After changes in 2014 allowing filming of local government meetings what are the safeguards proposed on filming and broadcast of judicial sentencing remarks in England and Wales?
After changes in 2014 allowing filming of local government meetings what are the safeguards proposed on filming and broadcast of judicial sentencing remarks in England and Wales?
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Letter from the Wirral – audio podcast – episode #1 New Ferry Trial 13th January 2019
Letter from the Wirral – audio podcast – episode #1 New Ferry Trial 13th January 2019
Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts (Liverpool Crown Court), Derby Square, Liverpool, L2 1XA (5th January 2019)
Below is a transcript of a new audio series I’m starting this year, the topic of our first one is a conversation between myself and our criminal justice correspondent about the trial last week.
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The focus on a criminal justice case (the first two days of the trial of what happened in New Ferry) came about as a result of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Bureau Local project and specifically the open newsroom last year on “What are the challenges with accessing court information and reporting on them?” as I realised that there needed to be a field test to understand things better.
I did as a journalist challenge one of the restricted reporting orders on this listing for this case (one of which has now been removed as it didn’t exist and was a clerical error). The official and extremely polite response back was I quote, “it was a clerical error, the reporting restrictions in the case are as per the order handed to you yesterday. Thank you for taking the time to point out this error to the Court.” Continue reading “Letter from the Wirral – audio podcast – episode #1 New Ferry Trial 13th January 2019”
The reporting restrictions I referred to in my report on the first day linked to above mean I can only report on what happened after around 3.15 pm. The following may be of interest to those ever called for jury service wondering what happens. Continue reading “What happened on the 2nd day of the New Ferry Explosion Trial?”
What happened on the 1st day of the New Ferry Explosion Trial?
What happened on the 1st day of the New Ferry Explosion Trial?
Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts (Liverpool Crown Court), Derby Square, Liverpool, L2 1XA (5th January 2019)
The first day of the trial about an explosion in New Ferry in March 2017 of two defendants started this morning in Court 5-2 on the 5th floor of the Liverpool Crown Court. Due to its high profile nature all the seats in the public gallery were full and the Usher had to find seats elsewhere in the court room for extra people.
The jury wasn’t present for a discussion between Judge Menary QC and the representatives for both defendants as to how long the jury should be allowed to complete the jury questionnaires. The trial is expected to last up to four weeks.
Judge Menary QC did agree an order with the parties for reporting restrictions (specifically delayed reporting) on some aspects of the case. Despite asking the Liverpool Crown Court staff for a copy of this reporting restriction order when the morning’s hearing concluded, at the time of writing the staff have been unable to provide a copy and insisted I email (I have since received an electronic copy this afternoon and made this edit before publication).
The jury are expected to be sworn in possibly tomorrow afternoon and some material in the bundles will be changed (one reason given was to correct an incorrect address).
There will be no sitting on Friday due to a Regional Sentencing Seminar. Defendant Pascal G Blasio was re-bailed on the condition that he appear again for tomorrow’s hearing.
Due to the ongoing nature of the trial comments are turned off.
EXCLUSIVE: 155 invoices paid by Wirral Council in 2013/14 for legal services, external audit, physiotherapy and psychological assessments
EXCLUSIVE: 155 invoices paid by Wirral Council in 2013/14 for legal services, external audit, physiotherapy and psychological assessments
Below are 155 of the invoices I requested during the 2013/14 audit. They range from invoices to the Council’s external auditor Grant Thornton UK LLP, criminal work, a couple of judicial reviews, appealing an ICO decision notice to the First Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) as well as a lot of times Wirral Council have taken parents to court about their children. Some of these invoices I’ve previously written about on this blog, such as about the invoice about appealing the ICO decision notice. Turns out now I look at it more carefully there was a further invoice for £1,008 from February 2014 in that matter too.
Some of the others I’ve already on the blog as I received them in August 2014. However I didn’t publish them in August because I’ve had to go through a process of blacking out all the names (and partial names) of children and parents.
Added in green to many invoices are the representative (where known) from the list of payments in 2013/14 greater than £500. I’ve also added back in (on some) text which has been obscured by information blacked out on double-sided pages and bled through.
There is an index to all 155 invoices that can be downloaded here. I’ve tried to use the following file format when naming each file “Wirral Council invoice” followed by representative/organisation, amount, date, page number where there are multiple pages for the same invoice followed by invoice number.
Invoices 73 & 74 aren’t published here as they were cancelled and replaced by invoices 75 & 76. There is another batch of invoices I have yet to scan in, which is a mix of invoices for legal services and other general invoices. Below you should find all 155 invoices.
