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The State's positive obligations in a pandemic: do we have a right to health?
World Health Day (7th April 2020) found the world in the midst of a fight against one of the biggest threats to our generation, and potentially generations to come. While the world is busy fighting off a raging pandemic, many are questioning whether states could and should have done more to prevent more...
HOME OFFICE POLICIES IN RESPONSE TO CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
In response to the Coronavirus, and the Government measures to combat it, the Home Office have introduced a number of new policies. The situation is fluid and changing on a very frequent basis so practitioners should take care to check the latest position on the UKVI website. This post was drafted more...
New Immigration Law Update Videos
I have put together some new short Immigration Law update videos. I hope that they are helpful. For more detailed training sign up to one of my upcoming seminars in Birmingham or London via HJT, MBL Seminars or The Solicitors Group. New Videos: Immigration Law Update: New Country Guidance Iran more...
Five ways female car drivers can protect themselves legally
This article was penned by Cristina Parla for Roythornes Solicitors. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been driving, how experienced you might be, or how confident you may feel on our roads, it’s highly likely that at some point you have fallen or will fall within the 80.4% of drivers who have felt more...
The risk of assessing risk
Do you see children through the lens of risk, need or potential? Maybe all three? But are there dangers in looking at under 18 year olds who have committed minor crime as potential repeat offenders or potential welfare recipients? A seminal study by University of Edinburgh academics has followed more...
A CULTURE LIVES IN ITS LANGUAGE OR DIES IN A MUSEUM
My speech at the Rali dros enw uniaith Gymraeg i’r Senedd [Rally for a Welsh-only name for the Senedd] My good friends at Plaid Cymru have sent me some briefing notes about the important legal issues raised by the Senedd and Elections (Wales) Bill. And I am grateful to them. And they suggest I speak more...
5 Dec 2019 11:59
Anne Whyte QC leading Julian Evans act for Greater Manchester Poilice in a JR against the Home OfficeAnne Whyte QC leading Julian Evans have been instructed to act for Greater Manchester Police in a JR against the Home Office. The claimant has sought a declaration of incompatibility that the prohibition of the use of intercept evidence in criminal proceedings in section 56(1) and schedule 3 para 21 more...
4 Dec 2019 15:23
No5 Barristers’ Chambers counsel at centre of landmark rulingCounsel from No5 Barristers’ Chambers represented parents who have been fighting for the right to protest against LGBT equality teaching in a Birmingham primary school. Ramby de Mello represented Shakeel Afsar, his sister Rosina Afsar and Amir Ahmed who contested the need for an injunction to more...
4 Dec 2019 14:53
Observer or shadow director? – Investors must make sure they know the difference.A board observer will not, on the face of it, be a director of the company. However, care should be exercised by any person that is appointed as an observer as, depending on the level of involvement that they have in the proceedings at directors’ meetings, they may be regarded as a shadow director more...
3 Dec 2019 14:26
This Christmas, give the gift of access to justice.What if £5 could be £10, £50 could be £100 and £100 could be £200? Thanks to The Big Give's #ChristmasChallenge19, from now until midday on Tuesday 10th December, donations made to us using this link will be DOUBLED! And if the idea of your donation being doubled isn’t enough to tempt you, everyone more...
27 Nov 2019 16:09
Irani v Duchon [2019] EWCA Civ 1846David Pittaway QC’s judgment in Irani v Duchon [2019] EWCA Civ 1846 was recently upheld by the Court of Appeal (Etherton MR, Hamblen and Holroyd LJ). The appeal was against his award of damages for future loss of earnings, where he made a Smith v Manchester award of £30,000 and a Blamire award of more...
26 Nov 2019 11:37
The Weekly Roundup: The Women’s Manifesto, Assisted Suicide, Life Sentences, and Citizenship AppealsIn the news With an election on the horizon, a coalition of 29 women and human rights organisation has published a manifesto for women and girls. Their stated goals are to “end violence against women and girls”; “secure women’s equal representation in politics”; “promote equality in the workplace more...
25 Nov 2019 11:02
Edwards v Hugh James Ford Simey Solicitors [2019] UKSC 54The Supreme Court judgment on Edwards on behalf of the estate of the late Thomas Arthur Watkins v Hugh James Ford Simey Solicitors [2019] UKSC 54 is finally in and provides guidance on Loss of Chance, although not in the depth that was hoped. Lucile Taylor has written a case note exploring the more...
25 Nov 2019 10:53
David Pojour succeeds on appeal to keep autism hospital openDavid Pojur represented a specialist hospital which provides continuous care for severely autistic patients. The independent tribunal heard evidence that the CQC failed to justify its case to serve notices which would close the rare healthcare provider. The judgment was critical of the approach and more...
19 Nov 2019 19:35
Beyond the Electronic BillCurrent and former members of the Hutton Committee, chaired by Hailsham’s Alexander Hutton QC, have produced a white paper aimed at stimulating further debate surrounding the next steps for the modernisation of costs assessments. It brings together thought-provoking insights from a wide range of more...
19 Nov 2019 13:58
AI – a tool for the law, or its digital master?In the latest Henry Brooke Lecture (12th November, hosted by BAILII and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer), Supreme Court Justice Lord Sales warned that the growing role of algorithms and artificial intelligence in decision making poses significant legal problems. He cited as an example a recent case more...
19 Nov 2019 13:47
The Lord Advocate – no longer immune from suitWhitehouse and Clark v The Chief Constable, Police Scotland and The Lord Advocate [2019] CSIH 52 In an appeal brought by the former joint administrators of Rangers Football Club, the Inner House of the Court of Session ruled that the Lord Advocate does not have absolute immunity from suit for more...
18 Nov 2019 15:13
Should we be imprisoning people for forgetting to turn up to court?If you go into any magistrates court you will notice that cases often don’t go ahead because either the defendant, the witness or both has not turned up. You will hear the prosecution asking for “warrant no bail” in response. If the bench agrees, this means the police have to arrest the defendant more...
18 Nov 2019 15:02
Screening Inquest Witnesses: An appropriate protection or a disproportionate intrusion into open justice?Dyer v Assistant Coroner for West Yorkshire EWHC 2897 (Admin) 30 October 2019 (judgment here) If the tribunal, the lawyers and the jury who will be making the decision can watch a witness as they give live evidence one might ask why should it matter if the rest of the public and press might not see more...
13 Nov 2019 11:23
Cars and cyclists - friends or foes?If you had to create a simple Venn diagram of drivers and cyclists, there would be a significant number of people who would occupy the central sector. Yet you would be forgiven for thinking these two groups, cyclists and drivers, are diametrically opposed. The internet is awash with dashcam or more...
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