‘A campaigner who used her email address as a committee member of the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) to conduct unlawful immigration law work was convicted this week.’
Legal Futures, 15th January 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Birmingham Family Court will today introduce a wellbeing protocol which aims to end a ‘last minute’ work culture that increases stress on practitioners outside of work hours.’
Legal Futures, 14th January 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘This article provides an update on the mediums that one can serve a claim form and also some of the issues of serving a claim form with modern technology.’
Becket Chambers, 14th November 2019
Source: becket-chambers.co.uk
‘Electronic signatures automatically generated at the bottom of emails can bind businesses to contracts. Though the law remains subject to change, a recent court ruling and separate report by the Law Commission in England and Wales highlight how emails are no longer as informal as they used to be.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th November 2019
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Section 2(1) of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 (‘the 1989 Act’) provides that a contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land can only be made in writing. Under section 2(3), the documents incorporating the terms must be signed by or on behalf of each party to the contract.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 15th October 2019
Source: hardwicke.co.uk
‘A former senior in-house lawyer at Shell cannot rely on a leaked internal email or an overheard pub conversation in his discrimination claim against the company, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 23rd October 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A solicitor’s automated email sign-off sufficed as a ‘signature’ for the purposes of a contract involving the disposition of an interest in land, the High Court has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 30th September 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has ordered that a compromise contract be completed after ruling that a solicitor’s automatic email sign-off was proof of signature.’
Law Society's Gazette, 25th September 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘There is no rule that communications treated as “without prejudice” despite not being labelled as such cannot be referred to when considering costs, the High Court has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 12th September 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A judge has set aside “by the narrowest of margins, and with some hesitation” a claimant’s judgment in default after the defendant’s solicitor failed to notice that particulars of claim had been served for five months.’
Litigation Futures, 12th September 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A system that allows problem gamblers to block themselves from all UK betting websites in one go has finally been approved by the industry regulator, 18 months after it was supposed to be ready, the Guardian understands.’
The Guardian, 1st September 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The legal ombudsman is being sued by former complainants whose contact details were leaked in an email blunder, the Gazette can reveal.’
Law Society's Gazette, 1st August 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The human rights group Liberty has lost its latest high court challenge against the government’s mass surveillance powers.’
The Guardian, 29th July 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The High Court has rejected a libel claim by a woman who an in-house lawyer suggested in an email had potentially acted fraudulently.’
Legal Futures, 30th July 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A former GP practice manager has been fined for sending personal data to her own email account without authorisation, following an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).’
Local Government Lawyer, 8th April 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Home Office has admitted breaching data protection rules when it launched the Windrush compensation scheme.’
BBC News, 8th April 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Businesses face higher fines if their processing of personal data is found to breach both the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and EU ‘e-Privacy’ rules, according to a new opinion issued by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).’
OUT-LAW.com, 18th March 2019
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Department for Work & Pensions has successfully defended a High Court challenge brought by a homeless man who claimed that its approach to communication was in breach of its duties under the public sector equality duty.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th March 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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