Posted in ancillary relief, celebrity, divorce, financial, news, openness on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, we all knew there would be some kind of appeal - and apparently it is by way of Heather Mills McCartney appealing the decision to make the full judgment public, due to be heard tomorrow. In the meantime here is a link to the summary of the judgment published today.
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In short, Heather Mills McCartney [...]
Posted in courts, discrimination, news, professional conduct on November 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I am flabbergasted at this story.
In summary a well respected High Court Judge in the Family Division has been roundly condemned by the Court of Appeal for making a string of remarks which were pointedly referring to the ethnic origin of one of the parties, namely a wealthy Sheikh. Mr Justice Singer has publicly apologised, [...]
Posted in discrimination, news on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
A muslim hairdresser is suing a salon who refused her employment on the basis of her refusal to uncover her head. See the story in the Standard here.
Not wishing to be flippant about discrimination - but frankly, the barnets of most hairdressers I have ever seen are the primary source of my complete distrust of the whole lot [...]
Posted in blogging, courts, news on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Be warned all you bloggers. Don’t be too rude or they will getcha…See Guardian article: Warning to abusive bloggers as judge tells site to reveal names. How embarrassing to be publicly named as a Sheffield Wednesday fan…;-)
Posted in family, law, news, openness on October 16, 2007 | No Comments »
The Guardian reports that a newspaper is appealing a decision to allow the identity of a man convicted of child pornography offences to remain anonymous in order to protect his daughters from possible bullying. The Court of Appeal will consider this matter, unusually with a five Judge panel - no doubt because of the public interest in the [...]
Posted in barrister, family, news, professional conduct on September 20, 2007 | 12 Comments »
This story has generated a lot of interest, so its only right that I should note that Bruce Hyman was sentenced to 12 months in prison yesterday for perverting the course of justice. As I understand it (from a few hastily snatched snippets from the papers whilst being crushed on the central line!) Mr Hyman [...]
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