‘One in eight women killed by men in the last 15 years were aged over 70, figures show, with a specialist charity reporting a growing number of older victims of domestic abuse seeking help.’
The Guardian, 6th March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Government has established a new working group to produce a “working definition” of Anti-Muslim Hatred and Islamophobia. It will advise government on how best to understand, quantify and define prejudice, discrimination, and hate crime targeted against Muslims.’
Law & Religion UK, 5th March 2025
Source: lawandreligionuk.com
‘The Council has published a significantly revised version of the Imposition of community and custodial sentences guideline.’
Sentencing Council, 5th March 2025
Source: www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has unanimously dismissed a former teacher’s appeal against a finding by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) that he had developed an “inappropriate relationship” with a pupil – and therefore would be precluded from being a teacher – despite a separate TRA disciplinary panel finding he was not guilty of professional misconduct.’
Local Government Lawyer , 4th March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Upper Tribunal has allowed a mother’s appeal concerning the Education Health and Care (EHC) Plans of her two children, after finding a “procedural irregularity” in respect of pagination issues in the court bundle.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.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
‘As family lawyers, we are used to meeting our clients at a time when they are at their most vulnerable. This is intensified when addiction is present within a family. Divorce or separation places an added burden upon everyone involved and those individuals are likely to have experienced or still be experiencing the destruction that addiction can cause, some of it obvious and some of it less so.’
Kingsley Napley Family Law Blog, 14th February 2025
Source: www.kingsleynapley.co.uk
‘The housing minister has promised to abolish the centuries-old leasehold system in England and Wales before the end of this parliament, as the government takes the next steps towards an outright ban on new leasehold developments.’
The Guardian, 3rd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Supreme Court considered para 5(4) to Schedule 6 Land Registration Act 2002 on the requirements for an application for registered title through adverse possession of land adjoining the applicant’s land.’
Nearly Legal, 2nd March 2025
Source: nearlylegal.co.uk
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