‘Blackpool Council and its wholly owned company Blackpool Transport Services have been ordered to pay £109,000 in damages and costs to a religious organisation run by evangelist Franklin Graham after refusing to advertise a rally on buses.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st July 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The deaths of seven passengers in the Croydon tram crash were accidental, the jury at the coroner’s inquest in south London has decided, in a verdict met with anger by families of the victims.’
The Guardian, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A mother who killed her one-month-old baby when she was “angry and stressed” over a row with her partner has been jailed.’
BBC News, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The government faces the threat of legal action over plans to allow exploration at the Cambo oilfield near Shetland after promising to put an end to new oil exploration licences that do not align with the UK’s climate goals.’
The Guardian, 23rd July 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Are hundreds of thousands of families being put through unnecessary investigations by unchecked social workers? That’s the suggestion made by a succession of recent news stories, some prompted by the first report of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. Services are ‘too focused on investigating families’, went the BBC; ‘innocent families have been traumatised by groundless investigations’, said The Times as part of a series on the issue, elsewhere reporting that ‘councils … launch abuse investigations based on a single unexplained mark’, and asserting ‘social workers too quick to wade in’, quoting the Review’s chair, Josh Macalister, as saying that social workers are ‘investigating first when [they] should be helping’.’
Transparency Project, 23rd July 2021
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘An “unprecedented” coalition of more than 220 organisations has attacked proposed changes to the Human Rights Act and judicial review as a threat to freedom and justice.’
The Guardian, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed this appeal concerning the law of limitation.’
UKSC Blog, 23rd July 2021
Source: ukscblog.com
‘A Family Court judge has praised the London Borough of Bromley for its “brave but proper decision” to end care proceedings in case where a child was suspected to have suffered deliberate injury but was later found not to.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Justice has apologised for saying killer Colin Pitchfork would not have to sign the sex offenders register when released from prison.’
BBC News, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Universities should prioritise law degrees for investment because they produce “better employability outcomes”, are “comparatively cheap to deliver” and “well-suited to remote or blended learning”, a report has found.’
Legal Futures, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Post Office workers who have had their convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting – the result of computing errors – quashed will each get an interim compensation payment of up to £100,000 the government has said.’
The Guardian, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed an appeal which considered whether treatment throughout a 55 day period in solitary confinement of a then 15-year-old appellant in Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution constituted a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd July 2021
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Leeds District Magistrates Court erred by deeming an application frivolous and refusing to state a case for the opinion of the High Court, a judge has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson has lost a libel case brought against him by a Syrian schoolboy who was filmed being attacked at school.’
The Guardian, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A 17-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering a father-of-two who was fatally stabbed.’
BBC News, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The London Borough of Croydon has won a High Court case brought against it by Birmingham City Council over how an asylum seeker’s age was calculated.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘There really was a battle of Revolax between Russia and Sweden in 1808 but that has nothing to do with this article. Revolax is also the name of a hyaluronic acid dermal filler manufactured by the Korean company Across Co., Ltd (“Across”) which Fox Group International Ltd. (“Fox”) enjoyed the exclusive right to distribute in the UK.’
NIPC Law, 23rd July 2021
Source: nipclaw.blogspot.com
‘The British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch should be extradited to the US to face criminal fraud charges, a London judge has ruled.’
The Guardian, 22nd July 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
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