‘Ministers have pledged to increase the number of judges hearing criminal cases in an attempt to cut unprecedented backlogs and delays in Crown Courts in England and Wales.’
BBC News, 5th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Ministers have acted immediately to end the practice of placing girls in young offender institutions following recommendations from Susannah Hancock’s independent review into the placement and care of girls in youth custody.’
Ministry of Justice, 4th March 2025
Source: www.gov.uk
‘Nearly one in 10 of all women who died at the hands of men in the UK over the past 15 years were mothers killed by their sons, a report reveals.’
The Guardian, 5th March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Water companies in England and Wales face new duties to reduce pollution incidents and be transparent about their discharges from emergency overflows, under new legislation that has received Royal Assent.’
OUT-LAW.com, 28th February 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Tuffin v University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust [2024] EWHC 3318 (KB). In Tuffin, the Claimant underwent elective spinal surgery in 2015. In breach of duty, the Defendant failed to administer Clexane (a medication to prevent blood clots) post-surgery. This resulted in the Claimant suffering from a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and post thrombotic syndrome (PTS). There was no dispute that the DVT and PTS were caused by the Defendant’s negligent failure to administer Clexane. After the surgery, it was also clear the Claimant may have also been suffering from symptoms indicative of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). Consequently, in 2018, the Claimant had her left leg amputated.’
Quarterly Medical Law Review, 3rd March 2025
Source: 1corqmlr.com
‘Ewan Anthony and David Owens provide a round up of the recent case law in the world of construction contracts.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A circuit judge has refused to make a group litigation order (GLO) in relation to thousands of Plevin claims brought by one class action law firm, a move competitors had opposed.’
Legal Futures, 3rd March 2025
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Since the guilty pleas by Axel Rudakubana, there has been a renewed and acute focus on liability for contempt of court, and specifically on what can be said after a suspect has been arrested. The Law Commission has today (3 March) published a brief supplementary consultation paper so that people have an opportunity to let us know their views about the law in light of those events.’
Law Commission, 3rd March 2025
Source: lawcom.gov.uk
‘The Government has today taken forward recommendations by the Law Commission in its Commonhold White Paper.’
Law Commission, 3rd March 2025
Source: lawcom.gov.uk
‘Something had gone “badly amiss” for a six-figure claim over an accident in Wales to be litigated in London’s Royal Courts of Justice, a judge has said.’
Law Society's Gazette, 4th March 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Restrictions on phone use and travel have been imposed on a pilot jailed for helping to smuggle four Albanian migrants into the UK.’
BBC News, 3rd March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A convicted murderer spent almost two years working with children after he was barred from doing so, the BBC has learned.’
BBC News, 4th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An autistic woman with a learning disability was wrongly locked up in a mental health hospital for 45 years, starting when she was just seven years old, the BBC has learned.’
BBC News, 4th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The leader of Britain’s black and Asian police officers has been placed under investigation over a tweet.’
The Guardian, 4th March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A jury unanimously acquitted the television auctioneer of controlling or coercive behaviour, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault by beating.’
The Independent, 28th February 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Not all judgments are created equal. Some, by more senior judges or courts (essentially High Court judges or above), may be regarded as primary or binding ‘authority’ for the propositions of law which they contain. They lay down the law, which lesser courts and judges must follow. Courts of the same or equivalent standing must think twice before departing from those rulings, but more senior courts can, and sometimes do, decide differently and may even ‘over-rule’ them. In such a case, it will be the higher court’s ruling, or precedent, that takes precedence.’
Transparency Project, 28th February 2025
Source: transparencyproject.org.uk
‘In Irwin Mitchell Trust Corporation Ltd v KS & Ors [2025] EWCOP 7 (T2), Senior Judge Hilder had to grapple with a question that had not been the subject of a previous reported decision: what can the Court of Protection do in respect of a child, whose property and affairs (including assets in England & Wales) are subject to deputyship, but who is no longer habitually resident in England & Wales? The Official Solicitor argued that the court no longer had jurisdiction to determine the deputy’s request for authorities in respect of expenditure from her funds. The deputy sought to argue that it did, either by virtue of the operation of s.47 MCA 2005 (importing the powers, rights and privileges of the High Court), or on a pragmatic basis.’
Mental Capacity Law and Policy, 1st March 2025
‘A doggy daycare boss who sued for over £400,000 after injuring her arm in a fall from a horse has lost her case after being videoed holding a “big, strong” husky tugging at the lead and playing sports.’
The Independent, 3rd March 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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