Weekly law digests

Confidential information

Venables and another v News Group Papers Ltd and others [2019] EWHC 494 (Fam), [2019] All ER (D) 22 (Mar)

The relatives of a child (JB) who had been tortured and murdered in 1993 unsuccessfully applied to vary or discharge an injunction (as amended), so as to permit the reporting of the charges and conviction of one of the persons convicted of JB’s murder, namely the person formally known as ‘Jon Venables’. The Family Division, in dismissing the application, held that the case for varying the injunction had simply not been made out on the facts.

Elections

R (on the application of Wilson and others) v Prime Minister [2019] EWCA Civ 304, [2019] All ER (D) 08 (Mar)

The claimants were refused permission to seek judicial review of the respondent prime minister’s notification to the EU of the UK’s intention to withdraw. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, rejected arguments that the decision to notify and the notification itself had been unlawful because they had been based upon the result of a referendum