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Watch UK Court Proceedings Online

Post author By Dom Watts
Post date 1st September 2025
Categories In Civil Justice, Criminal Justice, Judiciary, Legal Professionals

The latest cases in the Crown Court and Court of Appeal are available on the Sky News Courts YouTube channel. These videos are a real opportunity to see justice in action.

Section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 (CJA 1925) makes it an offence to take any photograph, make or attempt to make any portrait or sketch of a justice or a witness in, or a party to, any proceedings before the court, either in the courtroom or its precincts.

The Crimes and Courts Act 2013 allows the ban to be disapplied in certain circumstances by secondary legislation. For instance, the Court of Appeal and Competition Appeal Tribunal can broadcast proceedings. The Crown court can broadcast sentencing remarks. The Supreme Court is excluded from the two bans because cases heard by the UK’s highest court, which was established in 2009, would have previously been heard in the House of Lords where broadcasting was allowed.

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Hospital order for Afghan refugee who killed dog walker

An Afghan refugee who fatally stabbed a man walking his dog in a random attack was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.

Uber driver Dawood Safi, 28, attacked his landlord Shahzad ...Farrukh with a knife before going on to kill Wayne Broadhurst, 49, in Uxbridge in October 2025.

A 14-year-old boy was also injured after he was caught up in the rampage that started at Safi's home in Midhurst Gardens.

Mr Broadhurst, who worked as a street sweeper for Ealing Council, was walking his dog Harry when he was stabbed 14 times in the head, neck, chest, and back by Safi.

Safi was originally charged with murder, but prosecutors accepted a guilty plea to a lesser charge of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility after psychiatric evidence showed he was suffering from delusions and psychosis.

He also admitted causing actual bodily harm to the teenager and possessing an offensive weapon. He was convicted of the attempted murder of Mr Farrukh following a trial at Southwark Crown Court.

Mrs Justice Cutts ordered Safi be held indefinitely in a secure hospital to receive mental health treatment, after finding he was "in a psychotic state" at the time of the stabbings.

The judge also recommended he be deported, saying his "continued presence in the UK is to its detriment", but added the final decision lies with the Home Secretary.

This video has been edited to comply with reporting restrictions.

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Hospital order for Afghan refugee who killed dog walker

An Afghan refugee who fatally stabbed a man walking his dog in a ...

Burglar who killed pensioner jailed for 18 years

A burglar who killed a pensioner as he tried to protect his ...

A burglar who killed a pensioner as he tried to protect his 91-year-old wife was jailed for 18 years.

Retired plumber John Burke, 86, was assaulted in the home he shared ...with his wife Peggy during a burglary in east London in September 2025.

He was taken to hospital, and discharged a few hours later, but died at home the next day.

Ashley Malcolm, 40, of Hackney, had headbutted him when he was challenged during the break in.

Within hours of burgling the elderly couple, Malcolm broke into a care home and attempted to burgle another flat while the occupants were at home.

Doctors at the nearby Homerton Hospital had failed to spot that Mr Burke had bleeding on the brain and a broken nose when they discharged him after carrying out tests.

The following morning, his son Sean found him unconscious on the floor of his bedroom, and further tests at the hospital confirmed he had sustained a "devastating and irreversible" brain injury from which he died, as well as multiple areas of bruising and a broken nose.

Malcolm admitted burgling Mr Burke's home, along with another burglary, an attempted burglary and possession of cocaine.

He denied murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter part-way through his trial.

Passing sentence at the Old Bailey, Judge Simon Mayo KC said Malcolm broke into the home of "two elderly and vulnerable" people and the burglary took place over a "prolonged period".

"During the course of that burglary you headbutted Mr Burke," he said. "That headbutt fractured his nose and caused intercranial bleeding, and he died as a consequence."

Handing him a 23-year sentence made up of 18 years in jail and five on extended licence, Judge Mayo said he had "decided to reflect all your offending in the sentence I impose for the manslaughter of John Burke".

The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-ashley-malcolm/

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Gang boss targeted in restaurant shooting jailed over murder plot

A gang boss who was the intended target of a shooting in which a ...

