‘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.’
Transparency Project, 15th April 2018
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘The High Court has refused to overturn a personal injury ruling despite defendant lawyers arguing that the judge should have found the claim to be “fundamentally dishonest”.’
Law Society's Gazette, 17th April 2018
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The parents of terminally ill toddler Alfie Evans have lost their latest legal battle. Tom Evans and Kate James asked Court of Appeal judges to rule that the 23-month-old should be allowed to receive treatment in Italy.’
BBC News, 16th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Davis v Watford Borough Council (2018) EWCA Civ 529. A technical appeal on a point of construction of Housing Act 1996 on homelessness appeals that has considerable practical importance.’
Nearly Legal, 15th April 2018
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has reduced to £200,000 a “manifestly excessive” £475,000 fine imposed on a truck sale and leasing company for breaches of health and safety law which led to the accidental death of a contractor.’
OUT-LAW.com, 16th April 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The recent Court of Appeal decision of Re P (A Child) [2018] EWCA Civ 720 (11 April 2018) concerned T (born we are told ‘in 2000’: ie she is 17 or over, see the Children Act 1989, s 31(3) below) and her younger sister, X. The case operates on a number of levels. The main issue for the Court of Appeal was the judge’s failure to provide a clear and prompt judgment to explain her original determination (communicated in abbreviated form, as explained below); and then to fail to provide the parties with clarification of reasons for her judgment as permissibly requested by them.’
Family Law, 13th April 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Bad immigration decisions are having a “devastating” effect on families and businesses and undermining the rule of law, solicitors have warned. Nearly half of decisions that go to appeal in England and Wales are overturned, suggesting the system is “serious flawed”, the Law Society said.’
BBC News, 12th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An attempt by a divorcee to have a “meal ticket for life” backfired after a High Court Judge ruled her maintenance payments should cease after just three years.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th April 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A high court judge has endorsed an end-of-life care plan for a 23-month-old boy who has been at the centre of a life-support treatment legal battle.’
The Guardian, 11th April 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Ex-football coach Barry Bennell is to appeal against his 31-year sentence for child sexual abuse.’
BBC News, 10th April 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The government has been thwarted in its second attempt to deport a woman who came to the UK from Botswana when she was 13 years old.’
The Independent, 10th April 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘In the recent case of L v F [2017] EWCA Civ 2121 the Court of Appeal reinstated a first instance judgment that refused to grant a mother permission to relocate to Italy with the parties’ child. The case offers a reminder of the approach that the court must take when deciding whether or not to grant an appeal.’
Family Law, 6th April 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The term ‘isolated’ has its ordinary meaning in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and needs no over-interpretation, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 5th April 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A litigant in person’s contentious probate claim, part of which was dismissed by a High Court master as “no more than tittle tattle”, needs a proper hearing, a judge has decided.’
Litigation Futures, 5th April 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘In refusing the Victorian Society permission to appeal on the removal of pews from Bath Abbey on 1 March 2018, ([2018] EACC 1), the Dean of Arches directed that the Victorian Society (VS) should bear the petitioners’ reasonable costs of submitting the Response and the court costs of considering and determining the application. On 8 March 2018, the VS submitted a Representation on Costs (“the Representation”), dated 5 March 2018. “In purported reliance on Re St Mary, Sherborne [1996] Fam 63, the Victorian Society contends that the court costs on appeal should be paid by the petitioners irrespective of whether they have been successful or not on the appeal (at 70C)” .’
Law & Religion UK, 27th March 2018
Source: www.lawandreligionuk.com
‘Dryden and Others v Johnson Matthey [2018] UKSC 18. We are all made of stuff, and that stuff is not inert because it’s organic matter. Changes at the molecular level happen all the time, through cell death and replenishment, growth and the constant attrition caused by cosmic radiation on our DNA. Other changes are wrought by the environment or other organisms. Some changes are beneficial, even life saving, such as the removal of an appendix or the insertion of a pacemaker. The production of antibodies by vaccination have eradicated many diseases. Most of the time the body manages this itself. Every time certain cells in the blood encounter a foreign invader, they recruit the immune system to come up with a focussed weapon. This is an antibody, which lies dormant until the threat (the antigen) arises again. Antibodies are good things to have around until they’re provoked by enemies akin to the ones that created them, whereupon the body produces an allergic reaction to get rid of the toxin/allergen.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd March 2018
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
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