‘With thousands of homebuyers caught out by rapidly rising rents, the solicitors they used may face claims of professional negligence.’
The Guardian, 19th November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Pornography websites that refuse to check ages before allowing people to watch explicit videos will be forcibly blocked, it has been announced.’
Daily Telegraph, 19th November 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Racial discrimination is being covered up by schools in order to protect Ofsted ratings, the British Youth Council has warned, with incidents of racist and religious taunting being readily dismissed as “banter”.’
The Independent, 19th November 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘”Devastating” cuts to staff and budgets have undermined the ability of Britain’s equality watchdog to fight a rising tide of discrimination and hate crime, according to unions.’
The Guardian, 20th November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Two men who killed a takeaway delivery driver in a “snatch-and-grab” robbery for three pizzas have been jailed.’
BBC News, 18th November 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Report by Adam Smith Institute says UK’s drug strategy ‘has failed in its core aims’ and urges government to legalise cannabis.’
The Guardian, 21st November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The government should pilot its plans to digitise low-level summary convictions with TV licence evasion, rather than train and tram fare evasion, the Law Society has said.’
Legal Futures, 21st November 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Home Office is “disregarding and mistreating” medical evidence of torture in UK asylum claims, a report by a charity suggests.’
BBC News, 21st November 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The replica designer furniture market has become a huge industry, but a rushed change to the law has plunged it into chaos.’
The Guardian, 21st November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Environmental legal challenges face being hit by the “chilling effect” of new government rules that remove a cap on claimants’ costs, according to campaigners, lawyers and politicians.’
The Guardian, 17th November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Low-value road traffic accident claims “are not so complex that claimants routinely require legal representation to pursue them”, the government has argued – and suggested that claims management companies and paid McKenzie Friends could help instead.’
Legal Futures, 17th November 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A case before the EU’s highest court should help clarify whether online platform bans should automatically be considered as breaching competition laws, a UK competition regulator has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 17th November 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘There are many impediments to children registering their entitlement to British citizenship. Solange Valdez and Steve Symonds have previously written for Legal Voice on the separate issues of good character and Home Office fees. A whole other set of difficulties arises for many children in relation to evidence.’
Legal Voice, 18th November 2016
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
‘UK rules on broadband advertising are to be updated, the bodies that write and enforce the rules have said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 17th November 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The publisher of the Daily Mirror has paid out more than £500,000 to settle phone-hacking claims by 29 people including the entertainer Les Dennis, presenter Natasha Kaplinsky and EastEnders actor Steve McFadden.’
The Guardian, 17th November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The UK government has released a National Cybersecurity Strategy for the next five years. It will always be a difficult enterprise to try to predict changes to the threat landscape for the digital economy, even over as short a time span as five years. But there is clearly a pressing need here with cyberattacks regularly in the news. A recent example was an attack on a group of hospitals that put patients at risk for several days.’
Technology Law Update, 18th November 2016
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘A coroner may refer a hospital trust to the Crown Prosecution Service over allegations that a senior midwife’s evidence on the death of a five-day-old baby was tampered with.’
The Guardian, 17th November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Licensing authorities are precluded from requiring applicants for the grant or renewal of authorisation to pay a fee that includes in part the costs of managing and enforcing the relevant scheme, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th November 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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