‘Private Client analysis: Alex Ruck Keene, barrister, of 39 Essex Chambers, examines the decision of the Court of Protection in Re AB [2016] EWCOP 66 to approve deceiving a person lacking mental capacity in order to administer her medication.’
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Family Law, 19th April 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A judge has dismissed a claim by a law firm paralegal that he was the victim of disability discrimination, finding he had “dishonestly” altered a document about his medical condition and that, in any case, he had not told his employer about his supposed post-traumatic stress disorder.’
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Legal Futures, 18th April 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A man who killed his housemate and stabbed three members of her family has been sentenced to life in prison.’
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BBC News, 18th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Rotherham council has been ordered to apologise to a whistleblower who helped to expose the town’s grooming scandal after council officials raided her charity without proper explanation – years after she risked imprisonment by revealing how the council, police and social services turned a blind eye to the abuse of at least 1,400 children.’
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The Guardian, 18th April 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Ofcom has opened seven investigations into Russia Today, in light of the Salisbury nerve agent attack which took place in March.’
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BBC News, 18th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘I’ve represented Doreen Lawrence since her son’s murder. The attack on her by a former detective in a BBC documentary makes us feel betrayed about the Met’s attitude to racism.’
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The Guardian, 18th April 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘It’s one of the cardinal rules of court procedure: once you’ve entered the witness box and started to give evidence, you mustn’t discuss the case with anyone outside court, if there’s a break in the proceedings, until you’ve finished giving evidence.’
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Transparency Project, 15th April 2018
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘A man who said he was “riddled” with HIV and convicted of trying to infect 10 men has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years.’
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BBC News, 18th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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‘This week involves a trio of disastrous cases where things have gone wrong and judges have explained why.’
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Transparency Project, 17th April 2018
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘Major insurers in the UK must “consider a broad set of qualities and competencies” when recruiting board members, and have a policy in place to promote board diversity, under new rules that came into effect on 9 April.’
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OUT-LAW.com, 16th April 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Criminal defence lawyers in England and Wales could become “extinct”, the Law Society has warned on the back of data showing that this is an increasingly ageing part of the profession.’
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Legal Futures, 17th April 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Justice minister Lord Keen today set the stage for next week’s House of Lords debate on the Civil Liability Bill with an uncompromising message that there are “too many unmeritorious whiplash claims made each year which proceed without challenge or investigation”.’
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Legal Futures, 17th April 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A personal injury claimant who gave a “misleading impression” of his injuries was not fundamentally dishonest, the High Court has ruled.’
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Litigation Futures, 17th April 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘If you own assets in more than one jurisdiction, should you try to cover everything under one will, or should you have a separate will in each jurisdiction?’
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Family Law, 17th April 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Theresa May has said that she “deeply regrets” Britain’s historical legacy of anti-gay laws across the Commonwealth as its 53 leaders gathered in London for their annual summit.’
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The Guardian, 17th April 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A woman who controlled her partner’s life, scalding him with boiling water and stabbing him, has been jailed.’
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BBC News, 16th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The parents of a 23-month-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment battle have applied to the supreme court to appeal against a ruling that treatment should be removed from the child.’
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The Guardian, 17th April 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘If a defendant is successful in defending a claim brought with the assistance of litigation funders who had an interest in the litigation, that defendant can apply under section 51 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 for a non-party costs order against the litigation funders.’
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4 New Square, 19th March 2018
Source: www.4newsquare.com
‘In this High Court action a road traffic insurer recovered damages in the tort of deceit against the Defendant following a staged accident. ‘
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Zenith Chambers, 27th March 2018
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk