‘The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out new rules on how cryptoasset firms can advertise their products, including a cooling-off period for first time investors.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th June 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Court of Appeal has upheld an award of £300,000 to a small central London law firm owed under a retainer which the client had claimed was not payable as the transaction it advised on did not go ahead.’
Legal Futures, 16th June 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has thrown out a defamation claim over a letter sent by one law firm to another asserting a solicitor’s lien over £100,000 of any damages awarded to its former clients.’
Legal Futures, 16th June 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Plans have been submitted to modernise the identification doctrine, a legal principle which can hold corporations criminally liable for an offence.’
Home Office, 15th June 2023
Source: www.gov.uk
‘Law and Technology Conference Online lecture, Wednesday 14 June 2023.’
Courts & Tribunals Judiciary, 14th June 2023
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘A litigant described as having a “relaxed and frankly reckless” approach to timely service of documents has been denied relief in the Court of Appeal.’
Law Society's Gazette, 15th June 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Dame Sue Carr has been picked as the next lord chief justice of England and Wales, HM Judiciary announced this afternoon. She will take up the post on 1 October following the retirement of The Rt Hon. the Lord Burnett of Maldon on 30 September. Carr will be the first woman in the post. It is understood that the other short-listed applicant was also a woman, Dame Victoria Sharp.’
Law Society's Gazette, 15th June 2023
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A man who set up an online forum for sharing indecent images of children has been jailed.’
BBC News, 15th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A chief constable says she believes her own force is “institutionally racist”. Sarah Crew said she came to that conclusion after applying a series of criteria to Avon and Somerset Police following a report into the local criminal justice system.’
BBC News, 16th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Serial killer Levi Bellfield is to be allowed to marry after prison officials accepted there is no way to stop him under current laws.’
The Independent, 16th June 2023
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A 15-year-old boy who “triumphantly” bragged about stabbing a “kind and loving” teenager to death must serve at least 12 years behind bars for his murder.’
The Guardian, 15th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Proposals to tackle sexual harassment in the street in England and Wales do not go far enough because the bar for offences has been set too high, charities have warned.’
The Guardian, 16th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A taxi driver who raped a women he drove home after demanding to use her toilet has been jailed for 11 years.’
BBC News, 15th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Plans to improve the asylum system are “in doubt” unless the Home Office takes urgent action, the department has told the government’s spending watchdog.’
BBC News, 16th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The London Borough of Harrow left a family in unsuitable temporary accommodation, which “did not meet the needs of the claimant’s severely disabled daughter”, for almost a year, a court has found.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th June 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘After a distressing and controversial case in which a woman was jailed after taking abortion pills after the UK time limit, is it time to change the law?’
The Guardian, 15th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has secured agreements from Sainsbury’s and Asda to stop using unlawful anti-competitive land agreements that prevent competitors from establishing stores near to their own supermarkets.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th June 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A man has appeared at crown court charged with the murder of a married couple in East Sussex.’
BBC News, 14th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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