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Claimant held in contempt of court for grossly exaggerating negligence claim
Calderdale Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust v Sandip Singh Atwal [2018] EWHC 961 (QB) — read judgment In a landmark case an NHS trust has successfully brought contempt proceedings against a DJ who...
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Privacy Rights: How should a court remedy legislative incompatibility with EU...
R (The National Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2018] EWHC 975 (Admin) (27 April 2018) In the first phase of Liberty’s landmark...
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The Round Up: An anonymity injunction, the role of assurances in...
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law Credit: The Guardian In the News: In the matter of the person previously known as Jon Venables, Application by Ralph Stephen Bulger and...
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Win (for now) for app developer against Google
Unlockd Ltd and others v Google Ireland Limited and others (unreported, Roth J, Chancery Division 9 May 2018) – transcribed judgment awaited Unlockd, an app developer, sought an interim injunction to...
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Should civil partnerships only be available to same sex couples?
Following on from the UK Supreme Court’s special session in Belfast hearing the “Gay Cake” case, the Court now gathers in London to hear oral arguments in the Equal Love litigation whose factual...
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New Podcast: The Right to Be Forgotten
Dominic Ruck-Keene posted earlier on the order from the High Court that Google “delist” links in its search results to articles about the spent conviction of a businessman. You can hear him discussing...
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Invasive naso-gastric feeding not in the best interests of dementia patient
PW v Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Trust and others (28 April 2018) [2018] EWCA Civ 1067 – read judgment The Court of Appeal has refused to interfere with the Court of Protection’s decision that it...
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Supreme Court: unfairness/equal treatment only an aspect of irrationality
R (o.t.a. Gallaher et al) v. Competition and Markets Authority [2018] UKSC 25, 16 May 2018, read judgment UK public law is very curious. You could probably write much of its substantive law on a...
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Environmental protection after Brexit
“When we leave the EU, we will be able to build on the successes achieved through our membership, and address the failures, to become a world-leading protector of the natural world. We have also...
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Chief Coroner publishes new guidance following Mary Hassell JR
The Chief Coroner has issued guidance following the judgment of the Divisional Court in R (Adath Yisroel Burial Society) v Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2018] EWHC 969 (Admin) (“the AYBS...
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The Round Up: Grenfell, lost DVDs, and a Deputy Judge who erred in law.
Conor Monighan brings us the latest updates in human rights law. Credit: The Guardian In the News: An independent report into building regulations, commissioned by the government in the wake of the...
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Can the Grenfell Inquiry be a truly modern public inquiry?
The wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle and the start of the first phase of hearings in the Grenfell Inquiry occurred within hours of each other but could not have been more different in terms of...
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Womb for living?
This week Irish voters will decide whether there should be a continuing constitutional protection for the ‘unborn’. Novelist Sally Rooney’s article this week’s edition of the London Review of Books is...
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A “festival of mendacity”; telling the truth no more than a “lifestyle choice”
Rashid v. Munir et al, Turner J, High Court, Leeds, 22 May 2018 – read judgment here I promise you that this post will be entirely GDPR-free, despite its date. Judges go about saying people are lying...
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The Round-Up: Constitutional Commotions, Council Housing and Article 8, and...
Image Credit: The Guardian In a landmark moment for women’s rights, the Irish electorate has voted in favour of abolishing the 8th Amendment by a stunning two-thirds majority of 1,429,981 votes to...
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Could the Windrush Scheme be open to legal challenge?
On 24th May 2018 a new scheme to process citizenship applications for the Windrush generation was announced, after the Government’s apologies last month. The Windrush Scheme guidance explains how this...
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Court of Appeal upholds Birmingham gang injunction
Jones v Birmingham City Council [2018] EWCA Civ 1189 (23 May 2018) The Court of Appeal has upheld a ‘gang injunction’ restricting the actions and movement of 18 members of a Birmingham gang. One of...
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$8 billion lawsuits started on GDPR day
You would have to be a monk or, at any rate, in an entirely internet-free zone, not to have had your recent days troubled by endless GDPR traffic. The tiniest charity holding your name and email...
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Legal personhood for non-human animals: Part II — Dr Linda Roland Danil
The second part of this guest contribution argues that it is time to consider seriously the case for granting legal personhood to certain classes of sentient animals. Part I can be found here....
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The CJEU said yes! Partners in same sex marriage are “spouses” Part 1 –...
Coman and others, Case C‑673/16, 5 June 2018 – read judgment Can the term “spouse” in Article 2(2)(a) of the Citizenship Directive (Directive) refer to a spouse of the same sex as the other party to...
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