‘The Hong Kong-based provider of internet TV subscription service NOW TV could not prevent Sky using the same name for a similar service in the UK because it did not have a UK customer base, the UK’s highest court has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th May 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The return of a majority Conservative government in last week’s general election in the UK has made the Conservative Party’s plans for reforming human rights law in the United Kingdom a likely prospect. It is recalled that on 3 October 2014, the Conservative Party published its policy document ‘Protecting Human Rights in the UK’ which sets out its proposal to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and replace it with a new British Bill of Rights. In addition, the policy document also raised the prospect that the UK might withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 15th May 2015
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org/blog
‘A litigant-in-person has lost his claim for psychiatric injury against the Stobart Group and associated companies over his failure to serve a medical report.’
Litigation Futures, 15th May 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A committee of High Court judges, joined by a leading QC and City solicitor, has revealed its recommendations for faster trials of commercial disputes.’
Litigation Futures, 15th May 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) is launching a survey today inviting views from anybody and any firm that has been in contact with one of the eight legal services regulators in England and Wales.’
Legal Services Board, 14th May 2015
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘Harbour Lecture by Lord Justice Dyson MR: Confronting Costs Management.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 14th May 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Guidance on the procedures that should be followed when the communications data is accessed or disclosed under RIPA, or retained under DRIPA or the ATCSA.’
Home Office, 15th May 2015
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘Harbour Lecture by Lord Justice Jackson: Confronting Costs Management.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 14th May 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Speech by Lord Justice Geoffrey Vos: Presentation to the Conference in Brno Czech Republic.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 14th May 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Jack Straw, a former Labour cabinet minister and one of the architects of the Freedom of Information Act, has said that the Prince of Wales’s memos to ministers should have remained secret and that the supreme court exceeded its power in backing the Guardian’s fight for publication.’
The Guardian, 14th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A six-year-old boy with cerebral palsy is to receive a £10m care and rehabilitation package from Harrogate and district NHS foundation trust after it admitted failing to provide proper care during his birth that resulted in devastating neurological injuries.’
The Guardian, 14th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A woman who supplied a friend with the gas she used to kill herself has been cleared of assisting suicide.’
The Independent, 14th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A “cavalier” lorry driver who ran a red light before killing a cyclist has been jailed for three-and-a-half years and given a 10-year driving ban.’
The Independent, 14th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A couple of bedroom tax decisions, one Upper Tribunal, one FTT, both of which involve findings for the tenant in the landscape after the Upper Tribunal decision in Nelson (SSWP v David Nelson and Fife Council, SSWP v James Nelson and Fife Council [2014] UKUT 0525 (AAC) – our report). Given that we appear to be stuck with the bedroom tax for the next 5 years at least, this is the landscape unless the Supreme Court does something dramatic in MA & Ors.’
Nearly Legal, 12th May 2015
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The thing about the Supreme Court is that all those years of accrued, encrusted High Court and Court of Appeal case law just don’t matter. If the Supreme Court thinks otherwise, they are so much chaff. And so, to some extent, it proved to be in these joined appeals, where the issue was the meaning of vulnerability in s.189(1)(c) Housing Act 1996.’
Nearly Legal, 13th May 2015
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court has today issued a landmark ruling in three linked appeals over when homeless people are to be considered “vulnerable” under the Housing Act 1996 and therefore in priority need.’
Local Government Lawyer, 13th May 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Lord Chief Justice has a number of statutory functions, the exercise of which may be delegated to a nominated judicial office holder (as defined by section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (the 2005 Act). This document sets out which judicial office holder has been nominated to exercise specific delegable statutory functions.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 14th May 2015
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘The architect of controversial costs management reforms has returned to the subject to insist his changes will not be watered down.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th May 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Retaining DNA profiles of convicted adults indefinitely is not an illegal breach of their privacy, the supreme court has ruled in a test case involving a Northern Ireland drink driver. he judgment by the UK’s highest court sets a significant precedent in making a clear distinction between information that police forces may keep on those who have been convicted, as opposed to those who were merely suspects.’
The Guardian, 13th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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