A gang boss who was the intended target of a shooting in which a nine-year-old girl was hit in the head by a stray bullet was jailed for life for ...plotting a separate gun attack a year later.

Beytullah Gunduz, 40, had been sitting in the Evin Restaurant, Dalston, minutes before gunmen opened fire outside in May 2024, leaving the girl with a serious head wound.

Gunduz, a senior member of the Hackney Turks gang, was found guilty of conspiring to murder Onur Guzel, who was shot outside his family's restaurant, also in Dalston, in June 2025.

Gunduz refused to attend his sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey, where he was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 20 years.

The court heard both shootings were part of a violent feud between Gunduz's gang and a rival group, the Tottenham Turks.

According to police, the dispute between the Tottenham Turks and Hackney Turks originated from a snooker club fight in 2009.

In the first case, Javon Riley, 33, the spotter and getaway driver in the May 2024 attack, was jailed for life last year with a minimum term of 34 years for causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the girl and attempting to murder three men.

Guzel, 38, whose family runs the Umut 2000 restaurant, had been caught up in the feud for months before he was shot.

In November 2024, his brother was sent a text demanding £100,000, alongside a picture of a gun, jurors heard.

In April 2025, gunmen targeting his brother's home went to the wrong address and fired through a neighbour's door.

Two days later, five shots were fired at the empty restaurant at around 2am. Guzel told the court both attacks were blamed on the Tottenham Turks.

After the family went to the police, the demand rose to £300,000 and his sister-in-law was sent a text warning of another shooting.

Before Guzel was shot, the Hackney Turks had also accused his family of paying the Tottenham Turks £100,000 and demanded the same sum for themselves. Guzel said his family had never paid money to any gang.

On 20 June 2025, he was on a break from work, talking to his wife on the phone at about 22:00, when he heard a loud bang, then lifted his shirt and saw blood on his lower abdomen. Two police officers gave first aid before he was taken to hospital.

The Recorder of London, Judge Mark Lucraft KC said Guzel had been left with injuries that were "permanent" and "irreversible".

The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-beytullah-gunduz/

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Jail for ex-cop who asked for intimate video of female suspect

A former police sergeant who asked a colleague to send him an intimate ...

A former police sergeant who asked a colleague to send him an intimate video of a suspect was jailed for four years.

Paul Street, 41, was sentenced at the Old Bailey ...after he was found guilty of two counts of misconduct in a public office following a trial.

The former Cambridgeshire Constabulary officer, who fostered a "toxic" WhatsApp culture among his team, appeared in television crime shows on the BBC and Channel 4, and was known for getting "impressive results" through his "robust" style.

Street, from Huntingdon, headed the southern Neighbourhood Impact Team from Cambourne police station in Cambridgeshire, mainly dealing with county lines drug supply and organised crime.

The officer, who quit the force in 2024, encouraged colleagues to bully a teenage detainee and asked a workmate to send him a sex video of a female suspect.

Anti-corruption officers uncovered Street's two WhatsApp groups in 2021 after a new officer reported him.

In messages investigators found on his phone, he encouraged using violence against the boy, 17, including "smash his little head in".

He also filmed and shared a video of himself using offensive language and making threats that were intended to be shown to the child.

He was convicted of MIPO for those actions and an incident where Street's colleague, PC Josh Williams, was accessing the contents of a suspected drug dealer's phone and told Street she was "quite fit".

The woman had warned the arresting officers that there were private, intimate photos on her phone because she wanted to ensure they were not shared.

In October 2020, Williams, 38, also from Huntingdon, messaged Street to tell him about the phone's content. Street asked Williams if there were "any nudes?".

The WhatsApp exchange indicated that Williams took a photo of the woman's camera roll showing numerous images of her in underwear and forwarded this to Street.

Williams also told him about an intimate video on the phone and, six months later, Street messaged Williams asking if he still had the video so he could "show the lads from footy", although there was no evidence the video was shared.

Williams, who was dismissed after pleading guilty to misconduct in a public office and was jailed for 16 months.