Wirral Council invoice Capita Health and Wellbeing Limited £520 Page 1 of 3 18th March 2013 1Wirral Council invoice Capita Health and Wellbeing Limited £520 Page 2 of 3 18th March 2013 1Wirral Council invoice Capita Health and Wellbeing Limited £520 Page 3 of 3 18th March 2013 1Wirral Council invoice The Lucy Faithfull Foundation £699.31 28th March 2013 2Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings £10,344 page 1 of 2 15th March 2013 3
Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings £1,320 18th March 2013 6
Wirral Council invoice Forepsych Limited psychological assessment report £688.35 3rd February 2013 11Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Buildings £576 2nd April 2013 12Wirral Council invoice Remy Zentar St Johns Buildings £1,800 27th March 2013 13Wirral Council invoice Sharpe Pritchard £25,698 31st March 2013 Page 1 of 2 14Wirral Council invoice Sharpe Pritchard £25,698 31st March 2013 Page 2 of 2 14Wirral Council invoice Gail A Owen St Johns Buildings £2,928 9th April 2013 15Wirral Council invoice Nicola Miles 7 Harrington St Chambers £2,130 9th April 2013 16Wirral Council invoice Kate Burnell St Johns Buildings 9th April 2013 £792 17Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings 11th April 2013 £864 18Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings 16th April 2013 £720 19Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Buildings 16th April 2013 £1,032 20Wirral Council invoice Dr Jennifer Ashcroft JJ Ashcroft Clinical Psychology Services Ltd 7th April 2013 £900.75 21Wirral Council invoice Gail A Owen St Johns Buildings 26th April 2013 £591.36 22Wirral Council invoice Joanne Jade Abraham St Johns Buildings 20th April 2013 £600 23Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Bellamy St Johns Buildings 25th April 2013 £511.68 24Wirral Council invoice Sara A Mann St Johns Buildings 26th April 2013 £528 25Wirral Council invoice Tim D N Kenward 7 Harrington St Chambers 19th April 2013 Page 1 of 2 £900 26Wirral Council invoice Tim D N Kenward 7 Harrington St Chambers 19th April 2013 Page 2 of 2 £900 26Wirral Council invoice Remy Zentar St Johns Buildings 23rd April 2013 £936 27Wirral Council invoice Susan Edwards St Johns Buildings 2nd May 2013 £672 28Wirral Council invoice DMM Psychology Ltd 8th March 2013 £1660.80 29Wirral Council invoice Sara A Mann St Johns Buildings 8th May 2013 £823.68 30Wirral Council invoice Rebecca Smith St Johns Buildings 8th May 2013 £720 31Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings 9th May 2013 £1200 32Wirral Council invoice Rebecca Smith St Johns Buildings 9th May 2013 £720 33Wirral Council invoice Benjamin Lawrence St Johns Buildings 13th May 2013 £787.50 34Wirral Council invoice Advanced Childcare Assessments Limited 30th April 2013 £2,641.20 35Wirral Council invoice Joanne Jade Abraham St Johns Buildings 15th May 2013 Page 1 of 2 £528 36Wirral Council invoice Joanne Jade Abraham St Johns Buildings 15th May 2013 Page 2 of 2 £528 36Wirral Council invoice Louis Browne Exchange Chambers 15th May 2013 £3445.74 37Wirral Council invoice Claire Grundy St Johns Buildings 14th May 2013 £1800 38Wirral Council invoice Sharpe Pritchard 17th May 2013 £640 39Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Building 17th May 2013 £1200 40Wirral Council invoice Sara A Mann St Johns Building 17th May 2013 £528 41Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Building 21st May 2013 £576 42Wirral Council invoice Cerys Williams St Johns Building 22nd May 2013 £2454.72 43Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Building 24th May 2013 £768 44Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Building 28th May 2013 £811.29 Page 1 of 2 45Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Building 28th May 2013 £811.29 Page 2 of 2 45Wirral Council invoice Simon Maddison St Johns Building 23rd May 2013 £1260 46Wirral Council invoice Sara A Mann St Johns Buildings 31st May 2013 £607.48 47Wirral Council invoice Document Technology Limited 10th May 2013 £569.58 48Wirral Council invoice Jennifer Lesley Scully St Johns Buildings 4th June 2013 £849.60 49Wirral Council invoice Susan Edwards St Johns Buildings 10th June 2013 £993.60 50Wirral Council invoice Ginette Fitzharris St Johns Buildings 11th June 2013 £799.68 51Wirral Council invoice Joanne Jade Abraham St Johns Buildings 13th June 2013 £2,208.96 52Wirral Council invoice Grant Thornton UK LLP 14th June 2013 £63,504 53Wirral Council invoice Catherine Rimmer St Johns Buildings 17th June 2013 £504 54Wirral Council invoice Stephen J Bedford St Johns Buildings 17th June 2013 £1,584 55Wirral Council invoice Stephen J Bedford St Johns Buildings 19th June 2013 £1,584 56Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Buildings 