‘Cases relating to children are to be excluded from the scope of costs management, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) has decided, while there will be new provisions to encourage agreement of budgets.’
Litigation Futures, 10th August 2015,
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A year after a change to UK domain names a skirmish in (web)space shows how effective Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service can be in protecting a trade mark owner’s rights.’
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Technology Law Update, 6th August 2015
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘R (on the application of GB by litigation friend, Francesco Jeff) v Oxfordshire County Council (age dispute- relevance of documents) IJR [2015] UKUT 429 (IAC) is an interesting and successful judicial review challenge to an age assessment. My colleague Shu Shin Luh was Counsel, instructed by Scott-Moncrieff & Associates.
Free Movement, 10th August 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘The Co-operative Bank has escaped a fine from regulators investigating the “failings” throughout 2009-13 that led to its bailout.’
BBC News, 11th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A judge has told a litigant-in-person that a road traffic accident (RTA) she was involved in was not to blame for her failure to secure a training contract.’
Legal Futures, 10th August 2015
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
If a head leaseholder, or managing company passes on as a service charge, rent charged by a freeholder for property in order to provide services, does this amount to a variable service charge for the purposes of s.18 Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, and so only payable if the rent costs were reasonably incurred and if the services or works to which they relate were of a reasonable standard?
Nearly Legal, 9th August 2015
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford is to stand trial in February accused of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old girl.’
BBC News, 10th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sensitive personal information has been lost or stolen in thousands of data breaches by councils, according to a study by privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch.’
The Guardian, 11th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A council has admitted wrongly using the Working Time Regulations to refuse the direct payments they assessed a young man as needing, following an investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th August 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A judge has refused to allow the media to name a 14-year-old boy who admitted stabbing his teacher, saying the teenager’s welfare had to come before public interest in his crime.’
The Guardian, 10th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A disabled man who tried to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex and brought a morning-after pill with him to stop her getting pregnant has been jailed for three and a half years.’
The Guardian, 6th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Compensation has been reduced for sexual assault victims who have criminal convictions. But we need to stop insisting that traumatised people should be model citizens.’
The Guardian, 7th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The UK statistics watchdog has asked the Department for Work and Pensions to ensure its statements on jobseeker sanctions are “objective and impartial” following a series of complaints by leading experts.’
The Guardian, 7th August 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Passengers more than three hours late to their destination can claim up to £420, but more than 500,000 have failed to do so over the past year.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘It is up to the directors of an insolvent company to prove that they took “every step” to minimise the potential loss to creditors as soon as they knew that the company could not reasonably avoid liquidation, the High Court has confirmed.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th August 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A “remorseless” attacker who hit a stranger over the head with a concrete slab until he was unconscious has been jailed for 17 years.’
BBC News, 7th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A British man facing extradition over claims he hacked into US government computers has said he fears he will not get a fair trial.’
BBC News, 9th August 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The UK government has been forced to withdraw the exemption from affordable housing contributions and the vacant building credit (VBC) for small housing developments in England after the High Court ruled it was unlawful.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th August 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A bus driver who failed to stop for 24 metres after hitting and dragging a cyclist under his vehicle has escaped jail despite causing his death.’
The Independent, 8th August 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A successful businessman has been convicted of bigamy for the second time in less than a year after it emerged that he never got round to divorcing his first wife of 35-years. ‘
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Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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