‘Sexist criminals could get longer sentences under plans to make misogyny a type of hate crime.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th December 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Two gang members who ran a so-called “county line” drug network have been convicted of human trafficking in the first case of its kind.’
The Guardian, 6th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Essex County Council has successfully defended a judicial review challenge to the fees it proposed paying to operators of care homes.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th December 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The lack of adequate Parliamentary scrutiny when the UK negotiates trade agreements (something it has not done in its own right for many years) has come to the attention of the House of Commons International Trade Committee. This is timely given the prospect of the UK negotiating the single most important trade agreement it is likely to negotiate for a long time – its future trade agreement with the EU. The context for the Committee’s concern is its inquiry into the Trade Bill. One of the issues which the Bill addresses is the domestic implementation in the UK of those EU trade agreements which are adapted for continued application by the UK after Brexit. The Committee has asked whether Parliamentary scrutiny of ministerial rules implementing these agreements is adequate, and, more broadly, whether scrutiny of the UK signing up to these and other trade agreements, is adequate.’
Brexit Law, 6th December 2017
Source: brexit.law
‘The number of people arrested for terrorism-linked offences in Britain rose 54% to 400 in the 12 months to September in one of the most intense periods for terrorist attacks in recent British history.’
The Guardian, 7th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Laurence Soper, 74, was extradited to face 19 charges of indecent and serious sexual assault against 10 former pupils at the independent St Benedict’s School in Ealing, where he taught.’
BBC News, 6th December 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Five police officers will not face prosecution after the death of a mentally ill man in custody, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has ruled.’
BBC News, 6th December 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Bach Commission vice-chair and former judge Sir Henry Brooke has demanded action to reverse assaults on the criminal justice system, claiming the ‘liberties of England are at risk’ because of cuts in funding.’
Law Society's Gazette, 4th December 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Payments to two footballers for early termination of fixed term contracts were taxable as termination payments and not as general earnings, even though the contracts envisaged early termination by mutual consent, the UK’s Upper Tribunal has decided, upholding an early First-Tier tribunal decision.’
OUT-LAW.com, 4th December 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The transfer of a conditional fee agreement (CFA) from one law firm to another around the time of the Jackson reforms was valid and the success fee can still be recovered from the defendant, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 5th December 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The attorney general’s office has announced an inquiry into social media messages which may identify Jon Venables.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th December 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Online service providers in the EU will not face new obligations to make their copyrighted content available to customers to access when they are visiting other EU countries after proposed new EU laws were watered down.’
OUT-LAW.com, 4th December 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A local authority has been fined £100,000 after two of its social workers were assaulted on a home visit by the mother of a vulnerable child they were visiting.’
Local Government Lawyer, December 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The son of a 90-year-old woman who was stabbed in the neck by a carer with a previous assault conviction is calling for a change to criminal record checks.’
BBC News, 5th December 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Divorce battles among the super wealthy will be heard in separate courts under a plan to make the system more efficient, the head of the family court has announced.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th December 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The judgment of Phillips J in Sainsbury’s v Visa [2017] EWHC 3047 (Comm) demonstrates the importance to claimants in competition damages cases of identifying a counterfactual which not only involves lower prices but also involves higher levels of competition.’
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 5th December 2017
Source: competitionbulletin.com
‘The government yesterday damped down hopes that it would consider funding greater access to early legal advice.’
Legal Futures, 6th December 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Legal experts believe new Financial Remedies Courts (FRCs) should provide claimants and respondents with greater predictability, when resolving financial claims on relationship breakdown. Three FRCs will be piloted in London, the West Midlands and South East Wales from February 2018. Judges in FRCs will have a greater level of expertise in financial cases. Partners at Mishcon de Reya and Alexiou Fisher Philipps say this will lead to greater predictability of outcome, which the Law Commission has found is not always the case at present, and that it will free up more time in the overburdened family courts.’
Family Law, 6th December 2017
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Judges are to get mental health help to deal with sex crime cases, the new Lord Chief Justice has announced, as he said we must recognise that “judges are human” too.’
Daily Telegraph, 5th December 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The family of an 81-year-old woman has received a £45,000 payout after she was kept alive against her will.’
BBC News, 6th December 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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