‘A football fan has been banned from attending football matches for three years after being found guilty of mocking the Hillsborough disaster.’
BBC News, 13th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The recent judgment Re Streatham Cemetery [2023] ECC Swk 3 concerns cemetery development. Opened more than one hundred years ago, there is now very little room in Streatham Cemetery for further burials. A Petition by the Bereavement Services Manager of Lambeth LBC[1] sought permission to re-use land within two areas of the cemetery through the operation of “lifting and deepening” of existing interments, thereby creating new burial space. The observations of Petchey Ch., (above and at [16]), indicate some of the issues to be addressed on the growing shortage of burial space.’
Law & Religion UK, 14th June 2023
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘An ad campaign by Anglian Water extolling how it cleans water by creating wildlife-friendly wetlands has been banned for not telling consumers about its history of releasing sewage into the environment.’
The Guardian, 13th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Robert Kellar KC in conversation with Victoria Waters, library learning advisor at the Bristol campus of the University of Law.’
Law Pod UK, 12th June 2023
Source: audioboom.com
‘Women convicted of offences related to being gay can apply to have their convictions removed, under an expansion of the government’s pardon scheme.’
BBC News, 13th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court will next week (21-22 June) hear a case brought against Surrey County Council over whether the local authority acted unlawfully by not requiring an impact assessment of a proposed oil well’s impact on downstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions before granting planning permission.’
Local Government Lawyer, 13th June 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A rapist who attacked a man on a night out has been jailed for six years.’
BBC News, 13th June 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Three activists who lay on a road outside an immigration detention centre to prevent people being put on a Home Office deportation flight to Jamaica have been cleared by a jury of charges of causing a public nuisance.’
The Guardian, 13th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In 2013, the Caribbean Community set up the CARICOM Reparations Commission to “prepare the case [for] reparatory justice for the Caribbean region’s indigenous and African descendant communities who are the victims of crimes against humanity in the form of genocide, slavery, slave trading and racial apartheid”. A decade on, the issue is rarely far from the headlines.’
3 Hare Court, 14th June 2023
Source: www.3harecourt.com
‘Most unregulated legal services firms support “some aspects of regulation” for their areas but there is not a clear case for major reform, a report for the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has concluded.’
Legal Futures, 14th June 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has launched a new committee to help guide judges, legal representatives and litigants through online court procedures.’
Local Government Lawyer, 13th June 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The jury is still out on whether the four-day week will remain the exception rather than the rule in future. In February, we learned that the majority of UK companies that took part in a six-month pilot in 2022 (offering employees a shorter working week on full pay for the same level of productivity) voted to continue with the trial, with 18 companies deciding to introduce the model permanently.’
Kingsley Napley, 13th June 2023
Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk
‘A mother has been found guilty of the manslaughter of her nine-year-old son, who was found unresponsive in a cold bath with 50 injuries over his body, while her partner has been found guilty of his murder.’
The Guardian, 13th June 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
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