‘Listed law firm Rosenblatt is facing the prospect of having to pay out millions of pounds after the High Court allowed proceedings for costs orders against it to proceed.’
Legal Futures, 25th March 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) approach to fines has been branded unfair and “schizophrenic” in the wake of hefty penalties handed out to solicitors convicted of drink-driving.’
Legal Futures, 25th March 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.’
Home Office, 20th March 2024
Source: www.gov.uk
‘A small boat pilot has been jailed after crossing the Channel with more than 50 migrants in a perilously overcrowded dinghy.’
Home Office, 21st March 2024
Source: www.gov.uk
‘This evening, on Tuesday 19 March 2024, Baroness Carr of Walton-On-The-Hill, Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, delivered this year’s Kalisher lecture titled “To Know The Law And Observe It Well – Magna Carta And Criminal Justice”.’
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary , 19th March 2024
Source: www.judiciary.uk
‘One of the parties in a 14-year-long boundary dispute has avoided having to pay £27,000 in costs for an appeal, because the order he was appealing against said nothing about costs.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th March 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘An IT worker and double murderer who befriended a married couple before poisoning them with fentanyl has been jailed for life.’
The Independent, 23rd March 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The former director of public prosecutions for England and Wales has warned against the risk of creating “thought crimes” amid the recent clampdown on protesters and demonisation of demonstrators by politicians.’
The Guardian, 24th March 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
J, Re (Care Plan for Adoption) [2024] EWCA Civ 265 (22 March 2024)
JC Bamford Excavators Ltd v Manitou UK Ltd & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 276 (22 March 2024)
Navigator Equities Ltd & Anor v Deripaska [2024] EWCA Civ 268 (20 March 2024)
Lidl Great Britain Ltd & Anor v Tesco Stores Ltd & Anor (Rev1) [2024] EWCA Civ 262 (19 March 2024)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Bhandari v Government of India & Anor [2024] EWHC 612 (Admin) (19 March 2024)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Bratt v Jones [2024] EWHC 631 (Ch) (22 March 2024)
Hyde v Stunt (Re Insolvency Act 1986) [2024] EWHC 630 (Ch) (22 March 2024)
Winchester Park Ltd v 1 Palace Gate Freehold Ltd [2024] EWHC 661 (Ch) (22 March 2024)
Barklem v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2024] EWHC 651 (Ch) (22 March 2024)
Lowe v Governors of Sutton’s Hospital In Charterhouse [2024] EWHC 646 (Ch) (21 March 2024)
Scott & Ors v Walker & Ors [2024] EWHC 636 (Ch) (21 March 2024)
Farol Holdings Ltd v Clydesdale Bank PLC & Anor [2024] EWHC 593 (Ch) (19 March 2024)
High Court (Commercial Court)
SY Roro 1 PTE Ltd & Anor v Onorato Armatori SRL & Ors [2024] EWHC 611 (Comm) (21 March 2024)
High Court (Family Division)
Z, Re (Infant Fatality) [2024] EWHC 618 (Fam) (18 March 2024)
High Court (King’s Bench Division)
Al Tarboush v Cassam [2024] EWHC 639 (KB) (22 March 2024)
Coram v DR Dunthorn & Son Ltd [2024] EWHC 672 (KB) (22 March 2024)
Sinton v Maybourne Hotels Ltd & Ors [2024] EWHC 647 (KB) (21 March 2024)
Kapoor v Johal [2024] EWHC 551 (KB) (20 March 2024)
Bridgen v Hancock [2024] EWHC 623 (KB) (20 March 2024)
Owens v Lewis [2024] EWHC 609 (KB) (19 March 2024)
Francis v Pearson [2024] EWHC 605 (KB) (19 March 2024)
St Albans City And District Council v Taylerson & Ors [2024] EWHC 602 (KB) (15 March 2024)
SZR v Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council [2024] EWHC 598 (KB) (15 March 2024)
CCP Graduate School Ltd v National Westminster Bank PLC & Anor [2024] EWHC 581 (KB) (14 March 2024)
High Court (Technology & Construction Court)
South East Water Ltd v Elster Water Metering Ltd [2024] EWHC 620 (TCC) (21 March 2024)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘Naomi Ling of Outer Temple Chambers has provided a critical analysis of the recent Avon Cosmetics decision.’
Pensions Barrister, 21st March 2024
Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com
‘A woman who subjected her three-year-old son to a campaign of “sadistic cruelty” and punishment for petty wrongs has been found guilty of his murder.’
The Guardian, 21st March 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who tied up, tortured and murdered a woman before hiding her body underneath a bed has been given a life sentence.’
BBC News, 20th March 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Thousands of women, potentially hundreds of thousands, are owed compensation because of government failings related to the way changes to the state pension age were made, a long-awaited official report has said.’
The Guardian, 21st March 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In Irwin Mitchell Trust Corpn v PW [2024] EWCOP 16, a trust corporation, appointed as property and affairs deputy for a protected person under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, appointed an asset management company that was part of same corporate group as the trust corporation to manage the investment of the protected person’s funds. The Court of Protection held that that appointment operated to the financial advantage of the trust corporation, clearly breaching the rules against conflict of interest, and as such required ratification by the court. The court rejected the trust corporation’s arguments that the potential for conflict had been extinguished by the appointment process and that the appointment had already been authorised by an earlier court decision. The court adjourned the issue of ratification pending further evidence as to whether the appointment would be in the best interests of the protected person.’
Pensions Barrister, 21st March 2024
Source: www.pensionsbarrister.com
‘A search of the internet for “how successful is mediation?” indicates that “mediation has an average success rate of 70-80%” but my daughter tells me that 86.7% of statistics on the internet are made up so further research is required. The authoritative CEDR 10th Annual Mediation Audit, available at Tenth-CEDR-Mediation-Audit-2023.pdf found that 72% of civil mediations settled on the day and a further 20% settled “shortly after”. There is, therefore, a very good chance that mediation will save the parties the cost, stress and emotional turmoil of litigation.’
Becket Chambers, 29th February 2024
Source: becket-chambers.co.uk
‘The High Court has quashed the planning permission and a non-material amendment, for a solar farm at Burnhope, County Durham.’
39 Essex Chambers, 26th February 2024
Source: www.39essex.com
‘The House of Lords has inflicted fresh defeats on the government over its flagship Rwanda bill, meaning further delay to it becoming law.’
BBC News, 21st March 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Who lawyers choose to act for is not a regulatory issue – and the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) needs to be clear on this, a leading legal regulatory specialist said yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 22nd March 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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