Newport loan shark, 83, ordered to repay £173,000 – BBC News
‘An 83-year-old loan shark has been ordered to pay more than £173,000.’
BBC News, 29th April 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Day: 30 April 2024
Met Police officer who punched medical worker after mistaking him for suspect avoids jail – The Independent
‘A serving Metropolitan Police officer who assaulted an innocent man after mistaking him for a criminal has been spared jail.’
The Independent, 29th April 2024
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years – The Guardian
‘A senior coroner has condemned the “inhumane” and “indefensible” treatment of a man who killed himself 17 years into an indefinite prison sentence. Tom Osborne, the senior coroner for Milton Keynes, said Scott Rider had given up all hope of release before he took his own life at HMP Woodhill in June 2022.’
The Guardian, 28th April 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
Breaches of natural justice are frequently raised but rarely accepted in adjudication enforcement – Gatehouse Chambers
‘Breaches of the rules of natural justice have been raised in several recent cases to resist the enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision. Only in AZ v BY [2023] EWHC 2388 (TCC), which concerned the deployment of without prejudice material in an adjudication, did the court refuse to enforce an adjudicator’s decision due to a breach of natural justice (see Legal update, Disclosure of without prejudice material renders adjudicator’s decision unenforceable due to apparent bias (TCC)).’
Gatehouse Chambers, 17th April 2024
Source: gatehouselaw.co.uk
