‘A coroner has raised concerns about fixed-gear bikes with no front brakes, as she heard how an Italian aristocrat died after falling under the wheels of a truck.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th January 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The High Court has admitted up to 17 people in England and Wales were unlawfully sent to jail for not paying their council tax last year – but it refused to accept this constituted “systematic failings” by the courts.’
The Independent, 17th January 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An American actress and singer is to receive revenge porn damages from her ex-boyfriend after becoming the first person to sue in the British courts.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th January 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man who served eight months in a youth jail for stealing mailbags in the 1970s has had his name cleared.’
BBC News, 17th January 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A former friend of Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis, who harassed her for two decades, has been jailed for contacting her from prison.’
BBC News, 16th January 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Justice minister Lord Keen said today that if the government’s personal injury reforms lead to greater involvement by “good” claims management companies (CMCs), it could be “beneficial” for the market.’
Legal Futures, 16th January 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A council has moved to ban anti-abortion protesters from outside a Marie Stopes clinic in west London.’
BBC News, 16th January 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Couples seeking “quickie divorces” can make the process even speedier as a result of a new online service launched by the Co-op.’
The Guardian, 16th January 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted that it needs to improve its disclosure of unused material after a rape trial was abandoned yesterday because vital phone evidence was not disclosed.’
Law Society's Gazette, 16th January 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘In July 2017, the Government announced a public consultation on legal gender recognition in the United Kingdom. In particular, it will invite opinion and advice on plans to adopt a model of self-determination (similar to that currently applied in other European jurisdictions, such as Ireland). Self-determination would allow trans persons to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate on the basis of a statutory declaration, without oversight by a Gender Recognition Panel (s. 1 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA 2004)), a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or having to prove real life experience (GRA 2004, s. 2).’
Oxford Human Rights Hub, 16th January 2018
Source: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
‘Householders could “unwittingly” be hiring victims of modern slavery to wash their cars, paint their nails or lay their drives, councils are warning.’
BBC News, 17th January 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The Nuclear Installations (Prescribed Sites and Transport) Regulations 2018
The Goods and Motor Vehicles (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018
The Wireless Telegraphy (Ultra-Wideband Equipment) (Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 2018
The Designs (International Registration of Industrial Designs) Order 2018
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
High Court (Administrative Court)
Malarz v Regional Court of Opole, Poland [2018] EWHC 28 (Admin) (16 January 2018)
High Court (Chancery Division)
ACLBDD Holdings Ltd & Ors v Staechelin & Ors [2018] EWHC 44 (Ch) (16 January 2018)
Wesley v Chantler & Ors [2018] EWHC 21 (Ch) (16 January 2018)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Phones 4u Ltd v EE Ltd [2018] EWHC 49 (Comm) (16 January 2018)
Apollo Ventures Co Ltd v Manchanda & Ors [2018] EWHC 58 (Comm) (11 January 2018)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Teign Housing v Lane [2018] EWHC 40 (QB) (16 January 2018)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Bombardier Transportation UK Ltd v Merseytravel & Anor [2018] EWHC 41 (TCC) (17 January 2018)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘In EA & Ors (Article 3 medical cases – Paposhvili not applicable) [2017] UKUT 00445, the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) refused to follow the most recent Strasbourg caselaw regarding the test for a breach of Article 3 ECHR in medical removal cases, finding that it was inconsistent with domestic precedent.’
Oxford Human Rights Hub, 15th January 2018
Source: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
‘The head of the Parole Board has admitted he cannot guarantee the public’s safety when the ‘black cab rapist’ John Worboys is released at the end of the month.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th January 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A London borough is to bring a judicial review challenge against the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service over a decision to close police buildings.’
Local Government Lawyer, January 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Prosecutors are considering a coroner’s findings that Poppi Worthington was sexually assaulted in her father’s bed before her death.’
The Guardian, 17th January 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘At a Cambridge court hearing in 1584, Margery Johnson reported that she heard Thomas Wylkinson refer to “the said Jane Johnson thus ‘A pox of God on thee, bitch fox whore, that ever I knew thee”. If Wylkinson indeed called down such a curse on Jane, he was guilty not of libel, but of slander, a verbal attack on another person.’
OUP Blog, 16th January 2018
Source: blog.oup.com
‘The High Court is to hear a legal challenge about whether women who were once involved in prostitution should be made to reveal their convictions.’
BBC News, 17th Janaury 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Hundreds of the most vulnerable victims of crime are being prevented from testifying against their attackers because of a shortage of experts to help them give evidence, the victims’ commissioner warns in a report on Wednesday.’
The Guardian, 17th January 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
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