‘A watchdog has criticised the Met Police for being slow to learn lessons from a damning review of its probe into a Westminster paedophile ring.’
BBC News, 13th March 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Six officers including the former assistant chief constable of Greater Manchester police will be investigated for misconduct following an inquiry into the death of a man shot by armed police.’
The Guardian, 12th March 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Online betting firm Betway has been hit with a record penalty of £11.6m for failings over customer protection and money-laundering checks.’
BBC news, 12th March 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A prison in London has shown a “lacklustre” response to self-inflicted deaths despite major warnings that it must improve and widespread concerns over failures across the penal estate to respond to inmate suicides.’
The Independent, 12th March 2020
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘R (on the application of Christie Elan-Cane) v Secretary of State for the Home Department with Human Rights Watch intervening [2020] EWCA Civ 363. When we apply for a passport, we are generally asked to state on the form whether we are a man or a woman, and this is generally reflected in our passports. However, in our modern day and age, there are now more than two genders – some people can choose to define as gender neutral, essentially meaning that they don’t like to describe themselves using the normal terms of “man” or “woman”. MX Elan-Cane is one of those individuals. They sued the Home Office because there was no “X” (as in, no gender neutral) option on the passport form as it was a breach of their Human Rights. The High Court said that yes, this engaged Article 8 of the Human Rights Convention (the right to private and family life), but the current passport policy did not breach that right. The Court of Appeal agreed with the High Court, both that this engaged Article 8, but that the rights to a private life were not breached here.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th March 2020
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A Court of Appeal judge has criticised the way a case was brought that sought to challenge a ruling over a development in Wakefield.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th March 2020
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘An email blocked by a firewall at the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) did not constitute valid service of an appeal, a judge has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 12th March 2020
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Where a client owns or plans on owning a property jointly with someone else, there are a number of things that should be considered.’
Family Law, 11th March 2020
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘In this article, we look at the recent decision in the ongoing and highly publicised divorce case of Akhmedova v Akhmedov. This decision is the latest in a long run of enforcement cases brought by the wife against her former husband, who, in 2016, was ordered to pay her one of the largest reported financial settlements in England. While the judge was critical of the husband’s reorganisation of his assets to put and keep them beyond the wife’s reach, this is not the end of the road for this case. This judgment is simply another stepping-stone towards the wife realising the award she is entitled to.’
Family Law, 11th March 2020
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The Commercial Court is cracking down on excessively long witness statements, introducing a new set of rules for documents more than 30 pages long.’
Law Society's Gazette, 11th March 2020
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Three drug dealers who brutally tortured and murdered a man have been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 11th March 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Indecent images of children could not be used as evidence because they were in a police commissioner’s safe.’
BBC News, 12th March 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘No further action will be taken against a man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in relation to the plane crash that killed footballer Emiliano Sala, police have said.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th March 2020
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The grime artist Andy Anokye, who performs as Solo 45, has been found guilty of subjecting four women to a horrifying campaign of rape.’
The Guardian, 11th March 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A fraudster faked a dead man’s membership card to use as a “passport to a prestigious world” and get the best seats at Lord’s cricket ground.’
BBC News, 11th March 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who manufactured high explosives at home and triggered blasts remotely has been cleared of the most serious charges by the supreme court after pleading that it was for his “personal experimentation” and “private education”.’
The Guardian, 11th March 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
The Addition of Vitamins, Minerals and Other Substances (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 2020
The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Estimates and Accounts) Order 2020
The Value Added Tax (Drugs and Medicines) Order 2020
The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Administration) Regulations 2020
The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) Regulations 2020
The Road Vehicles (Defeat Devices, Fuel Economy and Type-Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
The Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 2) (England) Order 2020
The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Supreme Court
Copeland, R. v [2020] UKSC 8 (11 March 2020)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Taylor v Rhino Overseas Inc. [2020] EWCA Civ 353 (10 March 2020)
Husson v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 329 (10 March 2020)
The Competition And Markets Authority v Flynn Pharma Ltd & Anor [2020] EWCA Civ 339 (10 March 2020)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Court (Chancery Division)
Bilta (UK) Ltd & Ors v Natwest Markets Plc & Anor [2020] EWHC 546 (Ch) (10 March 2020)
Various Claimants v MGN Ltd [2020] EWHC 553 (Ch) (10 March 2020)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Damoco (Bermuda) Ltd & Ors v Atlanta Bidco Ltd [2020] EWHC 501 (Comm) (10 March 2020)
High Court (Patents Court)
Geofabrics Ltd v Fiberweb Geosynthetics Ltd [2020] EWHC 444 (Pat) (05 March 2020)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘R (on the application of Jalloh (formerly Jollah)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 4.In a pithy parting shot to the Home Secretary, Lady Hale has given the unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court on the question of whether a person subject to a home curfew under immigration powers had been falsely imprisoned at common law and whether that concept should now be aligned with the concept of deprivation of liberty in article 5 of the ECHR. The Court decided the case against the defendant, as did every court below (the Blog covered the Court of Appeal’s decision here). The defendant had been required to pay the claimant £4,000.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th March 2020
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A man has been sentenced after CCTV caught him purposely banging his knee five times on a paving stone in order to make a fake injury claim against a housing association.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th March 2020
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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