Finance & Divorce Update – Family Law Week
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor of Mills & Reeve LLP analyses the financial remedies and divorce news and cases from December 2014.’
Family Law Week, 23rd January 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Category: news
Why Good Lawyers are such Bad Historians: the Case of Sir Edward Coke – The Inner Temple
Why Good Lawyers are such Bad Historians: the Case of Sir Edward Coke (PDF)
Dr George Garnett, University Oxford
The Inner Temple, 19th January 2015
Source: www.innertemple.org.uk
Mass surveillance is fundamental threat to human rights, says European report – The Guardian
‘Europe’s top rights body has said mass surveillance practices are a fundamental threat to human rights and violate the right to privacy enshrined in European law.’
The Guardian, 26th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal upholds Birss J in Rihanna’s Case – NIPC Law
‘In Fenty and Others v Arcadia Group Brands Ltd and another [2013] EWHC 2310 (Ch), [2013] WLR(D) 310 Mr Justice Birss gave judgment to Robyn Rihanna Fenty (better known as Rihanna) and her corporate licensing companies against Top Shop for selling a t-shirt that reproduced a photo of the singer. The claim was brought not for infringement of copyright since the owner of the copyright in the photograph had licensed the reproduction of his work but for passing off. Rihanna and her companies had claimed that the t-shirt misrepresented authorization or approval of the manufacture and distribution of the garments and that such misrepresentation damaged her commercial activities. I wrote about the case in Passing off – Fenty v Topshop 10 Sept 2013 and readers are referred to that note for an appreciation of the judgment.’
NIPC Law, 24th January 2015
Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
Prince Andrew: the legal issues – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
‘If the UK press love a sex scandal and a good royal story, imagine what you get when you put the two together. This month the news broke that victims of Jeffrey Epstein, an American paedophile, were attempting to sue Prince Andrew alleging, amongst other things, that she was coerced into having sex with him when she was 17.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 26th January 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Julian Cole family hit out at IPCC over police brutality allegations – The Guardian
‘The family of a 21-year-old athlete left with a broken neck after he was detained by police 20 months ago have spoken publicly for the first time, complaining they are no clearer about what happened.’
The Guardian, 26th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Modified Universalism – Privy to Singular Clarification – RPC Commercial Disputes Blog
‘While most jurisdictions provide liquidators with wide investigative powers to locate and realise assets locally, the exercise of such powers becomes more complicated when the assets are situated overseas. As more and more businesses expand globally and corporate structures become equally more complex, the liquidators’ task becomes more problematic in winding up such companies.’
RPC Commercial Disputes Blog,
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
English pubs deemed important to communities to be protected by law – The Guardian
‘Pubs in England listed as important by communities will not be demolished or have their use changed without planning permission under proposed legislation.’
The Guardian, 26th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Clare’s Law: Worried someone you know has a violent past? Here’s how to find out – Daily Telegraph
‘A new law, designed to protect individuals from domestic abuse, has made more than 1,300 disclosures since it was launched 10 months ago. But how does it work and how do you go about making a request? Claire Cohen offers a practical guide.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
New laws to protect those cashing in pension pots – The Guardian
‘The financial regulator is rushing in new rules aimed at protecting people keen to cash in their pension pots from making bad decisions that could cost them dearly later on.’
The Guardian, 26th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Bank mistook my sex change for fraud’ – when poor service counts as discrimination – Daily Telegraph
‘If a firm doesn’t accommodate a customer’s race, religion, disability or sexual orientation they could be ignoring their rights under the Equality Act’
Daily Telegraph, 27th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Coventry kidnap gang who cut off man’s finger jailed – BBC News
‘A kidnap gang who cut off a man’s finger to get a £20,000 ransom have been jailed.’
BBC News, 26th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Pub chef and manager jailed over Christmas dinner that left a diner dead – The Guardian
‘A pub chef and his manager have both been jailed after a Christmas dinner served at their restaurant left a mother dead and dozens of other diners ill with food poisoning.’
The Guardian, 23rd January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
IPCC to investigate delays in dealing with intelligence on hundreds of suspected paedophiles – Daily Telegraph
‘The Independent Police Complaints Commission will investigate how staff at the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre dealt with information from the Canadian police.’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Discrimination – tendency to physical abuse – Education Law Blog
‘A three-judge Upper Tribunal panel X v GB of a school has considered the exclusion of a tendency to physical abuse from the definition of disability under the Equality Act 2010.’
Education Law Blog, 25th January 2015
Source: www.education11kbw.com
Man jailed for 17 years for murder of girlfriend with kitchen knife – The Guardian
‘Andre Bright killed Victoria Adams, with whom he had a young daughter, after a period of abusive behaviour.’
The Guardian, 23rd January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
London street march Muslim men given three-year Asbo – BBC News
‘A group of Muslim men have been given three-year anti-social behaviour orders (Asbo) for threatening violence.’
BBC News, 24th January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Britain open to terrorist drone attacks due to lax aviation rules, experts fear – The Independent
‘Terrorists could use swarms of drones to bring down passenger aircraft, disperse chemical or biological weapons and target a nuclear power plants in Britain because of our lax aviation rules.’
The Independent, 23rd January 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Ex-Royal Navy chief petty officer Geoffrey Rooney jailed for child abuse – BBC News
‘A former Royal Navy sailor has been jailed for 14 years for a series of horrific child sex offences including the rape of a six-month-old baby.’
BBC News, 23rd January 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
