‘The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published new guidance setting out how it will determine penalty notices and calculate fines under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).’
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd March 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A recent case involving the seizure of over £2 billion worth of bitcoin in the UK highlights the crucial role professionals in the financial and legal sectors can play in preventing money laundering, a financial crime expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd March 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Sentencing Council is consulting on the first ever sentencing guidelines for immigration offences. The guidelines reflect legislative changes to the Immigration Act 1971 brought in by the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.’
Sentencing Council, 20th March 2024
Source: www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk
‘Michele Vas analyses the recent Galloway v Durham County Council case which was principally concerned with the issue of whether the planning permission approved a solar farm with a capacity of 50MW or more.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd March 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Charles Holland examines a recent ruling where conditions restricting the ability to cross-border subcontract were quashed on appeal.’
Local Government Lawyer, 22nd March 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Listed law firm Rosenblatt is facing the prospect of having to pay out millions of pounds after the High Court allowed proceedings for costs orders against it to proceed.’
Legal Futures, 25th March 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) approach to fines has been branded unfair and “schizophrenic” in the wake of hefty penalties handed out to solicitors convicted of drink-driving.’
Legal Futures, 25th March 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.’
Home Office, 20th March 2024
Source: www.gov.uk
‘A small boat pilot has been jailed after crossing the Channel with more than 50 migrants in a perilously overcrowded dinghy.’
Home Office, 21st March 2024
Source: www.gov.uk
‘This evening, on Tuesday 19 March 2024, Baroness Carr of Walton-On-The-Hill, Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, delivered this year’s Kalisher lecture titled “To Know The Law And Observe It Well – Magna Carta And Criminal Justice”.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary , 19th March 2024
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘One of the parties in a 14-year-long boundary dispute has avoided having to pay £27,000 in costs for an appeal, because the order he was appealing against said nothing about costs.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th March 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘An IT worker and double murderer who befriended a married couple before poisoning them with fentanyl has been jailed for life.’
The Independent, 23rd March 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The former director of public prosecutions for England and Wales has warned against the risk of creating “thought crimes” amid the recent clampdown on protesters and demonisation of demonstrators by politicians.’
The Guardian, 24th March 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
J, Re (Care Plan for Adoption) [2024] EWCA Civ 265 (22 March 2024)
JC Bamford Excavators Ltd v Manitou UK Ltd & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 276 (22 March 2024)
Navigator Equities Ltd & Anor v Deripaska [2024] EWCA Civ 268 (20 March 2024)
Lidl Great Britain Ltd & Anor v Tesco Stores Ltd & Anor (Rev1) [2024] EWCA Civ 262 (19 March 2024)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Bhandari v Government of India & Anor [2024] EWHC 612 (Admin) (19 March 2024)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Bratt v Jones [2024] EWHC 631 (Ch) (22 March 2024)
Hyde v Stunt (Re Insolvency Act 1986) [2024] EWHC 630 (Ch) (22 March 2024)
Winchester Park Ltd v 1 Palace Gate Freehold Ltd [2024] EWHC 661 (Ch) (22 March 2024)
Barklem v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2024] EWHC 651 (Ch) (22 March 2024)
Lowe v Governors of Sutton’s Hospital In Charterhouse [2024] EWHC 646 (Ch) (21 March 2024)
Scott & Ors v Walker & Ors [2024] EWHC 636 (Ch) (21 March 2024)
Farol Holdings Ltd v Clydesdale Bank PLC & Anor [2024] EWHC 593 (Ch) (19 March 2024)
High Court (Commercial Court)
SY Roro 1 PTE Ltd & Anor v Onorato Armatori SRL & Ors [2024] EWHC 611 (Comm) (21 March 2024)
High Court (Family Division)
Z, Re (Infant Fatality) [2024] EWHC 618 (Fam) (18 March 2024)
High Court (King’s Bench Division)
Al Tarboush v Cassam [2024] EWHC 639 (KB) (22 March 2024)
Coram v DR Dunthorn & Son Ltd [2024] EWHC 672 (KB) (22 March 2024)
Sinton v Maybourne Hotels Ltd & Ors [2024] EWHC 647 (KB) (21 March 2024)
Kapoor v Johal [2024] EWHC 551 (KB) (20 March 2024)
Bridgen v Hancock [2024] EWHC 623 (KB) (20 March 2024)
Owens v Lewis [2024] EWHC 609 (KB) (19 March 2024)
Francis v Pearson [2024] EWHC 605 (KB) (19 March 2024)
St Albans City And District Council v Taylerson & Ors [2024] EWHC 602 (KB) (15 March 2024)
SZR v Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council [2024] EWHC 598 (KB) (15 March 2024)
CCP Graduate School Ltd v National Westminster Bank PLC & Anor [2024] EWHC 581 (KB) (14 March 2024)
High Court (Technology & Construction Court)
South East Water Ltd v Elster Water Metering Ltd [2024] EWHC 620 (TCC) (21 March 2024)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘Naomi Ling of Outer Temple Chambers has provided a critical analysis of the recent Avon Cosmetics decision.’
Pensions Barrister, 21st March 2024
Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com
‘A woman who subjected her three-year-old son to a campaign of “sadistic cruelty” and punishment for petty wrongs has been found guilty of his murder.’
The Guardian, 21st March 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who tied up, tortured and murdered a woman before hiding her body underneath a bed has been given a life sentence.’
BBC News, 20th March 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Thousands of women, potentially hundreds of thousands, are owed compensation because of government failings related to the way changes to the state pension age were made, a long-awaited official report has said.’
The Guardian, 21st March 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
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