‘Rape and domestic violence cases in England and Wales will be among the worst hit from the growing backlog in the judicial system, and trials could soon start collapsing because of severe delays, the new crime commissioner for England’s second biggest force has warned.’
The Guardian, 6th June 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A mother plans to launch her own legal action if the decision not to prosecute the boy reportedly involved in her son’s death is not reversed.’
BBC News, 7th June 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Thousands of current and former Tesco workers have won a legal argument in their fight for equal pay.’
BBC News, 3rd June 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Further doubt has been cast on the ruling that stopped the trial of two former South Yorkshire police officers and the force’s ex-lawyer on charges of perverting the course of public justice, for amending police statements after the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.’
The Guardian, 3rd June 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Commercial landlords and tenants are not required to specify the actual date of grant of the lease when “contracting out” of the security of tenure provisions in the 1954 Landlord and Tenant Act (1954 Act), the Court of Appeal has confirmed.’
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd June 2021
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Care order applications are usually made when social workers decide a mother is unable to look after her child on her own. The baby will probably go into foster care and it may be adopted.’
BBC News, 4th June 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘HM Courts and Tribunals Service have recently published statistics about the number of hearings conducted remotely, ie by audio, video or on paper, compared with physical in-person hearings, over the course of the coronavirus lockdown. The statistics cover civil and criminal cases as well as family law cases, but it is possible to extract from them a picture of how the family justice system, in particular, has responded.’
Transparency Project, 4th June 2021
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘Alta Fixsler was born with catastrophic brain injury. She now two years old, currently a patient at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit on intensive life sustaining treatment. In this case the court was asked to decide whether it would be in Alta’s best interests for that life-sustaining treatment to be continued. The inevitable consequence of it being discontinued will be the death of Alta.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 3rd June 2021
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The Home Office’s decision to house cross-channel migrants in a “squalid” barracks in Folkestone was unlawful, the High Court has ruled.’
BBC News, 3rd June 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A one-year-old baby and her mother have won a high court challenge granting her the right to access a healthy food and vitamins scheme from which she was previously barred. Thousands of babies and toddlers similarly denied access to the scheme will now be able to benefit from it.’
The Guardian, 3rd June 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A litigant in a building dispute who claimed £3.7m in damages – only to be awarded just £2,000 at trial – has been hit with a costs bill of at least £500,000.’
Law Society's Gazette, 2nd June 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A new regulator, with powers to investigate and address unfair trade practices and subsidies, has begun operating in the UK.’
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd June 2021
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘An order made by email to vacate a psychological assessment in a childcare case was wrong and unjust for “serious procedural irregularity”, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 2nd June 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court has excluded three expert witness statements during the trial after ruling that their opinions appeared “directly influenced” by the instructing party.’
Litigation Futures, 2nd June 2021
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The number of personal injury claims relating to Covid-19 continues to be very low, despite the significant rise in infections over the winter, new figures have shown.’
Litigation Futures, 3rd June 2021
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘New guidance on how businesses might use codes of conduct and certification schemes to demonstrate their compliance with rules governing international data transfers could be issued by the UK’s data protection authority in a matter of weeks, Out-Law has learned.’
OUT-LAW.com, 2nd June 2021
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A local activist group has lost a challenge at the Court of Appeal to the London Borough of Southwark’s grant of planning permission for a major redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle area.’
Local Government Lawyer, 2nd June 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Several hundred people assembled in London’s Hyde Park in July 2020 to protest rules making face masks mandatory in shops and supermarkets to help control the spread of COVID-19. This was not an isolated event. Similar protests have occurred in many places around the world in reaction to the prospect of “mask mandates” – especially in the United States.’
City Law Forum, 2nd June 2021
Source: blogs.city.ac.uk
‘Instagram posts by three reality TV stars promising that people in financial trouble could wipe out 85% of their debt have been banned.’
BBC News, 2nd June 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Proposals to restrict judicial review are an affront to the principles of fairness and government accountability and should be dropped, a cross-party group of MPs and peers has said.’
The Guardian, 2nd June 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
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