Scouse Dave county lines gang members jailed – BBC News
‘Five members of a county lines drug gang known as the Scouse Dave Line have been jailed.’
BBC News, 21st March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Teachers in divorce ‘limbo’ take pension legal action – BBC News
‘Teachers unable to get divorced because of delays getting their pensions valued are taking legal action against the government. Hundreds of teachers have been frustrated by long delays that left them “in limbo”, unable to move on with their lives or plan for their future.’
BBC news, 24th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Hospital worker who took pressure cooker bomb into maternity ward jailed for life – The Independent
‘A man who took a viable pressure cooker bomb into a Leeds hospital intending to “kill as many nurses as possible”, has been jailed at Sheffield Crown Court for life and will serve a minimum of 37 years.’
The Independent, 21st March 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Prosecutors told to do more to strip ‘revenge porn’ abusers of victim images – The Guardian
‘The Crown Prosecution Service is to update its guidance on so-called “revenge porn” crimes to stop perpetrators being allowed to keep explicit photos of their victims.’
The Guardian, 23rd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence – The Guardian
‘Teenagers who are permanently excluded from school are twice as likely to commit serious violence within a year of their expulsion than those who were merely suspended, a large-scale new analysis of police and education records has shown.’
The Guardian, 22nd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
Upper Tribunal Hands Down Landfill Tax Judgment – Devereux Chambers
‘The Upper Tribunal has handed down its decision in Singleton Birch & Anor v HMRC [2025] UKUT 72 (TCC) – the first appellate decision to consider the interpretation of the Landfill Tax (Qualifying Material) Order 2011 (‘QMO’).’
Devereux Chambers, 11th March 2025
Source: www.devereuxchambers.co.uk
Rukhadze and others v Recovery Partners GP Ltd and another [2025] UKSC 10 – Blackstone Chambers
‘The Supreme Court has handed down judgment in an important appeal concerning fiduciary duties. Three individuals who had been appointed by their principal to pursue a lucrative business opportunity decided instead to pursue it for their own benefit. They were found at trial to have breached fiduciary duties owed to their principal. On the taking of an account of profits, they were found to have earned around $170m from the pursuit of the business opportunity, and were ordered to account to the principal for the entire sum less a 25% equitable allowance to reflect the work they had done in generating it’
Blackstone Chambers, 19th March 2025
Source: www.blackstonechambers.com
Burial of a baptismal font – some considerations – Law & Religion UK
‘The disposal options for unwanted baptismal fonts were reviewed in an earlier post, which reached the following conclusions:
There is an important distinction between the treatment of the font bowl and its plinth;
Canon F1 relates to use of the bowl of the font in church;.
There is no restriction in ecclesiastical law on the burial of a font in the churchyard, though this is often the disposal option of last resort;
There is a legacy of poorly-sited fonts which can result in health and safety issues, and problems in access and their liturgical use.
In the recent judgment Re St. Paul Heslington [2025] ECC Yor 1, the Petitioners sought to dispose of a nineteenth century font which, as part of a major reordering in 1973, had been placed outside the church and used as a plant holder; in its place was “a bold stainless steel font (the “New Font”), surmounted by a dove” [3]. Unsurprisingly, the condition of the Original Font deteriorated and in 2022 all its salvageable parts were brought into the church (i.e. the bowl and the shattered remains of the plinth and lower section) [8].’
Law & Religion UK, 21st March 2025
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
Breaking new ground – The tribunal’s approach to ‘just and equitable’ in Remediation Contribution Orders – Local Government Lawyer
‘The First Tier Tribunal (the tribunal) has handed down a judgment in the case of Grey GR Limited Partnership v Edgewater (Stevenage) Limited and others [2025] UKFTT concerning a Remediation Contribution Order (RCO), marking an important development in building safety legal proceedings.’
Local Government Lawyer, 20th March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Adverse possession: applications by squatters to be registered as proprietor – Local Government Lawyer
‘In a leapfrog appeal from the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) the Supreme Court decided the question of how quickly an application, to be registered as the proprietor of a registered estate in land by way of adverse possession, needs to be made by a squatter, following their realisation that they do not in fact own the land which they have been possessing.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
MR: ‘Very disappointing’ end to court modernisation programme – Legal Futures
‘The court modernisation project ends this month with the “very disappointing” outcome of only 23% of civil cases being digital end to end, the Master of the Rolls told MPs this week.’
Legal Futures, 21st March 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Prosper life sentence referred as ‘unduly lenient’ – BBC News
‘The life sentence given to a teenager who murdered his mother and siblings has been referred to the Unduly Lenient Sentence Scheme by the shadow justice minister.’
BBC News, 20th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Elite London law firm fined £465,000 for Russian sanctions breaches – The Guardian
‘Herbert Smith Freehills, the elite global law firm based in London, has been fined by the British government after its former Moscow office made millions of pounds in payments to sanctioned Russian banks.’
The Guardian, 20th March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
Woman jailed for faking twins pregnancy to partner – BBC News
‘A woman who duped a man into believing they were having twins, until her fake baby bump was exposed in a hospital scan, has been jailed and given a restraining order.’
BBC News, 20th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Four sports broadcasters fined £4m after colluding on freelance pay rates – The Independent
‘BT, IMG, ITV and BBC have all been fined after a regulator found companies coordinated on how much to pay freelancers.’
The Independent, 21st March 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Data helps Met convict 100 men who targeted women – BBC News
‘The force said its V100 programme, which uses data to identify and target men who pose the highest risk to women, had enabled officers to focus efforts on reducing the threat posed by perpetrators and to protect potential victims.’
BBC News, 20th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Stephen Lawrence killer admits role in attack – Parole Board – BBC News
‘David Norris was jailed for life in 2012 after he had denied being part of the racist attack on 18-year-old Stephen, who was stabbed to death by a gang of young white men in Eltham, south London.’
BBC News, 21st March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Insurance intermediaries working with offshore insurers may reclaim UK VAT – OUT-LAW.com
‘A recently delivered judgment by the UK’s First-tier Tribunal (Tax) (FTT) will have significant implications for insurance intermediaries and their ability to recover tax, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th March 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
Beringer: No rules force law firms to take on questionable clients – Legal Futures
‘There are no rules that require law firms to take on clients outside of criminal work and so they need to be willing to justify their choices publicly, the former senior partner of Allen & Overy said this week.’
Legal Futures, 20th March 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
SRA used “prejudicial hearsay evidence” in failed prosecution – Legal Futures
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) relied on complaints by anonymous people and “a significant amount of prejudicial hearsay evidence” to support a failed prosecution against two high-profile solicitors, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 20th March 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
