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By Press Association 2021 Tim Crosland A lawyer and climate campaigner has accused the Supreme Court of continuing a “systemic campaign of suppression” of the environmental impact of Heathrow’s expansion, after he was fined £5,000 for contempt of court. Tim Crosland, director of environmental campaign group Plan B Earth, was found in contempt for revealing the Supreme Court’s decision on Heathrow’s third runway a day before it was made public in December. The 51-year-old lawyer, from Elephant and Castle in south London, previously described breaking the embargo as “an act of civil disobedience”, saying: “I have no choice but to protest the deep immorality of the court’s ruling.” ....
By Jemma Slingo in the Royal Courts of Justice2021-05-10T15:39:00+01:00 A barrister who broke the embargo on publication of a Tim Crosland, an unregistered barrister, appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice before Supreme Court justices Lord Lloyd Jones, Lord Hamblen and Lord Stephens in proceedings brought by the attorney general. This afternoon the court found Crosland in criminal contempt of court for deliberately disclosing the result of a Supreme Court appeal prior to hand down of the judgment . Crosland, who represented himself, said he ‘never believed’ he was breaking the law by leaking the judgment in favour of Heathrow, saying his action was ‘reasonable and proportionate’ to safeguard life. He said evidence that the Heathrow expansion would expose the public to ‘extreme danger’ had been deliverately suppressed. ‘The antidote to that suppression was the spotlight of publicity that would follow from breaking the embargo’ he said. ....
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Privy Council rules on ‘serious irregularity’ challenge in international arbitration Out-Law News | 29 Apr 2021 | 9:24 am | 4 min. read A recent decision by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Privy Council) provides authoritative guidance on what is required in order to uphold a challenge to an arbitral award on the grounds of serious irregularity. In their judgment, Lord Hamblen and Lord Burrows held that a serious irregularity challenge does not require a separate and express allegation of substantial injustice by the applicant and a separate consideration and finding of substantial injustice by the court, in order to be successful. The decision, on a referral by the Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is the first by a highest appellate court to consider the requirement of ‘irregularity causing substantial injustice’ since the 2006 House of Lords judgment in Lesotho Highlands Development Authority v Impregilo SpA ....