in charge of holding HMG to account. He has some big shoes to fill following the awesome Ouseley J.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.7776px; line-height: 26.08px;">Sir Richard John Pearson Aikens (67) was called to the Bar (M) in 1973, took Silk in 1986 and elected a Bencher in 1994. He was Junior Counsel to the Crown, Common Law, from 1981 to 1986, a Member of the Supreme Court Rules Committee from 1984 to 1988, appointed a Recorder in 1993, a deputy Judge of the High Court (Queen’s Bench and Chancery Division) in 1998 and a Judge of the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) in 1999. He was appointed Presiding Judge for the South East Circuit from 2001 to 2004, Judge in charge of the Commercial Court from 2005 to 2006 and a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2008, when he was sworn as a Privy Councillor.</span></div>
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The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Neil Stephen Garnham Esq QC to be a Justice of the High Court with effect from 3 November 2015 on the elevation of Mr. Justice Lindblom to the Court of Appeal.</div>
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The Lord Chief Justice will assign Mr Garnham to the Queen’s Bench Division</div>
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A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-15992252918566568462015-10-25T13:21:00.000+00:002015-10-25T13:21:19.977+00:00Rational Federal Constitution for the United Kingdom or a fathomless hokey cokey: EVELHow to solve the West Lothian question?<div>
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A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-45468873419835985712015-10-23T14:48:00.000+01:002015-10-24T17:56:15.800+01:00TWO NEW HIGH COURT JUDGESA female Circuit Judge from Wood Green Crown Court (HHJ Mary May QC) becomes May J to replace the much missed Akenhead J in the QBD.<br />
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and Senior Treasury Counsel at the Old Bailey and first ever female Asian occupant of the High Court bench (Bobbie Cheema- Grubb QC of 2 Hare Court) becomes Cheema-Grubb J to replace Kenneth Parker J in the QBD. Both much needed criminal input to the High Court Bench. <br />
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<br />A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-40379668610297910012015-10-12T20:33:00.000+01:002015-10-12T20:33:14.926+01:00A Constitution?The Commons <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee have issued a draft Constitution .</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not a bad piece of work although the preamble leaves me a bit cold......what do you think?</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">PREAMBLE<i>[<a href="" name="n54" style="border: none;"></a><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmpolcon/599/59907.htm#note54" style="border: none; text-decoration: none;">54</a>]</i></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">United, we stand in celebration of the diverse voices that make up the great chorus of our nation. Confident in our individuality, and steadfast in our shared values and common purpose, we—the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland—have come together in the spirit of self-determination in order to establish the principles of our law and governance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> By this act, we create for ourselves a sovereign state, animated by many spirits, accountable to all. Conscious of the responsibility that we bear to future generations—and of their role in defending and regenerating this Constitution—we lay down maxims crafted to promote civic harmony, mutual tolerance, universal wellbeing, and social and political freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> We embody these ideas in democratic government, and enshrine them in a system of law. And we empower each citizen to reform this design, by democratic process and political debate. By popular mandate, we establish this Constitution:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> To recognise every citizen as an equal partner in government—at a local, regional, and national level.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> To affirm that each citizen is entitled to fair and equitable treatment under the law.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> To establish the principle of equality of opportunity for all citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> To eradicate poverty and want throughout the nation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> To protect and cultivate community identities within the four great countries of the union: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> To preserve our common environment, and to hold it in trust for future generations.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> To safeguard freedom of thought, conscience, and assembly; and to facilitate peaceable dissent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> And to protect these fundamental rights against the encroachment of tyranny and the abdication of reason.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Through this undertaking, we remind one another of the benefits and duties of citizenship enshrined in membership of the United Kingdom, challenging ourselves to enact these principles throughout society.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Let our example stand as an inspiration to the peoples of the world, and to their rulers and their governments.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Let our principles animate our dedication to peace and justice in international affairs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> And let our united resolve grow ever-stronger under the enlightened auspices of this Constitution.