‘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
‘The Government has asked the Law Commission to investigate the laws around corporate criminal liability and provide options to reform them.’
Law Commission, 3rd November 2020
Source: www.lawcom.gov.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
High Court (Administrative Court)
Lambert v Forest of Dean District Council [2020] EWHC 2854 (Admin) (02 November 2020)
Scott v The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia [2020] EWHC 2924 (Admin) (02 November 2020)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Commercial Court)
SRS Middle East FZE v Chemie Tech DMCC [2020] EWHC 2904 (Comm) (02 November 2020)
Source: www.bailii.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
Supreme Court
Stoffel & Co v Grondona [2020] UKSC 42 (30 October 2020)
Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust [2020] UKSC 43 (30 October 2020)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Apache North Sea Ltd v Euroil Exploration Ltd & Anor [2020] EWCA Civ 1397 (30 October 2020)
Prempeh v Lakhany [2020] EWCA Civ 1422 (30 October 2020)
Deepchand & Anor v Sooben [2020] EWCA Civ 1409 (29 October 2020)
Telefonica UK Ltd v The Office of Communications [2020] EWCA Civ 1374 (29 October 2020)
Total E&P North Sea UK Ltd & Anor v Revenue And Customs [2020] EWCA Civ 1419 (29 October 2020)
Smith v Castle Point Borough Council & Anor [2020] EWCA Civ 1420 (29 October 2020)
Musico v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1389 (28 October 2020)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Lowther & Ors, R. v [2020] EWCA Crim 1387 (29 October 2020)
A, R. v (Rev 1) [2020] EWCA Crim 1408 (29 October 2020)
Hodgin, R. v [2020] EWCA Crim 1388 (29 October 2020)
High Court (Administrative Court)
D, R (on the application of) v Hampshire County Council [2020] EWHC 2916 (Admin) (30 October 2020)
Gbajobi v High Court Republic of Ireland (Rev 1) [2020] EWHC 2892 (Admin) (28 October 2020)
High Court (Chancery Division)
King & Ors v Kings Solutions Group Ltd [2020] EWHC 2861 (Ch) (29 October 2020)
Hunt (As the Liquidator of Wow Internet Ltd) & Anor v Majid [2020] EWHC 2890 (Ch) (29 October 2020)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Fulham Football Club Ltd v Kline [2020] EWHC 2907 (Comm) (30 October 2020)
Aegean Baltic Bank S.A. v Renzlor Shipping Ltd & Ors [2020] EWHC 2851 (Comm) (30 October 2020)
High Court (Family Division)
A (A Child), Re (Relocation) [2020] EWHC 2878 (Fam) (30 October 2020)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Depp II v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Anor [2020] EWHC 2911 (QB) (02 November 2020)
Plan v El-Amir & Anor [2020] EWHC 2902 (QB) (02 November 2020)
Haji-Ioannou v Telegraph Media Group Ltd & Anor [2020] EWHC 2922 (QB) (02 November 2020)
Coleman v Mundell [2020] EWHC 2852 (QB) (30 October 2020)
Leach v North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 2914 (QB) (30 October 2020)
Hamilton v NG Bailey Ltd [2020] EWHC 2910 (QB) (30 October 2020)
Rayner v Seabourne-Hawkins [2020] EWHC 2895 (QB) (30 October 2020)
Gubarev & Anor v Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd & Anor [2020] EWHC 2912 (QB) (30 October 2020)
Source: www.bailii.org
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