‘The Supreme Court is due to rule on whether it should be easier to withdraw food and liquid to allow people in long-term vegetative states to die.’
BBC News, 30th July 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The government is to double the funding for an early intervention scheme tackling violence among young people, as part of a “public health” approach to combatting knife crime and other offences.’
The Guardian, 30th July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Banks can learn a lesson from a new ruling issued by the UK Supreme Court on practices to adopt when providing credit references, according to a banking and finance litigation expert.’
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A family law solicitor convicted of actual bodily harm after she hit her former boyfriend in the face with a glass has been suspended from practice for 15 months.’
Legal Futures, 27th July 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
The Warm Home Discount (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018
The Investigatory Powers (Codes of Practice and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2018
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (Eleventh Replenishment) Order 2018
The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Fees) (No. 2) Order 2018
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Supreme Court
Totel Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2018] UKSC 44 (26 July 2018)
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SPA v Playboy Club London Ltd & Ors [2018] UKSC 43 (26 July 2018)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Paragon Asra Housing Ltd v Neville [2018] EWCA Civ 1712 (26 July 2018)
PM Law Ltd v Motorplus Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 1730 (26 July 2018)
Argyle UAE Ltd v Par-La-Ville Hotel And Residences Ltd & Ors [2018] EWCA Civ 1762 (26 July 2018)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Brown, R v [2018] EWCA Crim 1775 (26 July 2018)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Wards Solicitors v Hendawi [2018] EWHC 1907 (Ch) (26 July 2018)
Frank Industries Pty Ltd v Nike Retail BV & Ors [2018] EWHC 1893 (Ch) (25 July 2018)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Davies & Ors v Morris [2018] EWHC 1901 (Ch) (26 July 2018)
Alsaifi vTrinity Mirror Plc & Anor [2018] EWHC 1954 (QB) (26 July 2018)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘She’s a trailblazer in more ways than one.
And Baroness Hale, the first female president of the Supreme Court, has again broken new ground as she becomes the only smiling portrait to hang in the hall of one of London’s illustrious Inns of Court.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th July 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal is to rule on the legality of what has become the industry model for handling low-value personal injury claims, with firms charging clients a 100% success fee as standard.’
Litigation Futures, 26th July 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A man has been found guilty of killing a woman in a speedboat crash on the River Thames during their first date.’
BBC News, 26th July 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Cases of Billy Caldwell and Alfie Dingley, who have severe epilepsy, along with lobbying, prompted change.’
The Guardian, 26th July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘All but one of 17 Met officers under investigation for the initial response to the serial killer Stephen Port refused to answer questions during interviews with the police watchdog.’
BBC News, 26th July 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Many of us aspire to be married one day. The ability to get married is something specifically protected by our human rights. But sometimes, for one reason or another, it doesn’t work out. In 2016 there were more than 100,000 divorces in England and Wales. However, getting a divorce isn’t always that easy.’
Rights Info, 25th July 2018
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘The independent inquiry into football’s sexual-abuse scandal is expected to report back to the Football Association that there is no evidence of an institutional cover-up at the top of the sport or of a paedophile ring operating within the game, it can be revealed.’
The Guardian, 26th July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The government has been “complicit” in an illegal policy that saw a school force out pupils unlikely to achieve high grades, campaigners have claimed.’
BBC News, 27th July 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Motor insurers in the UK are to share the costs involved in meeting third party claims raised by victims of terrorist attacks involving vehicles.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th July 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The monitoring of offenders in the community faces another shake-up after disastrous reforms introduced by Chris Grayling forced the government to bail out failing private probation companies by more than half a billion pounds.’
The Guardian, 27th July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The liability of parent companies for the extraterritorial human rights abuses committed by their subsidiaries has increasingly become a critical topic for both corporate and human rights litigators. The absence of national and international laws comprehensively addressing this issue created a space for creative arguments for and against holding parent companies of multinational groups incorporated in home States accountable for the human rights abuses committed by their subsidiaries in host States.’
Oxford Human Rights Hub, 24th July 2018
Source: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
‘Rod Charles understands the issue of police constraint more than most. He is a retired chief inspector, having served for 30 years. He is also the great-uncle of Rashan Charles, 20, who died in an incident involving restraint by a police officer last July.’
The Guardian, 25th July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A search of the Parliament website for the term mostly brings up the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. But Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat and his Labour colleague Khalid Mahmood want the 1351 Treason Act to be brought into the 21st Century.’
BBC News, 25th July 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Banks could be forced to pay savers a minimum interest rate after City regulators found that longstanding customers in instant access accounts are paid derisory rates because of their apathy about switching providers.’
The Guardian, 25th July 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
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