‘The High Court has quashed a decision by a city council to set an annual increase to care home fees below-inflation. Philip Rule KC looks at the lessons from the judgment.’
Local Government Lawyer, 7th February 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A former scout leader who assaulted children as young as seven over almost three decades has been jailed.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 7th February 2025
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘The master of the rolls was preaching to the converted at the latest LawtechUK event. His message was clear: artificial intelligence is here to stay and the profession should be prepared to embrace it.’
Law Society's Gazette, 9th February 2025
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The recently reported case of WZ v HZ [2024] EWFC 407 (B) (1 May 2024) provides guidance on how to manage the common occurrence of one spouse holding out in the family home despite an order for sale.’
Financial Remedies Journal, 6th February 2025
Source: financialremediesjournal.com
‘A UK power station that has received billions of pounds in government subsidies has failed more than once to report it burned wood from primary forests, BBC News has found.’
BBC News, 9th February 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Hundreds of migrants have been arrested since the start of this year as part of a UK-wide crackdown on illegal working, the government has said.’
BBC News, 10th February 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An Essex police officer has been sacked after admitting “tragedy chanting” at Liverpool fans during a Premier League match last year.’
The Guardian, 9th February 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An unpaid carer is to challenge in the courts an “unfair and nonsensical” demand by welfare officials to repay £4,600 in carer’s allowance overpayments, five years after being advised by the same department she was following benefit rules correctly.’
The Guardian, 10th February 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In TBD (which was covered in the article by Niran de Silva KC and Sam Neaman in the April 2024 edition of ELA Briefing), the Court of Appeal approved the use of imaging orders (an order that requires a defendant to permit a forensic computer expert to make a complete copy of their electronic devices) as a less intrusive alternative to a search order (an order that requires a defendant to allow the claimant’s representatives to enter their premises and search for, copy and remove documents). Since then, there has been some debate over the relevant threshold for granting an imaging order, with a degree of inconsistency appearing in the authorities. In the recently published judgment of Nix, HH Judge Pelling KC expressed support for the view that the grounds for granting an imaging order are slightly less stringent than for granting a search order. He also identified the factors that are likely to be most relevant to obtaining an imaging order where the complaint is of unacceptable conduct in relation to disclosure and/or the preservation of documents.’
Blackstone Chambers, 7th February 2025
Source: www.employeecompetition.com
‘Pharmaceutical companies cannot obtain UK supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) for medicinal products for which a second medical use has been found where those products have already been the subject of a marketing authorisation issued by regulators, the Court of Appeal in England and Wales has confirmed.’
OUT-LAW.com, 4th February 2025
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘On 31 January 2025, the Church in Wales issued the Press Release Discerning the future of same-sex blessings in the Church in Wales. The CiW introduced a time-limited provision in October 2021 which is due to expire in September 2026 after which the options include: allowing the provision to lapse; extending the current blessings; or taking the significant step of introducing a formal service of marriage for same-sex couples.’
Law & Religion UK, 6th February 2025
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘The use of lethal force by SAS soldiers who shot dead four members of the IRA in 1992 in an ambush in County Tyrone was not justified or reasonable, a judge at an inquest has ruled.’
The Guardian, 6th February 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Home Office must pay £100,000 to an asylum seeker who was unlawfully detained before her ability to work, buy food and socialise was “grossly restricted”, the high court has said.’
The Guardian, 6th February 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘MPs are pushing for assisted deaths to be available for people suffering from Motor Neurone Disease or Parkinson’s who have a year left to live in a new amendment to the bill.’
The Independent, 6th February 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The housing charity Shelter has criticised the government for putting lives at risk by delaying a law to make social landlords in England fix dangerous hazards quickly.’
The Guardian, 6th February 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Landlords will be forced to investigate and fix damp and mould in social housing in England within strict timescales from October, the government has announced.’
BBC News, 6th February 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal over whether a local authority can authorise the deprivation of liberty of a 14-year-old boy in exercise of its parental responsibility under a care order.’
Local Government Lawyer, 6th February 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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