‘Michael Grant and Matthew Timm explore the law relating to “fitness for human habitation” and the court’s approach to damages.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Mediation: Cracking The Hardest Nuts- Some Thoughts After DKH Retail Ltd and Others v City Football Group Ltd [2024] EWHC 3231 (Ch).’
4-5 Gary's Inn Square, 18th March 2025
Source: www.4-5.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal upheld HHJ Saggerson’s decision on a section 204 appeal in the County Court that where an applicant requests a review on suitability under Part VII of the 1996 Act, the review officer is not obliged to anticipate and consider what further duty (if any) may be owed to the applicant without a request for a review on that basis.’
4-5 Gray's Inn Square, 21st March 2025
Source: www.4-5.co.uk
‘Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd [2025] UKSC 10, decided yesterday, is a landmark decision on the liability of trustees and other fiduciaries to account for unauthorised profits. It decides that the liability is strict and does not depend on whether the principal would have made the same profit or would have consented to the fiduciary keeping all or part of the profit if he had been asked. All that is needed is a sufficient link between the fiduciary duty and the profit.’
4 New Square, 20th March 2025
Source: www.4newsquare.com
‘In R (Leger) v Secretary of State for Education [2025] EWHC 665 (Admin), Ms Gladwys Leger was a teacher at Bishop Justus Church of England School [5]. She is “a born-again ‘conservative’ Roman Catholic” who believes that biological sex is immutable and should not be tampered with and that sexual relationships should only exist within a marriage between a man and a woman [8]. She brought a claim arising from her dismissal from the school.’
Law & Religion UK, 24th March 2025
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘A recent UK tax tribunal ruling has clarified that there is no default position for granting applications by third parties for disclosure of documents in tax appeals, while making it clear that third parties have to show a good reason for seeking access to a document.’
OUT-LAW.com, 21st March 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A court in England has echoed the approach taken by the courts in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and the BVI in relation to the process for hearing applications for seal and gag orders and a third-party disclosure order.’
OUT-LAW.com, 21st March 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘A university lecturer who brought an employment tribunal claim against his employer has won his bid for anonymity after the employment tribunal initially rejected the application.’
Law Society's Gazette, 21st March 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The current state of interpreting services in the courts is inefficient, ineffective and poses a risk to the administration of justice, peers declared today following an extensive inquiry. The government was urged to use a current procurement for language services contracts to reform the sector “or risk reinforcing significant jeopardy to justice for the foreseeable future”.’
Law Society's Gazette, 24th March 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Unregulated experts could be banned from the family courts under new proposals for proceedings involving children in England and Wales. The Family Procedure Rule Committee, which sets the rules in family court cases, has proposed changes to the rules, which are now out for public consultation. It follows growing concern from MPs and campaigners about court-appointed experts who advise on life-changing decisions without having the necessary qualifications. But some organisations say it does not go far enough.’
The Guardian, 22nd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A 22-year-old black student has accused police and prosecutors of misusing hate speech laws intended to protect minorities after she was charged for using the N-word in a tweet.’
The Guardian, 21st March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Five members of a county lines drug gang known as the Scouse Dave Line have been jailed.’
BBC News, 21st March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Teachers unable to get divorced because of delays getting their pensions valued are taking legal action against the government. Hundreds of teachers have been frustrated by long delays that left them “in limbo”, unable to move on with their lives or plan for their future.’
BBC news, 24th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who took a viable pressure cooker bomb into a Leeds hospital intending to “kill as many nurses as possible”, has been jailed at Sheffield Crown Court for life and will serve a minimum of 37 years.’
The Independent, 21st March 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Crown Prosecution Service is to update its guidance on so-called “revenge porn” crimes to stop perpetrators being allowed to keep explicit photos of their victims.’
The Guardian, 23rd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Teenagers who are permanently excluded from school are twice as likely to commit serious violence within a year of their expulsion than those who were merely suspended, a large-scale new analysis of police and education records has shown.’
The Guardian, 22nd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Upper Tribunal has handed down its decision in Singleton Birch & Anor v HMRC [2025] UKUT 72 (TCC) – the first appellate decision to consider the interpretation of the Landfill Tax (Qualifying Material) Order 2011 (‘QMO’).’
Devereux Chambers, 11th March 2025
Source: www.devereuxchambers.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court has handed down judgment in an important appeal concerning fiduciary duties. Three individuals who had been appointed by their principal to pursue a lucrative business opportunity decided instead to pursue it for their own benefit. They were found at trial to have breached fiduciary duties owed to their principal. On the taking of an account of profits, they were found to have earned around $170m from the pursuit of the business opportunity, and were ordered to account to the principal for the entire sum less a 25% equitable allowance to reflect the work they had done in generating it’
Blackstone Chambers, 19th March 2025
Source: www.blackstonechambers.com
‘The disposal options for unwanted baptismal fonts were reviewed in an earlier post, which reached the following conclusions:
There is an important distinction between the treatment of the font bowl and its plinth;
Canon F1 relates to use of the bowl of the font in church;.
There is no restriction in ecclesiastical law on the burial of a font in the churchyard, though this is often the disposal option of last resort;
There is a legacy of poorly-sited fonts which can result in health and safety issues, and problems in access and their liturgical use.
In the recent judgment Re St. Paul Heslington [2025] ECC Yor 1, the Petitioners sought to dispose of a nineteenth century font which, as part of a major reordering in 1973, had been placed outside the church and used as a plant holder; in its place was “a bold stainless steel font (the “New Font”), surmounted by a dove” [3]. Unsurprisingly, the condition of the Original Font deteriorated and in 2022 all its salvageable parts were brought into the church (i.e. the bowl and the shattered remains of the plinth and lower section) [8].’
Law & Religion UK, 21st March 2025
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘The First Tier Tribunal (the tribunal) has handed down a judgment in the case of Grey GR Limited Partnership v Edgewater (Stevenage) Limited and others [2025] UKFTT concerning a Remediation Contribution Order (RCO), marking an important development in building safety legal proceedings.’
Local Government Lawyer, 20th March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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