25th June 2013 £552 57Wirral Council invoice The Association of Electoral Administration 14th May 2013 £3,556.25 58Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings 1st July 2013 £960 59Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 1st July 2013 £4,910.40 Page 1 of 2 60Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 1st July 2013 £4,910.40 Page 2 of 2 60Wirral Council invoice Sara A Mann St Johns Buildings 1st July 2013 £523.20 61Wirral Council invoice Tim D N Kenward 7 Harrington St Chambers 19th June 2013 Page 1 of 2 £3,660 62Wirral Council invoice Tim D N Kenward 7 Harrington St Chambers 19th June 2013 Page 2 of 2 £3,660 62Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 3rd July 2013 £849.60 63Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Buildings 28th May 2013 £3,264 Page 1 of 2 64Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Buildings 28th May 2013 £3,264 Page 2 of 2 64Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings 12th July 2013 65 £1,440 65Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 12th July 2013 £552 66Wirral Council invoice Gaynor Lloyd St Johns Buildings 12th July 2013 £1822.08 67Wirral Council invoice Sharpe Pritchard 18th July 2013 £10,080 68Wirral Council invoice Joanne Jade Abraham St Johns Buildings 25th July 2013 £696 69Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Buildings 25th July 2013 page 1 of 2 £7344 70Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Buildings 25th July 2013 page 2 of 2 £7344 70Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Manning Arden Chambers 26th July 2013 £1,800 71Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Manning Arden Chambers 26th July 2013 £1,800 72Wirral Council invoice Helen Roberts Forensic Clinical Psychologist 1st August 2013 £821.10 75Wirral Council invoice Helen Roberts Forensic Clinical Psychologist 1st August 2013 £590.50 76Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 7th August 2013 £1392 77Wirral Council invoice Sara A Mann St Johns Buildings 5th August 2013 £639.36 78Wirral Council invoice Gaynor Lloyd St Johns Buildings 12th August 2013 £1822.08 79Wirral Council invoice Helen Wilson St Johns Buildings 12th August 2013 £2016 80Wirral Council invoice Ginette Fitzharris St Johns Buildings 19th August 2013 £528 81Wirral Council invoice Ginette Fitzharris St Johns Buildings 15th August 2013 £511.68 82Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings 22nd August 2013 £864 83Wirral Council invoice Helen Wilson St Johns Buildings 21st August 2013 £703.68 84Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings 4th September 2013 £576 85Wirral Council invoice Grant Thornton UK LLP 12th September 2013 £63504 86Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 11th September 2013 £687.36 87Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Buildings 11th September 2013 £1992 88Wirral Council invoice Jennifer Lesley Scully St Johns Buildings 16th September 2013 Page 1 of 2 £1296 89Wirral Council invoice Jennifer Lesley Scully St Johns Buildings 16th September 2013 Page 2 of 2 £1296 89Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 16th September 2013 £1230.72 90Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 17th September 2013 £655.68 91Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 25th September 2013 £561.60 92Wirral Council invoice Paul Burns Exchange Chambers 23rd September 2013 £930 93Wirral Council invoice Jennifer Lesley Scully St Johns Buildings 30th September 2013 £720 94Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings 2nd October 2013 £912 95Wirral Council invoice Benjamin William Jones St Johns Buildings 1st October 2013 £900 96Wirral Council invoice Ginette Fitzharris St Johns Buildings 7th October 2013 £511.68 97Wirral Council invoice Kate Burnell St Johns Buildings 10th October 2013 £1248 98Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 14th October 2013 £720 99Wirral Council invoice Cater Walsh Media Services Ltd 25th October 2013 £528 100Wirral Council invoice Sara A Mann St Johns Buildings 21st October 2013 £831.36 101Wirral Council invoice Ginette Fitzharris St Johns Buildings 21st October 2013 £576 102Wirral Council invoice Ginette Fitzharris St Johns Buildings 21st October 2013 £753.60 103Wirral Council invoice Helen Wilson St Johns Buildings 30th October 2013 £3235.20 104Wirral Council invoice Kate Burnell St Johns Buildings 30th October 2013 £1113.60 105Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 31st October 2013 £1128 106Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 30th October 2013 £528 107Wirral Council invoice Mark Senior St Johns Buildings 1st November 2013 £864 108Wirral Council invoice