‘Requiring foreign qualified lawyers exempt from the Solicitors Qualifying Examination to prove they are proficient in the English language could be “overly restrictive”, the Law Society has said.’
Law Society's Gazette, 29th January 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The government is proposing to reintroduce fees for employment tribunal claims, nearly seven years after the Supreme Court quashed the previous charging regime as unlawful.’
Law Society's Gazette, 29th January 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A leading member of a County Lines gang has been jailed for his part in trafficking drugs valued at nearly £250,000.’
BBC news, 29th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A pizzeria owner from Cumbria who hired two illegal workers has been banned from being a company director for six years.’
BBC News, 30th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘HSBC has been fined £57.4m by the Bank of England for “serious failings” over its requirements to protect customer deposits.’
BBC News, 30th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The actor Laurence Fox has lost his High Court libel battle with two people he referred to as paedophiles on social media.’
The Independent, 29th January 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The music industry is still a “boys’ club” where sexual harassment and abuse are common, MPs warned in a report. The Women and Equalities Committee said musicians have to sit beside sexual abusers at parties and events, due to a “culture of silence”.’
BBC News, 30th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Two Aboriginal children who have been stranded in the UK without passports or visas since 2020 while courts decided their guardianship must be immediately brought home to Australia, the nation’s peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children says.’
The Guardian, 30th January 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The UK government’s decision to omit onshore wind projects from the types of energy infrastructure projects that can generally be considered as ‘nationally significant infrastructure projects’ (NSIPs) under planning policy applicable in England is subject to a new legal challenge.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th January 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Home Office has announced significant measures to reduce legal migration to the UK, following the latest statistics showing record net migration figures for 2023. They will likely be implemented during Q2 2024, although the exact timeframe is yet to be finalised. They will significantly increase the costs to employers who wish to sponsor overseas workers and affect British citizens and settled persons in the UK looking to bring family here.’
Law Society's Gazette, 26th January 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill will receive its second reading in the House of Lords on 29 January 2024, having cleared the House of Commons unamended. There are a great many problems with the Rwanda Bill, any of which might weigh with the Lords, but this blog post focuses on just one: the likelihood that, if enacted, the Bill may well trigger a constitutional crisis between the courts and Parliament. It would be a crisis that is likely to endure beyond the life of the policy embodied in the Bill. I argue here that one of the roles of the House of Lords is to act as a constitutional safeguard, a steam-valve, and, in exercise of this function under the rare circumstances that attend this Bill, it would be legitimate for the Lords to not only make and insist upon far-reaching changes to the Bill, but even to refuse to pass it altogether. This post is not concerned with the realpolitik of whether peers would in fact vote the Bill down – though I come to the point in the conclusion. It rather seeks to refute the constitutional argument that it would be illegitimate to block or make potent amendments to it.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 26th January 2024
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘A failure to seek permission under the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) does not automatically mean lawyers then need to apply for relief from sanctions, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 29th January 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Austerity has contributed to a rise in the number of children in care, the most senior judge in the family courts has told the BBC.’
BBC News, 29th January 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘UK ministers will aim to stop firms from skirting around an upcoming ban on disposable vapes by eliminating ruses such as attaching charging points to them, the health secretary has said.’
The Guardian, 29th January 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SarL v Dream Pairs Europe Inc & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 29 (26 January 2024)
J, P & Q (Care Proceedings) [2024] EWCA Civ 22 (26 January 2024)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Gross, R. v [2024] EWCA Crim 21 (23 January 2024)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Laing, R (On the Application Of) v The Cornwall Council [2024] EWHC 120 (Admin) (26 January 2024)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Macquarie Bank Ltd v Banque Cantonale Vaudoise [2024] EWHC 114 (Comm) (26 January 2024)
GLAS SAS (London Branch) v European Topsoho SarL & Ors [2024] EWHC 83 (Comm) (26 January 2024)
Al Saud v Gibbs [2024] EWHC 123 (Comm) (24 January 2024)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘The government is to launch a pilot of early legal advice for separating couples to judge what impact it could have to speed up a resolution.’
Legal Furures, 26th January 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Graham Phillips, the Claimant, is a British national and video blogger who posts content from the Donbass dressed in Russian military fatigues. He says he is a journalist who provides a “counterbalance” to widespread western misunderstanding of the true situation in Ukraine but the Administrative Court disagrees. On 12 January 2024, it handed down judgment in R (Phillips) v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs [2024] EWHC 32 (Admin), in which it upheld the Government’s view that the Claimant is a propagandist for Russia who is lawfully subject to a sanctions regime which allows the state to freeze his assets.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th January 2024
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
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