The reporting restrictions which protected the identity of the mother of Baby Peter were lifted today after a ruling by a high court judge who said it was a necessary move to maintain public confidence in the judicial system. The decision by Mr Justice Coleridge to withdraw the protection of anonymity from Tracey Connelly and…
Pirate Bay to seek Dutch retrial
The operators of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay are to launch a legal challenge to a Dutch court order temporarily banning the site’s activities. “We will file a summons by August 25th” before the district court in Amsterdam, lawyer Ernst Louwers, acting for The Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde,…
China to expand surveillance cameras
China’s police say they have installed 2.75 million surveillance cameras since 2003 and are expanding the system into the largely neglected countryside. The cameras are the most visible components of police surveillance and notification systems installed around the country, mainly in urban areas, according to a news release posted Monday on the Public Security Ministry’s…
Jury vetting practice used in nine trials
The number of Ontario trials where prosecutors used police information to vet prospective jurors is substantially higher than the government has disclosed to date, Law Times has learned. Attorney General Chris Bentley’s department has informed nine defence lawyers in Simcoe County that Crown attorneys used the practice in past trials during which they represented defendants,…