Home Truths – An Introduction to the Renters’ Rights Bill – Local Government Lawyer
’42BR’s Housing team discuss the new Renter’s Rights Bill.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Day: 24 March 2025
Adverse possession: applications by squatters to be registered as proprietor – Local Government Lawyer
‘The Supreme Court has used “pure grammar” to clarify the law relating to adverse possession. Nick McKnight considers the ruling.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Are You Fit to Deal with Unfitness? – Local Government Lawyer
‘Michael Grant and Matthew Timm explore the law relating to “fitness for human habitation” and the court’s approach to damages.’
Local Government Lawyer, 21st March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Mediation: Cracking The Hardest Nuts- Some Thoughts After DKH Retail Ltd and Others v City Football Group Ltd [2024] EWHC 3231 (Ch). – 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square
‘Mediation: Cracking The Hardest Nuts- Some Thoughts After DKH Retail Ltd and Others v City Football Group Ltd [2024] EWHC 3231 (Ch).’
4-5 Gary's Inn Square, 18th March 2025
Source: www.4-5.co.uk
4-5 Housing EFLASH: Ofori-Addo v LB Haringey [2025] EWCA Civ 277 – 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square
‘The Court of Appeal upheld HHJ Saggerson’s decision on a section 204 appeal in the County Court that where an applicant requests a review on suitability under Part VII of the 1996 Act, the review officer is not obliged to anticipate and consider what further duty (if any) may be owed to the applicant without a request for a review on that basis.’
4-5 Gray's Inn Square, 21st March 2025
Source: www.4-5.co.uk
The no-profit rule and but-for causation: Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd – 4 New Square
‘Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd [2025] UKSC 10, decided yesterday, is a landmark decision on the liability of trustees and other fiduciaries to account for unauthorised profits. It decides that the liability is strict and does not depend on whether the principal would have made the same profit or would have consented to the fiduciary keeping all or part of the profit if he had been asked. All that is needed is a sufficient link between the fiduciary duty and the profit.’
4 New Square, 20th March 2025
Source: www.4newsquare.com
Unprofessional conduct vs freedom of religious expression: Leger – Law & Religion UK
‘In R (Leger) v Secretary of State for Education [2025] EWHC 665 (Admin), Ms Gladwys Leger was a teacher at Bishop Justus Church of England School [5]. She is “a born-again ‘conservative’ Roman Catholic” who believes that biological sex is immutable and should not be tampered with and that sexual relationships should only exist within a marriage between a man and a woman [8]. She brought a claim arising from her dismissal from the school.’
Law & Religion UK, 24th March 2025
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
UK tax tribunal confirms limits of third-party access to documents in appeals – OUT-LAW.com
‘A recent UK tax tribunal ruling has clarified that there is no default position for granting applications by third parties for disclosure of documents in tax appeals, while making it clear that third parties have to show a good reason for seeking access to a document.’
OUT-LAW.com, 21st March 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
English court mirrors Hong Kong SAR approach to seal and gag and third party disclosure orders – OUT-LAW.com
‘A court in England has echoed the approach taken by the courts in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and the BVI in relation to the process for hearing applications for seal and gag orders and a third-party disclosure order.’
OUT-LAW.com, 21st March 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
Employment tribunal erred in law in not granting anonymity, EAT finds – Law Society’s Gazette
‘A university lecturer who brought an employment tribunal claim against his employer has won his bid for anonymity after the employment tribunal initially rejected the application.’
Law Society's Gazette, 21st March 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Court interpreting system ‘poses significant risk to justice’ – Law Society’s Gazette
‘The current state of interpreting services in the courts is inefficient, ineffective and poses a risk to the administration of justice, peers declared today following an extensive inquiry. The government was urged to use a current procurement for language services contracts to reform the sector “or risk reinforcing significant jeopardy to justice for the foreseeable future”.’
Law Society's Gazette, 24th March 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Ban on unregulated experts in family courts proposed for England and Wales – The Guardian
‘Unregulated experts could be banned from the family courts under new proposals for proceedings involving children in England and Wales. The Family Procedure Rule Committee, which sets the rules in family court cases, has proposed changes to the rules, which are now out for public consultation. It follows growing concern from MPs and campaigners about court-appointed experts who advise on life-changing decisions without having the necessary qualifications. But some organisations say it does not go far enough.’
The Guardian, 22nd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
Black student accuses Met and CPS of misusing laws over use of N-word – The Guardian
‘A 22-year-old black student has accused police and prosecutors of misusing hate speech laws intended to protect minorities after she was charged for using the N-word in a tweet.’
The Guardian, 21st March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
Scouse Dave county lines gang members jailed – BBC News
‘Five members of a county lines drug gang known as the Scouse Dave Line have been jailed.’
BBC News, 21st March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Teachers in divorce ‘limbo’ take pension legal action – BBC News
‘Teachers unable to get divorced because of delays getting their pensions valued are taking legal action against the government. Hundreds of teachers have been frustrated by long delays that left them “in limbo”, unable to move on with their lives or plan for their future.’
BBC news, 24th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Hospital worker who took pressure cooker bomb into maternity ward jailed for life – The Independent
‘A man who took a viable pressure cooker bomb into a Leeds hospital intending to “kill as many nurses as possible”, has been jailed at Sheffield Crown Court for life and will serve a minimum of 37 years.’
The Independent, 21st March 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Prosecutors told to do more to strip ‘revenge porn’ abusers of victim images – The Guardian
‘The Crown Prosecution Service is to update its guidance on so-called “revenge porn” crimes to stop perpetrators being allowed to keep explicit photos of their victims.’
The Guardian, 23rd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence – The Guardian
‘Teenagers who are permanently excluded from school are twice as likely to commit serious violence within a year of their expulsion than those who were merely suspended, a large-scale new analysis of police and education records has shown.’
The Guardian, 22nd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
