‘A case in which £7m in legal costs were racked up over a dispute worth £904,000 is “an appalling state of affairs which brings no credit to modern commercial litigation”, a High Court judge declared yesterday.’
Litigation Futures, 12th December 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Businesses that supply digital content to consumers would be able to insert contract terms that would exclude them from liability for damage caused by their content to consumers’ devices or other digital content, under proposed new consumer protection laws backed by UK law makers.’
OUT-LAW.com, 11th December 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Recently Louis Blom-Cooper QC and Professor Sean McConville (QMUL) proposed that the next government set up a royal commission on prison policy.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 12th December 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘An ex-prison officer has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for selling details about James Bulger’s killer to a journalist.’
BBC News, 11th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Roger Smith OBE made the case for 1% of the legal aid budget to be directed towards an ‘innovation fund’ to promote access to justice online. The former director of JUSTICE, who was delivering the keynote speech earlier this week at the 2014 Legal Voice conference, called upon Chris Grayling to ‘re-evaluate’ priorities and to deploy online help for initial advice.’
LegalVoice, 11th December 2014
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
‘The High Court’s decision to block the abolition of recoverability for mesothelioma claims has denied victims the 10% uplift in damages they would otherwise have received, justice minister Lord Faulks has said.’
Litgation Futures, 11th December 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A son who killed his father and put his dismembered body into storage boxes he was using as a TV stand, has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 10th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Type the words “have human rights …” into Google and it automatically suggests “… gone too far[?]”.
This isn’t a surprise: for many people human rights, as set out in the Human Rights Act 1998, are a byword for reckless absurdity. It is a villains’ charter which cares not a jot for law-abiding citizens.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 12th December 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘In a consultation opening today the Law Commissions of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland set out provisional proposals for reforming the law that governs the conduct of elections and referendums across the UK.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 12th December 2014
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Indeterminate sentences and the inadequate funding of rehabilitation during them has posed problems since Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences hamstrung the system. The courts here and in Strasbourg have been in two minds what to do about cases where prisoners have not received the assistance they ought to have received – and hence are not, by domestic standards, ready for release.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th December 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘It is time for pleadings to get “back to basics”, the Court of Appeal said yesterday after suggesting that “practitioners have, on occasion, lost sight” that their aim is to help the court and the parties.’
Litigation Futures, 12th December 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A man who attacked the Respect MP George Galloway in the street while calling him an “antisemitic little man” has been jailed for 16 months.’
The Guardain, 11th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A stage manager for an award-winning theatre company, left paralysed after walking through an unmarked backstage door into “thin air” and falling three metres, has been awarded £3.7m in compensation, in one of the biggest payouts in the UK entertainment sector.’
The Guardian, 11th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The transport and environment committee of umbrella group London Councils has approved £80 fines for spitting in public places.’
BBC News, 11th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who imprisoned his wife in their home and expected her to be a servant cannot be allowed to see his two daughters, senior judges have ruled.’
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The Guardian, 11th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Restaurants and takeaways across Europe will be required by law to tell customers if their food contains ingredients known to trigger allergies.’
BBC News, 12th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The couple are said to have funded a luxury lifestyle of holidays and jewellery with ‘scandalous ease’.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th December 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘An “extremist” mother-of-six who took pictures of her toddler son holding a toy gun and daydreamed about sending his eight-year-old brother to fight jihad when he grows up has been jailed for five years and three months for promoting terrorism on social media.’
The Guardian, 11th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘In 2006, it was estimated that 35% of all GP consultations involved a mental health problem and by 2011 stress had become the most common cause of long-term sickness absence for both manual and non-manual workers. If these figures are not reason enough for employers to address their employees’ mental health issues, there are plenty more statistics that may convince them:
It is estimated that three in ten people will experience a mental health problem in any one year, and this figure is likely to increase.
Work-related stress costs Britain 10.4 million working days per annum, with a disconcerting 91 million days per year lost to mental health problems generally.
The Centre for Mental Health estimates that the total cost of mental health problems at work is over £30 billion a year.
When working long hours, more than a quarter of employees feel depressed (27%), one third feel anxious (34%) and more than half feel irritable (58%).’
Hardwicke Chambers, 11th December 2014
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
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