In this latest Environmental Law News Update William Upton QC, Christopher Badger and Natasha Hausdorff consider the Environment Agency’s aim to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2030, Mark Carney’s comments on climate risks and resilience and new Environment Agency guidance on climate change risk more...

Oliver King defended a photographer who secretly filmed a woman who was staying at his house with a hidden camera. Barry William Mappley, of Lon Dderwen, was found guilty of two charges of voyeurism at Mold Magistrates Court and subsequently handed an eight month prison sentence at Caernarfon Crown more...

Directors’ authority - Michael Todd QC and Philip Gillyon of Erskine Chambers consider limits to directors’ ostensible or apparent authority following the Privy Council decision in East Asia Company Ltd v PT Satria Tirtatama Energindo. The protection afforded by the law to innocent third parties is more...

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP) have produced their annual report on youth offending services. The report covers inspections of 26 youth offending services over the past 12 months and finds that services are providing inconsistent supervision and support to children and young people more...

In a case prosecuted by Gordon Cole QC from Exchange Chambers, a man who brutally bludgeoned his wife to death with a crowbar has been found guilty of murder. David Pomphret, 51, struck his wife, Ann Marie, more than 30 times in a ‘frenzied attack’ at their horse stables near their home in Winwick, more...

Daniel Ricciardo is renowned for his smile and has managed to keep it up despite facing troubles on and off the track. Legal experts have warned that Formula One drivers could face an increased risk of being sued by disgruntled former managers seeking a share of their high-octane earnings after more...

In Meadowside Building Developments Ltd (in liquidation) v 12-18 Hill Street Management Company Ltd [2019] EWHC 2651 (TCC) Arthur Graham-Dixon successfully represented the Defendant employer (‘HSMC’) in resisting the Claimant’s (‘Meadowside’) application for summary judgment to enforce an more...

Chris Richards from Exchange Chambers has successfully represented a man injured in a serious accident at work. The Claimant had been working for a local authority. In the moments before the accident, the Claimant had been moving forks on a forklift. The forks were heavy and difficult to move. As more...

Seb Oram analyses the Commercial Court’s recent decision in Natixis SA v Marex Financial [2019] EWHC 2549 (Comm), as part of LexisPSL’s Case Analysis Expert Panels. What is the scope for common mistake in commercial contracts? Can a party’s standard terms limit or exclude liability, even where there more...

The Project for Modern Democracy have published a report on Remaking the Magistracy: The Role and Potential of Magistrates in the Criminal Justice System. The report evaluates the strengths of England’s unique lay magistracy model and concludes that, despite challenges, it still provides a valuable more...

A police receptionist represented by Rachael Woods from Exchange Chambers has been spared jail after accessing her force’s confidential database. Ex-prison warder, Jacqueline Wilson, 52, made checks on police investigations after former workmate Jacqueline Goosey, 52, asked her for information about more...

Ian Whitehurst from Exchange Chambers, instructed by Adrian Williams from Forbes Solicitors, has this week appeared in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division where he has been granted leave to appeal by the Lord Chief Justice (sitting with a full court) in a confiscation case. The court directed that more...

Pastörs -v- Germany (Case no. 55225/14) On 3 October 2019 the European Court of Human Rights dismissed an application by former NDP leader Udo Pastörs that his criminal conviction in Germany for making a “qualified Auschwitz denial” in a parliamentary speech infringed his right to freedom of speech more...

At HMCTS, we’ve historically measured ourselves on the time it takes to “dispose of” a case – in other words, how long do people have to wait from the time a case is lodged with us, to getting a decision or outcome. We’ve also carefully counted the number of “sitting days” that our budget is more...

Following the publication of the Lammy Review, which highlighted the alarming disproportionality faced by those from BAME backgrounds, especially in the youth justice system, the MA agreed that responding to this disproportionality should be a policy priority for the organisation in January 2018. We more...

A four-day Inquest, held from 19 November 2018, found that stewarding failures at Old Trafford football ground contributed to the death of Mr Whale on 10 December 2017. The Inquest found that the hand rails on each side of exit staircase N1410 were obstructed by two stewards, who were watching the more...

In this latest Environmental Law News Update Christopher Badger considers Ofwat’s new strategy, the publication of a new report on climate benchmarks by the EU Technical Expert Group and a new Environment Agency consultation on the new standard rules permits. Ofwat publishes new strategy On 8 more...

Sarah Barlow from Exchange Chambers, instructed by Deepika Raino from Slater & Gordon, has successfully defended a social worker at a Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) Conduct and Competence Committee Hearing. The client and two other social workers faced a range of allegations, more...

Sarah Barlow from Exchange Chambers, instructed by Karen Featherstone of Simpsons Solicitors, has represented the family of Birmingham man, Nigel Abbott, at an Article 2 inquest into his death. Nigel Abbott was tragically killed by Kierran Fletcher, a young man in the grip of a severe psychotic more...

Creditor schemes of arrangement - Michael Todd QC and Andrew Blake of Erskine Chambers consider whether the court will sanction a scheme where a company has been incorporated in England & Wales solely for the purpose of engaging the scheme jurisdiction under Part 26 CA 2006 Schemes of arrangement more...