Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Sesay & Ors v R [2024] EWCA Crim 483 (10 May 2024)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Oculus Ltd v Revenue And Customs & Anor (Rev1) [2024] EWHC 1102 (Admin) (13 May 2024)
High Court (Chancery Division)
O’Driscoll v Clayton [2024] EWHC 1118 (Ch) (13 May 2024)
Watford Control Instruments Ltd v Brown [2024] EWHC 1125 (Ch) (13 May 2024)
McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd v Shirayama Shokusan Company Ltd [2024] EWHC 1133 (Ch) (13 May 2024)
High Court (King’s Bench Division)
RTP v Hardcrete Ltd [2024] EWHC 1123 (KB) (10 May 2024)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘While we have recently seen significant increases to minimum income and salary requirements in several immigration routes (see our recent blog posts here and here), there is one small exception to the general trend: the Government has scrapped the requirement for Partner visa applicants to show additional funds for their child dependants, with effect from 11 April 2024.’
EIN Blog, 14th May 2024
Source: www.ein.org.uk
‘The standard of care to be expected of a contractor in terms of design liability has been toughened up in the updated Design and Build contract by the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT), but the latest version has also made clear that contractors will not have fitness for purpose obligations imposed on them.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th May 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Prisoners who break the rules while behind bars face new community payback-style punishments like repair work and litter picking, under tough prison rules to be set out this week.’
Ministry of Justice, 13th May 2024
Source: www.gov.uk
‘There is “reasonable cause to suspect” that the funder of the claimant in a $1.3bn action was controlled by sanctioned Russians, the High Court has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 14th May 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has dismissed a challenge from a pupil at the Michaela Community School, a secondary school in Wembley, London, who argued that a ban on prayer in the school was a breach of the Equality Act as well as her Human Rights. There was also a related challenge to two suspensions that the pupil had received on the basis that they were not procedurally fair.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th May 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Roderick Morton examines a recent s288 challenge against the decision of an inspector to refuse permission on appeal for a material change of use of land in the Green Belt for the stationing of caravans for residential occupation.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th May 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The “non-party political” employment silk advising Labour talks to Stephanie Hayward about employer failure to tackle workplace sexual harassment and the urgent need to reinvent whistleblowing culture.’
Counsel, May 2024
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
‘Police showed a “lack of understanding” of controlling and coercive behaviour in the case of a woman who was unlawfully killed, a coroner said.
Mother-of-three Kellie Sutton, 30, was found unconscious at the home she shared with abusive partner Steven Gane in Welwyn Garden City on 23 August 2017.
In a prevention of future deaths report, external, assistant coroner Samantha Broadfoot KC said there was also “a lack of awareness of the link between domestic abuse and suicide”.’
BBC News, 14th May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who refused to pay a parking ticket because it was issued in English has lost his case against a parking company.’
BBC News, 13th May 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘MPs who have been arrested for serious violent or sexual offences face bans from the parliamentary estate under rules approved by just one vote. The House of Commons voted by 170 to 169 on Monday night to toughen up a proposal put forward by the government, which would have only applied to MPs who have been formally charged.’
The Guardian, 13th May 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Conservative party has referred itself to the data protection watchdog over an alleged data breach after it revealed hundreds of email addresses in a pitch to sign up for its annual conference.’
The Guardian, 14th May 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A mother and son have been jailed after an eight-year-old boy was seriously injured in a “savage and sustained attack” by an XL bully dog.’
The Independent, 13th May 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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