‘Lauren Gardner and Eleanor Suthern round up the latest Court of Protection cases of interest to practitioners.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th January 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has allowed a Guardian’s appeal against a family judge’s conclusion that she did not have jurisdiction to grant an injunction.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th January 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Chief Coroner has published a report reflecting on the impact of the reforms to the coroner service that came into effect 10 years ago, the current state of the service and its challenges for the future.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 11th January 2024
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘The chief coroner has called for another overhaul of a service that has become a postcode lottery following deep cuts to local authority funding.’
Law Society's Gazette, 11th January 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The UK’s appeal to businesses as a centre for dispute resolution will be boosted by the signing of the 2019 Hague Convention on private international law, the government said today. The treaty, signed in the Netherlands by justice minister Lord Bellamy this week, creates international framework of rules for recognition and enforcement of judgments in cross-border civil disputes.’
Law Society's Gazette, 12th January 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The government’s decision to pass a law overturning the convictions of post office operators has left many lawyers and judges uneasy.’
The Guardian, 11th January 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An animal charity has been given a £100 fine after a “ladies’ man” emu escaped.’
BBC News, 13th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Derby City Council has been ordered to pay thousands in compensation after it took too long to arrange alternative education for a special needs student.’
BBC News, 14th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A Lidl worker who dressed as a fake policeman with a plan to attack police headquarters, who plotted to shoot former teachers and ex-schoolmates, has been jailed for life.’
The Independent, 13th January 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Girls were “left at the mercy” of paedophile grooming gangs for years in Rochdale because of failings by senior police and council bosses, a report has said.
The damning 173-page review covers 2004 to 2013 and sets out multiple failed investigations by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and apparent local authority indifference to the plight of hundreds of youngsters, mainly white girls from poor backgrounds, all identified as potential victims of abuse in Rochdale by Asian men.’
The Independent, 15th January 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Defence has been reported to the equalities watchdog after claims from female civil servants that it has failed adequately to address allegations of sexual harassment and assault. The union Prospect wrote to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) asking for an investigation into whether the MoD was failing in its public sector equalities duty in relation to discrimination, harassment and victimisation. The EHRC will now have to decide whether to take action.’
The Guardian, 14th January 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Accommodation used to house tens of thousands of asylum seekers, often the worst in the UK when it comes to damp and mould, will be excluded from a crackdown on landlords managing social housing, the Guardian has learned.’
The Guardian, 15th January 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘At least two women were harmed after a “catastrophic” failure in the way a police force dealt with applications under Clare’s law, which gives people the right to ask whether a partner has a violent past, it has emerged.’
The Guardian, 11th January 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In a familiar line of cases of which the first was BT v CU [2021] EWFC 87, [2022] 1 WLR 1349, paras [100]–[114], and the last In re PP (A Child: Anonymisation) [2023] EWHC 330 (Fam), [2023] 4 WLR 48, paras [49]–[62], and Augousti v Matharu [2023] EWHC 1900 (Fam), paras [68]–[93], Mostyn J has explosively ignited a most necessary debate about the anonymisation of judgments in financial remedy cases. Part of his compelling analysis – which, so far as I am aware, no-one has yet succeeded in challenging successfully – relates to the use, or as he would have it, the inveterate misuse of the rubric attached to judgments in such cases.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 8th January 2024
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘A law firm in the North-East has become the first to receive a fixed penalty fine for not updating the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on information about a compliance officer.’
Legal Futures, 12th January 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘In Paul and another v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2024] UKSC 1, the Supreme Court had to decide whether (and, if so, when) an individual can make a claim for psychiatric injury caused by witnessing the death or other horrifying event of a close relative as a result of earlier clinical negligence. In dismissing the three conjoined appeals, a majority of the Supreme Court held that, while doctors owe a duty of care to protect the health of their patients, they do not owe a duty of care to members of the patient’s close family to protect them against the risk of illness from the experience of witnessing the death or medical crisis of their relative from a condition which the doctor has negligently failed to diagnose or treat.’
Mental Capacity Law and Policy, 11th January 2024
‘Food delivery company HelloFresh has been fined for sending millions of spam emails and texts to customers.’
BBC News, 11th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Ministers need to “immediately” update the law to acknowledge that computers are fallible or risk a repeat of the Horizon scandal, legal experts say.’
The Guardian, 12th January 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Delays at the Probate Service are shortening in the wake of a “distinct improvement in recruitment, competency, productivity and call handling”, the government said this week.’
Legal Futures, 12th January 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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