TEST LEAD GEN STORY
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Family proceedings: Jurisdiction
Court allows father’s appeal and sets aside order that proceedings concerning parties’ children were subject to Hague Child Protection Convention 1996.
Child: Protection
Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme.
Holiday: Package holiday
Liability of tour operator.
Charity: Trustee
Winding up of charity.
Employment: Discrimination
Royal Mail Group Ltd v Efobi [2021] UKSC 33 - Appeal of the claimant dismissed.
Extradition: Human rights
Compatibility.
Children and young persons: Detention
Removal from association.
Tort: Causing loss by unlawful means
Relationship between third party and claimant.
Data protection: Representative liability
Application to strike out claim brought against ‘representative’ for alleged breaches by data controller company.
Sentence: Confiscation order
Proceeds of crime.
Contempt of court
Circulation of information in draft judgment.
Sentence: Retrial
Appeal against sentence.
Local government: Meetings
Power to have remote meetings on or after 7 May 2021.
Sentence: Sexual offences
Correct approach when sentencing for certain sexual offences against children where no actual sexual activity occurred.
National Health Service: Consultation
Claimant challenging NHS Trust’s decision designating its hospital as Covid-19 free ‘Green’ site.
Contract: Illegality
Unlawful purpose.
Employment: Equality of treatment of men and women
Equal pay for equal work.
Employment: Remuneration
National minimum wage.
Judicial review: Income support
Covid self-employment income support scheme did not unlawfully discriminate against women who had taken maternity leave in the three preceding tax years.
Criminal law: Retrial
Guidance given following prosecution’s application for permission to arraign defendant eight months after conviction quashed and retrial ordered.
Deprivation of citizenship
*R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission; R (on the application of Begum) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Employment: ‘Worker’
Appeal concerning whether Uber drivers ‘workers’ provide personal services to second appellant, and if so, what periods constitute their ‘working time’.
Practice: Pre-trial or post-judgment relief
Striking out.
Mental health: Detention
Meaning of ‘personally seen’ and ‘personally examined’ in context of detention of persons with mental disorders during coronavirus pandemic.
Social security: Universal credit
Judicial review claim, alleging unlawful discrimination concerning mechanism for payment of childcare costs element of universal credit regime.
Extradition: European arrest warrant
Effect of UK’s withdrawal from EU.
Covid-19: Business interruption insurance
The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and others.
Judicial review: Costs of application
Costs against court.
European Union: Civil and commercial matters
Exclusive jurisdiction in matters relating to rights in rem in immovable property.