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    Posted on October 14th, 2011

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    Maya the Cat

    Hot on the padded paws of Maya-gate, which has seen the jovial jazz-loving Kenneth Clarke (a cynophilist, surely) declaim in favour of the archaic notion of reading a court judgment in full rather than selecting obiter comments to serve one’s agenda, it strikes me that while curiosity killed the cat, it might not have been [...]

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    Is televising the courts really such a good idea?

    The announcement by David Cameron that judicial sentencing of offenders is to be televised has met largely with approval. At last, say those in favour, open justice is truly on its way. Granted, since May 2011 live streaming has allowed us to be privy to the proceedings of the UK Supreme Court, but now the [...]