Jennifer Lesley Scully St Johns Buildings 11th November 2013 £993.60 109Wirral Council invoice Susan Edwards St Johns Buildings 8th November 2013 £591.36 110Wirral Council invoice David V Glasgow 30th October 2013 £740.37 111Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 13th November 2013 £576 112Wirral Council invoice Helen Wilson St Johns Buildings 18th November 2013 £753.60 113Wirral Council invoice Christine Johnson Atlantic Chambers 22nd November 2013 £2940 114Wirral Council invoice Paul Burns Exchange Chambers 22nd November 2013 Page 1 of 2 £4210 115Wirral Council invoice Paul Burns Exchange Chambers 22nd November 2013 Page 2 of 2 £4210 115Wirral Council invoice Susan Edwards St Johns Buildings 25th November 2013 £696 116Wirral Council invoice Robin Hopkins kbw 12th November 2013 £1872 117Wirral Council invoice Wilkin Chapman LLP 16th October 2013 £1598.40 118Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 21st November 2013 £576 119Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 26th November 2013 £1272 120Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 11th December 2013 Page 1 of 2 £3473.28 121Wirral Council invoice Jonathan Taylor St Johns Buildings 11th December 2013 Page 2 of 2 £3473.28 121Wirral Council invoice Mark Senior St Johns Buildings 3rd December 2013 £2399.04 122Wirral Council invoice Mark Senior St Johns Buildings 4th December 2013 £672 123Wirral Council invoice Susan Edwards St Johns Buildings 27th November 2013 £504 124Wirral Council invoice Grant Thornton UK LLP 12th December 2013 £51120 125Wirral Council invoice Ruth Stockley Kings Chambers 19th November 2013 £607.50 126Wirral Council invoice Cerys Williams St Johns Buildings 7th January 2014 £528 127Wirral Council invoice Jennifer Lesley Scully St Johns Buildings 8th January 2014 Page 1 of 3 £5096.64 128Wirral Council invoice Jennifer Lesley Scully St Johns Buildings 8th January 2014 Page 2 of 3 £5096.64 128Wirral Council invoice Jennifer Lesley Scully St Johns Buildings 8th January 2014 Page 3 of 3 £5096.64 128Wirral Council invoice Nigel Lawrence 7 Harrington Street Chambers 11th December 2013 £27185.90 129Wirral Council invoice Tim D N Kenward 7 Harrington Street Chambers 7th January 2014 £2220 130Wirral Council invoice Grant Thornton UK LLP 11th December 2013 £63504 131Wirral Council invoice Damien Sanders St Johns Buildings 15th January 2014 £600 132Wirral Council invoice Leona Harrison St Johns Buildings 15th January 2014 £1536 133Wirral Council invoice Michael J Kennedy St Johns Buildings 15th January 2014 £672 134Wirral Council invoice Catherine Rimmer St Johns Buildings 20th January 2014 £720 135Wirral Council invoice Helen Wilson St Johns Buildings 21st January 2014 £912 136Wirral Council invoice Joanne Jade Abraham St Johns Buildings 17th January 2014 £951.36 137Wirral Council invoice James Gatenby St Johns Buildings 20th January 2014 £607.68 138Wirral Council invoice Helen Wilson St Johns Buildings 23rd January 2014 £816 139Wirral Council invoice Joanne Jade Abraham St Johns Buildings 23rd January 2014 £696 140Wirral Council invoice Anthony Gill Kings Chambers 28th January 2014 £1860 141Wirral Council invoice Sweet & Maxwell Ltd 2nd January 2014 £1041.60 142Wirral Council invoice Andrew Haggis St Johns Buildings 14th February 2014 £720 143Wirral Council invoice Kate Burnell St Johns Buildings 18th February 2014 £511.68 144Wirral Council invoice Peta M L Harrison St Johns Buildings 18th February 2014 £888 145Wirral Council invoice Weightmans LLP 25th February 2014 £1360.80 146Wirral Council invoice Damien Sanders St Johns Buildings 26th February 2014 £528 147Wirral Council invoice Paul Burns Exchange Chambers 19th February 2014 Page 1 of 3 £1120 148Wirral Council invoice Paul Burns Exchange Chambers 19th February 2014 Page 2 of 3 £1120 148Wirral Council invoice Paul Burns Exchange Chambers 19th February 2014 Page 3 of 3 £1120 148Wirral Council invoice Robin Hopkins KBW 10th February 2014 £1008 149Wirral Council invoice Joanne Jade Abraham St Johns Buildings 5th March 2014 £543.36 150Wirral Council invoice Weightmans LLP 30th January 2014 £4982.40 151Wirral Council invoice Lexis Nexis Butterworths 3rd March 2014 £1659 152Wirral Council invoice Mark Senior St Johns Buildings 10th March 2014 £528 153Wirral Council invoice Mark Senior St Johns Buildings 10th March 2014 £600 154Wirral Council invoice Sharpe Pritchard 31st January 2014 £6468 155Wirral Council invoice Cerys Williams St Johns Buildings 13th March 2014 £816 156Wirral Council invoice Mark Senior St Johns Buildings 18th March 2014 Page 1 of 2 £1296 157Wirral Council invoice Mark Senior St Johns Buildings 18th March 2014 Page 2 of 2 £1296 157
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