‘A woman who thought that her severely disabled 11-year-old daughter should be allowed to die has told a family court judge that she has changed her mind.’
BBC News, 20th May 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Alex Laing of Coram Chambers re-visits the use of the inherent jurisdiction to deprive children of their liberty in the light of recent judgments.’
Family Law Week, 15th May 2018
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘In light of the allegations surrounding Harvey Weinstein, the subsequent #MeToo movement and the recent conviction of Bill Cosby, the murky topic of consent – and how it is established – has never been more at the vanguard of social discourse.’
The Independent, 14th May 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An environmental campaigner who says she was tricked into a sexual relationship with an undercover police officer is mounting a legal challenge to have him prosecuted. The woman, known as Monica, will ask judges to overturn prosecutors’ decision not to charge the Metropolitan Police’s Jim Boyling.’
BBC News, 1st May 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Terminally ill Alfie Evans may be allowed home, a judge has ruled but he will not be allowed to go to Rome for further treatment.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th April 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A commercial landlord acted unreasonably by withholding from a tenant its consent to apply for planning permission to change the use of the middle two storeys of a building from commercial to residential, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th April 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘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.’
The Guardian, 17th April 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The parents of a terminally ill toddler who has been at the centre of a life-support treatment battle are set to mount another legal challenge. Tom Evans and Kate James are preparing to ask Court of Appeal judges to allow 23-month-old Alfie Evans to continue to receive treatment.’
BBC News, 13th April
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police officers can download the contents of your mobile phone without a warrant – even if you have not been charged with any crime.’
RightsInfo, 3rd April 2018
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘In Secretary of State for the Home Department v Sergei Skripal [2018] EWCOP 6, Mr Justice Williams made a best interests decision that blood samples could be taken by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from Sergei and Yulia Skirpal in order that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OCPW) could undertake their own analysis to find evidence of possible nerve agents. Both Sergei and Yulia were and remain unconscious and in a critical condition, and were unable to consent to such blood samples being taken.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th March 2018
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The High Court has thrown the industry-standard model for handling low-value personal injury claims into doubt after ruling that solicitors still need to undertake individual risk assessments before setting the success fee – rather than just applying 100% across the board.’
Litigation Futures, 26th March 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Britain’s political parties are poised to grant themselves special powers to use personal data to find out how people are likely to vote, despite the Cambridge Analytica scandal, The Independent can reveal.’
The Indepndent, 23rd March 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The parents of terminally ill Alfie Evans have been refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court over a decision to withdraw his life support.’
BBC News, 20th March 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Local Government analysis: Louise McCallum, barrister, and Emily Ross, pupil barrister, both of Zenith Chambers, Leeds, consider the case of T (A Child: Care Order: Beyond Parental Control: Deprivation of Liberty: Authority to Administer Medication), which dealt with issues of deprivation of liberty and administration of medication by a local authority to a child.’
Zenith Chambers, 1st March 2018
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
‘Colin Birtles died without a will in 2013. He was survived by his two daughters, Lorraine Freeman and Janice Nield-Moir. Unbeknown to her elder sister, Mrs Freeman successfully applied for letters of administration to enable her to manage and distribute his estate, amounting to his terraced house in Oldham and a small amount of cash. According to the rules of intestacy, Mr Birtles estate should be divided equally between the two sisters.’
Family Law, 9th March 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Last month the Government published a report on how it makes decisions about which vaccines to fund. For a long time, charities and campaigners have been lobbying for this report to be published. It also follows calls for greater transparency about why a vaccine to protect children against Meningitis B was not made more widely available and an 820,000 signature petition calling for all children to be vaccinated following the death of 2-year-old Faye Burdett in 2016, who was not offered the vaccine because she was ‘too old’.’
Family Law, 9th March 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A landlord which withholds its consent to a lease assignment will not necessarily be doing so unreasonably where it has multiple reasons for doing so, and only one of those reasons is itself unreasonable.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th March 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The parents of a seriously ill 21-month-old boy have lost the latest stage of a legal fight to keep him on life support.’
The Guardian, 6th March 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An 11th-hour appeal to European court judges by the father of the profoundly brain-damaged baby Isaiah Haastrup to try to prevent doctors from withdrawing his son’s life-sustaining treatment has failed.’
The Guardian, 6th March 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Medical ethics experts have called for caution as a proposed change to organ donation laws in England, which would make everyone a donor unless the explicitly register an objection, made the first step to becoming law today.’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
