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Privy Council majority backs removal of Gibraltar’s Chief Justice
Gibraltar :: Gibraltar | 22 days ago
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In an unprecedented ruling the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council said that Derek Schofield should be removed “by reason of his inability to discharge the functions of his office”. Their recommendation in a ruling on Thursday now goes to the Queen...
Tags: chief justices, Privy Council, Gibraltar, lords phillips, Lord Phillips, Law lords, British judges, Knights Bachelor, Nicholas Phillips Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Politics, Derek Schofield, English judges, Law Crime
UK Supreme Court to be sworn in
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility The Justices of the Supreme Court are replacing the Law Lords as the final court of appeal for almost all cases in the United Kingdom. The court is independent of Parliament and will hear the most important cases. Lord Phillips, President of the Supreme...
Tags: UK Supreme Court, New Supreme Court, U.K. Supreme Court, law lords, House of Lords, Members of Parliament, United Kingdom, Houses of Parliament, highest court, UK&, London
Lord Phillips: I sympathise over assisted suicide
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Britain’s most senior judge has said that he sympathises with terminally ill people seeking to end their own lives. The comments by Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, president of the new Supreme Court, are certain to fuel controversy. As a senior law...
Tags: law lords, assisted suicide, lords phillips
High Court revokes control order
Baghdad :: Iraq | 4 months ago
Credibility The government's anti-terror strategy has suffered a blow after the High Court revoked the control order of a suspect accused of links to al-Qaeda. The ruling comes after the Law Lords said terror suspects held on house arrest-style conditions must be...
Tags: court revoked, control order, terror suspect, Law Lords
Barlow loses appeal
Wellington :: New Zealand | 5 months ago
Credibility Convicted double murderer John Barlow has lost his final bid to have his convictions overturned, as the Privy Council in London ruled against his appeal today. The five law lords that heard Barlow's appeal tonight announced that while he had an arguable...
Tags: John Barlow, Privy Council, law lords
Terror suspects begin challenge to control orders regime
Derby :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Terror suspects have launched the biggest challenge yet against control orders, claiming that they are a breach of their rights. Lawyers for two suspects went before a nine-judge panel of law lords today to argue against the system, which restricts their...
Tags: control orders, terror suspects, orders regime, biggest challenge, law lords
Law Lords back Qatada deportation
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Five Lords unanimously threw out his appeal against returning to Jordan where he faces jail for terrorism. Qatada had alleged that his conviction in Jordan was based on evidence extracted by torture. The 48-year-old cleric is one of Europe's most influential...
Tags: Abu Qatada, Jordan, Britain, law lords, highest court, terror charges, Radical Muslim, court rules, lords rules, Jacqui Smith
Daily Telegraph, UK: Critical mass can carry on cycling
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility There is no need for the organisers of a mass cycle ride to give the police notice of their planned destination when there are no organisers and the destination is unplanned, the law lords ruled today. England’s highest court allowed an appeal by Desmond...
Tags: cycling ride, law lords, mass cycling
Iraq war legal advice flawed, says ex-law lord
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 year ago
Credibility Legal advice given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq was fundamentally "flawed", a former senior law lord said today. Lord Bingham, who stepped down in July, described the action by the UK and US as a "serious violation of international law".
Tags: US-Iraq, Lord Bingham, Baron Thomas Henry Bingham, lords bingham, Tony Blair, law lords, lords goldsmith, legal advice
'Brutal realities'
Port Louis :: Mauritius | about 1 year ago
Credibility If just one of five Law Lords had voted differently, the people of the Chagos Islands would have been contemplating a return to their homeland in the Indian Ocean. But for that one vote, the British government would have been facing a multi-million pound...
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