Crown Court Resident judge critical of submissions made by 4 KC’s assisted by 4 juniors (and there were only two parties!)

“A court or tribunal is entitled to expect those who invoke the open justice principle to be open themselves” EAT declines to provides documents to remote observer saying she could have attended + citing administrative burden www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKE...

“You do not purge your contempt merely by saying "I purge my contempt". It is not like the magic words "Open sesame" to cause the doors of Ali Baba's cave to open.” www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

“there was no good reason for having a hearing in the middle of the vacation, when the parties and their lawyers (to say nothing of the judge) would probably be enjoying their summer holidays.” ☀️ www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

‘Let me talk about my partners death’ Partner and open justice campaigner resist bid by man’s family to extend anonymity after Court of Protection case over disputed living will mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/09/17/l...

Exc: London Capital & Finance solicitor to face disciplinary tribunal Robert Mannering Sedgwick, 76, is set to face SDT amid accusations he "facilitated the preparation, execution and circulation of backdated documents" mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/08/29/l...

SRA v Claire Frances Gill - Notes from the case management hearing as Carter-Ruck solicitor alleged to have "sent or arranged to be sent correspondence which contained an improper threat of litigation" mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/08/28/s...

Had to do a double take there for a minute… 👀

Judge given de-facto anonymity as Upper Tribunal finds he "might hold views about immigration that might influence his decision making on this immigrant's benefit claim" as appeal succeeds citing risk of bias www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKU...

Stratford Youth Court: Tower Hamlets Teen guilty of assaulting police officers In court the teenager sat slumped, eyes fixed on his feet. In June 2024 he had been shouting abuse, thrashing against officers and, according to them, lashing out with kicks mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/08/07/s...

Charge dropped as police no-show and 14-point-licence-holder avoids disqualification Careless driving trial cancelled after only witness, a police officer, fails to attend court, whilst man with dodgy brakes avoids ban after pleading exceptional hardship mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/08/04/c...

Interesting submission in County Court judgment about pressures of housing disrepair claims on council resources At [13] judge comments PoC “gives the appearance of being full of material designed to justify the bringing of litigation” www.bailii.org/ew/cases/Mis...

HMCTS Court and Tribunal design guide V3 Includes the colour identity palette among its 372 pages assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66be1e...

the transcript of Mr Justice Nicklin's lecture on the progress of his Open Justice Board will be publicly available. Some excellent questions from the audience. Sounds like an inspiring day

“As you are not a party to the claim. The court cannot provide documents or discuss any aspect of the claim in question” This is wholly incorrect for a civil case heard in public

"First-tier Tribunal panels are being encouraged to produce short decisions. ... I regret to say however, that in this case I found it difficult to determine what conclusions the Tribunal had reached, and why" www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKA...

"It is the subject children who sustain the scars of protracted, vituperative and intractable litigation of this kind" Hayden J also highlights "extraordinary delay" of 3 years between substantive hearing and this appeal www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

“the Court needs to take decisive action to protect the integrity of its processes against any citation of fake authority” Appeal struck out as an abuse of process as former solicitor cites fake authority www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

High Court grants non-party access to trial documents "The transparency of court proceedings is an important public interest" says HHJ Hodge KC as my resisted application for court documents is approved during insolvency trial mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/05/09/h...

Good to see @civlittweet.bsky.social featured in the top spot of today’s London Buzz www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

Amicable solution sought Self-explanatory intellectual property claim filed at High Court

Costs claimable by Litigants in Person to be "updated" to £24/hr, from £19 currently, in the summer, Civil Procedure Rule committee announce The lowest rate claimable by a trainee solicitor is currently £139/hr

Has the state breached Tommy Robinson's human rights? The High Court answers with an emphatic "no". administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/h...

FCA “deliberately and negligently” broke FOI laws, then sacked the whistleblower, Employment Tribunal told Claimant says he raised issue of “serious wrongdoing” regarding FOIA requests, and that his manager conspired to get rid of him. Claims are denied mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/03/21/f...

Transparency related Family Court appeal in the Court of Appeal today - watch on live stream www.youtube.com/channel/UCFg...

