‘A woman sexually abused by her stepfather between the ages of four and 16 is challenging a law which stops victims of crime who lived under the “same roof” as their attacker prior to 1979, from receiving compensation.’
BBC News, 11th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Equality Commission is investigating allegations of racial profiling by Northern Ireland immigration officials, brought by a black British lawyer on the eve of a key Brexit vote on border checks in the region.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Medical examiners will investigate patient deaths in the NHS as part of changes to improve patient safety and protect medical staff from being criminalised for their mistakes.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman (LGO) has criticised a London borough after an investigation found that a mother and her five children were accommodated in a damp and mouldy single bedroom.’
Local Government Lawyer, 8th June 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Manchester University has launched what is understood to be the first legal technology course for law degree students in England and Wales.’
Legal Futures, 7th June 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Nearly half of train firms are misleading passengers over their right to claim compensation for extra costs caused by delays, a Which survey has found.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th June 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Daily Mail reported yesterday that a ‘Nurse’s one-year-old son is taken from her care after she let him sit in a Bob The Builder toy car that was ‘inappropriate’ for his age’.’
Transparency Project, 6th June 2018
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘More investigatory bodies could be given the right to apply for a search warrant independently of the police under plans to modernise the regime published by the Law Commission.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th June 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The High Court has quashed planning permission for a care home expansion granted by Bath and North East Somerset Council despite officers’ objections, it has been reported.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th June 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court was entitled to make a third-party costs order against the insurer involved in a group litigation, which required the insurer to cover the costs of all cases covered by the group litigation order (GLO) and not just those within the scope of its policy.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th June 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘It is not at all uncommon for international couples who marry abroad to have entered into a pre-nuptial agreement or a ‘matrimonial property regime’. Pre-nuptial agreements are indeed commonplace in many countries which treat these documents as binding and legally enforceable agreements. But what happens when a foreign pre-nup finds its way to the English divorce courts?’
Family Law, 6th June 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Justice is launching a review of the use of pain-inducing restraint across all child prisons and escorting procedures after a children’s charity threatened legal action.’
The Guardian, 7th June 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘On 30 November 2017 I issued ‘Practice Guidance: Standard financial and enforcement orders’ [2018] Fam Law 89 [1]. These orders, which are available in both hard and soft formats, as well as being generatable by commercial software, have been very well received. Indeed, I have learned that they are being considered for adoption, in suitably modified form, in Hong Kong. I have no doubt that those orders are achieving the objective I identified, namely to promote national consistency, and to avoid for the future, so far as possible, ambiguities in the meaning of the wording of an order.’
Family Law, 7th June 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Rosalind English discusses with Professor Karen Yeung of Birmingham University the various opportunities and challenges presented to the law by Artificial Intelligence.’
Law Pod UK, 6th June 2018
Source: audioboom.com
‘UK consumers are paying millions more than they expect for personal loans as the gap between advertised and actual interest rates on such borrowing grows.’
The Independent, 7th June 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Thames Water has been ordered to pay out £120m to compensate customers over poor management of leaks.’
BBC News, 7th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A baby could become the first person without a legal mother if a transgender man wins a historic court battle.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th June 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Justice is at risk of freezing out a large number of vulnerable people from accessing the online court if it does not reshape its strategy for assisting the ‘digitally excluded’, according to a major study commissioned by the Civil Justice Council (CJC).’
Legal Futures, 8th June 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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