‘In order to determine the meaning of a publication in defamation, what matters is the publication taken as a whole, a High Court judge has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th February 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘This consultation sets out the government’s proposals for reforming the fee payable for an application for a grant of probate. The proposed fee regime will move from a flat to a banded fee approach, proportionate to, and rising with, the value of the estate, and at the same time will increase the value of the estate below which no fee is payable from £5,000 to £50,000, lifting some 30,000 estates out of paying any fee. The proposals are intended to be fair and progressive. The Government is also considering whether grant of probate applications should be excluded from the fee remissions scheme and are seeking views on this issue.’
Ministry of Justice, 18th February 2016
Source: www.consult.justice.gov.uk
‘A district council has won a Planning Court appeal after an inspector granted outline permission for a 103-dwelling development.’
Local Government Lawyer, 18th February 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A women’s charity has won an appeal against rule changes which it said “cut too many women off” from legal aid in domestic violence cases.’
BBC News, 19th February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Bank Mellat, an Iranian firm whose assets were frozen due to alleged involvement in nuclear proliferation, has won a European Union court ruling paving the way for claims against the UK.’
The Guardian, 18th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘For some families it could amount to a potential 129-fold increase in costs.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th February 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A UK court has approved for the first time the use of predictive coding as a basis for determining which electronic documents are relevant to a dispute.’
OUT-LAW.com, 18th February 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A junior school teacher who committed a series of “disgusting and appalling” sexual offences against nine girls has been jailed for three years.’
BBC News, 18th February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Lord Chancellor has been awarded almost £1m by the High Court in its battle with a legal aid firm over payments on account (POAs).’
Legal Futures, 19th February 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The UK supreme court has made a landmark ruling after 30 years, but what are the implications?’
The Guardian, 18th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) should properly have been called the Data Privacy Act: it is about privacy of personal data and not merely its security. Recent cases – if successful for the claimants – will change the litigation landscape for everyone.’
Gresham College, 27th January 2016
Source: www.gresham.ac.uk
R v Jogee (Appellant) [2016] UKSC 8 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 18th February 2016
Supreme Court, 17th February 2016
Kennedy (Appellant) v Cordia (Services) LLP (Respondent) (Scotland) [2016] UKSC 6 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 10th February 2016
R v Taylor (Appellant) [2016] UKSC 5 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 3rd February 2016
In the matter of B (A child) [2016] UKSC 4 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 3rd February 2016
‘Communities secretary Greg Clark has announced that he will consult on whether to reward good performance by certain council planning teams with the opportunity to increase their planning application fees.’
OUT-LAW.com, 16th February 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Today the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the conjoined appeals of R v Jogee and Ruddock v R [2016] UKSC 8, having heard the latter sitting as the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Both cases were appeals against murder convictions founded on a discrete principle of secondary liability, sometimes referred to as ‘joint enterprise’, sometimes as ‘parasitic accessorial liability’ (‘PAL’).’
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th February 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Over the past few decades, the question of substantive review has provided one of the liveliest debates in public law. However, despite a myriad of contributions from courts and legal commentators, we are still left with little certainty as to its nature, scope, and structure. As we near 70 years since Lord Greene’s landmark decision in Wednesbury, and despite some interesting and innovative recent additions to the debate, a distinct sense of fatigue has begun to set in.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 17th February 2016
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
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