</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">THE UK CONSTITUTION</i></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">OUR DEMOCRATIC SETTLEMENT</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy.[<a href="" name="n55" style="border: none;"></a><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmpolcon/599/59907.htm#note55" style="border: none; text-decoration: none;">55</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><u><i>Possible alternative</i></u><i>:</i></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The United Kingdom shall be a democracy where the people are sovereign.</i></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There shall be a separation of powers guaranteeing an independent and elected executive and legislature, and an independent and impartial judiciary.</i></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The United Kingdom shall operate as a Union of nations with power devolved to the lowest appropriate level.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The United Kingdom constitution is composed of the laws and rules that create the institutions of the state, regulate the relationships between those institutions, or regulate the relationship between the state and the individual.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These laws and rules are not codified in a single, written document.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Constitutional laws and rules have no special legal status.</span></div>
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<u><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Possible alternative:</i></u></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Constitution of the United Kingdom shall be the basic law according to which the United Kingdom shall be governed. The Constitution shall have the highest legal status and all other laws and rules must be consistent with it.</i></div>
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A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-5166639735915291722015-10-07T08:00:00.000+01:002015-10-07T08:00:31.520+01:00New Legal Year ExcitementThe usual processing to the Abbey and Breakfasting thereafter (doesn't Gove LC look lovely):<br />
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They had an Orthodox service in Melbourne earlier this year...ought to try that at home...<br />
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Apart from the usual excitement, look out for the Brand New <b><u>Financial List</u></b> in the Rolls Building, which is supported by a new Part 63A CPR and is going to be run by a partnership of the Commercial Court and the Chan D. Also check out PD 51M which will allow this new judicial beast to hear claims without a cause of action, so called friendly actions:<br />
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<i>2.1 The Financial Markets Test Case Scheme applies to a claim started in the Financial List which raises issues of general importance to the financial markets in relation to which immediately relevant authoritative English law guidance is needed (“a qualifying claim”).<br /><br />2.2 In such cases the Financial Markets Test Case Scheme enables the qualifying claim to be determined without the need for a present cause of action between the parties to the proceedings.<br /><br />Proceedings in the Financial Markets Test Case Scheme<br /><br />2.3 Where there is a qualifying claim a person who is or was actively in business in the relevant market may, by mutual agreement, issue proceedings against another person who is or was actively in business in the relevant market provided that other person has opposing interests as to how the law of England and Wales issue(s) raised by the qualifying claim should be resolved.</i><br /><br />THERE is another beast introduced into the wilds this month - <b><u>"The County Court Legal Adviser"</u></b> - Barristers or Solicitors who will be able to do all sorts of judicial things at the County Court Business Centre and the County Court Claims Centre - like extending time for service of the Claim Form within the limitation period, permitting amendments to the POC before the Defence is in or stay proceedings by consent....if you don't like their orders you can ask the DJ to take another look. Speaking of which I always like it when a DJ dresses up:<div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a previous post I lamented the retirement of Swift J - she is to be replaced as follows:<br /><br />The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Peter Donald Fraser Esq QC to be a Justice of the High Court with effect from 1 October 2015 on the retirement of Mrs Justice Swift.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr Fraser, 52, was called to the Bar (M) in 1989 and took Silk in 2009. He was appointed a Recorder in 2002 and is approved to sit as a deputy High Court Judge. </span><a href="http://www.atkinchambers.com/people/index.cfm?id=362" style="font-size: x-large;">He is a construction expert from Atkin Chambers</a><span style="font-size: large;"> who I expect will find his way eventually to the TCC/Commercial Court</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Meantime Simon J also gets a replacement:<br /><br />The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Mrs Philippa Jane Edwards Whipple QC to be a Justice of the High Court with effect from 1 October 2015 on the elevation of Mr Justice Simon.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Mrs Whipple, 49, was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1994 and took Silk in 2010. She was appointed a Recorder in 2005 and is approved to sit as a deputy High Court Judge. <a href="http://www.1cor.com/barrister/Philippa-Whipple-QC">She is public/tax/health law specialist from 1 COR </a>who will probably end up in the Admin Court. She was leading counsel to the Gibson Detainee Inquiry. She also came a cropper when she tried to appear in the Court of Session without advocacy rights.....</span><a href="http://www.1cor.com/668/records/30/PW_new.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://www.1cor.com/668/records/30/PW_new.jpg" height="200" width="133" /></a></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Long live our noble Queen! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">On her be pleased to pour, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">May she defend our laws, </span></b></div>
