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What Is A Section 7 Report And Can I Challenge It? – Sima Najma
n summary, where an application has been made to the Court under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, a Section 7 report is ordered by the Court primarily concerned with the child’s welfare, and which is written by a CAFCASS worker, or a social worker from the local authority. What Is CAFCASS? more...
Does A Parent’s Immigration Status Affect Disputes About Children in Family Law proceedings concerning Children? – Sima Najma
Disagreements between parents about arrangements for their children raise all kinds of sensitive issues and emotions. But what if the immigration status of one parent is uncertain such as them being an overstayer or an illegal immigrant? When the Court is asked to make decisions under the Children more...
Turning Children Against Parents: Parental Alienation — Sima Najma
What happens if a child has been manipulated to such an extent by one parent that he or she is unwilling to have any contact with the other parent? The approach of the Courts and practitioners to what’s known as parental alienation is constantly evolving as our understanding of the effects of this more...
A Brief Look at Children and Family Law Post-Brexit — Sima Najma
It’s now January 2021 and, as well as being a New Year, we are no longer a part of the EU. That means that the transition period has ended, EU regulations and rules no longer apply to our country, and Great Britain is no longer one of the EU Member States. There’s been an awful lot of discussion, TV more...
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Britain’s Courts — Sima Najma
For an already under-pressure Court system, the Covid-19 outbreak has almost proven to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. During the first lockdown, Courts shut completely and only re-opened at the end of May 2020. That two-month shutdown caused hearings planned for the summer of 2020 to be more...
24 Mar 2021 12:05
UK Inquest Law Blog: What an Art 2 investigation does and does not requireWritten by Bridget Dolan QC Published: 12 February 2021 R (Grice) v HM Senior Coroner of Brighton and Hove [2020] EWHC 3581 (here) Will an inquest always be required after a homicide trial when there have been alleged failures by state agents to protect life? In this Judicial Review case Garnham J more...
24 Mar 2021 12:01
Lawyers Falling Out: Who Can Sue for What?In a world where it sometimes seems that everyone sues everyone else sooner or later Simon Wilton reflects on the decision in McFarland-Cruickshanks v England Kerr Hands Solicitors Ltd (t/a England Kerr Hands) and asks what potential there is for lawyers to sue each other when litigation on which more...
24 Mar 2021 11:56
COVID: one year onLast March, I don’t think any of us could have imagined the challenges we’d face in the next 12 months. Those challenges have come into every part of our lives. They’ve changed how, and sometimes where, we work; they’ve affected how we spend our free time; they’ve led to us missing our loved ones; more...
24 Mar 2021 11:53
Let’s support prisoners to turn their lives around, not force them onto courses which don’t workWhen Transform Justice was researching courses for those who committed domestic abuse, we asked what proof there was that they changed behaviour. In the case of the main statutory course – Building Better Relationships (BBR) – there was no evaluation which measured its impact on offending. 9 years more...
24 Mar 2021 11:25
R V Abdirashid HusseinMaria Brannan secured the acquittal of a client charged with violent disorder, following successful legal argument excluding police identification evidence purporting to place the client at the scene. The client appeared for trial at the Bolton Crown Court and was acquitted of all charges. Maria was more...
24 Mar 2021 11:18
Two of 3PB’s specialist crime barristers feature in BBC’s new documentary ‘’Football’s Darkest Secret’’Adam Feest QC, who heads 3PB’s group of criminal law barristers, is appearing tonight with fellow 3PB crime team counsel Berenice Mulvanny in the BBC’s new three-part documentary about child abuse in English football. The BBC’s new three part documentary ‘’Football's Darkest Secret’’ which airs more...
24 Mar 2021 11:14
Abortion in Northern Ireland: at the interface between politics and lawAbortion reform in Northern Ireland has had a fraught history, to say the least. Matters appeared to finally come to a head when in 2019, the UK Parliament enacted the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc.) Act 2019 (2019 Act), which created a duty on the Secretary of State to implement more...
22 Mar 2021 11:48
Horizon Scanning: Are you ready for this April’s employment law changes?April’s always a busy time of year for any employer or HR professional; not only does it mark the end of one tax year and the start of the next, but it’s also the time of year that important employment law changes kick in. From the extension of the National Living Wage to increases to statutory more...
22 Mar 2021 11:41
Benjamin Myers QC secures Not Guilty verdict in attempted murder trialBenjamin Myers QC from Exchange Chambers represented SS who was tried for the attempted murder of a man beaten about the face with a claw hammer. The attack was linked to county lines drug dealing. The prosecution alleged that at least twelve blows were delivered to the victim’s face as he lay semi more...
22 Mar 2021 11:39
Andrew Petterson successfully prosecutes aggravated burglary caseAndrew Petterson from Exchange Chambers has successfully prosecuted an aggravated burglary case at Sheffield Crown Court sitting at Doncaster before HHJ Kelson QC. The defendant received 12 years’ imprisonment for the aggravated burglary of a 79-year-old man after the 3 day trial. After forcing his more...
22 Mar 2021 11:37
Will Waldron QC and Chris Allen secure £3.15 million settlementWill Waldron QC and Chris Allen from Exchange Chambers have successfully negotiated a £3.15 million settlement for a Claimant with serious polytrauma and internal injuries. Whilst this settlement seems unusually large for a Claimant who had not suffered an amputation or a brain injury, it does more...
22 Mar 2021 11:35
The providers of ‘Ride Hailing apps’ and their drivers: another judgment from AmsterdamThree applicants v Ola Netherlands B.V. C/13/689705 / HA RK 20-258, District Court, Amsterdam (11 March 2021) An Amsterdam Court has ordered Ola (a smartphone-hailing taxi organisation like Uber) to be more transparent about the data it uses as the basis for decisions on suspensions and wage more...
22 Mar 2021 11:31
Neil Fawcett gives legal opinion that estate agents could be 'negligent' for not disclosing air pollution levels3PB’s commercial barrister Neil Fawcett has co-produced, with Jessica Simor QC from Matrix Chambers, a 20-page legal opinion for the Central Office of Public Interest which says there is a "strong legal argument" that estate agents not disclosing air pollution levels would be considered negligent. more...
22 Mar 2021 11:28
Rogue landlords: Do multiple offences mean multiple rent repayment orders?As more tenants become aware of the provisions made in the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (“HPA2016”) to sanction the behaviour of rogue landlords, 3PB property litigation barrister Antonietta GrassoAntonietta GrassoCall: 2004 considers the recent case of Ficcara & Others v James [2021] UKUT 0038 (LC more...
22 Mar 2021 11:26
Tom Evans' client found not guilty in Bristol Crown Court of causing death by careless driving3PB Crime barrister Tom Evans’ client, Stephen Johnson, was involved in a collision with a motorcycle that resulted in the death of a motorcycle rider, Keith Pearce. The defendant accepted that he was required to give way; had not come to a stop; he had cut the corner; had not activated his more...
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