‘The updated Pensions Scam Industry Group (PSIG) code of practice (107 page / 2.6MB PDF) includes a number of changes, such as guidance designed to help trustees and providers deal with claims management companies and updates on how to notify the UK’s fraud reporting centre Action Fraud of scams.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th June 2019
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A scheme for the naming of employers found to be in breach of the UK’s national minimum wage (NMW) has been suspended while the government reviews the scheme.’
OUT-LAW.com, 12th June 2019
Source: www.out-law.com
Supreme Court
Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd & Anor [2019] UKSC 27 (12 June 2019)
Samuels v Birmingham City Council [2019] UKSC 28 (12 June 2019)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Woodward & Anor v Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 985 (12 June 2019)
Kuznetsov v Amazon Services Europe SARL [2019] EWCA Civ 964 (11 June 2019)
Harrison-Mills v the Public Trustee & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 966 (11 June 2019)
B v A Local Authority [2019] EWCA Civ 913 (11 June 2019)
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust v Flowers & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 947 (10 June 2019)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Connolly v Landy & Ors [2019] EWHC 1457 (Ch) (10 June 2019)
Lines v Wilcox & Ors [2019] EWHC 1451 (Ch) (10 June 2019)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Family Division)
NG v GA [2019] EWHC 1412 (Fam) (06 June 2019)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Advertising Standards Authority Ltd v Mitchell [2019] EWHC 1469 (QB) (11 June 2019)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘The High Court has rejected a defendant’s request to revise his costs budget upwards, saying that the extra costs came from matters he either should have anticipated or brought on himself.’
Litigation Futures, 12th June 2019
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The government has no intention of making court processes exclusively online and so there is no need to give way to demands to guarantee this in primary legislation, peers were told this week.’
Legal Futures, 12th June 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Law Commission has begun reviewing the system of intermediated securities in order to identify potential issues for both investors and companies.’
Law Commission, 11th June 2019
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
‘An electrical company has been fined £25,000 after a woman was pulled into the shutter door machinery and crushed to death.’
The Independent, 11th June 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Two drugs gang bosses have been jailed after cocaine with a street value of £20m was seized from a van on the M6 in Cheshire.’
BBC News, 11th June 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Oxfam has been severely criticised by the Charity Commission for the way it dealt with claims of serious sexual misconduct by its staff in Haiti.’
BBC News, 11th June 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Children recruited to spy on drug dealers, gangs, terrorists and paedophiles have fewer safeguards when handled by investigators than those arrested for minor offences such as shoplifting, the high court has heard.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘MI5 has been unlawfully holding people’s data collected through surveillance or hacking programmes, the high court has been told.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th June 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The government is to issue an “unprecedented” recall notice of up to 500,000 Whirlpool tumble dryers which pose a fire safety risk.’
BBC News, 12th June 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The NHS fraud squad is investigating GPs in England amid suspicions they are claiming for non-existent patients.’
BBC News, 12th June 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The UK has been accused of “silently eroding” key environmental and human health protections in the Brexit-inspired rush to convert thousands of pages of European Union pesticide policy into British law.’
The Guardian, 12th June 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
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