‘A senior circuit judge who “clearly thought” that a litigant with severe depression was “putting on an act” has been strongly attacked by the vice-president of the civil division of the Court of Appeal.’
Litigation Futures, 15th February 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Three English police forces are failing to record thousands of reported crimes each year, new reports have found.’
BBC News, 15th February 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman who endured five years of delays due to Crown Prosecution Service and Metropolitan police errors in pursuing a rape case is abandoning the legal process in despair.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A student has launched a campaign calling for Cardiff University to compensate students for lost lessons as lecturers go on strike.’
BBC News, 12th February 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Trust corporations wanting to act as property and affairs deputies for incapacitated people must be regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to gain immediate approval, the Court of Protection (CoP) has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 12th February 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘On 8th February 2018, the Supreme Court held that the power to grant bail and impose bail conditions in respect of a person pending deportation ceases to be lawful if there is no legal basis for detaining that person. The power to impose bail conditions is inextricably linked to the power of detention. Once the Home Secretary ceases to have the power to detain a person under immigration law, she can’t then impose conditions on that person’s freedom through bail conditions.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th February 2018
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The Charity Commission is to begin an investigation into Oxfam’s handling of a sex scandal in which staff hired prostitutes in Haiti in 2011.’
BBC News, 13th February 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The government plans to introduce its whiplash reforms in April 2019, it emerged today [12 February].’
Legal Futures, 12th February 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘New data protection laws are not at odds with regulatory requirements imposed on companies in the financial services sector, two UK authorities have said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 12th February 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A man who punched a toddler in the face in a bid to blackmail the child’s grandparents has been jailed.’
BBC News, 12th February 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The High Court has ordered the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to make a fresh judgment of a would-be solicitor’s character and suitability to join the profession after finding that it had wrongly denied her an oral hearing to explain an issue that it decided showed dishonesty.’
Legal Futures, 12th February 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘It is nearly six years since Julian Assange disguised himself as a motorcycle courier and entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London to seek political asylum. His subsequent legal battle, so vast and protracted a CPS lawyer once deemed it “like an industry in itself”, comes to a pivotal moment on Tuesday, when a judge will rule on whether the warrant for his arrest has become disproportionate.’
The Guardian, 13th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Police have confirmed there are no plans to charge the Yorkshire Ripper with any further offences.’
BBC News, 12th February 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A couple have been fined after using a fake garage door and high fence to hide a residential property from a council.’
The Guardian, 12th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An independent review into the application of sharia law in England and Wales published by the Home Office has recommended that Muslim couples must undergo a civil marriage alongside a religious ceremony, in a move expected to give Muslim women increased legal protection.’
Family Law, 5th February 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A 20-year-old man has been convicted of preparing an act of terrorism after he planned to carry out a machete attack on a gay pride event in Cumbria.’
The Guardian, 5th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘New laws to prohibit gambling operators from accepting bets from consumers in Britain on the outcome of EuroMillions draws taking place outside of the UK will come into force on 6 April this year.’
OUT-LAW.com, 5th February 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A divorce battle between a couple who have spent almost £2m on lawyers’ fees while fighting over assets worth £6.6m at most, has been described as a “scandalous waste of court time” by a judge.’
The Guardian, 2nd February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill was read a second time yesterday, 2 February, with qualified Government support: the Member in charge of the bill, Tim Loughton, had evidently come to an agreement with the Home Office about amendments to be tabled in committee.’
Law & Religion UK, 3rd February 2018
Source: www.lawandreligionuk.com
‘Even before the vote on 23 June 2016, questions were raised about the possibility of a ‘second’ referendum. I place the term ‘second’ in inverted commas because the idea that another vote means another referendum reflects a misunderstanding both about (i) what a referendum is and (ii) the role of referendums in the United Kingdom’s constitutional arrangements. On the ‘second’ referendum view, a referendum is synonymous with a vote. This is not the case. I will argue in this post that a referendum is a multi-stage process of referring a question to voters. This does include one vote, but may well include multiple votes. I will also argue that the conflation of referendums with votes underlies many of the flaws of the Brexit referendum in particular and the use of referendums in the United Kingdom in general. This is not a political argument for or against Brexit. It is a constitutional argument about what the role can and should be for voting in the process of constitutional reform through referendums in the United Kingdom.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 5th February 2018
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
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