‘The former Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy after plying him with gin at a party in 2008.’
The Guardian, 23rd May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Employment Appeal Tribunal considered the Tribunal’s discretion to make (or not make) an award of compensation for breaches of TUPE Regulations, and the effect of withdrawal of a claim on a defendant’s liability to pay compensation, in circumstances where the claimant has no freestanding right to bring a claim against them.’
3PB, 3rd May 2022
Source: www.3pb.co.uk
‘It is commonplace – as the President of the EAT observed in this appeal – for ETs, carrying out their case management functions at a private preliminary hearing, to seek to clarify the claims that are being pursued and to draw up a list of issues to be determined at the full merits hearing in order to decide those claims. In the present case, such a task came before an EJ sitting alone at a closed preliminary hearing – together with a great quantity of material including a document setting out the claimant’s grounds of complaint over some 64 pages.’
3PB, 3rd May 2022
Source: www.3pb.co.uk
‘Chris Bryden and Georgia Whiting write in the April edition of Construction Law, examining case law surrounding the role of expert witnesses, which suggests a worrying trend towards a loosening of the established principles of how experts should behave, and are instructed.’
4KBW, 4th May 2022
Source: www.4kbw.co.uk
‘A pilot scheme that will see small claims cases determined on the paper in six county courts from next month is “likely to do injustice” to litigants, an academic has argued.’
Legal Futures, 24th May 2022
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘England and Wales are home to some of the world’s most celebrated independent schools. They provide life-changing opportunities and are seen by many as a passport to success.’
5SAH, 17th May 2022
Source: www.5sah.co.uk
‘The UK’s data watchdog has fined a facial recognition company £7.5m for collecting images of people from social media platforms and the web to add to a global database.’
The Guardian, 23rd May 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In Planon v Gilligan [2022] EWCA Civ 642 the Court of Appeal refused to grant an injunction to enforce a 12-month non-compete covenant that had only four months left to run by the time of the appellate hearing.’
Blackstone's Chambers, 20th May 2022
Source: www.employeecompetition.com
‘The claim, brought by Mr Jones, concerned a tackle that occurred in the second half of a competitive football match played between the u18s teams of Swansea FC (Mr Jones’s team) and Fulham FC. In the course of the match, Mr Jones was tackled by a Fulham player, Mr Jayden Harris.’
Blackstone Chambers, 18th May 2022
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
‘HM Revenue & Customs should not be seeking to apply the transfer of assets abroad (TOAA) code in priority over the standard employment tax provisions, the Court of Appeal in London has suggested.’
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd May 2022
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, recently took to the Mail Online to justify his plans to introduce a Bill of Rights replacing the Human Rights Act (HRA), the UK law that obliges the government to ensure our rights as citizens are upheld.’
Each Other, 23rd May 2022
Source: eachother.org.uk
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