‘Claimant lawyers reacted with caution to the Department of Health’s announcement yesterday that it is setting up a working group on introducing fixed recoverable costs in medical negligence, saying that while costs could be cut in lower-value claims, the real goal had to be avoiding clinical mistakes in the first place.’
Litigation Futures, 16th February 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The courts and judiciary should as far as possible reflect the full diversity of the UK population, the country’s most senior judge, Brenda Hale, has told the Guardian.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Former football coach Barry Bennell has been found guilty of three more charges of sexual abuse against young players.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘UKIP “deliberately delayed” settlement of a libel case for “political advantage” ahead of the 2015 general election, the High Court has ruled.’
BBC News, 15th February 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Three people have been given life sentences for the murder of a teenager in south London who was stabbed to death while on a night out with friends.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Legal regulators have urged the Legal Services Board (LSB) to use its review of the internal governance rules (IGR) to give them greater independence from their representative bodies.’
Legal Futures, 16th February 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
”The legal position for a stepfather in relation to his stepchild can be fundamentally altered through an adoption order. This will extinguish parental responsibility held by everyone other than the stepfather’s partner. The stepfather will obtain parental responsibility and will be treated in law as if he were the child’s birth parent (s 67(1) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (ACA 2002)).
Family Law, 15th February 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A national review into the planning of firearms operations has been launched following concerns raised at an inquiry into the fatal shooting of an unarmed man.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Formal bidding for spectrum identified as central to ‘4G’ and future ‘5G’ services in the UK is set to commence after the Court of Appeal rejected a legal challenge against the rules set for the auction.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th February 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The first video courts are to be used in the UK within weeks as a pilot scheme is launched.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th February 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Six Devon and Cornwall police and detention officers will face gross misconduct proceedings over the death of a church caretaker who had a cardiac arrest after being restrained.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The first female head of the supreme court shares her advice for would-be lawyers, and remembers her rise to the top.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Max Mosley, the former head of Formula 1, has been accused of trying to gag the media, using data protection laws to “erase” his notorious sexual history.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th February 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A children’s rights activist has been jailed for six years and eight months for sexually abusing a boy in the 1960s.’
BBC News, 15th February 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The high court in London has refused to return an absconding British prisoner to Turkey on the grounds that the country’s jails are so overcrowded they are unsafe following the 2016 attempted coup.’
The Guardian, 15th February 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Four out of five respondents to the government’s consultation on fixed recoverable costs (FRC) in low-value clinical negligence cases have echoed Civil Justice Council (CJC) concerns about a single joint expert being used, it has emerged.’
Litigation Futures, 15th February 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The recent publication of an online database of anonymised arbitrator challenge decisions by the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) is a “significant development in regards to transparency”, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th February 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Supreme Court’s ruling on police tactics may have implications for other emergency services, as Isabel McArdle explains to Rosalind English.’
Law Pod UK, 14th February 2018
Source: audioboom.com
‘A fisherman who had to limit the number of salmon he was allowed to catch must be compensated, a court has ruled.’
BBC News, 14th February 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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