Robinson is freed, but still faces jail

GAPS in doctors’ rotas could be putting patient safety at risk, leading medics have said.

The British Medical Association (BMA) said shortfalls are putting some doctors in situations when they are forced to act above their skill level.

The majority of the 1,000 English doctors who responded to the BMA poll said they had been forced to take on the work of multiple staff. The BMA warned: “Unmanageable workloads impact on the quality of care they can offer to patients.” THE jacket worn by Harrison Ford in his role as Han Solo in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back is expected to fetch up to £1 million when it goes under the hammer.

It will be part of an auction of rare blockbuster film memorabilia, which also includes the farewell note Rose wrote for her cruel fiance in Titanic, and Marty McFly’s hoverboard from Back To The Future Part II.

Also among the 600 lots to be auctioned by Prop Store on September 20 in London will be a Stormtrooper helmet from the first Star Wars film, A New Hope, which is expected to fetch up to £60,000, as well as a similar FORMER English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson is facing a fresh hearing over an allegation that he committed contempt of court by filming people in a criminal trial and broadcasting footage on social media.

Three leading judges in London quashed a contempt finding made at Leeds Crown Court in May, and granted Robinson conditional bail from a 13-month jail sentence pending new proceedings at the Old Bailey.

Robinson was not present yesterday when the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett, Mr Justice Turner and Mrs Justice McGowan announced their decision – which was greeted with a round of applause by supporters in the packed courtroom.

The judges said a fresh hearing should be held“as soon as reasonably possible”.

They said they were satisfied the decision at Leeds to proceed to committal to prison “so promptly”, and without “due regard” to rules governing the procedure to be followed when a Crown Court deals with the conduct of a person alleged to have acted in contempt of court, “gave rise to unfairness”. Lord Burnett announced: “We allow the appeal and remit the matter to be heard helmet from the most recent film The Last Jedi, which could raise up to £50,000.

Proceeds from the hammer price of that prop will be donated to the NSPCC.

The costume worn by Johnny Depp in the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands will also go under the hammer, and is likely fetch up to £80,000. by a different judge. There is no requirement that it be heard in Leeds.

“We invite the Attorney General to nominate an advocate to appear at the fresh hearing.

“It is important that the case is presented by someone other than a judge, having taken proper steps to set out the offending conduct, by reference to the video in question.”

He said: “The appellant will be granted bail pending the rehearing. That bail will be conditional.

“We order that he is not to approach within 400 metres of Leeds Crown Court.” Lord Burnett added that the rehearing will be conducted by the Recorder of London at the Old Bailey “as soon as reasonably possible”.

The judges had been urged to overturn two contempt of court findings against Robinson, 35, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon – the one made at Leeds Crown Court and an earlier finding at Canterbury Crown Court.

At a hearing in July, his QC Jeremy Dein argued that procedural “deficiencies” had given rise to “prejudice”.

Mr Dein also submitted that the sentence was “manifestly excessive” and that “insufficient” regard had been given to personal mitigation.

Robinson was jailed in May after he filmed people involved in a criminal trial and broadcast the footage on social media.

The footage, lasting around an hour, was watched 250,000 times within hours of being posted on Facebook.

The far-right activist was given 10 months for contempt of court, which he admitted, and a further three months for breaching a previous suspended sentence.