‘A law firm based in Bristol will auction two and a half hours of chargeable time next month in the form of three unique cryptocurrency tokens.’
Legal Futures, 27th October 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has ruled that a judge was correct to include some costs in a maintenance-based award, after the claimant had successfully secured part of her father’s estate.’
Law Society's Gazette, 15th October 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Stephanie Hawthorn, associate, and Robert Jackson, trainee solicitor, at Mills & Reeve LLP, consider the important news and case law relating to financial remedies and divorce during September 2021.’
Family Law Week, 8th October 2021
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Simba Mujakachi, a personal trainer, was just 29 years old in June 2019 when he suffered a catastrophic stroke that left him comatose. When he awoke, he was paralysed on his left side and unable to talk or eat. His stroke could have been prevented by relatively inexpensive medication for a blood clotting condition that, as a refused asylum seeker, he was not entitled to on the NHS.’
The Guardian, 18th September 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘NHS trusts are wrongly hounding vulnerable migrant women for payment of bills of thousands of pounds for maternity care, according to a report.’
The Guardian, 17th September 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A private landlord will have her appeal of a £7,000 penalty for failure to license a house in multiple occupation (HMO) decided by a different judge after it was initially refused by the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) because her solicitor failed to pay the hearing fee on time, the Upper Tribunal has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th September 2021
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘There is “strong justification” for increasing 129 court fees by inflation, backdated to 2016, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said.’
Legal Futures, 1st September 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The new guideline hourly rates (GHR) will not formally come into force until 1 October but the High Court yesterday took them into account when dealing with a summary assessment.’
Legal Futures, 24th August 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A judge has rejected claims by the wife of a convicted Kazakh businessman that she was overcharged by a London law firm for her asylum application and described the allegations of misconduct she levelled as “regrettable”.’
Legal Futures, 23rd August 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The cost of practising as a solicitor is to fall by 6.7% in the coming year, although it may have to rise in future once the Law Society sets a new reserves policy.’
Legal Futures, 20th August 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Civil Justice Council (CJC) working group charged with reviewing the guideline hourly rates (GHR) has doubled down on its interim recommendations following consultation.’
Legal Futures, 2nd August 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has rejected an application by a law firm to substitute itself for a deceased claimant, on the grounds that it would be a form of champerty.’
Legal Futures, 20th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has refused an application from a London firm to be substituted for their deceased client in a £1.5m litigation claim.’
Law Society's Gazette, 20th July 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The High Court has refused to issue an order to prevent a high-profile collapsed company’s investors from trying in the future to reclaim the legal fees paid by its boss in defending him from a civil claim.’
Legal Futures, 6th July 2021
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A woman who swims regularly in the Hampstead ponds is taking legal action against the City of London Corporation, claiming that the new charging regime discriminates against disabled people.’
The Guardian, 1st July 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Defendant solicitors have welcomed a ruling that medical agency costs are irrecoverable under the fixed-costs regime.’
Litigation Futures, 17th June 2021
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens v Secretary of State for the Home Department (PRCBC) concerned a challenge to the lawfulness of fees charged to children applying to be registered as British citizens. The fees have a serious adverse impact on the ability of many children to apply for registration.”
UK Constitutional Law Association, 26th May 2021
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
‘Mrs Lynda Mahabir came to the UK as a baby aged two months in 1969. She lived in the UK until 1977 but was forcibly removed by her father to Trinidad in 1977. The Home Office’s failure to document her lawful immigration status meant that she was unable to return to the UK for 41 years, when she was finally granted leave to remain pursuant to the Windrush scheme in 2018. However, the Home Office demanded £22,909 in application fees from her husband and five children (including two minors) and refused to consider their entry visa applications under the Windrush scheme. But the family did not have the £22,909 to pay the Home Office. Sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, Mr Tim Smith held that the SSHD committed “a colossal interference” in Mrs Mahabir’s right to family life because she either had to forego the remedies the executive had put in place with the express intention of remedying the injustice suffered by her and others like her, or else she had to break up the family. Notably, she broke up the family, hoping that it was only temporary, but in the process she suffered the “colossal interference” with her right to family life identified by Lord Wilson in R (Quila) v SSHD [2012] 1 AC 621. The court noted that by 2018 heartbreaking accounts of the Windrush scandal were reported in the media. The plight of Windrush victims was well known indeed, and these events marked a racist epoch in British history.’
EIN Blog, 17th May 2021
Source: www.ein.org.uk
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