‘An extra 10,000 new prison places will be created and stop-and-search powers expanded, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised.’
BBC News, 11th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court ruling that Welsh ministers and the quango Careers Wales did not act unreasonably when they decided not to reassess the educational and training needs of a young man with a learning disability.’
Local Government Lawyer, 8th August 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A girl at potential risk of female genial mutilation (FGM) may be taken on a trip to Egypt to visit her father but only in strictly controlled circumstances, a High Court judge has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 8th August 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A man does not have to continue making payments after he was discharged from a first bankruptcy and made bankrupt for a second time, the Court of Appeal in England has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 8th August 2019
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
High Court (Chancery Division)
Willers v Joyce & Ors [2019] EWHC 2183 (Ch) (08 August 2019)
Webster v Ashcroft [2019] EWHC 2174 (Ch) (08 August 2019)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘There is as yet “no clear answer” to the question of whether an online court will facilitate easier access to the court system, research has found.’
Legal Futures, 9th August 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Cannabis-based drugs controversially legalised by the government have been blocked by NHS watchdogs because there is insufficient evidence they are safe.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has rejected an application by the Home Office to conduct an inquiry into claims of systemic abuse at an immigration detention centre in private, rejecting the claims that public hearings would be prohibitively expensive.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A pro-Brexit war veteran who menaced a Remain-supporting MP with “terrifying” online posts has been jailed.’
BBC News, 8th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police officers have been told not to hand out fixed penalty notices in stalking and harassment cases after the teenager Shana Grice was fined for wasting police time before she was murdered.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A senior police officer who smashed into an oncoming car while trying to make a hands-free phone call to her MP husband escaped a driving ban today.
Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘In a decision described as a “victory for open justice”, the Supreme Court has held that non-parties to litigation are entitled to access certain documents from a trial to which it was not a party.’
UKSC Blog, 5th August 2019
Source: ukscblog.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Hinsull v NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group [2019] EWCA Civ 1412 (07 August 2019)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Ahmed v The General Medical Council [2019] EWHC 2173 (Admin) (07 August 2019)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘The Court of Appeal has held that a homeless person cannot raise alleged breaches of the Equality Act 2010 in a homelessness appeal before a county court judge.’
Local Government Lawyer, 8th August 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has stressed that witness statements from litigants’ solicitors will be disregarded if they appear to be irrelevant or badly sourced.’
Law Society's Gazette, 7th August 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The parents of a six-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by classmates have called for a record to be set up showing all sex abuse between children.’
BBC News, 8th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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