“This paper sets out an overview of exclusions law, focusing in particular on permanent exclusions from maintained schools and disability discrimination claims.”
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11 KBW, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.11kbw.com
“Damages-Based Agreements (‘DBAs’) became lawful on 1 April 2013 thanks to the Jackson reforms and more particularly the Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2013. A DBA is a contingency fee arrangement whereby the lawyers can take a percentage of the damages (up to a maximum of 25% in personal injury cases, 35% in employment cases and 50% in most other cases).”
Hardwicke Chambers, 2nd April 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“A cold-call company has been ordered to pay a father £1,000 after it rang him more than 90 times in just two months asking if he wanted to reclaim mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI).”
Daily Telegraph, 10th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An unresolved issue that has received little attention is whether a solicitor’s conduct could be attributed to his client as contributory negligence by that client in a claim brought against a different professional. If a claimant sues professional A for losses to which professional B also contributed, the normal course of events is for professional A to make a contribution claim against professional B. Professional A does not usually seek to attribute professional B’s conduct to the claimant in order to raise the defence of contributory negligence against the claimant. But it is easy to imagine circumstances in which the latter course would be attractive to professional A if available, for example if professional B is a man of straw whose insurers repudiate liability.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 2nd April 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“In his monthly column, James Bickford Smith considers the Court of Appeal’s decision in Nelson’s Yard Management Company and others v Eziefula [2013] EWCA Civ 235 and how a failure to respond to pre-action correspondence can justify departure from the default rules on costs following discontinuance.”
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Littleton Chambers,
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
“A former Metropolitan Police community support officer with a history of sexual crime dating back to the age of 12 has been jailed after he secretly filmed himself abusing children.”
The Independent, 11th April 2013
Source: www.indepedent.co.uk
“Andrew Pack, care lawyer with Brighton & Hove City Council, examines the routes available to a local authority to return a case to court if the care plan goes awry.”
Family Law Week, 10th April 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“There is growing anecdotal evidence that some UK firms are filtering out job candidates with foreign-sounding names”
The Guardian, 11th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A couple who carried out a fraudulent insurance scheme worth £900,000 used the money to put one of their children through a top public school.”
Daily Telegraph,
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“A guide to the Ministry of Justice’s consultation on criminal legal aid reform (Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system) and price competitive tendering published earlier this week.”
LegalVoice, 11th April 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“The Strasbourg Court has ruled that a Somali national’s detention pending deportation was not lawful under domestic law.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The former wife of the owner of Blarney Castle, where the Blarney Stone is kept, has won damages at the High Court after being branded as a ‘psycho’ who should be avoided.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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“Three men have been jailed for killing a mobile phone businessman in an attack in Coventry in November 2011.”
BBC News, 10th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government is facing the threat of a judicial review into its handling of an investigation into Barclays’ involvement in a state-backed loan scheme.”
The Guardian, 10th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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