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15 May 2008
Issue: 7321 / Categories: Case law , Public , Law digest , Constitutional law
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Criminal litigation

Crowch v DPP [2008] EWHC 948 (Admin), [2008] All ER (D) 205 (Apr)

Correction from last Law Digest (see NLJ 2 May 2007, pp 630–631). An order, under s 19(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, (POA 1985) for costs incurred as a result of an unnecessary or improper act or omission by or on behalf of a prosecutor cannot be made to compensate an unrepresented defendant for his own loss of time in preparing his case and attending court (the reasoning in R v Bedlington Magistrates’ Court ex p Wilkinson [1999] 164 JP 156, construing of POA 1985, s 16 applies equally to s 19).

                                                                              

Issue: 7321 / Categories: Case law , Public , Law digest , Constitutional law
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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