‘In this new 2-part series, Mavis Amonoo-Acquah, a barrister at Lamb Building Chambers, discusses issues surrounding Surrogacy Law, Legal Parentage and proposed reform, in light of Californian Law precedents.’
Family Law, 1st March 2019
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The court has ruled in favour of claimants in a battle over medical agency fees that affects thousands of low-value personal injury cases.’
Law Society's Gazette, 1st March 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a festival and filmed her as she died has been jailed for her manslaughter.’
BBC News, 1st March 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Ex-Crewe Alexandra player Steve Walters is taking the club to court after he says they told him he had waited too long to report sex abuse by paedophile coach Barry Bennell.’
BBC News, 28th February 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Families who have alleged failings at an NHS trust could pull out of an inquiry into their babies’ deaths.’
BBC News, 28th February 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A balaclava-clad Italian hooligan who “destroyed” the life of a Liverpool supporter and his family in a “brutal and vicious” attack ahead of a Champions League tie has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th February 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Private hire vehicle drivers are mounting a legal challenge against London mayor Sadiq Khan after he proposed new rules which require minicab and Uber drivers to pay the congestion charge.’
The Independent, 1st March 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An alcoholic who threatened her husband with a knife “posed no risk” to her mother, who she later killed in “rage and frustration”, a report has found.’
BBC News, 1st March 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The appalling scale of sexual abuse against children as young as 11 in detention centres has been revealed by a nationwide inquiry. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said that more than 1,000 incidents of alleged sexual abuse had been reported between 2009 and 2017.’
The Independent, 28th February 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The government is facing a court challenge over the contracts it awarded to three shipping firms as part of its no-deal Brexit preparations.’
BBC News, 1st March 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Dozens of women imprisoned for murdering their partners after violent, abusive relationships will seek to overturn their convictions, lawyers have said, after a wife jailed for bludgeoning her husband to death with a hammer won her appeal to secure a retrial.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th February 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The number of criminals being sent back to prison for violating licence conditions has skyrocketed since the government’s “dangerous” part-privatisation of probation services, a watchdog has found.’
The Independent, 1st March 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Mistakes that led to child sexual grooming scandals are being repeated with gangs, a report by the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned.’
BBC News, 28th February 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘In Rogerson v Bolsover District Council (2019) EWCA Civ 226 the appellant was the tenant of a council house. She suffered injury as the result of an accident. The issue was whether the Council could be liable under Section 4 of the Defective Premises Act 1972. The relevant defect would have been discovered if the Council had implemented a system of regular inspection. Did the Council as landlord have a duty to inspect?’
Panopticon, 27th February 2019
Source: local-government-law.11kbw.com
‘Two companies have lost their claim for group relief where the surrendering company went into receivership. The Court of Appeal said that when the receivers were appointed the shareholders of the surrendering company lost control, which meant that group relief was denied.’
OUT-LAW.com, 27th February 2019
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A new court ruling leaves us little further forward on an employer’s right to adjudicate the true value of the sum due under a construction contract after failing to serve payment notices and without first paying the amount demanded by the contractor.’
OUT-LAW.com, 27th February 2019
Source: www.out-law.com
‘There is “room for review” of the legal regulation regime, made more urgent by the developments in technology, Lord Keen, the Ministry of Justice’s spokesman in the House of Lords, said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 28th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Dr Naheed Wali Ghauri, an Associate Research Fellow at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London and non-stipendiary Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, discusses domestic violence before Shari’a councils and mediation under English and Islamic Forum.’
Family Law, 28th February 2019
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
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