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<tr style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom</a></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b>6 February 1952</b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b>Present</b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;"><b>23,226</b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><b>63 years, 215 days</b></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">2</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Queen Victoria">Victoria of the United Kingdom</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">20 June 1837</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">22 January 1901</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">23,226</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">63 years, 216 days</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">3</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III of the United Kingdom</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">25 October 1760</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">29 January 1820</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">21,644</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">59 years, 96 days</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">4</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="James VI and I">James VI of Scotland</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">24 July 1567</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">27 March 1625</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">21,066</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">57 years, 246 days</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">5</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Henry III of England">Henry III of England and Lord of Ireland</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">18 October 1216</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">16 November 1272</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">20,483</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">56 years, 29 days</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">6</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_III_of_England" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Edward III of England">Edward III of England and Lord of Ireland</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">25 January 1327</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">21 June 1377</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">18,410</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">50 years, 147 days</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">7</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Lion" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="William the Lion">William I of Scotland</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">9 December 1165</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">4 December 1214</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">17,892</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">48 years, 360 days</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">8</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I of England and Ireland</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">17 November 1558</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">24 March 1603</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">16,198</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">44 years, 127 days</td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">9</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llywelyn_the_Great" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Llywelyn the Great">Llywelyn of Gwynedd</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">1 January 1195</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">11 April 1240</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">>16,172</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">44–45 years <small>(approximately)</small></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">10</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_II_of_Scotland" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="David II of Scotland">David II of Scotland</a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">7 June 1329</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">22 February 1371</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: right;">15,235</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: left;">41 years, 260 days</td></tr>
