‘Tim Scott QC, Peter Duckworth and James Pullen, all of 29 Bedford Row who represented Dr Kay Peng Khoo in Chai v Peng, analyse the proceedings to date.’
Family Law Week, 11th December 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The Department for Work and Pensions has been urged by mental health and disability charities to publish its secret investigations into suicides that may have some link to benefit changes, following revelations that it has carried out internal reviews into 60 such cases.’
The Guardian, 14th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The head of the Metropolitan Police has warned that large cuts to police budgets and other services will put public safety at risk.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th December 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Monday sees the return of the government’s Counter Terrorism and Security Bill to the Commons where MPs will get their say on the legislation’s most controversial measure: should ministers be able to ban British citizens from coming home?’
BBC News, 15th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Ben Needham’s family is preparing to take the home secretary to court in an attempt to secure funding for British police to pursue suspects who might be linked to the toddler’s disappearance 23 years ago.’
The Guardian, 15th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An 80-year-old man has been convicted of masterminding an acid revenge attack on his teenage ex-lover.’
BBC News, 12th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The “safeguarding directions” issued by the Secretary of State for Transport, exercising statutory powers, for phase 1 of the proposed high speed rail network (“HS2”) linking London to Manchester did not fall within the scope of plans and programmes which set the framework for future development consent of projects within the meaning of articles 2(a) and 3(2) of Parliament and Council Directive 2001/42/EC on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment.’
WLR Daily, 9th December 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Salford Estates (No 2) Ltd v Altomart Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 157; [2014] WLR (D) 527
‘The stay provisions in section 9(1) of the Arbitration Act 1996 did not apply to a winding up petition where the ground of the petition was that the company was unable to pay its debts and what was in dispute was that issue generally or, more specifically, whether there was outstanding and due a particular debt mentioned in the petition.’
WLR Daily, 8th December 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Shahabi-Shack [2014] WLR (D) 533
‘Adaptations to an authorised firearm might render it a prohibited weapon for the purposes of section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 if they involved breach of the conditions of the related firearms certificate.’
WLR Daily, 11th December 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘In Philip Shirley v HMRC, [1] the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) (FTT) concluded that a provision in a statute rewritten as part of the Tax Law Rewrite Project should be literally interpreted as the wording in question was clear and unambiguous.’
RPC Tax Take, 11th December 2014
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘Earlier this week three individuals were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court following the first prosecution by the SFO under the Bribery Act 2010. The case hasn’t give us a meaningful judicial interpretation of the Bribery Act, but it does show that the SFO is prepared to use the Act and the case also serves as a further example of the risks of investing through a SIPP into an investment that seems too good to be true.’
RPC Financial Services Blog, 11th December 2014
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
Being Human Event – The Humanity of Judging (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 19th November 2014
‘A case in which £7m in legal costs were racked up over a dispute worth £904,000 is “an appalling state of affairs which brings no credit to modern commercial litigation”, a High Court judge declared yesterday.’
Litigation Futures, 12th December 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Businesses that supply digital content to consumers would be able to insert contract terms that would exclude them from liability for damage caused by their content to consumers’ devices or other digital content, under proposed new consumer protection laws backed by UK law makers.’
OUT-LAW.com, 11th December 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Recently Louis Blom-Cooper QC and Professor Sean McConville (QMUL) proposed that the next government set up a royal commission on prison policy.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 12th December 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘An ex-prison officer has been jailed for three-and-a-half years for selling details about James Bulger’s killer to a journalist.’
BBC News, 11th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Roger Smith OBE made the case for 1% of the legal aid budget to be directed towards an ‘innovation fund’ to promote access to justice online. The former director of JUSTICE, who was delivering the keynote speech earlier this week at the 2014 Legal Voice conference, called upon Chris Grayling to ‘re-evaluate’ priorities and to deploy online help for initial advice.’
LegalVoice, 11th December 2014
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
‘The High Court’s decision to block the abolition of recoverability for mesothelioma claims has denied victims the 10% uplift in damages they would otherwise have received, justice minister Lord Faulks has said.’
Litgation Futures, 11th December 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A son who killed his father and put his dismembered body into storage boxes he was using as a TV stand, has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 10th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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