Street previously admitted two offences of unlawful disclosure of personal data.

Passing sentence, the Recorder of London, Judge Mark Lucraft KC, said many thousands of officers would be "utterly horrified" by the defendants' actions and attitude, which were "both appalling and inexplicable".

This video has been edited to remove extreme language.

The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-paul-street-and-joshua-williams/

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Honeytrap thieves jailed for killing men they had drugged

A couple who drugged men seeking sexual services in order to steal ...

A couple who drugged men seeking sexual services in order to steal from them were jailed for killing two men and poisoning others.

Adina Mihai and Madalin Dumitru admitted the manslaughter ...of Gary Mouat, 37, from Oxfordshire, and Malcolm King, 80, from Gloucestershire, in 2025 and 2024 respectively.

The pair also each admitted two further counts of administering poison to two surviving victims.

Mihai, 31, and Dumitru, 30, were both sentenced to 17 years in prison at Oxford Crown Court.

Mihai, who posed as a sex worker, and her partner Dumitru, arranged to meet men paying for services she had advertised online at their homes.

The court heard four had their alcoholic drinks spiked with the powerful sedative gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) so the pair could steal from them.

Two men died as a result, while two others survived.

Sentencing, Mrs Justice Brunner said the amount of GBL, commonly referred to as a date rape drug, given to the pair's victims was "haphazard".

She told them: "If you had stopped for a moment to consider the risks, as you should have done, you would have realised that you were creating a high risk of serious injury or death every time you administered that drug.

"If you had done the most cursory research you would know that GBL can be extremely toxic."

The judge added: "You left each victim alone in a state of deep unconsciousness, and a moment's thought could and should have led to the realisation that they might never come round."

The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-adina-mihai-and-madalin-dumitru/

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Double killer and serial sex offender gets whole life order

A serial sex offender was handed a whole life order for the murder of ...

A serial sex offender was handed a whole life order for the murder of two women and the violent rape of a third.

Simon Levy, 40, will spend the rest of ...his life behind bars with no opportunity of parole.

Passing sentence, Judge Mark Lucraft KC described Levy as someone who “ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal sexual satisfaction”.

Addressing the defendant at the Old Bailey, the judge said Levy was being sentenced for a series of attacks upon “vulnerable women”.

“You are clearly someone who ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal sexual satisfaction,” he said.

The judge added: “You are someone who appears to have a morbid fascination with sex, rape and crime.”

Levy was found guilty of murdering grandmother Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and mother-of-four Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in August that year.

He suffocated both women in sexually motivated attacks, with Ms Valencia-Trujillo found in a largely abandoned block of flats on the Aylesbury estate in south-east London, and Ms Wilkins behind a car park wall near Tottenham High Road, north London.

The killings came after he subjected a third woman to a brutal sex attack in January last year in the same car park where Ms Wilkins’ body was later found.

The surviving victim, who suffered a broken collarbone, told police at the time that she had been raped and knew where her attacker lived, but she was not formally interviewed until after Levy had killed twice.

The jury also found Levy guilty of two counts of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent and the non-fatal smothering of the third woman.

Judge Lucraft sentenced Levy to two further life sentences, with minimum terms of 12 years, for the two rapes, to be served alongside the whole-life orders.

The judge said an offence of GBH warranted a four-year jail term, and it would have been a two-and-a-half year term for intentional smothering.

However, he imposed no separate penalty for those crimes because the actions had been taken into account when deciding the sentences for the rapes.

This video has been edited to comply with reporting restrictions and to remove a disturbance in court.

The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-simon-levy/

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What is a Costs Lawyer ?

Post author By Dom Watts
Post date 17th October 2024
Categories In Civil Justice, Legal Professionals

A costs lawyer in England and Wales is a legal professional specialised in handling matters related to the costs of legal proceedings. A Costs Lawyer has the legal right to conduct costs litigation and enter the court record on all issues specified between Parts 43 and 48 of the Civil Procedure Rules. They also have Rights of Audience to attend court within costs proceedings.

