‘Anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller has as filed an urgent application for a legal challenge to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “cynical and cowardly” plan to prorogue parliament.’
The Independent, 29th August 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The UK Government’s vow to leave the European Union “whatever the circumstances” on the 31st October has left the UK hurtling towards a no-deal Brexit this Halloween, but what does this mean for the rights of people subject to future extradition between the UK and the EU?.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th August 2019
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Lasham Gliding Society Ltd, R (on the application of) v. the Civil Aviation Authority and TAG Farnborough Airport Limited. The Claimant, the Lasham Gliding Society, challenged a decision by the Civil Aviation Authority, the statutory regulator of UK airspace, to permit the introduction of air traffic controls in airspace around Farnborough Airport, which is presently largely uncontrolled. Lasham Gliding Society (“LGS”) is one of the largest gliding clubs in the world. Its concern was that one of the effects of the CAA’s decision would be to increase the risk of a mid-air collision between its gliders and those aircraft which divert away from any newly controlled airspace around Farnborough Airport into the adjacent uncontrolled zone over Lasham where its gliders fly.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th August 2019
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Caine v Advertiser And Times Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 2278 (QB) (23 August 2019)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘An offer to settle a case for no damages but an admission of liability was a valid part 36 offer and it was not unjust to apply the usual consequences of beating an offer when the claimant won at trial, the High Court has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 28th August 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Mass legal claims on behalf of teachers and doctors alleging that changes to their pensions in 2015 were discriminatory are being launched against the government.’
The Guardian, 27th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Hundreds of asylum seekers crammed into a network of “guest houses” provided by a Home Office contractor that are overrun by cockroaches, rats and mice have seen a raft of improvements in the past few days after the Guardian exposed their dire living conditions.’
The Guardian, 27th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A vaping advert has been banned for using a “bald head and eyebrows” that suggested Sir Mo Farah endorsed the product, a watchdog as ruled.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘People will be left “cupping their hands over their mouths” in the street if new lip-reading CCTV is not reined in, the Government’s surveillance watchdog has warned. Tony Porter, the Surveillance Camera Commissioner, said in future people would have to guard their conversations from prying cameras in the same manner as football managers on live TV, unless ministers act to regulate emerging intrusive technologies.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A retired school choirmaster who “hid a dark paedophile inclination” has been jailed for sexually abusing four boys.’
The Independent, 27th August 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Men who kill their partners follow a “homicide timeline” that could be tracked by police to help prevent deaths, new research suggests. Criminology expert Dr Jane Monckton Smith found an eight-stage pattern in 372 killings in the UK. The University of Gloucestershire lecturer said controlling behaviour could be a key indicator of someone’s potential to kill their partner.’
BBC News, 27th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A Home Office campaign informing EU nationals how to confirm their UK status after Brexit has been banned by the advertising watchdog for being “misleading”.’
The Independent, 27th August 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Singh v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 1504 (22 August 2019)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Armstrong v Armstrong [2019] EWHC 2259 (Ch) (23 August 2019)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Boyo v Lloyds Bank Plc [2019] EWHC 2279 (QB) (23 August 2019)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘Generally speaking, we lawyers dislike procedural change. While we may well understand that a particular change is necessary and we will certainly recognise that we need to adapt to it when it comes, such changes nonetheless tend to make us feel ignorant and highly uncomfortable. We have to treat any new procedural regime as a known unknown, which presents pitfalls for the unwary, at least until we become familiar with it. And in the meantime, a culture of half-knowledge develops, an uncertain and dangerous combination of a little learning, anecdote, and false assumptions. This very often leads to negative over-simplification.’
UK Human Rights Blog, August 2019
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘An expert witness who said in oral evidence that he saw his role as presenting his side’s case “in the most favourable light” has been criticised by the High Court.’
Litigation Futures, 27th August 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A man has been jailed for 12 years for attacking a man with a machete outside a branch of McDonald’s.’
BBC News, 23rd August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Does failing to be licensed under The Housing (Wales) Act 2014 prevent a landlord from serving any notice seeking possession, or just a section 21 notice? That was the issue in a county court appeal in Evans & Evans v Jarvis, County Court at Swansea, 20 August 2019.’
Nearly Legal, 26th August 2019
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘A judge has ordered the confiscation of bitcoin worth more than £900,000 from a jailed hacker in the first case of its kind for the Metropolitan police.’
The Guardian, 23rd August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The family of a football fan who suffered horrific injuries at the hands of hooligan opposition fans are campaigning for a change in the law.’
BBC News, 24th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An employment tribunal has refused to reconsider a decision that comprehensively rejected a disability discrimination claim brought by a paralegal who worked for well-known personal injury firm Ralli.’
Legal Futures, 27th August 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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