‘Anthony Williams arrived in Birmingham from Jamaica aged seven in 1971, and went to primary and secondary school before joining the army and serving with the Royal Artillery for 13 years. Later, he had a successful second career as a fitness instructor until 2013, when he found himself classified as an illegal immigrant and sacked from his job.’
The Guardian, 21st June 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is set to begin a multi-year project to increase understanding of why Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students perform worse than white students.’
Legal Futures, 19th June 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A 19-year-old woman from Barrow accused of making up allegations of sexual exploitation against five men may not stand trial until August 2021 because of legal delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.’
The Guardian, 19th June 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The prison service has launched an investigation following the death of a baby in prison, the Guardian has learned.’
The Guardian, 19th June 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A claimant has lost all of his remaining entitlement to costs because of misconduct during the assessment process.’
Litigation Futures, 19th June 2020
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘ “Warfare no longer looks like a tank driving over a battlefield,” says the head of Army Legal Services. These days lawyers are on the frontline – in every sense.’
Law Society's Gazette, 22nd June 2020
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Pain-inducing restraint techniques should only be used on children in custody as an “absolute exception” to save life or prevent serious harm, a long-awaited review has concluded, though it has stopped short of calling for an outright ban.’
The Guardian, 19th June 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
High Court (Chancery Division)
Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2020] EWHC 1593 (Ch) (19 June 2020)
Univar UK Ltd v Smith & Ors [2020] EWHC 1596 (Ch) (19 June 2020)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Family Division)
Collen v Collen [2020] EWHC 1577 (Fam) (19 June 2020)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Winder v Director of Public Prosecutions [2020] EWHC 1600 (QB) (19 June 2020)
Balengani v Sharifpoor [2020] EWHC 1571 (QB) (19 June 2020)
Mercia Enterprises Ltd v Mistry [2020] EWHC 1597 (QB) (19 June 2020)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘A landlord has failed in a judicial review challenge after he was refused permission to vacate a guilty plea in relation to an enforcement notice, amid claims that a council was improperly motivated by an expected windfall from a confiscation order.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th June 2020
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Virtual trials with physical jury hubs could be an effective way of clearing the significant Crown court backlog caused by Covid-19, academics evaluating the latest experiment from a legal thinktank have said.’
Law Society's Gazette, 19th June 2020
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘PHG, linked with Cambridge University, provides independent advice and evaluations of biomedical and digital innovations in healthcare. PHG has recently published a series of reports exploring the interpretability of machine learning in this context. The one I will focus on in this post is the report considering the requirements of the GDPR for machine learning in healthcare and medical research by way of transparency, interpretability, or explanation. Links to the other reports are given at the end of this post.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th June 2020
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Charities supporting victims of domestic abuse have said they expect an increase in people seeking safety as lockdown eases.’
BBC News, 19th June 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has declined to hear a judicial review application concerning the inclusion of an “informative” into a certificate of lawfulness of existing use or development (“a CLEUD”).’
Local Government Lawyer, 18th June 2020
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘An attempt by police chiefs to grapple with racism claims by launching a panel to recommend action has been criticised by victims’ representatives and met with scepticism from within their own ranks.’
The Guardian, 18th June 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘It is fair to say this Court of Appeal decision has been widely and keenly awaited. Unfortunately, for reasons I will explain in my comment at the end, I think it leaves us with a lot of further questions.’
Nearly Legal, 18th June 2020
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
‘296 days ago, on 27 August 2019, the Daily Express published an inaccurate article in the print edition of their paper. Today they have published a correction because the regulator IPSO required this.’
Transparency Project, 18th June 2020
Source: www.transparencyproject.org.uk
‘The Black Lives Matter movement illuminates an incontrovertible chasm in the application of the rule of law in liberal democracy. The basic premise of the rule of law, which in Joseph Raz’s conception is that it should be capable of guiding behaviour, includes the necessary restriction on crime-preventing agencies from perverting the law. A society in which those tasked with upholding and applying the law – under the powers of stop-and-search and arrest – are instead themselves regular perpetrators of racist discrimination and violence, is one in which the rule of law is at best a randomised hope that is more or less likely to be realised depending on the race of the citizen in question.’
UK Human Rights Blog, June 2020
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
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