All Courts business articles – Page 144
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NewsAppeal court allows prisoner legal aid challenge
Howard League of Penal Reform and Prisoners’ Advice Service say system is ‘inherently unfair’.
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NewsDisgruntled High Court judge leaves case with parting shot for BA
Judge Peter Smith claims airline deliberately left behind his and a planeload of passengers’ luggage in a bid ‘to maximise profits’.
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NewsDaughter’s £164k will victory ‘consistent with law’, say experts
Court of Appeal awards a woman money from her mother’s estate after she was expressly excluded from the will.
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News‘Draconian’ sanctions based on Mitchell are overturned
Court of Appeal has overturned a decision to impose heavy sanctions on a law firm for missing cost deadlines.
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ProfileItalian municipality wins swaps case
Germana Lo Iacono-Smith acted for Prato Comune in its interest-rate-swap dispute with Dexia Crediop.
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OpinionCommodifying the courts
There is no reason to suppose that anything is off limits for privitisation after MoJ hikes court fees again.
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FeatureRequesting a court revisit its judgment
How can a court exercise its discretion and revisit its judgment in the light of a new point?
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FeatureSearch warrants: duty of disclosure
State agencies applying for search warrants must be painstaking in their approach.
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OpinionCourting unpopularity
The government must not be too dismissive in its responses to consultations.
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Early conciliation cuts employment tribunal cases in half
Statistics from Acas show that 73% of those involved in employment disputes have progressed to conciliation.
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NewsNew family court opens in push to encourage ADR
The designated family judge for London behind the initiative says there was a need for the court ‘to provide more than just a trial process’.
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Law ReportMental health
In a case where the relevant health care trust wished to discontinue life-sustaining treatment with the inevitable consequence that as a result the patient would quickly die, the Court of Protection held that having regard to the diagnosis of the patient by experts, the balance lay strongly in favour of ...
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NewsLandmark £85 parking ticket battle hits Supreme Court
A motorist had to crowdfund more than £6,000 to cover the costs of taking the case to the highest court in the UK despite his lawyers acting pro bono.
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NewsMoJ proposes new round of court fee rises
‘General uplift’ including doubling of some fees to generate over £100m in additional income a year.
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NewsAction day 22: legal aid practitioners rally in London
Solicitors and barristers gathered outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court ahead of crucial meeting with Michael Gove tomorrow.
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NewsSupreme Court rejects human rights challenge to CFAs
Much-awaited judgment in Coventry consigns ‘cost wars’ to history, lawyers say.
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Separating couples ‘giving up on courts’ due to firm closures
Drop in private law cases reflects the large number of separating parents who have given up on courts, says Cafcass.
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NewsUK litigants taking higher share of Commercial Court cases
Number of UK litigants surges as London prepares to host new specialist list for complex financial markets cases.
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OpinionLondon must build on its lead
The new Financial List is a fillip for the capital but the initiative could go further.
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ProfileWelfare victory in Supreme Court
Mitchell Woolf acted for parents in a landmark case in which the court found for a claimants in a social security dispute.