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A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-63180725806019975202015-08-23T16:26:00.001+01:002015-08-23T16:26:12.514+01:00NEW MANCHESTER MERCANTILE JUDGE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Presumably to replace the much vaunted Judge Waksman who has gone South to act as the London Mercantile Judge (replacing Judge Mackie) and hearing those London commercial cases which fall short in value and importance of the Commercial Court's purview, comes a former Partner of Linklaters no less (yes, a female solicitor - that'll be noticed by the locals around King/St John's Streets) - already she has been exercising her skills as a Dep High Ct Judge (and will no doubt remain a section 9 Judge in Manchester) and as a Recorder ( http://www.christianconcern.com/our-concerns/judge-rules-against-christian-bb-owner ). She is ex Cheltenham Ladies, and Clare College Cambridge, was an articled clerk at Linklaters in 1982, and became a partner in 1991, and then after a stint in house at Vodafone, again returned to the Linklaters' partnership in 2002. She is a capital market expert and now has to get to grips with the mercantile case load of the North West:<br />
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The Queen has appointed Jane <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;">Clare</span> Moulder to be a Specialist Mercantile Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Michael Gove MP and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the Right Honourable The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd.</div>
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The Lord Chief Justice has deployed her to the Northern Circuit, based at Manchester Civil Justice Centre with effect from 18 September 2015.</div>
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Jane <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;">Clare</span> Moulder, aged 55, will be known as Her Honour Judge Moulder. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1984. She was appointed as a Recorder in 2010.</div>
A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-9643561517629317062015-08-03T09:20:00.000+01:002015-08-03T13:12:40.078+01:00JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS AND RETIREMENTS AT THE END OF ANOTHER JUDICIAL YEAR<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u><br /></u></b>
<b><u>NEW SENIOR PRESIDENT OF TRIBUNALS:</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To preside over the Presidents of the Chambers of the UT and FTT, Ryder LJ to replace Sullivan LJ who is retiring. He's a TD, DL of Greater Manchester, Chancellor of Bolton University and formerly of the Fam D.</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">NEWLY NAMED TO THE C OF A:</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The following will be swapping red for gold (tabs) in the near future:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Justice Hamblen was called to the Bar, Lincoln’s Inn, 1981 and practised at the Commercial Bar from 1982 to 2008. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1997. He was appointed Assistant Recorder in 1999–2000; Recorder, 2000–08. A Judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, since 2008 and designated as a Judge of the Commercial Court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Justice Lindblom was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Gray’s Inn in 1980. He was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2002. He was admitted to the Hong Kong Bar in 2000 and 2008, and to the Bar of the Turks and Caicos Islands in 2006. He became a Bencher of Gray’s Inn in 2003. He practised as a barrister from 1981 to 2010, was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1996, became a Recorder in 2001 and was authorised to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge in 2009. He has been a Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, since October 2010, President of the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) since 2013, and Planning Liaison Judge (the lead judge of the Planning Court) since 2014. <b> Will be interesting to see who will take over the Lands Chamber and the Planning Court?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Justice (David) Richards was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1974. Bencher, Lincoln’s Inn, in 2000. Junior Counsel (Chancery), DTI, 1989–92. He became Queen’s Counsel 1992. Contrib 2000–, Joint General Editor 2009–, Buckley on the Companies Acts. A Judge of the High Court, Chancery Division, since 2003. Vice Chancellor, County Palatine of Lancaster, 2008–11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Justice Simon was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, 1973. Bencher in 1999. He became Queen’s Counsel in 1991. A Recorder in 1998–2002. A Deputy High Court Judge in 1999–2002. A Judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, since 2002; Presiding Judge, North Eastern <span style="line-height: 25.0000095367432px;">Circuit, 2006–08. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 25.0000095367432px;">He is son of Lord SImon of Glaisdale, who I don't think sat in the C of A, because he was President of the Old Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, after being an MP and Solicitor General. He entered the H of L as a Life Peer, but was entitled to sit in the Appellate Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Henry James Carr Esq QC, to be a Justice of the High Court with effect from 1 October 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.7775993347168px; line-height: 26.0799980163574px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Carr, 57, was called to the Bar (G) in 1982, and took Silk in 1998. He was appointed as a Deputy Chairman of the Copyright Tribunal in 2007, and is approved to sit as a deputy High Court Judge. He is a specialist IP practitioner from 11 South Square.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">& most regretfully, Swift J has retired early, I would have look forward to seeing her rise to the highest judicial offices:</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.7775993347168px; line-height: 26.0799980163574px;">Dame Caroline Swift DBE (60) was called to the Bar (I) in 1977, elected as a Bencher in 1997 and took silk in 1993. She was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1992, a Recorder in 1995, a deputy High Court Judge (Queen’s Bench and Chancery Divisions) in 2000 and was Leading Counsel to the Shipman Inquiry from 2001 to 2005. She was appointed a Judge of the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division in 2005 and was a Member of the Judicial College Senior Judiciary Planning Group from 2010 to 2014.</span></div>
