The pending Chancery Division battle between Johnny Rossall, one-time member of Gary Glitter's original Glitter Band, and his former colleagues who still run the group, ended in the High Court. Rossall appeared before Mr Justice Jacob on 6 February 1997 and, after admitting he had breached a 1984 ban on him using the word 'glitter' in the name of any musical beat/group he was associated with, he was given a 12-month jail sentence, suspended on condition he now complies with the 1984 court order.
Surveillance prompts Commons debate
VETERAN Labour MP Tam Dalyell has tabled a parliamentary question to probe the extent to which lawyers are subjected to surveillance while interviewing defendants in prisons. Dalyell agreed to table the question following an approach by the criminal barrister Jonathan Goldberg QC, head of chambers at Three Temple Gardens, who has discovered that interviews between […]