‘The jury at the Hillsborough inquests will reveal its conclusions later into how 96 football fans were fatally injured in the 1989 stadium disaster.’
BBC News, 26th April 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘MPs have voted against an attempt to force the government to allow 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees into the UK from Europe.’
BBC News, 26th April 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘In Phillips v Willis the Court of Appeal held that it was wrong in law and “irrational” for a claim proceeding via the low-value RTA Protocol to be reallocated to the small claims track simply because only hire charges remained in dispute. The claim should properly have been dealt with at a Stage 3 hearing.’
Zenith PI Blog, 25th April 2016
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘Campaigners and politicians have criticised Home Secretary Theresa May’s assertion that Britain should leave the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).’
The Independent, 25th April 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Those suspected of money laundering could be required to explain the origins of any unexpected wealth or risk forfeiture as part of a package of measures put forward for consultation by the UK government.’
OUT-LAW.com, 25th April 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Television cameras are to be allowed into crown courts in England and Wales for the first time under Ministry of Justice (MoJ) regulations that will be debated by parliament this week.’
The Guardian, 25th April 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘MPs, councillors and civil servants suspected of corruption are to be targeted by a new law proposed by the home secretary.’
BBC News, 21st April 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A ‘land bank’ arrangement which sold small plots of land to investors at “hugely inflated prices” was an unauthorised collective investment scheme (CIS) which ought to have been regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s highest court has confirmed.’
OUT-LAW.com, 25th April 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A leading judge has claimed that overweight workers could soon have the power to tackle “fattist” discrimination in the workplace by suing colleagues who make inappropriate comments about body size.’
The Independent, 25th April 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The new format bill of costs developed by the Hutton committee needs to be brought into use – perhaps from October 2017 – but should be decoupled from the J-Codes to make it more palatable to the profession, Lord Justice Jackson said last week in a bid to restart momentum towards one of the unfinished elements of his reforms.’
Litigation Futures, 25th April 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Asylum and immigration tribunal fees are set to increase by more than 500% in order to help pay off the Ministry of Justice’s funding deficit.’
The Guardian, 21st April 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Criminal defence solicitors are expected to oppose proposed replacement guidelines on sentence reductions for early guilty pleas.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th April 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Jurors have reached a majority decision on whether the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed.’
BBC News, 25th April 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The jury in the Hillsborough inquests has been told it can return a majority decision on whether the 96 victims were unlawfully killed.’
The Independent, 25th April 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘NHS England is to review its plans to end its decision-making process over whether to make the HIV prevention drug PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis) available.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st April 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘President McCloskey has firmly rejected the Home Office case against students alleged to have fraudulently obtained English language test certificate from ETS (“Educational Testing Services Ltd”) in the case of SM and Ihsan Qadir v Secretary of State for the Home Department IA/31380/2014. The President finds that the Home Office evidence suffered from “multiple frailties and shortcomings” and that the two witnesses produced by the Home Office were unimpressive. In short, the Home Office failed by a significant margin to prove the alleged fraud.’
Free Movement, 25th April 2016
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘A judge has spared a teenage girl who stabbed the man who sexually abused her as a child from a prison sentence.’
BBC News, 20th April 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A district judge was wrong to move a dispute over hire car costs from stage 3 of the RTA protocol to the small claims court, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 22nd April 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
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