‘Online gambling firm 32Red has been handed a £2m fine for failing to protect a problem gambler and granting the customer VIP status. The Gambling Commission identified 22 incidents where the vulnerable customer’s behaviour should have raised red flags, including one where they told 32Red staff that they had spent too much money on gambling.’
The Independent, 20th June 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A family say they have been left £15,000 in debt, without passports and unable to register their son as British because of the Home Office’s actions. The Bristol couple are among 1,000 highly-skilled migrants said to be facing deportation because of how the government has applied immigration law. Home Secretary Sajid Javid has ordered a review into use of Section 322(5).’
BBC News, 21st June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Home Secretary has today (Wednesday 20 June) introduced new legislation to ban the delivery of knives and corrosives bought online to residential addresses.’
Home Office, 20th June 2018
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘Producing fake pornographic images based on pictures of real people should be made a criminal offence in an amended bill to tackle upskirting, an academic expert has argued.’
The Guardian, 21st June 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The family of a young man who died while being restrained by police have branded the inquest a “farce”. Rashan Charles, 20, died in July last year after being chased into a shop in Hackney, east London, where CCTV showed an officer from the Metropolitan Police struggling with him on the floor. The jury found his death was an accident following justified use of force.’
The Independent, 20th June 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘More than 450 patients died after being given powerful painkillers inappropriately at Gosport War Memorial Hospital, a report has found.’
BBC News, 20th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A doctor who left his date paralysed in a car crash kept his job after a tribunal heard he used medical knowledge to try and help her walk again.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th June 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Victims of Barry Bennell, the former football coach who was labelled “sheer evil” after subjecting junior footballers from Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra to hundreds of sexual offences, have welcomed the rejection of his appeal against his 30-year prison sentence.’
The Guardian, 20th June 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A husband who regularly beat his wife and kept her locked indoors during their 16-year marriage has been jailed.’
BBC News, 19th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A Christmas Day killer who stabbed her step-grandfather more than 120 times with a steak knife has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 19th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Joint ventures can vary enormously in terms of their scope and nature and be pro-competitive and justified, but as businesses increasingly look to collaborate to innovate, the agreements are coming in for greater scrutiny from competition authorities.’
OUT-LAW.com, 18th June 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A conditional fee agreement (CFA) that named the wrong defendant was still valid when read in the wider context of the claim, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 20th June 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘It will come as a surprise to many that the divorce law in England and Wales has not changed during the past 45 years or so despite the numerous social changes which have occurred since then.’
Family Law, 19th June 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Facebook has been ordered by a UK high court judge to reveal who told it to delete the profile of a jazz musician and his band, six months after he died.’
BBC News, 19th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Two recent County Court decisions have grappled with the issue of Japanese knotweed (JK) in the context of private nuisance claims between neighbouring landowners. The first was the judgment of Mr Recorder Grubb in Cardiff in respect of two separate actions with a common defendant: Williams v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd (B20YX969) and Waistell v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd (B34YJ849) (together Waistell). Still more recent was the judgment of HHJ Carr in Truro in Smith and another v Line (CTR00216) (Smith v Line), which was widely reported, albeit not entirely accurately, in the broadsheet and tabloid newspapers at the time of the hearing.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 11th May 2018
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
‘The government has said it will review the use of medicinal cannabis, although recreational usage will still be illegal.’
BBC News, 19th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Online gambling operator 32Red has been hit with a £2m penalty for failing to protect a problem gambler.’
BBC News, 20th June 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A widely-drafted exclusion clause in the standard terms of a fire protection system provider was not unreasonable, and therefore should be upheld, the Court of Appeal has confirmed.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th June 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Ninety-five years after the profession admitted Carrie Morrison, women have overtaken men as a majority of practising solicitors. That is the stand-out finding of the Law Society Annual Statistics Report, which continues to track a trend of long-term and bullish growth.’
Law Society's Gazette, 18th June 2018
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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