‘The Post Office’s use of two former senior judges in its defence of the sub-postmaster prosecutions indicates the need for guidance or regulation on what judges do in retirement, it has been argued.’
Legal Futures, 19th June 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Ms UO and her 3 children, aged 11, 5 and 3, were homeless and had applied to LB Redbridge. The family had NASS accommodation in the Tottenham area since 2021, after NASS accommodation in Croydon and West Ham from 2019. Ms UO’s elder children were enrolled in school in Tottenham and the youngest in the nursery attached to the school. MS UO had connections in Redbridge herself. Following Ms UO’s grant of asylum in 2022, the NASS accommodation ceased. She applied to Redbridge. The application stressed how important the children’s school was to them. She then did not hear anything from Redbridge until the day before her eviction from the NASS accommodation.’
Nearly Legal, 18th June 2023
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Most Family Court orders have some sort of confidentiality warning on them these days, especially in cases about children. Typically they warn that the names of the children and family members must not be published.’
Transparency Project, 18th June 2023
Source: transparencyproject.org.uk
‘Three-quarters of magistrates courts in England and Wales are inadequately accessible for people with disabilities, with a lack of ramps, inaccessible toilets and non-functioning hearing loops all featuring as failings.’
The Guardian, 19th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Legal regulators and the courts may need to control “whether and in what circumstances and for what purposes” lawyers can use artificial intelligence (AI) systems like ChatGPT in litigation, the Master of the Rolls has said.’
Legal Futures, 19th June 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Online safety experts will struggle to sound the alarm about harmful content if landmark legislation does not allow independent researchers to access data from social media platforms, campaigners have warned.’
The Guardian, 19th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The London Borough of Harrow left a family in unsuitable temporary accommodation, which “did not meet the needs of the claimant’s severely disabled daughter”, for almost a year, a court has found.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th June 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘After a distressing and controversial case in which a woman was jailed after taking abortion pills after the UK time limit, is it time to change the law?’
The Guardian, 15th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has secured agreements from Sainsbury’s and Asda to stop using unlawful anti-competitive land agreements that prevent competitors from establishing stores near to their own supermarkets.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th June 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A man has appeared at crown court charged with the murder of a married couple in East Sussex.’
BBC News, 14th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A gambler was making as many as 100 bets a day online and had previously accumulated £18,000 in debts before he took his own life, the first inquest of its kind has heard.’
The Guardian, 14th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The role of Lord Chancellor is “at risk of being downgraded” because the operation of the courts is now “only a very small part” of what the office-holder does, the Lord Chief Justice (LCJ) has warned.’
Legal Futures, 15th June 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The appellants are road hauliers based in Poland. The respondents are part of a group of companies that buy and sell tobacco products internationally. The respondents contracted the appellants to transport a consignment of cigarettes from Poland to England. The road carriage was undertaken subject to the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road 1956 (the “CMR”), an international treaty which widely governs international transport by road and has the force of law in the UK under domestic legislation. Under a European excise duty suspension arrangement, excise duty on the cigarettes was suspended until such time as the consignment was released for commercial consumption, or was deemed to have been released for commercial consumption, as in the case of non-delivery or partial delivery due to theft.’
UKSC Blog, 14th June 2023
Source: ukscblog.com
‘Synthetic embryos sit at a unique juxtaposition: scientifically fascinating, ethically challenging and, for the most part, entirely unregulated by current legislation. The latest work by Prof Magdalena Żernicka-Goetz’s team brings these issues into stark relief and show that developments in this field are happening so quickly that the science is rapidly outpacing the law.’
The Guardian, 14th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A football fan has been banned from attending football matches for three years after being found guilty of mocking the Hillsborough disaster.’
BBC News, 13th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The recent judgment Re Streatham Cemetery [2023] ECC Swk 3 concerns cemetery development. Opened more than one hundred years ago, there is now very little room in Streatham Cemetery for further burials. A Petition by the Bereavement Services Manager of Lambeth LBC[1] sought permission to re-use land within two areas of the cemetery through the operation of “lifting and deepening” of existing interments, thereby creating new burial space. The observations of Petchey Ch., (above and at [16]), indicate some of the issues to be addressed on the growing shortage of burial space.’
Law & Religion UK, 14th June 2023
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘An ad campaign by Anglian Water extolling how it cleans water by creating wildlife-friendly wetlands has been banned for not telling consumers about its history of releasing sewage into the environment.’
The Guardian, 13th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Robert Kellar KC in conversation with Victoria Waters, library learning advisor at the Bristol campus of the University of Law.’
Law Pod UK, 12th June 2023
Source: audioboom.com
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