‘The High Court has rejected a solicitor’s appeal against a decision to ban him from working as a sole practitioner.’
Legal Futures, 8th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Home Secretary has announced a series of legislative amendments aimed at improving the effectiveness of enforcement against unauthorised traveller encampments.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th February 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A report on global access to legal services has identified established legal professions led by lawyers as a block to progress and urged them to step aside in favour of non-lawyer leaders who can be relied on to bring in necessary reforms without self-interest.’
Legal Futures, 8th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Twenty years on from Bournewood, the case that prompted the introduction of DoLS, and as the Mental Capacity Amendment Bill tolls the death knell for DoLS and introduces as their replacement Liberty Protection Safeguards, the High Court (HHJ Coe sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge) has given a sharp reminder of the human and financial cost of what happens when a hospital fails properly to discharge its obligations under the Mental Capacity Act and as a result, falsely imprisons (in a hospital) a patient.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 5th February 2019
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Two recent decisions of the FTT on confidential information are of interest, one under FoIA, the other under the EIR, with a local authority being the public authority in both cases.’
Panopticon, 7th February 2019
Source: panopticonblog.com
‘The Court of Appeal has set out a series of steps courts should take when deciding whether a professional negligence case involves ‘advice’ or ‘information’.’
Litigation Futures, 6th February 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A key public law discussion in recent months concerns the vast number of statutory instruments (SIs) government is using to implement Brexit. Initially, it was said by government that c.800-1,000 SIs were required. That estimate has now been revised down to c.600 (while the estimated number of SIs has decreased the size of individual SIs has also increased). This aspect of the Brexit process is worthy of study for multiple reasons, perhaps most notably because of the level of democratic scrutiny that will be (realistically) provided. In this post, we introduce one aspect of Brexit SIs that, we argue, is worthy of close attention by public lawyers: the deletion of administrative functions.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 7th February 2019
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Neglect at a care home that had descended into “chaos” amid cost-cutting contributed to the death of Sophie Bennett, a mentally ill 19-year old, an inquest jury has ruled.’
The Guardian, 7th February 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A taxi driver who refused to pick up a blind couple and their guide dog has lost his licence.’
BBC News, 7th February 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Summer 2018 will be remembered as a special time by many readers of this blog: whether it was the spectacular weather, the giddy heights hit by the England football team, or Fraser J’s decision in Michael J Lonsdale (Electrical) Ltd v Bresco Electrical Services Ltd (In Liquidation), it was a summer to remember.’
Practical Law: Construction Blog, 6th February 2019
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 112 (06 February 2019)
Blanche v Easyjet Airline Company Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 69 (06 February 2019)
Eze v Conway & Anor [2019] EWCA Civ 88 (06 February 2019)
SA (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWCA Civ 53 (05 February 2019)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
A, R v [2019] EWCA Crim 106 (06 February 2019)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Kohli v Proles [2019] EWHC 193 (Ch) (06 February 2019)
Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Ltd, Re [2019] EWHC 185 (Ch) (05 February 2019)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Assetco Plc v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2019] EWHC 191 (Comm) (06 February 2019)
High Court (Family Division)
QC v UC & Ors [2019] EWHC 167 (Fam) (31 January 2019)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Burgon MP v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Anor [2019] EWHC 195 (QB) (06 February 2019)
Howard v The Imperial London Hotels Ltd [2019] EWHC 202 (QB) (06 February 2019)
Rabilizirov v A2 Dominion London Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 186 (QB) (05 February 2019)
Linklaters LLP & Anor v Mellish [2019] EWHC 177 (QB) (05 February 2019)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘The High Court has given the personal representatives of deceased steelworkers more time to register their compensation claims under a group litigation order (GLO).’
Litigation Futures, 7th February 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The Home Secretary has today (Wednesday 6 February) announced plans to give police tough new powers to crackdown on illegal traveller sites.’
Home Office, 6th February 2019
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘Solicitor advocate and law writer David Burrows writes that to define a valid marriage in English law is by no means obvious.’
Family Law, 7th February 2019
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Stuart Clark, of the International Family Law Group, looks at the Court of Appeal ruling that granted Anne Orenga de Gafforj a Hadkinson Order in September 2018.’
Family Law, 7th February 2019
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Online child sex abuse cases reported to London’s Metropolitan Police have more than doubled in a year, amid warnings that paedophiles are grooming children to send them images.
Scotland Yard’s online child sexual abuse and exploitation team received 2,514 referrals in 2018, up from 1,050 the year before – a 139 per cent increase. The vast majority were alerts from technology companies, as calls have been mounting for web giants to prevent indecent images being uploaded or shared on their platforms.’
The Independent, 6th February 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Jewish community leaders and politicians have condemned a third successive year with a record number of antisemitic incidents.’
The Guardian, 7th February 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Linklaters v Mellish case has brought the issue of how law firms deal with sexual harassment, and how the courts deal with confidentiality, back into the spotlight.’
Legal Futures, 7th February 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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