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NLJ this week: Time for change at the top of the CCRC?

30 May 2025
Issue: 8118 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal
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The astonishing failures at the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) have had a devastating impact on those it was set up to protect. The question now is what should be done? NLJ columnist Jon Robins highlights a radical suggestion by Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss in a House of Lords debate on the subject this month

But when did the CCRC’s decline begin, why, how and under whose watch? Robins, a keen observer of the failings at the CCRC, offers his own take on the CCRC, noting in particular the ‘complacent’ attitude of its senior leadership who rarely come into the office.
Issue: 8118 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal
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The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
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Writing in NLJ this week, Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph of Stevens & Bolton dissect the Privy Council’s landmark ruling in Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd (No 2), which abolishes the long-standing 'shareholder rule'
In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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