Home Office visa delays ‘inhumane’ – BBC News
‘Economic migrants are living in administrative limbo without passports for up to two years because of Home Office delays, figures show.’
BBC News, 3rd October 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Litigant-in-person figures expose family courts crisis – Law Society’s Gazette
‘Latest government figures highlighting the rising number of private law cases and litigants in person have prompted calls for the government to heed recent warnings about the family justice system.’
Law Society's Gazette, 29th September 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Longer jail terms for viewing terror content online – BBC News
‘People who repeatedly view terrorist content online will face up to 15 years in prison, the home secretary is to tell the Conservative Party conference.’
BBC News, 3rd October 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Brenda Hale sworn in as first female president of UK’s supreme court – The Guardian
‘Brenda Hale, the first female president of the supreme court, and Sir Ian Burnett, the youngest lord chief justice for 50 years, have been sworn in at the opening of the legal year.’
The Guardian, 2nd October 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
EVENT: Henderson Chambers – Pupillage Event 2017
‘Henderson Chambers are holding a Pupillage Event to meet future pupillage applicants. We want to get to know you, and we want to give you a chance to get to know us. We hope to introduce you to Chambers and to our Pupillage.
Members of Chambers are currently instructed in the Grenfell Tower Fire, the VW Emissions litigation, Nigerian oil spills, and the Seroxat group action, as well as many other high profile and complex cases.
In 2019-2020, Chambers will offer its pupils a £70,000 award and a Caribbean secondment.
Event Details:
• 25 November 2017 (immediately after the National Pupillage Fair)
• 3.30pm to 6.00pm
• Talks from senior and junior members
• Q&A
• Drinks, food, and a chance to mingle with our members
If you would like to attend, please email pupillages@hendersonchambers.co.uk no later than 4pm on 3 November 2017. You need to include your name and contact details, and answer the following question in no more than 100 words: Why are you interested in Pupillage at Henderson Chambers?’
EVENT: The Bar Council – Legal Consequences of Brexit
‘This seminar, organised jointly by the Bar Council and the Deutscher Anwaltverein (German Bar Association), will offer a platform for a discussion on the legal consequences of Brexit.
It will include topics such as the Art. 50 Litigation and the consequences for constitutional law and passporting and mutual recognition in financial services post-Brexit.’
Date: 20th October 2017, 2.00-5.00pm
Location: The General Council of the Bar, 289 – 293 High Holbon, WC1V 7HZ London
Charge: See website for details
More information can be found here.
Supreme Court to consider legal standard on adequacy of reasons in planning – Local Government Lawyer
‘The Supreme Court will next month consider the correct legal standard to be applied in assessing the adequacy of reasons provided by local planning authorities when granting planning permission.’
Local Government Lawyer, 29th September 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Fee change: all change? – New Law Journal
‘Alex Hawley reflects on the rise in anti-austerity sentiment & the possible impact of the Unison judgment on civil court fees.’
New Law Journal, 15th September 2017
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
Law Pod UK Ep. 11: The cost of surrogacy – a legitimate claim? – 1 COR
‘Rosalind English talks to David Prest about a recent High Court ruling on damages: Can someone who has been rendered infertile claim the costs of surrogacy abroad? A hospital admitted negligence in failing to diagnose the claimant’s cervical cancer. The chemotherapy and radiation treatment which followed rendered her infertile, but just before the treatment, her eggs were harvested and frozen. The court was asked to consider whether damages could include the cost of commercial surrogacy, an arrangement which is not legal in this country.’
Law Pod UK, 29th September 2017
Source: audioboom.com
The felling of protest? – UK Police Law Blog
‘In Sheffield City Council v Fairhall [2017] EWHC 2121 (QB), the Court has been asked to consider the extent to which the decision in DPP v Jones [1999] UKHL 5; [1999] 2 AC 240 can be relied upon as a right to conduct peaceful but disruptive protest on the highway.’
UK Police Law Blog, 30th September 2017
Source: ukpolicelawblog.com
Hamilton for lawyers – New Law Journal
‘How can a hip-hop musical become an inspiration for mediators? Richard Harrison shares his thoughts & a few plot spoilers below…’
New Law Journal, 15th September 2017
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
Data law: don’t expect a soft start, lawyers warned – Law Society’s Gazette
‘Any hope that a tough new data protection regime will be enforced lightly at first were dashed this week by a senior figure at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25 May next year, regardless of domestic legislation currently before parliament.’
Law Society's Gazette, 29th September 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Claimant who sued council over bogus highway accident guilty of contempt – Local Government Lawyer
‘A man who sued Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council for £10,000, claiming he was injured after tripping in a hole in the payment, has been found guilty of contempt of court and jailed for four months.’
Local Government Lawyer, 29th September 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Family: Undertakings and variations – Law Society’s Gazette
‘While the Supreme Court’s decision in Birch v Birch [2017] UKSC 53 is ostensibly about the court’s power to vary undertakings, it provides useful broader guidance on the variation of family orders generally.’
Law Society's Gazette, 2nd October 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
A weed is a plant in the wrong place – UK Human Rights Blog
‘“Banker” Ni Li and “estate agent” Zhixong Li bought the live American lobsters and Dungeness crabs from a London fish merchant, hired three boats from Brighton Marina and cast the animals adrift as part of a religious ceremony, fangsheng, which is understood to be the cause of many ecosystem disruptions in Asia.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 29th September 2017
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
Flasher conviction quashed because Facebook village gossip undermined fair trial – Daily Telegraph
‘A loner accused of chasing two women through a village while exposing himself has had his conviction quashed because residents had shared his image and gossiped about him on Facebook.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th September 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Childlike sex doll man given suspended prison term – BBC News
‘A man who imported a childlike sex doll he bought online has been given a suspended prison sentence.’
BBC News, 29th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Are surrogacy costs a legitimate claim? – UK Human Rights Blog
‘Commercial surrogacy arrangements are considered to be against public policy in the UK and therefore illegal. Surrogacy in the UK is only legal where there is no intention to make a profit – though reasonable expenses are recoverable. Where legal surrogacy is
carried out the surrogate mother is the legal mother of the child. In this case the claimant had suffered injury due to the hospital’s failure to diagnose her cervical cancer in time. She had to undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment which, amongst other things, damaged her uterus so she was unable to bear and carry a child. Before the treatment she had her eggs frozen.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 1st October 2017
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
Two neo-Nazi groups added to banned list – BBC News
‘Scottish Dawn and NS131, both aliases of neo-Nazi group National Action, are to be banned under UK terror law, the government has announced.’
BBC News, 28th September 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Plans for domestic violence register could save women’s lives – Daily Telegraph
‘An MP is to try to introduce a law to create a register of those convicted of domestic violence and make police warn new partners of a repeated offender’s violent past.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st October 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
