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		<title>Jury trials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Edward Cole 
There appears to be an emerging consensus on Halsbury’s Law Exchange that jury trials are a good thing – see previous blogs here and here. This may be so, but the four mainstream arguments commonly advanced to support jury trials, and repeated in previous articles, do not stand serious scrutiny.
The first argument is that because jury trials have been part of our history since (at least) Magna Carta, they are at the core of our system of justice.
The fact that justice involved people like jurors since before the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar Law Forum 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Wilson
I enjoyed the privilege over the weekend of attending the 2012 Qatar Law Forum, held in Doha. The theme of the conference was “The rule of law in a time of change”. The conference was attended by over 400 delegates from approximately 60 jurisdictions, including many leading figures from the legal profession in this country. Here are a few thoughts on some of the sessions I attended and the conference in general.
The first Qatari Law Forum, held in 2009, had focussed largely on the international financial crisis. Needless ...]]></description>
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		<title>Advance decisions: a rare and welcome judicial look</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 10:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Charles Foster
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 contains detailed provision for advance decisions – otherwise known as advance directives: see ss 24, 25 and 26. These are statements made by a person when capacitous, which may apply when the person loses capacity. If they are “valid and applicable” they have the same effect as if made by that person capacitously. A competent patient has the right to refuse even life-sustaining treatment.
An advance decision in relation to the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment will not be “applicable” to the relevant treatment unless ...]]></description>
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		<title>Regulating porn: protecting children online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Felicity Gerry
In the week that many parents will have to explain why a stripper was put through on Britain’s Got Talent  (BGT) rather than a female impressionist, there has been much publicity on the idea of opt in pornography and whether this would be an effective way of protecting children from accessing indecent images online.
Aside from the issues surrounding how this would be implemented, the main question is whether internet regulation is necessary at all.
Most parents and carers will have had their fair share of discussions regarding the downloading ...]]></description>
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		<title>The ECHR and democratic legitimacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Wilson
Two interesting articles on the UK Human Rights Blog recently raised once again the question of the legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Both are thoughtful contributions and therefore welcome relief from a debate which at times descends into variations on Godwin’s law.  On the one side, argument often reduces to xenophobic insults about the impudence of Europe telling anyone else what to do.  On the other side, some lawyers seem to respond to criticism of the ECHR with the sort of arrogance that one associates ...]]></description>
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		<title>Plea bargaining: eBay justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Felicity Gerry
In 2009, Zoe Pemberton, then aged ten, put her grandmother up for auction on eBay ostensibly as a joke.  As part of the description she described her grandmother as “annoying and moaning a lot”. She also said that she was “cuddly” and “likes word searches”. The public bid up to £20,000 until the lot was taken down. If you believe that our criminal justice system is the grandma of every common law system of the world then it seems that she is about to be auctioned off. News ...]]></description>
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		<title>Extradition: where and why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Guy Skelton
The past few months have seen a great many column inches dedicated to the issue of extradition. The dismissal of the extradition challenges by Abu Hamza and others has led to many commentators heaping praise on the ECtHR for making the correct choice in granting the extradition of these men to the US. The attempt by the Home Secretary to deport Abu Qatada to Jordan continues to stimulate debate and raise erudite procedural issues.
With so much focus on the extradition of alleged terrorists, one could be forgiven for ...]]></description>
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		<title>Law reporting in the new media age</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Wilson
Last night Halsbury’s Law Exchange, in partnership with the international law firm Eversheds, hosted its first panel discussion.  The subject was “Law Reporting in the New Media Age”.
It was chaired by HLE chairman Joshua Rozenberg, with the panel comprising Siobhain Butterworth of the Guardian, Katy Dowell of The Lawyer, David Allen Green of the Jack of Kent Blog, Andrew Sharpe of LexisNexis and Adam Wagner of the UK Human Rights Blog. 
The panel discussed how blogging and tweeting are changing the way law is presented to the public.  The ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Saajid Badat case: inching towards the US</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ali Naseem Bajwa QC
On 29 February 2005, Saajid Badat pleaded guilty to a terrorist conspiracy to destroy, damage or endanger the safety of an aircraft. Badat admitted that in 2001 he had conspired with “the shoe bomber” Richard Reid and a Tunisian, Nizar Trabelsi, in a plot simultaneously to act as suicide bombers in order to blow up two airliners bound for the US. For two months following his plea, Badat assisted UK investigators; however, he held back on a good deal of information.
On 21 April 2005, Mr Justice ...]]></description>
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		<title>Abu Qatada: a round-up of events</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stephen Hockman
Last week was a pretty eventful one for politics and politicians, especially on the human rights front. A brief stock take might be as follows:

Although it seems to be common ground that Abu Qatada represents a threat to the UK and deserves to be deported, he has not been convicted or even charged with an offence here. One might surmise that if and when the obstacles to the deployment of intercept evidence are finally overcome, this kind of anomaly will less frequently arise.
Given that the European Court of ...]]></description>
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