‘The Court of Appeal has handed down its long-awaited judgment in the case of Alina Budana (Appellant) v Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Respondent) & Law Society (Intervener) [2017] EWCA Civ 1980.’
Zenith PI Blog, 7th December 2017
Source: zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘The Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a council’s appeal over the quashing of the grant of planning permission for a controversial residential development in an area of outstanding natural beauty.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th December 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘In Vidal-Hall v Google [2015] EWCA Civ 311 the Court of Appeal held that damages claims under section 13 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) can be brought on the basis of distress alone, without monetary loss. Since that decision there has much speculation that a major data breach could lead to distress-based claims against the data controller by a large class of individuals. Even if each individual claim was modest (in the hundreds or low thousands of pounds) the aggregate liability could be substantial.’
Panopticon, 6th December 2017
Source: panopticonblog.com
‘Sexist criminals could get longer sentences under plans to make misogyny a type of hate crime.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th December 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Two gang members who ran a so-called “county line” drug network have been convicted of human trafficking in the first case of its kind.’
The Guardian, 6th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Essex County Council has successfully defended a judicial review challenge to the fees it proposed paying to operators of care homes.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th December 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The lack of adequate Parliamentary scrutiny when the UK negotiates trade agreements (something it has not done in its own right for many years) has come to the attention of the House of Commons International Trade Committee. This is timely given the prospect of the UK negotiating the single most important trade agreement it is likely to negotiate for a long time – its future trade agreement with the EU. The context for the Committee’s concern is its inquiry into the Trade Bill. One of the issues which the Bill addresses is the domestic implementation in the UK of those EU trade agreements which are adapted for continued application by the UK after Brexit. The Committee has asked whether Parliamentary scrutiny of ministerial rules implementing these agreements is adequate, and, more broadly, whether scrutiny of the UK signing up to these and other trade agreements, is adequate.’
Brexit Law, 6th December 2017
Source: brexit.law
‘The number of people arrested for terrorism-linked offences in Britain rose 54% to 400 in the 12 months to September in one of the most intense periods for terrorist attacks in recent British history.’
The Guardian, 7th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Laurence Soper, 74, was extradited to face 19 charges of indecent and serious sexual assault against 10 former pupils at the independent St Benedict’s School in Ealing, where he taught.’
BBC News, 6th December 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Five police officers will not face prosecution after the death of a mentally ill man in custody, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has ruled.’
BBC News, 6th December 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulations 2017
The Risk Transformation Regulations 2017
The Co-ownership Authorised Contractual Schemes (Tax) Regulations 2017
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2017
The Radio Equipment Regulations 2017
The Employment Rights Act 1996 and Pension Schemes Act 1993 (Amendment) Regulations 2017
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘Bach Commission vice-chair and former judge Sir Henry Brooke has demanded action to reverse assaults on the criminal justice system, claiming the ‘liberties of England are at risk’ because of cuts in funding.’
Law Society's Gazette, 4th December 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Payments to two footballers for early termination of fixed term contracts were taxable as termination payments and not as general earnings, even though the contracts envisaged early termination by mutual consent, the UK’s Upper Tribunal has decided, upholding an early First-Tier tribunal decision.’
OUT-LAW.com, 4th December 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The transfer of a conditional fee agreement (CFA) from one law firm to another around the time of the Jackson reforms was valid and the success fee can still be recovered from the defendant, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 5th December 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The attorney general’s office has announced an inquiry into social media messages which may identify Jon Venables.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th December 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Online service providers in the EU will not face new obligations to make their copyrighted content available to customers to access when they are visiting other EU countries after proposed new EU laws were watered down.’
OUT-LAW.com, 4th December 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A local authority has been fined £100,000 after two of its social workers were assaulted on a home visit by the mother of a vulnerable child they were visiting.’
Local Government Lawyer, December 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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