Lords agree ‘fundamental dishonesty’ clause
Courts will make an exception only if the claimant would suffer ‘substantial injustice’.
Mitchell: may we relieve ourselves now?
The Court of Appeal’s updated guidance on non-compliance seeks to restore sanity. But only time will tell if it does.
Care in custody failings
The death of Brian Dalrymple highlights care shortcomings.
Disabled people’s trusts and inheritance
Legislation heading to the Lords should open up new possibilities for disabled people who are the beneficiaries of wills.
‘Revenge porn’ legal remedies
The unauthorised digital dissemination of intimate photos and videos is a misuse of information but the legal remedies are varied or in their infancy.
EU trademark
A request had been made in proceedings between Apple and the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, concerning the latter’s rejection of an application by Apple for registration of a trademark.
Mental health
There was an application before the court in respect of DD, a 36-year-old woman with learning difficulties, who was pregnant with her sixth child. The applicants sought for declarations and orders in relation to the care and health of DD during the final stage of her current pregnancy, and in the safe delivery of the unborn baby. The applicants applied for a further order authorising the conduct of an assessment of DD’s capacity to make decisions about contraception, following the imminent ...
Income tax
The Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) allowed the appeal by the Revenue and Customs Commissioners against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber) in which the FTT had decided that a penalty paid by McLaren Racing Ltd for a breach of sporting code of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile was deductible by McLaren in computing its taxable profits.
False imprisonment
The police had been called to an incident in which the appellant had been implicated. The officer had blocked the appellant in a doorway and told him to calm down otherwise he would be arrested.
Family
The parents of a child SR born in 2011 opposed the making of an adoption order in favour of the proposed adopters. The Family Division held that there was only one route which would sufficiently safeguard the welfare of SR and that was the route of adoption.
Legal aid
Six claims were heard together in which each claimant challenged the defendant Director of Legal Aid Casework’s decisions refusing to grant legal aid in respect of their immigration proceedings.
Criminal law
The defendants (AB and CD) both faced charges of having committed offences contrary to s 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
