‘Associated Electrical Industries Ltd v Alstom UK [2014] EWHC 430 is the latest case to be handed down in the post Jackson/Mitchell dystopian legal world.’
NearlyLegal, 4th March 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The Director of Public Prosecutions has today instructed prosecutors not to dismiss complaints about crimes allegedly committed decades ago just because of the lapse in time of reporting, in a shift of focus towards ensuring potential victims have their day in court.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 27th February 2014
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
‘The case raised issues of practice and procedure arising in the early stages of care proceedings including: (i) the importance of the need to ensure a just and fair assessment process despite the impetus to complete public law cases within 26 weeks, (ii) the alarming and patently wrong practice of justices sitting in the family proceedings court adopting the local authority’s analysis of what their findings and reasons might comprise, and (iii) the importance of listing appeals from interim care orders, where separation had been sanctioned, as a matter of urgency.’
WLR Daily, 13th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A suspected gunman was free to shoot a man in the face after apparent police failings meant that he was not identified as the owner of a sawn-off shotgun seized in a police operation 17 months earlier, it has emerged.’
The Independent, 12th February 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Cuts to legal aid have thrown family proceedings into chaos, say Kim Beatson, Caroline Bowden & Ellen Lucas.’
New Law Journal, 10th February 2014
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
Salliss v Hunt [2014] EWHC 229(Ch); [2014] WLR (D) 56
‘When considering whether or not to grant an application to annul a bankruptcy order there was no reason in principle why the court should take any account of a debt due to a creditor where the creditor was aware of the bankruptcy but had never submitted a proof and had made an informed commercial decision not to lodge one in the future.’
WLR Daily, 10th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court has allowed the removal of two pieces of land, that were incorrectly registered as town or village greens (TVGs), from the register preventing their redevelopment, despite the landowners’ lengthy delays in applying for the rectifications.’
OUT-LAW.com, 7th February 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Supreme Court, 5th February 2014
‘The Supreme Court has handed down a major ruling on applications to rectify the register of town and village greens, lapses of time and the question of whether there would be a serious detriment or prejudice should an application be granted.’
Local Government Lawyer, 5th February 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Civil court litigants must comply with court orders or “face the consequences”, an expert has said, after the High Court barred a company from giving evidence about a particular issue at trial after it failed to exchange witness statements within a reasonable time.’
OUT-LAW.com, 28th January 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘England and Wales’s parole system is on the brink of a crisis that will result in reformed prisoners being detained months after they should have been released, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.’
The Independent, 26th January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘In his monthly column, James Bickford Smith discusses Durrant v Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Constabulary [2013] EWCA Civ 1624 in which the Court of Appeal, after its decision in Mitchell v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 1537, took further eye-catching steps to impose the new approach to relief from sanctions.’
Littleton Chambers, 8th January 2014
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
‘The justice secretary, Chris Grayling, has announced a two-month delay in the timetable for privatising 70% of the probation service after his most senior officials advised there would be public safety issues if he pressed full steam ahead.’
The Guardian, 20th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Local Government Ombudsman and a local authority are at loggerheads over a recommendation that the council pay out more than £60,000 to a man forced to become a full-time carer for his wife.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th January 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A bitter row has broken out between one of Britain’s biggest police forces and the Independent Police Complaints Commission over the case of the gunman Raoul Moat.’
The Independent, 5th January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has ruled that continued detention in prison following the expiry of the “minimum terms” or “tariff periods” of their indeterminate terms of imprisonment did not breach prisoners’ Convention or common law rights, but has left it to the Supreme Court to determine the substance of the Convention claims in detail.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th December 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Where, in a case involving alleged breaches of rights under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the Court of Appeal was faced with a conflict between decisions of the House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights, the court could in appropriate circumstances dismiss the appeal and grant permission to appeal to the Supreme Court to resolve the conflict between the domestic law and that of the European Court, without hearing argument or expressing its views on the case.’
WLR Daily, 9th December 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Police launch a criminal investigation into the alleged manipulation of cancer waiting lists at a hospital.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Nicola Phillipson, Zenith Chambers, examines the case of Berger v Berger where the Court of Appeal refused permission to the appellant to bring a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 almost six years out of time.”
Zenith Chambers, 5th November 2013
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
“Poorsalehy v Wandsworth LBC (2013) QBD 07/11/2013. A cautionary tale, albeit one that was rather hard on Mr Poorsalehy. Mr P had applied to Wandsworth as homeless. His application was rejected by s.184 decision and the s.202 upheld the decision.”
NearlyLegal, 13th November 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
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