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Gove and the Govt are thinking about putting Court and Tribunal fees up again. Indeed they are thinking of introducing fees where currently there are none:<br />
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<li>A general 10% uplift on civil fees all round.</li>
<li>Civil possession claim from £280 to £355. As most of those are brought by local authorities and social housing providers, the flow of cash would be a little circular.</li>
<li>General Part 23 Applications - from £50 to £100 if without notice and from £155 to £255 otherwise.</li>
<li>Divorce is going up from £410 to £750; why not profit from those going through one of the worst periods of their life.</li>
<li>Want to appeal to the C of A, was £235, went up to £480, in future - £528??</li>
<li>Want a hearing in the Immigration Chamber of the FTT? £280 up from £140.</li>
<li>Want to challenge your landlord in the Leasehold bit of the FTT? <span style="font-size: large;"> <b>£2,000 for hearing, currently nil!</b></span></li>
<li>Want to challenge an FOI refusal from HMG in the FTT -<b> <span style="font-size: large;">currently free, in future £500!</span></b></li>
<li>Don't like a HMRC decision, want to appeal to the Tax Chamber of the FTT - <b><span style="font-size: large;">all currently free - fees to be introduced, up to £1000?</span></b></li>
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Thinking that all of that is a bit of a step too far....</div>
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Respond to the consultation here - https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/further-fees-proposal-consultation/supporting_documents/enhancedfeesresponseconsultationonfurtherfees.pdf </div>
A Barrister in Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08022693708807443338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6435782381398776888.post-56530748859837463832015-07-17T08:32:00.000+01:002015-07-20T08:20:45.075+01:00Gove consulting on closing Bow, Lambeth, Hammersmith and Woolwich "County Courts"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A judge once told me that <b><u>Bow County Court</u></b> (as it was then, now - The County Court sitting at Bow (which makes no sense because it doesn't - its sits just outside Stratford...)) was the busiest civil court in Europe. Which did not surprise me as when I used to go there regularly it was standing room only. Probably being located in a very deprived area and having both a civil and family jurisdiction (which may well now have been hived off to the new Family Court sitting in Canary Wharf) is what did the trick. If it were both a possession day and a family day, then it was also a total chaos, waiting around til 6pm to be seen by a stressed judge, day. MoJ want to close it and move everything to <b><u>Clerkenwell and Shoreditch</u></b> at Gee St (itself an amalgamation of some historic county courts.....) Good luck C & S (and B?)....they'll be standing in the aisles and hanging from the roof on possession day..............<br />
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otherwise covered by Bromley, <u style="font-weight: bold;">Wandsworth </u>which is where its work is going...... and errr <b><u>Woolwich</u></b>, which is also being consulted upon for closure and transfer of its work to <b><u>Bromley</u></b>. </div>
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<b><u>Woolwich's</u></b> work is to be packed off to <b><u>Bromley</u></b> (which is err, not local to Woolwich.....especially given its catchment runs into <b><u>Dartford's</u></b>)</div>
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Good bye to more of my favourite once daily forensic hunting grounds and perhaps more importantly, good bye to local judges dispensing local justice to the locals who did not have far to go.....</div>
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<a href="https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/proposal-on-the-provision-of-court-and-tribunal-es/consult_view">Check out the paper</a> - it proposes the following closures, your favourites/essential local justice provider may on the list and you might want to object/protest:</div>
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London
Bow County Court
Feltham Magistrates’ Court
Greenwich Magistrates’ Court
Hammersmith County Court (formerly West London County Court)
Lambeth County Court
Pocock Street Tribunal Hearing Centre
Richmond-upon-Thames Magistrates’ Court
Tottenham Magistrates’ Court
Waltham Forest Magistrates’ Court
Woolwich County Court
Midlands
Birmingham Youth Court
Burton-upon-Trent Magistrates’ Court
Buxton Magistrates’ and County Court
Corby Magistrates’ Court
Grantham Magistrates’ Court
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Hinckley Magistrates’ Court
Kettering County Court
Kettering Magistrates’ Court
Sandwell Magistrates’ Court
Shrewsbury Magistrates’ Court
Skegness Magistrates’ Court
Solihull Magistrates’ Court
Stafford Magistrates’ Court
Worksop Magistrates’ Court
North East
Consett Magistrates’ Court
Halifax County Court and Family Court
Halifax (Calderdale) Magistrates’ and Family Court
Hartlepool Magistrates’ Court and County Court
Morpeth County Court
