The Guardian (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Led by Lord Bingham, the members of Britain's equivalent of the supreme court overturned what had been an earlier landmark judgment by two of their high court colleagues, Lord Justice Moses and Lord Justice Sullivan.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
The case went to the High Court, where, in April, Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Sullivan overturned the SFO's decision, saying: "We fear for the reputation of the administration of justice if it can be perverted by a threat." The campaigners were not impressed with yesterday's verdict. Nicholas Hildyard of The Corner House, said: "With the law as it is, a government...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
... that the Saudi threat was a "successful attempt by a foreign government to pervert the course of justice in the United Kingdom".Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Sullivan said the SFO and the Government made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".But Mr Sumption told the Law Lords that the High Court made several incorrect assumptions about the law and the agency's...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
... that the Saudi threat was a "successful attempt by a foreign government to pervert the course of justice in the United Kingdom." Lord Justice Moses and Justice Sullivan said then that the SFO and the Government had made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats." During hearings in the lords earlier this month Jonathan Sumption QC, for the SFO, told the judges that the...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
... that the Saudi threat was a "successful attempt by a foreign government to pervert the course of justice in the United Kingdom."Lord Justice Moses and Justice Sullivan added that the SFO and the Government had made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".Mr Sumption told the Law Lords that the High Court had made several incorrect assumptions about the law and the...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
... that the Saudi threat was a "successful attempt by a foreign government to pervert the course of justice in the United Kingdom."Lord Justice Moses and Justice Sullivan added that the SFO and the Government had made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".Mr Sumption told the Law Lords that the High Court had made several incorrect assumptions about the law and the...
icWales (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
... that the Saudi threat was a "successful attempt by a foreign government to pervert the course of justice in the United Kingdom."Lord Justice Moses and Justice Sullivan added that the SFO and the Government had made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".Mr Sumption told the Law Lords that the High Court had made several incorrect assumptions about the law and the...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
... that the Saudi threat was a "successful attempt by a foreign government to pervert the course of justice in the United Kingdom". Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Sullivan said the SFO and the Government made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".But Lord Bingham said the director was confronted by "an ugly and obviously unwelcome threat" from the Saudis and had...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
... that the Saudi threat was a "successful attempt by a foreign government to pervert the course of justice in the United Kingdom". Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Sullivan said the SFO and the Government made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".But Lord Bingham said the director was confronted by "an ugly and obviously unwelcome threat" from the Saudis and had...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Their case arises out of decisions relating to more than 2,000 retired British Army Gurkhas who have been refused rights to settle as they do not have "strong ties" with the UK.Mr Justice Sullivan, sitting in London, granted a representative group of veterans permission to apply for a judicial review of the lawfulness of a policy they claim is discriminatory.The judge ordered an urgent...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
... involved. In one of the most critical and strongly worded rulings ever made by a judge, Lord Justice Moses, sitting with Mr Justice Sullivan, ruled that a Saudi threat in 2006 to cancel a further arms deal and withdraw diplomatic co-operation was a “successful attempt by a foreign Government to pervert the course of justice in the United Kingdom”. The British Government...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
... Court ruling that the decision was unlawful and made after “blatant threats” from the Saudis. Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Sullivan ruled in April that the SFO should have continued its investigation into alleged illegal payments to members of the Saudi Royal Family. The campaigning groups Corner House Research and Campaign Against Arms Trade, which took the case to the...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Last week’s report by the House of Commons Justice Committee on the draft Constitutional Renewal Bill draws attention to an issue of fundamental importance: whether judicial review should be excluded if and when the Attorney-General stops a criminal investigation or prosecution on national security grounds. The committee rightly objected to such an unconstitutional immunity.
