‘A senior defendant lawyer has hit out at solicitors who claimed £730,000 in costs for a “straightforward” holiday sickness claim in a case with damages of only £13,000.’
Litigation Futures, 24th September 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Insufficient oversight by Barnet Council together with inadequate controls allowed a former member of staff to commit a £2m fraud at a joint venture, a report by auditors Grant Thornton has said.’
Local Government Lawyer, 24th September 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Behind the scenes there are many considerations for couples and their families. With the preparation of the happy joining of lives of two people with marriage, also comes financial considerations going forward.’
Family Law, 24th September 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Prosecutors in England and Wales have been urged to take a more risk-averse approach in rape cases to help stem widespread criticism of the service’s low conviction rates, the Guardian can reveal.’
The Guardian, 24th September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The High Court has found there was an oral agreement between a solicitor and the son-in-law of a client that the latter would cover his fees, which in the end totalled £330,000.’
Legal Futures, 25th September 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A judge has ordered a police force and council to pay £52,000 to a sex abuse victim after a convicted paedophile was housed near his children’s home.’
BBC News, 24th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Ofcom is to launch an inquiry into Celebrity Big Brother after it received more than 25,000 complaints about Roxanne Pallett’s allegation she was physically abused by Ryan Thomas.’
BBC News, 24th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Tens of thousands of victims of domestic abuse and children are being put at further risk of harm by privatised offender supervision companies whose staff lack the skills, experience and time to supervise perpetrators, according to a new report.’
The Guardian, 25th September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A teacher who drove into an airport worker following a row over a new £3 drop-off charge has been spared jail after a judge said he agreed the levy was an “absolute disgrace”.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The pioneering technique used to identify a British widow’s sadistic killer has led to hundreds of crimes being solved around the world. How was familial DNA searching used to catch a murderer for the first time, 15 years ago, and more recently the suspected Golden State Killer?’
BBC News, 23rd September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘NHS England is to be taken to court by the UK’s equality watchdog for failing to offer fertility services to transgender patients.’
The Guardian 22nd, September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The NHS has won a landmark battle against drug giants paving the way for the health service to save millions by prescribing cheaper medicine.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has received unprecedented lobbying against the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) plans to allow solicitors to practise from unregulated businesses.’
Legal Futures, 24th September 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The crisis engulfing the criminal justice system over its approach to rape cases is revealed by startling figures that show less than a third of prosecutions brought against young men result in a conviction.’
The Guardian, 23rd September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Campaigners say it is time to find out the truth about the contaminated blood scandal that left nearly 3,000 people dead, as a public inquiry begins.’
BBC News, 24th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Browne v The Parole Board of England & Wales [2018] EWCA Civ 2024 (20 September 2018)
B-P (Children : adoption Or Fostering) [2018] EWCA Civ 2042 (20 September 2018)
Pham v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2064 (20 September 2018)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘This is an interesting decision of the Valuation Tribunal on the effect of the occupation by property guardians of a commercial building. Some (though not all) property guardian companies have made a sales feature of the alleged freedom from non-domestic (commercial) rates for a building occupied by guardians, on the basis that it is occupied for residential use. This Valuation Tribunal decision rather dents that position, as well as illustrating the complications that arise when you operate on the edges of landlord and tenant law.’
Nearly legal, 20th September 2018
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘A council head of legal services has lost an employment tribunal case against the authority for which she previously worked.’
Local Government Lawyer, 20th September 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The first person to be convicted under the Modern Slavery Act for human trafficking outside the UK has today had her sentence increased after the Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, personally argued that her sentence was too low in the Court of Appeal.’
Attorney General's Office, 20th September 2018
Source: www.gov.uk
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