A challenge, by way of judicial review, by a young offender convicted of the murder and rape of a 14-year-old girl, to an excepting direction which discharged a reporting restriction order imposed under the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 s.45(3), was refused.
A recorder had erred in varying an order so that the identity of a young offender could be made public; he had given insufficient consideration to the public interest in the effective rehabilitation of the offender.
The Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland did not have jurisdiction to hear a purported appeal under the Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 against the lifting of reporting restrictions following a young offender’s conviction for serious sexual offences as the order had not been made on conviction as was required by s.8. The interim […]
A district judge had not erred when refusing to make an anonymity order in respect of a defendant charged with making indecent images of children as, despite the defendant having been targeted and attacked in relation to a previous allegation of indecent assault of a child, he had not demonstrated that there was a real […]
The court struck out a claim for an injunction prohibiting the publication in a local newspaper of the claimant’s name or any details which could lead to his identification in the context of the making of a sexual offences prevention order. He had really been seeking an order prohibiting publication of material that identified him […]
The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 was compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 Art.10 .
