‘A recent English High Court ruling serves as a timely reminder of the factors that the court will take into account when considering the risk of dissipation of assets in the context of a freezing order application.’
OUT-LAW.com, 12th September 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC) has been given 35 days to disclose information in a lengthy dispute about noise from a piano.’
Local Government Lawyer, 5th September 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A successor agreement to the Covid-19 clinical negligence protocol has been launched , which encourages the NHS to provide a “meaningful letter of apology” where liability is admitted and identify any patient safety lessons.’
Legal Futures, 28th August 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) has published a draft best practice guide for the use in e-discovery of active learning (AL), a form of machine learning which can update and change its predictions as additional documents are reviewed.’
Legal Futures, 16th August 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has thrown out a freezing order challenge in a ruling where two judges made scathing criticisms of disclosure failings.’
Law Society's Gazette, 9th August 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘In Dean v Information Commissioner, the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) considered whether photographs belonging to the planning applicant, which allegedly showed planning notice being displayed, could be disclosed to the public. The judgment is notable, not least for its opening line from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (more on this in the conclusion), but also for the tribunal’s consideration of the interaction between data protection legislation and the Aarhus Convention in respect of the right to public participation in the planning process. The decision also contains strong criticisms of the Council’s failure to implement planning law adequately.’
Landmark Chambers, 17th July 2024
Source: landmarkchambers.co.uk
‘A family law firm has had to take legal action against the ex-husband of a client after an associate accidentally sent confidential information about another client to him.’
Legal Futures, 15th July 2024
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Technology and Construction Court has granted a declaration sought by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care that certain documents relating to an aborted contract for Covid-19 lateral flow test kits are under the control of the main contractor in the dispute.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th July 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘An “intrusive” request for an Irwin Mitchell partner’s personal phone has been rejected by a judge in disclosure talks ahead of a negligence claim.’
Law Society's Gazette, 9th July 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A man who argued health and safety legislation should “reign supreme” over the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000 in an appeal of South Kesteven District Council’s refusal of an FOI request has had his appeal dismissed by the First Tier Tribunal (FTT).’
Local Government Lawyer, 24th June 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Fatima Jama explores the FCA’s proposed new approach to enforcement and increasing the transparency of investigations.’
Mountford Chambers, 2nd May 2024
Source: www.mountfordchambers.com
‘A court has rejected a bid by a prominent UK businessman to force a gardening company he engaged with to disclose the identity of people given access to recordings of conversations he had with the gardening company’s owner.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th June 2024
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘The Independent Review into disclosure and fraud offences promised as part of the government’s May 2023 Fraud Strategy has now published its preliminary findings in the disclosure aspect of the investigation.’
Mountford Chambers, 29th May 2024
Source: www.mountfordchambers.com
‘The High Court (Mrs Justice Dias) has handed down its first judgment concerning the Disguised Remuneration Repayment Scheme 2020 (DRRS), and in particular the proper interpretation of the requirement for “reasonable disclosure”. The Claimant, Sensor Solutions Ltd, challenged a decision of HMRC not to make payments to the Claimant under the DRRS.’
Devereux Chambers, 15th May 2024
Source: www.devereuxchambers.co.uk
‘Part I of this blog examined the protection of an individual’s HIV status under the UK’s data protection regime in the context of ongoing litigation against Grindr. Part II examines the human rights implications of the disclosure of individuals’ HIV status to third parties in the European human rights context.’
Oxford Human Rights Hub, 5th June 2024
Source: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
‘A case brought in April 2024 before the High Court of England and Wales alleges that Grindr shared sensitive information, including users’ HIV status, with third parties for commercial purposes in breach of the UK’s data protection regime. Grindr is an LGBT+ social networking and dating app with a reputation for facilitating casual sexual encounters between gay men. On their profiles, Grindr users are able to share personal health information, including their HIV status. Sharing such information before sexual intercourse is important since, in England and Wales, the transmission of a sexually-transmitted infection, such as HIV, when a sexual partner did not consent to the risk of infection can be prosecuted under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (see section 71 of the Domestic Abuse Act 2021).’
Oxford Human Rights Hub, 4th June 2024
Source: ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
‘The past decade has seen a marked shift in the regulatory landscape of UK higher education. Institutions are increasingly assuming responsibility for preventing campus sexual misconduct, and are responding to its occurrence through – amongst other things – codes of (mis)conduct, consent and/or active bystander training, and improved safety and security measures. They are also required to support victim-survivors in continuing with their education, and to implement fair and robust procedures through which complaints of sexual misconduct are investigated, with sanctions available that respond proportionately to the seriousness of the behaviour and its harms. This paper examines the challenges and prospects for the success of university disciplinary processes for sexual misconduct. It focuses in particular on how to balance the potentially conflicting rights to privacy held by reporting and responding parties within proceedings, while respecting parties’ rights to equality of access to education, protection from degrading treatment, due process, and the interests of the wider campus community. More specifically, we explore three key moments where private data is engaged: (1) in the fact and details of the complaint itself; (2) in information about the parties or circumstances of the complaint that arise during the process of an investigation and/or resultant university disciplinary process; and (3) in the retention and disclosure (to reporting parties or the university community) of information regarding the outcomes of, and sanctions applied as part of, a disciplinary process. We consider whether current data protection processes – and their interpretation – are compatible with trauma-informed practice and a wider commitment to safety, equality and dignity, and reflect on the ramifications for all parties where that balance between rights or interests is not struck.’
Legal Studies, 3rd May 2024
Source: www.cambridge.org
‘A recent judgment has significant implications for public procurement and the disclosure of documents in English law, writes Cheye Waithe.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd May 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘More than three-quarters of neurodivergent lawyers have not disclosed their condition to employers to avoid discrimination, a survey has found.’
Law Society's Gazette, 3rd May 2024
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Dispute Resolution analysis: The Managing Judges of the large GLO NOx emissions litigation have dismissed applications seeking the protection of documents used in open Court from use for collateral purposes and for information about the funding arrangements which the Claimants have in place in contemplation of a security for costs application.’
Gatehouse Chambers, 9th April 2024
Source: gatehouselaw.co.uk
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