‘The English High Court has ruled that a charter company was in breach of contract when it failed to provide cargoes to a ship owner – but that the contract’s ‘force majeure’ clause means it escapes paying damages.’
OUT-LAW.com, 24th September 2018
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A criminal sole practitioner has been fined for offences including failure to distribute legal aid payments for professional disbursements, which he blamed on having laid off a manager after the firm suffered from government cutbacks.’
Legal Futures, 25th September 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Foreign Office records regarding the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 must be amongst the most regularly requested papers held at the National Archives. One file, FO 608/65, is part of the herculean effort to redraw the map of Europe after the First World War. It recounts the efforts of officials and ministers to work out how to provide Poland with meaningful access to the Baltic. The focus of this attention was the port city of Danzig. The two options before the Council of Ten were to include the city as part of Poland, but place limits on how Poland exercised its national sovereignty over this part of its territory, or to create a “free city”, administered by a League of Nations High Commissioner, which was tied into a customs union with Poland. In late March 1919 Lloyd George expressed the UK’s support for the former option in the Council. Behind the scenes, however, the Foreign Office was preparing the alternate plans for a free city, which Lloyd George backed to decisive effect in April 1919. Concerns that this reversal might destabilise the fledgling Polish state were summarily dismissed.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 25th September 2018
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘A senior defendant lawyer has hit out at solicitors who claimed £730,000 in costs for a “straightforward” holiday sickness claim in a case with damages of only £13,000.’
Litigation Futures, 24th September 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Insufficient oversight by Barnet Council together with inadequate controls allowed a former member of staff to commit a £2m fraud at a joint venture, a report by auditors Grant Thornton has said.’
Local Government Lawyer, 24th September 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Behind the scenes there are many considerations for couples and their families. With the preparation of the happy joining of lives of two people with marriage, also comes financial considerations going forward.’
Family Law, 24th September 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘Prosecutors in England and Wales have been urged to take a more risk-averse approach in rape cases to help stem widespread criticism of the service’s low conviction rates, the Guardian can reveal.’
The Guardian, 24th September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The High Court has found there was an oral agreement between a solicitor and the son-in-law of a client that the latter would cover his fees, which in the end totalled £330,000.’
Legal Futures, 25th September 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A judge has ordered a police force and council to pay £52,000 to a sex abuse victim after a convicted paedophile was housed near his children’s home.’
BBC News, 24th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Ofcom is to launch an inquiry into Celebrity Big Brother after it received more than 25,000 complaints about Roxanne Pallett’s allegation she was physically abused by Ryan Thomas.’
BBC News, 24th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Tens of thousands of victims of domestic abuse and children are being put at further risk of harm by privatised offender supervision companies whose staff lack the skills, experience and time to supervise perpetrators, according to a new report.’
The Guardian, 25th September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A teacher who drove into an airport worker following a row over a new £3 drop-off charge has been spared jail after a judge said he agreed the levy was an “absolute disgrace”.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The pioneering technique used to identify a British widow’s sadistic killer has led to hundreds of crimes being solved around the world. How was familial DNA searching used to catch a murderer for the first time, 15 years ago, and more recently the suspected Golden State Killer?’
BBC News, 23rd September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘NHS England is to be taken to court by the UK’s equality watchdog for failing to offer fertility services to transgender patients.’
The Guardian 22nd, September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The NHS has won a landmark battle against drug giants paving the way for the health service to save millions by prescribing cheaper medicine.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) has received unprecedented lobbying against the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) plans to allow solicitors to practise from unregulated businesses.’
Legal Futures, 24th September 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The crisis engulfing the criminal justice system over its approach to rape cases is revealed by startling figures that show less than a third of prosecutions brought against young men result in a conviction.’
The Guardian, 23rd September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Campaigners say it is time to find out the truth about the contaminated blood scandal that left nearly 3,000 people dead, as a public inquiry begins.’
BBC News, 24th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Browne v The Parole Board of England & Wales [2018] EWCA Civ 2024 (20 September 2018)
B-P (Children : adoption Or Fostering) [2018] EWCA Civ 2042 (20 September 2018)
Pham v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2064 (20 September 2018)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘This is an interesting decision of the Valuation Tribunal on the effect of the occupation by property guardians of a commercial building. Some (though not all) property guardian companies have made a sales feature of the alleged freedom from non-domestic (commercial) rates for a building occupied by guardians, on the basis that it is occupied for residential use. This Valuation Tribunal decision rather dents that position, as well as illustrating the complications that arise when you operate on the edges of landlord and tenant law.’
Nearly legal, 20th September 2018
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
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