Rotherham Magistrates’ Court, County Court and Family Court
Scunthorpe Magistrates’ Court, County Court and Family Court
Wakefield Magistrates’ Court
North West
Accrington County Court
Accrington Magistrates’ Court
Bolton County Court and Family Court
Bury Magistrates’ Court and County Court
Kendal Magistrates’ Court and County Court
Macclesfield County Court
Macclesfield Magistrates’ Court
Oldham County Court
Proposal on the provision of court and tribunal estate in England and Wales
Oldham Magistrates’ Court
Ormskirk Magistrates’ Court and Family Court
Runcorn (Halton) Magistrates’ Court
St Helens Magistrates’ Court and County Court
Stockport Magistrates’ Court and County Court
Tameside County Court
Trafford Magistrates’ Court and Altrincham County Court
Warrington County Court
West Cumbria Magistrates’ Court and County Court
South East
Aylesbury Magistrates’ Court, County Court and Family Court
Basildon Social Security and Child Support Tribunal (Acorn House)
Bedford and Mid Beds Magistrates’ Court and Family Court and Bedford County Court
and Family Court
Bicester Magistrates’ Court and Family Court
Bury St. Edmunds Magistrates’ Court and Family Court and Bury St. Edmunds Crown
Court
Chichester Combined Court (Crown and County)
Chichester Magistrates’ Court
Colchester County Court and Family Court
Colchester County Court Offices
Dartford Magistrates’ Court
Dover Magistrates’ Court
Eastbourne Magistrates’ Court, County Court and Family Court
Harlow Magistrates’ Court
Kings Lynn County Court and Family Court
Lowestoft Magistrates’ Court, County Court and Family Court
Redhill Magistrates’ Court and Family Court and Reigate County Court and Family Court
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St Albans County Court
Tunbridge Wells County Court and Family Court
Watford Magistrates’ Court and Family Court
West Berkshire (Newbury) Magistrates’ Court
South West
Barnstaple Crown Court
Bath Magistrates’ Court, County Court and Family Court or North Avon (Yate) Magistrates’
Court
Bournemouth Magistrates’ Court
Cheltenham Rivershill House Tribunal
Chippenham Magistrates’ Court, Civil Court and Family Court
Dorchester Crown Court
Fareham Magistrates’ Court
Gloucester Magistrates’ Court
North Avon (Yate) Magistrates’ Court or Bath Magistrates’ Court, County Court and Family
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Stroud Magistrates’ Court
Torquay Magistrates’ Court
Wales
Brecon Law Courts
Bridgend Law Courts
Carmarthen Civil, Family, Tribunal and Probate Hearing Centre
Carmarthen Law Courts (The Guildhall)
Dolgellau Crown and Magistrates’ Court
Holyhead Magistrates’ Court
Llangefni Civil and Family Court
Neath and Port Talbot Civil and Family Court
Pontypridd Magistrates’ Court
Proposal on the provision of court and tribunal estate in England and Wales
Prestatyn Magistrates’ Court
Wrexham Tribunal (Rhyd Broughton) </div>
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There has never been a need to be elected to be a Minister nor indeed to be a member or either House of Parliament at the time of your appointment. I could be made a Minister right now and exercise the Crown's powers without ever being made a member of either House of Parliament. Although without a means of holding me to account people might get a little angsty and demand I attend Parliament to answer questions. There has always been the option of co-opting non Parliamentarian experts into Government by the means of a Life Peerage, but I have to say I have rarely seen so many made up at once (see below). The SNP is a bit upset about Lord Dunlop because the Tory's single MP in Scotland means that they have had to make up a Lord to find someone else to deputise for the S of S of Scotland (that one single Tory MP).......Maude is understandable, and Bridges is just promotion for an in house policy wonk. O'Neill, Altmann and Prior are sector SMEs brought in to help in tricky areas - but do they have any legitimacy in Govt?<br />
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord Dunlop</strong> is a former adviser to the Prime Minister on devolved constitutional issues. He was formerly the head of policy and research for the Scottish Conservative Party, special adviser to the Defence Secretary and a member of the Downing Street Policy Unit. He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Scotland Office on 14 May 2015.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord Maude of Horsham</strong> served as MP for Horsham, West Sussex (1997-2015). He held several government posts, including Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1990-1992), and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1989-1990). He is also a former chair of the Conservative Party (2005-2007). He was appointed Minister of State for Trade and Investment on 11 May 2015.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord O'Neill of Gatley</strong> is a former chief economist at Goldman Sachs. He was appointed Commercial Secretary to the Treasury on 14 May 2015. </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 16.6399993896484px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord Bridges of Headley</strong><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 16.6399993896484px;"> is a former chair of the Conservative Research Department, and was the Conservative Party's campaign director (2006-2007). He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office on 14 May 2015.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord Prior of Brampton</strong> is a former chair of the Care Quality Commission (2013-2015). He served as MP for North Norfolk (1997-2001) and is a former deputy chair and CEO of the Conservative Party. He was appointed Minister for NHS Productivity in May 2015.</div>
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