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29.06.18
An expectation of privacy in a spent conviction? XKF provides some practical guidance
In the case of XKF v BBC [2018] EWHC 1560 (QB), Mrs Justice Elisabeth Laing granted a privacy injunction to a former police officer, anonymised in these proceedings as XKF, to prevent the BBC from broadcasting film footage of him recorded at or near his home on 13 March 2018. Facts In July 2003, XKF…
Read more27.11.16
Surgeon's manslaughter conviction quashed by Court of Appeal
In Sellu v The Crown [2016] EWCA Crim 1716 the Court of Appeal have quashed the conviction of consultant surgeon David Sellu for gross negligence manslaughter after finding that it was unsafe. Mr Sellu, 69, was convicted on a 10-2 jury majority in the Old Bailey in 2013 after James Hughes died whilst in his…
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