‘A boy who suffered brain damage at birth has been awarded a £13m-compensation package. The 11-year-old will always have the mind of a six-year-old after his abnormally low sugar levels were not treated, following his birth at Walsall Manor Hospital, West Midlands, in 2003.’
BBC News, 12th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The home secretary, Theresa May, has hardened Britain’s refusal to accept a mandatory European Union refugee quota system being put forward in Brussels this week in response to the Mediterranean migrant boat crisis.’
The Guardian, 11th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Freed after a miscarriage of justice, Sam Hallam tells Jon Robins about his psychological and legal struggle.’
Full story
The Independent, 9th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Conservatives’ manifesto says the party wants to scrap the Human Rights Act. David Cameron has appointed Michael Gove, the former education secretary, to be Justice Secretary. This mean he’ll have most of the responsibility for policy over the area.’
The Independent, 11th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Online campaigners have already begun fighting Conservative plans to push ahead with the introduction of sweeping new surveillance powers in what has been dubbed the “Snoopers’ Charter”.’
The Independent, 10th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Of all the tasks awaiting the new justice secretary – legal aid, building bridges with judges – scrapping the Human Rights Act is by far the trickiest.’
Full story
The Guardian, 11th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Two recent judgments underscoring the potential high cost of the UK getting it wrong in its dealing with businesses and hence being liable to pay damages under the Human Rights Act for breach of its A1P1 obligations. Regular readers will know that A1P1 is the ECHR right to peaceful enjoyment of property.’
Full story
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th May 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The president of the Family Division has bemoaned what he called ‘systemic failures’ in Court of Protection procedures causing cases to take years to reach full hearing.’
Full story
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th May 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Personal injury arises out of criminal acts as well as legal ones. The good news is this is not a bar to recovery.’
Zenith PI Blog, 8th May 2015
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘Lord Justice Jackson has dismissed a negligence claim against Veale Wasbrough, now national firm Veale Wasbrough Vizards, and the barrister it instructed to advise on a personal injury case.’
Full story
Litigation Futures, 11th May 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Court hears 33-year-old James Richardson grabbed Samantha Dalton, 36, when she found him face down and unresponsive.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th May 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Standing at the door to No 10, David Cameron stated that he would form a majority government and implement the Conservative Party manifesto “in full”. The moderating influence of the Liberal Democrats has been extinguished. The nationalist isolationism of the Scots and the SNP renders them irrelevant in UK politics for the next five years. Meanwhile, the disaffected UKIP vote wounded Labour, not the Conservatives, piling pressure on the next Labour leader to address UKIP concerns more directly than Ed Miliband. What does all this mean for immigration law over the next five years?’
Free Movement, 8th May 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘Family court judge says while each parent is devoted to their sons, the boys are “the most unfortunate children” because the estranged couple are unable to contain their hatred for each other’
Daily Telegraph, 8th May 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Former MP George Galloway is to mount a legal challenge against his general election defeat, he has said.’
The Independent, 11th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Michael Gove, the new justice secretary, is to press ahead with plans to scrap the Human Rights Act which could see Britain pull out of the European convention on human rights (ECHR) if the reforms are rejected by Strasbourg.’
The Guardian, 10th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Nicolson) v Tottenham Magistrates’ Court: [2015] EWHC 1252 (Admin); [2015] WLR (D) 204
‘Before being empowered to make an order under regulation 34(7) of the Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 for costs reasonably incurred by a local authority in council tax enforcement proceedings, the magistrates’ court had to have made a proper judicial determination of what costs had been reasonably incurred by the applicant in obtaining the liability order, that determination being based on proper and sufficient material provided by the applicant.’
WLR Daily, 6th May 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A multi-millionaire businessman has won a permanent ban on a former friend and business colleague from exposing details of alleged sex and drugs parties.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th May 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘CPR 63.20 (2) requires those bringing claims in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (“IPEC”) including the small claims track to state whether they have complied with paragraph 7.1(1) and Annex A (paragraph 2) of the Practice Direction (Pre-Action Conduct). If they don’t the defendant has an extra 28 days in which to file his or her defence under CPR 63.22 (3). But if you actually turn to the Practice Direction – Pre-Action Conduct you will find that the old paragraph 7 and Annex A aren’t there any more.’
NIPC Law, 6th May 2015
Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
‘April has seen a great deal of discussion on costs and budgeting. Here is a review of what else we have been writing about this month.’
Zenith PI, 6th May 2015
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
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