‘Cornwall Council has successfully applied to have a breach of contract claim brought by a care provider struck out just as a trial listed for five days was about to start.’
Local Government Lawyer, 24th February 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘We don’t usually (indeed ever) repost previous material on NL. But I’m making an exception for this one, because I think it is timely. Flexible tenancies have been in existence for a while in some boroughs and I would expect that it is round about now that possession proceedings for a fault based grounds (rather than the end of the term and non-renewal of the flexible tenancy) would be starting to happen. I haven’t seen any yet, but my local boroughs don’t have flexible tenancies.’
NearlyLegal, 24th February 2015
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘English law is particularly ‘fair for the financially weaker spouse’. That’s why wealthy people’s partners are keen to have their day in court in London rather than anywhere else.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Barry Beavis is in court with the aim of striking a blow “for every motorist, in every car park”.’
The Independent, 24th February 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘People with a depressive illness are three times more likely to commit a violent or sex crime than those in the general population, a study suggests.’
BBC News, 25th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The press regulator is to look at allegations that the Daily Telegraph allowed commercial pressures to dictate editorial decisions following Peter Oborne’s resignation over its coverage of HSBC.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A dog breeder, thought to be a “big player” in British dog fighting, has been jailed and banned from keeping animals.’
BBC News, 24th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Spouses can no longer expect full financial support from their ex-partners once their children reach age seven. Experts expect a rush to renegotiate.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘An environmental activist has been jailed for two years for putting the lives of police officers in danger by targeting patrol cars with homemade tyre-deflation spikes to “give them a taste of their own medicine”.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A 47-year-old man has been jailed for life for murdering a Flintshire woman he met on a dating website.’
BBC News, 24th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Increased surveillance in Britain, along with the reduction of access to justice, have contributed to one of the worst assaults on human rights in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall, according to a damning assessment by Amnesty International.’
The Independent, 25th February 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A criminal suspect can’t be forced to divulge their phone passcode, a US circuit court judge ruled in October 2014. Yet law enforcement officials can compel a suspect to provide a fingerprint – which they can then use to unlock the phone and obtain data which may prove the case against them.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An Appeal court judge has told the ex-wife of a millionaire horse surgeon to seek employment, warning that she has no right to expect “an income for life” at her former husband’s expense.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who threatened to “chop the heads off” two female cadets on Tyneside has been given a suspended jail sentence.’
BBC News, 23rd February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to formally review competition between banks that provide investment and corporate banking services after finding “unanswered questions about potential conflicts of interest and value for money”, it has announced.’
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd February 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘MPs have defeated a cross-party bid to clarify in law that abortion on the grounds of gender alone is illegal in the UK.’
BBC News, 24th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Complaints about payment protection insurance (PPI) are still making up two-thirds of all the cases being dealt with by the financial ombudsman, which named Lloyds and Barclays as Britain’s two “most complained-about” financial firms.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A damning report has alleged that ‘incompetent’ police chiefs violated Sir Cliff Richard’s privacy by disclosing details of a raid on his home to the BBC’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘On 30 January 2015 Mr Justice Keehan handed down his judgment in Northamptonshire County Council v AS and Ors (Rev 1) [2015] EWHC 199 (Fam). It is another case where the Local Authority having breached parties Articles 6 and 8 rights in care proceedings the court awarded damages within care proceedings.’
The World of Family Law (Garden Court Chambers), 23rd February 2015
Source: www.gcfamily.wordpress.com
‘As my colleague Robin Hopkins has warned, the decision of the Upper Tribunal in Fish Legal looks like a pretty big beast: sixty pages on whether water companies are public authorities for the purposes of the Environmental Information Regulations, applying the CJEU’s lengthy ruling on the points of principle (for which, see this post by Chris Knight).’
Panopticon, 24th February 2015
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
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