‘The House of Lords yesterday reinstated two of the three amendments it previously passed on the government’s judicial review reforms as it emerged that Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling had given MPs incorrect information over a key aspect of them last week.’
Litigation Futures, 10th December 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The purpose of the Reservoirs Act 1975 was not to mitigate the effect of water escape from large raised reservoirs but rather to prevent such escape and to avert the potential danger to persons and property from an escape.’
WLR Daily, 28th November 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Private contracts to run probation services monitoring low and medium risk offenders have been awarded by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.’
BBC News, 5th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The mother of a woman who died as an inpatient at a London hospital has lost a High Court challenge against the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PHSO) over its refusal to investigate the loss of her daughter’s medical records.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th December 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan launch judicial review after trying to hold ceremony at town hall and being turned away.’
The Guardian, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Back to Aarhus and the constant problem we have in the UK making sure that the cost of planning and environmental litigation is not prohibitively expensive.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 1st December 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A number of UK music industry bodies have launched a legal challenge against newly introduced UK rules that enable consumers to make private copies of lawfully acquired copyrighted material without be held as copyright infringers.’
OUT-LAW.com, 27th November 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘On-call, duty contracts for criminal solicitors to attend police stations and courts will be slashed from 1,600 to 527 in England and Wales, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.’
The Guardian, 27th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Lurking in the background of many judicial review claims is a complaint that a decision maker has made an error of fact.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 24th November 2014
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has refused to quash a decision to grant planning consent for 400 homes within the Surrey countryside, after deciding that a council was not misled by a planning officer’s mistaken advice.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th November 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A legal challenge to try to prevent the UK continuing to comply with the European Arrest Warrant has failed.’
BBC News, 14th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has admitted that the new rules for whiplash claims, introduced on 1 October this year, “could in practice lead to some misunderstanding” and may have to be amended.’
Litigation Futures, 14th November 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Regina (Kerman & Co LLP) v Legal OmbudsmanL: [2014] EWHC 3726 (Admin); [2014] WLR (D) 481
‘The reference to a “person” against whom a complaint had been made “ceasing to exist” in section 132(2) of the Legal Services Act 2007 and rule 2.10 of the Legal Ombudsman Scheme Rules 2013 made thereunder was a reference to the cessation of the firm or legal entity and/or, if different, the “authorised person” subject to the regulatory regime. It was not to be read as a narrow reference to an individual human being ceasing to exist.’
WLR Daily, 11th November 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The decision to scale back the police investigation into the deaths of marchers killed by soldiers in Londonderry in 1972 will be challenged in court by victims’ relatives.’
BBC News, 11th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An interesting decision about a Council not supplying some key information about a wind turbine project to the public until very late in the day. Can an objector apply to set the grant of permission aside? Answer: yes, unless the Council can show that it would have inevitably have come to the same conclusion, even if the information had been made public earlier.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th November 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Jakimaviciute, R (On the Application Of) v Hammersmith And Fulham London Borough Council [2014] EWCA Civ 1438. Eligibility for allocation list, reasonable preference and homelessness. After a run of Court of Appeal housing decisions that might be mildly described as disappointing, it is good to see one that is definitely right, albeit apparently reluctantly given.’
NearlyLegal, 6th November 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
‘A highway authority could lawfully enter into an agreement with a developer or other party under section 38 of the Highways Act 1980 for that other party to pay a sum for the expenses of highways maintenance after the date on which the highway became maintainable at public expense.’
WLR Daily, 31st October 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Southwark Council has applied to the High Court to bring judicial review proceedings over ministers’ approval of plans for the so-called ‘super-sewer’ in London.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd November 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Kesia Leatherbarrow broke a window trying to enter a residential care home for ex-addicts to visit a friend. When officers arrested the 17-year-old, they discovered a small quantity of cannabis. She spent two nights and three days in police custody; a few hours after being released, she hanged herself.’
The Guardian, 2nd November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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