The Register of Costs Lawyers includes the names of all Costs Lawyers who hold a 2024 practising certificate. It also shows the start date of their current practising certificate, their practice areas, any additional organisations in which they practice, and any disciplinary decisions or published decisions of the Legal Ombudsman.

You can Find a Costs Lawyer at the Association of Costs Lawyers (ACL). The ACL is the representative body for Costs Lawyers and promotes the interests of Costs Lawyers and lobbies on their behalf.

In order to qualify as a Costs Lawyer, you must:

have successfully completed the Costs Lawyer Qualification; and

have completed, or be currently undertaking, two years of Qualifying Experience.

The Costs Lawyer Qualification is a course of study in costs law and practice, delivered by a training provider that is accredited by the CLSB. You might be eligible for exemptions from certain aspects of the Costs Lawyer Qualification if you have completed relevant prior learning, such as a law degree or a professional training course.

Qualifying Experience is work undertaken in costs law and practice for a period of two years under the supervision of a suitably qualified person. This can be carried out before, during or after studying for the Costs Lawyer Qualification, subject to certain conditions.
How to become a Costs Lawyer – Costs Lawyer Standards Board

Role and Functionality: Costs lawyers primarily deal with the assessment, negotiation, and management of legal costs. This includes drafting bills of costs, preparing for detailed assessments where the court reviews the reasonableness and proportionality of legal costs, negotiating with opposing parties on cost issues, and advising on costs budgeting, which is crucial under the current civil procedure rules in England and Wales.
Regulation and Qualification: Costs lawyers are regulated by the Costs Lawyer Standards Board (CLSB), which sets and maintains professional conduct standards. To become a costs lawyer, one typically needs to complete the Costs Lawyer Qualification, although exemptions might apply for those with relevant qualifications or experience, including from overseas if recognized under European professional qualification rules. The CLSB regulates Costs Lawyers in England and Wales under the regulatory framework set out in the Legal Services Act 2007.
Professional Context: Unlike barristers who advocate in court or solicitors who handle a broader legal practice, costs lawyers focus narrowly on the financial aspects of legal cases. They might work independently, within law firms, or as part of specialised costs departments. Their expertise is vital in ensuring that clients receive or pay fair legal costs, which can be significant in complex litigation.

If you’re not satisfied with any aspect of the service you have received from your Costs Lawyer, the first thing to do is raise the matter with the Costs Lawyer involved, or with the firm in which they work. In many cases, an issue can be resolved by talking things through and agreeing a way forward.

Sometimes informal resolution will not solve the problem and you might want to make a more formal complaint. All Costs Lawyers are required to have effective procedures in place for the resolution of complaints. Your Costs Lawyer should have provided their complaints procedure to you at key junctures in your relationship. If you don’t have a copy of your Costs Lawyer’s complaints procedure, you can ask for it at any time.

If you want to make a formal complaint, set out in an email or letter why a problem has arisen and what you think the Costs Lawyer could do to resolve it. Refer to the Costs Lawyer’s complaints procedure and make it clear that you expect it to be followed. This way, everyone will understand that the complaint has moved beyond the informal resolution stage.
Complain about a Costs Lawyer – Costs Lawyer Standards Board

The existence of costs lawyers highlights the complexity of legal costs within the legal system of England and Wales, where costs can be a significant deterrent or incentive in pursuing or defending legal action.

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Perjury Act 1911

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The Perjury Act 1911 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that sets out the offence of perjury. Perjury is the act of giving false evidence under oath in a court of law or in any legal proceeding.

The Perjury Act 1911 provides that any person who, in any judicial proceeding, wilfully makes a false statement under oath, or produces any false document or thing, shall be guilty of perjury. The Act also sets out the punishment for perjury, which is imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.

The Act also provides for the offence of subornation of perjury, which is the act of inducing another person to commit perjury. Anyone who is found guilty of subornation of perjury can also be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.

The Perjury Act 1911 is an important piece of legislation that helps to ensure the integrity of the legal system by deterring people from giving false evidence or inducing others to do so. It is still in force today and continues to be used to prosecute those who commit perjury in legal proceedings in the United Kingdom.

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