Mr Justice Chadwick has given eight Newcastle street traders a 7 December deadline to challenge orders made by him on application from the City Council, that they move off the streets. The judge imposed bans but ruled that the orders should not become effective until 9 December in order to give the traders an opportunity to challenge them.
Russian juries here to stay, say experts
RUSSIAN law experts have rejected press reports which claim a scheme testing jury trials in the country is to be abandoned. The reports, which emerged from Moscow last week, said President Boris Yeltsin’s two-year-old experiment reintroducing juries in a handful of the country’s 89 regions had been largely unsuccessful and plans to expand the project […]