‘Priti Patel has admitted that it will take time to establish the government’s high-profile plan to send people who arrive in the UK without authorisation to Rwanda, amid growing suspicion that it will not solve the migration crisis in the Channel.’
The Guardian, 10th May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Courts are set to be given powers to hand out tougher punishments for serious animal cruelty crimes, under proposed new sentencing guidelines.’
BBC News, 10th May 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Gangat v Jassat & Anor [2022] EWCA Civ 604 (06 May 2022)
BT Group Plc v Patourel [2022] EWCA Civ 593 (06 May 2022)
Storey v British Telecommunications Plc [2022] EWCA Civ 616 (05 May 2022)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Turner v R. [2022] EWCA Crim 617 (06 May 2022)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Heilligger v Westminster Magistrates’ Court & Anor [2022] EWHC 1056 (Admin) (06 May 2022)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Smith v Smith & Anor [2022] EWHC 1035 (Ch) (06 May 2022)
Stobart Capital Ltd v Esken Ltd [2022] EWHC 1036 (Ch) (06 May 2022)
Keane v Sargen & Ors [2022] EWHC 1006 (Ch) (06 May 2022)
Brittain v Ferster & Ors [2022] EWHC 1060 (Ch) (06 May 2022)
Clayton Recruitment Ltd v Wilson & Anor [2022] EWHC 1054 (Ch) (05 May 2022)
High Court (Family Division)
Tickle v Herefordshire County Council & Ors [2022] EWHC 1017 (Fam) (04 May 2022)
High Court (Patents Court)
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd v GW Pharma Ltd [2022] EWHC 1012 (Pat) (03 May 2022)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Nursing And Midwifery Council & Anor v Harrold [2022] EWHC 1048 (QB) (06 May 2022)
Ashford Borough Council & Anor v Wilson [2022] EWHC 988 (QB) (05 May 2022)
Pal v Damen & Anor [2022] EWHC 4697 (QB) (05 May 2022)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council has agreed to reimburse “a significant amount of money” to a woman after it did not offer her mother an affordable care home placement, before asking her to pay a top-up towards her mother’s fees.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th May 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The President of the Family Division has issued new guidance on remedying breaches of the Adoption Agency Regulations 2005. Jess Purchase sets out the key points.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th April 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The difficulty of people signing up to a collective action and the availability of third-party funding were legitimate factors to take into account in making it opt-out, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 9th May 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A former civil servant received a six-figure pay-out from the government over discrimination after she says was subjected to “insidious” racism during a 20-year battle with the Ministry of Justice.’
The Independent, 8th May 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A couple who have spent years battling water abstraction in a national park are taking their fight to the High Court.’
BBC News, 9th May 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The first legal action has been launched against Priti Patel’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as the UN’s refugee agency raised concerns that the UK is “inviting” other European countries to adopt the same divisive immigration policy.’
The Guardian, 7th May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘New legislation would give the schools regulator powers to crack down on unregistered schools operating illegally in England, ministers say.’
BBC News, 8th May 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An additional bank holiday has been created in the UK this year to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Does this entitle a contractor to claim an extension of time? A client recently asked this question in the context of a project using the JCT Design and Build Contract 2016. It certainly throws up a number of issues.’
Practical Law: Construction Blog, 4th May 2022
‘The High Court (Bean LJ and Garnham J) held in R (Gardner) v Secretary of State for Health [2022] EWHC 967 (Admin) that the Government’s March 2020 Discharge Policy and the April 2020 Admissions Guidance were unlawful to the extent that the policy set out in each document was irrational in failing to advise that where an asymptomatic patient (other than one who had tested negative) was admitted to a care home, he or she should, so far as practicable, be kept apart from other residents for 14 days.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 3rd May 2022
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Community care lawyers are limiting the amount and type of legal aid work they do to ensure that their firms remain financially viable, a report has found.’
Legal Futures, 6th May 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘There was no express or implied retainer between a Buckinghamshire law firm and a businessman with a “colourful commercial career” suing it for £2.5m in damages, the High Court has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 6th May 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“FOIA”) does not permit aggregation of the separate public interests in favour of maintaining different exemptions when weighing the maintenance of the exemptions against the public interest which favours disclosure of the information sought, the Upper Tribunal has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 5th May 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court has provided further guidance on two important issues in data breach claims, writes Peter Wake.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th May 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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