‘Police and social workers missed chances to protect a 13-year-old girl who was stabbed to death by a man after she threatened to reveal he had been sexually abusing her for more than a year, an independent review has found.’
The Guardian, 4th November 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Court of Appeal in London has strengthened the tools available to rights holders when seeking to control and exploit commercially valuable data within sport and set out the pitfalls for third parties who seek to do the same without clear, unambiguous approval from a rights holder.’
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd November 2020
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Where the contractor has become insolvent, what obligations can an employer enforce when stepping-in to a previously novated professional consultant’s appointment in a design and build scenario?’
Practical Law: Construction Blog, 3rd November 2020
‘The High Court has ruled that there was no need for a more expensive City lawyer to be appointed a professional executor in preference to one from the Home Counties in a straightforward probate.’
Legal Futures, 4th November 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has refused to aggregate as one claim various actions a Yorkshire law firm’s indemnity insurer is facing because of a multi-million pound fraud run by one of its partners.’
Legal Futures, 4th November 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Prosecutors are to be asked to consider whether to bring new charges in the Stephen Lawrence case against senior police officers in the first botched murder investigation, it has been announced.’
The Guardian, 3rd November 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The high court has rejected a legal bid to challenge a decision not to investigate Dominic Cummings’s journey from London to Durham at the height of the first coronavirus lockdown. Max Hill, the director of public prosecutions, said any decision to investigate Cummings must be made by the police. He did not have the power to interfere.’
The Guardian, 3rd November 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A social media influencer has become the first person to be reprimanded by the UK’s advertising watchdog over a TikTok post.’
BBC News, 4th November 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A police officer who strangled a mother-of-two after she exposed their affair will have his 10-and-a-half year sentence for manslaughter reviewed.’
BBC News, 4th November 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Demonstrations of more than two people are to be banned during the month-long lockdown in England, after ministers removed an exemption that has allowed protests to take place in recent months.’
The Independent,3rd November 2020
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘R v A [2020] EWCA Crim 1408. On 29/10/2020, the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal against an aggravated burglary conviction brought by a teenage victim of human trafficking.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd November 2020
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The Cambridge Private Law Centre last week hosted its annual Freshfields lecture. Lord Sumption addressed us on “Government by decree—Covid-19 and the Constitution”. This lecture has received considerable media attention and already been mentioned on this blog.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 3rd November 2020
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘The former secretary-general of the United Nations has condemned Home Secretary Priti Patel’s recent attack on lawyers – although he did not criticise her by name.’
Legal Futures, 3rd November 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The high court has ruled that unaccompanied child migrants cannot be placed in adult hotel accommodation after three young asylum seekers won the right to be placed in the care of social services in the first case of its kind.’
The Guardian, 2nd November 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who caused the death of his son after racing with another driver at more than 100mph has been jailed for four-and-a-half-years.’
BBC News, 2nd November 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A neo-Nazi teenager who encouraged terror attacks and downloaded indecent images of young children has been spared jail.’
The Independent, 2nd November 2020
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The issue in Ganoun v Joshi & Anor [2020] EWHC 2743 (Ch) was the disposal of the remains of a man who died in September 2020 as a result of a road traffic accident leaving a widow, Ms Joshi [1 & 3].’
Law & Religion UK, 30th October 2020
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘Any company with “lumpy” profits which would be disadvantaged by a time-based apportionment of oil-related profits for UK tax purposes is entitled to elect for a different profit apportionment method, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Out-Law.com, 2nd November 2020
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
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