16th October 2028 The date of a 'fixed floater' 3-day-trial set by Snaresbrook Crown Court for a man said to have threatened members of the public with a machete "Wow" replied HHJ Charles Falk. "I am so sorry" he tells defendant

The court has adjourned for five minutes as a juror is suspected of napping during defence closing speech HHJ Charles Falk tells counsel "I was listening to you intently"

CPS Barrister Jessica Clarke tells jury: "You have all witnessed the delays in the Crown Court. Old technology that doesn’t really work. A huge backlog which means you have to share this court. The same issues have caused delays for D and C which are totally unacceptable"

HHJ Charles Falk tells jury there was a "delay in charging due to unfortunate communication issues between the police and CPS, and delays in bringing this matter to court due to the unprecedented backlog in the Criminal Justice System"

"Sorry, it is musical juries... There are not enough judges to deal with all the cases" HHJ Charles Falk gives jury extended lunch break as another jury have sent a note...

East London Family Court holds 'secret' public hearing A so-called committal hearing, where a dad faced up to two years in prison for allegedly breaching a non-molestation order, was not listed in public contrary to court rules. mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/03/07/e...

😳 In the WHAT court?!?

“Unfortunately, at the last gasp an application has been made by a member of the press for disclosure of the Father's name. This application will be dealt with at a further hearing but protracts the pressure of proceedings for both parents.” www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Court orders that a father can kick “trespassing” son out of family home DDJ Dray has rejected a son’s request that a possession hearing should be adjourned pending resolution of his mothers will. This was no ordinary trespass hearing… mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/02/25/c...

Court orders that a father can kick “trespassing” son out of family home DDJ Dray has rejected a son’s request that a possession hearing should be adjourned pending resolution of his mothers will. This was no ordinary trespass hearing… mouseinthecourt.co.uk/2025/02/25/c...

You can read junk for free - quality costs a lot of money to research and write, and rightly, costs money to read.

“the default position of open justice is materially strengthened [in this case]” as High Court declines to grant anonymity to man filmed by “24 hours in police custody” citing high degree of public interest www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

The criminal courts are “unacceptably delayed” causing a mother to resort to using a civil committal procedure to enforce a non-mol order. “many complainants in her position will be unable to [afford to] do so” remarked the judge [50+51] www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

Court of Appeal criticise “numerous unsatisfactory features” in “flawed” sentencing remarks described as “concise in the extreme”, which did not reference any mitigation! HHJ Dixon’s sentence of 26m immediate custody reduced to 18m suspended www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...

"the ‘cestui que account’ is a fiction. It does not exist. It was made up by some people in the United States some years ago and circulates on the Internet." Head of Legal at HMCTS responds to FOI request asking for help with mortgage #SovCit www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bill...

"I think you would be depressed, if not surprised to find out how many businesses operate exactly like this with this case being unusual in that it actually went to court" Says comment on AccountingWeb as my article discussed www.accountingweb.co.uk/any-answers/...

HHJ Hodge KC hits duo with Part 36 cost penalties: "It does seem to me there is a public interest in seeking to induce respondents to insolvency applications to compromise claims thereby saving costs and pressure on the courts"

Exc: Married couple hit by £500k bill as company funds used for "personal expenses" High Court finds husband acted unlawfully after using company dosh to pay £150k of personal expenses, and paying wife company money when he knew firm was insolvent mouseinthecourtroom.wordpress.com/2025/01/22/m...

"Before I begin, I'm suffering from a very bad cold. If anyone has to transcribe this judgment I do apologise to the transcriber" HHJ Hodge KC before handing down a 2-hour-extempre judgment earlier today

Conditions for attending a remote High court hearing now prevent "recordings or transcripts made using AI assistant or co-pilot apps" Don't tell Fordham J who uses "voice-recognition software" to transcribe his ex tempore judgments IMO this is a great use for the technology

'Don't blame the directors ... the auditors should have audited!' Litigation firm pursuing £15m claim against auditors Moore Stephens LLP denies its "case is vague, embarrassing and/or impossible for the Defendant properly to understand" #Lendy #P2P mouseinthecourtroom.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/d...

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ℹ️ Read the skeleton arguments in judge anonymity appeal case "the appeal raises an issue of fundamental constitutional significance in relation to a case which is of a high order of public interest" mouseinthecourtroom.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/s...

Start HERE for a thread of all our live-posts of the anonymous judge appeal. We will try to post in a continuous thread. We'll do our best to cover everything accurately, & to use exact words when possible but may need to summarise. The hearing starts at 10.30 today (Tues) and is listed for 2 days.

"It transpired that [the claimant] received help from a charity to bring and write the claim and used ChatGPT (a large language artificial intelligence (AI) web-based device) to write her statement and submissions, into which she added her own details" EJ Adkinson