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Traders work on the floor of the London Metal Exchange in London, Britain, September 27, 2018. Both explicitly allow for the cancellation of trades "in exceptional cases", which would be a fair description of last year's nickel market meltdown and the resulting threat of multiple member defaults. This is a case of "knowing one when you see one" or "the elephant test" in legal precedent, the judges said. Nor would it have affected Chamberlain's assessment that nickel trading had become irrational and disorderly on the morning of March 8. LME trading has been transformed by the crisis in the form of permanent caps on time-spreads and limits on intraday price movements.

Persons: Simon Dawson, Elliott, Jonathan Swift, Robert Bright, Matthew Chamberlain, Jane Street, Chamberlain, China's, Xiang Guangda, Oliver Wyman, Tsingshan, Barbara Lewis Organizations: London Metal Exchange, REUTERS, London High, Elliott Associates, Jane, Global Trading, Financial, Authority, China's Tsingshan, Reuters, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, U.S

☆ Expansion to London clean-air zone to go ahead after court rejects challenge
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Five affected Conservative-led local authorities argued the decision to expand ULEZ was unlawful, but their legal challenge was rejected on Friday. "This landmark decision is good news as it means we can proceed with cleaning up the air in outer London," Khan said in a statement following the ruling. Britain's green agenda has been in focus over the past week after the governing Conservative Party won an election in former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's old seat just outside central London, in part by attacking the ULEZ expansion. Judge Jonathan Swift rejected all three grounds of challenge to the expansion of ULEZ, including that the public consultation on the proposed expansion was unlawful. ($1 = 0.7809 pounds)Reporting by Sam Tobin, Editing by Kylie MacLellan and Tomasz JanowskiOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Sadiq Khan, Khan, Boris Johnson's, Keir Starmer, Conservative – Johnson, Jonathan Swift, Sam Tobin, Kylie MacLellan, Tomasz Janowski Organizations: London's Labour, Conservative, Transport, Conservative Party, Labour Party's, London, Thomson Locations: British, Greater London, leafier, London

☆ Julian Assange loses latest bid to stop extradition to the U.S. on spying charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A British judge has rejected the latest attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to fight extradition to the United States to face spying charges. High Court justice Jonathan Swift said a new appeal would simply "re-run" arguments that Assange's lawyers had already made and lost. Assange is seeking to halt extradition by obtaining a new court hearing on parts of his case that were dismissed by the first judge. Assange's wife, Stella Assange, said the WikiLeaks founder would make a new appeal attempt at a High Court hearing on Tuesday. Sweden dropped the sex crimes investigations in November 2019 because so much time had elapsed, but British judges have kept Assange in prison pending the outcome of the U.S. extradition case.

Persons: Julian Assange, Jonathan Swift, Assange, Assange wouldn't, Swift, Assange's, Stella Assange, Julian Organizations: British, WikiLeaks, European, of Human, Twitter, Ecuadorian Embassy Locations: United States, U.S, British, Australia, Britain's, London's, Ecuadorian, London, Sweden

☆ Trump asks for mistrial in E. Jean Carroll rape defamation trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Author E. Jean Carroll arrives to federal court in New York, US, on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. The trial of a civil suit by Carroll, who claims Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, is set to start today. Former President Donald Trump on Monday asked for a mistrial in writer E. Jean Carroll's civil rape and defamation case, accusing the judge of making "pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings" against him. The request came after Carroll said Trump "raped me" and "shattered my reputation" over two days of testimony in the trial, which began last week. Before Carroll first began testifying last Wednesday, Kaplan warned Trump's lawyer about the former president's posts.

☆ Biafran separatist leader's brother loses London court challenge against UK
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - Jailed Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu's family lost a legal challenge against the British government in a London court on Thursday over his continuing detention in Nigeria. Kingsley Kanu's lawyers argued that the Foreign Office should reach a concluded view on whether his brother was the victim of extraordinary rendition in order to properly assess what steps to take to assist Kanu. Nigeria's Court of Appeal also dropped seven terrorism charges against Kanu, who remains in detention pending an appeal against that decision by the Nigerian government. Britain's Foreign Office and Kingsley Kanu's lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Authorities view IPOB as a terrorist group and banned it in 2017.

LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - The founder of collapsed private equity company Abraaj Group on Wednesday lost a bid to challenge his extradition from London to the United States to face fraud charges. Judge Jonathan Swift on Wednesday refused Naqvi permission to bring a judicial review against the 2021 approval of his extradition to the United States. Naqvi also suffers from severe depression and there is a “real risk” of suicide if he is extradited, Fitzgerald argued. The judge also said that Naqvi’s suicide risk could be adequately managed if he was held in prison. Naqvi’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

☆ London court allows appeal over UK's Rwanda migrant plan
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - London’s High Court on Monday granted permission to a group of asylum seekers to appeal against a ruling that Britain’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda is lawful. Judges Clive Lewis and Jonathan Swift allowed a bid to take a legal challenge over Britain’s policy to the Court of Appeal. Last month, the High Court ruled that it was lawful for Britain to make arrangements with the Rwandan government to send asylum seekers to the country, but upheld legal challenges brought by eight individual asylum seekers. Several asylum seekers were granted permission to appeal on various grounds, including that the High Court was wrong to decide the Rwanda removal policy was not "systemically unfair". Permission was also granted in relation to whether Britain’s interior ministry, the Home Office, was entitled to rely on assurances given by Rwanda about conditions for asylum seekers who are sent to the country.

Announcing the court's decision, judges Clive Lewis and Jonathan Swift said it was lawful for Britain to make arrangements with the Rwanda government to send asylum seekers to the country for their asylum claims to be determined there. "The (British) government has made arrangements with the government of Rwanda which are intended to ensure that asylum claims of people relocated to Rwanda are properly determined there," the judges said. "In those circumstances, the relocation of asylum seekers to Rwanda is consistent with the Refugee Convention and with the statutory and other legal obligations on the government." Lawyers representing asylum seekers – from Syria, Iraq and Iran, as well as Albania and Vietnam – challenged the Rwanda policy at a hearing this year, alongside campaign groups Detention Action, Care4Calais and Asylum Aid. "The court has made it very clear that the (Home Secretary's) approach to individual decisions has been unlawful and they need to review that."

Under a deal struck in April, Britain aims to send tens of thousands of migrants who arrive on its shores illegally more than 4,000 miles (6,4000 km) to Rwanda. Britain says the Rwanda deportation strategy will help deter migrants from making the perilous trip across the Channel, and will smash the business model of people-smuggling networks. Supporters of the Rwanda deal say that sending migrants to the country will reduce overcrowding in processing centers and give genuine refugees a home. Under the agreement with Rwanda, anyone judged to have entered Britain illegally is eligible for deportation, with the exception of unaccompanied minors. Deportees granted protection by Rwanda's government would be eligible to live there but would not be permitted to return to Britain.

☆ This man's job application was 'unignorable.' He put QR codes on every car in a company's car park — and got hired.
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-27 | by ( Stephen Jones | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jonathan Swift printed leaflets with a QR code to his LinkedIn and left them on a recruiter's car. He said that he wanted to make sure that recruiters at Instantprint saw his job application. Hiring manager Craig Wassell said his application was "unignorable" and offered him a job. Having initially applied for the role of marketing executive online, he wanted to make sure that his application was seen. His advice for anyone who wants their job application to stand out is to "think outside the box."

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