Qualified one-way costs shifting
Supreme Court rules in Ho v Adelekun.
Scrutinising digital mergers
Competition.
Intra-Company Transfer review
Immigration law.
A tale of two judges
Commercial property.
Recording and transcription of court hearings
Civil procedure.
Limitation in claims against legal advisers
Professional negligence.
To jab or not to jab? Covid vaccination dilemmas
Employment law.
Testing the right to offend
Local government.
Undertakings: as good as gold?
Harcus provides a wake-up call to those for whom undertakings may have become just another administrative routine.
Covid and Barder events
Family.
Criminal law roundup
Including assaulting an emergency worker, human trafficking and burglary.
Publishing arbitration court judgments
Dispute resolution.
Solicitors’ undertakings
The Supreme Court decision in Harcus Sinclair v Your Lawyers.
Right-to-work regime
The Home Office has issued new right-to-work guidance as the Brexit transitional arrangements for EU workers in the UK came to an end on 30 June 2021.
‘Breathing space’ on contractual disputes
Dispute resolution.
Perils of going against officer advice
Local government.
No further appeal on the Forstater judgment
Employment.
Accepting Part 36 offers after 21 days
Civil procedure.
Street space and taxis
R (on the application of United Trade Action Group Ltd and another) v Transport for London and another [2021] EWHC 72 (Admin).
GDPR: a roundup
Data protection.
The Domestic Abuse Act
Criminal and family.
Post-pandemic return to the workplace
Employment law.
Lost in the accountability maze
Local government.
Duty of care for the acts of third parties
Commercial law.
Criminal law roundup
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 received royal assent on 29 April. ‘Domestic abuse’ is defined more widely than violence and includes economical, psychological, emotional or other abuse.
Judicial guidance on DBAs
Civil procedure.
A watershed moment for consumer protection
Financial services.
Covid and leisure management contracts
Local government
Art of evasion
JSC VTB Bank v Skurikhin and others: UK courts demonstrate awareness of possibility of misuse of its procedures.
Uber and the legal profession
Employment
Climate change disputes in Europe and beyond
Climate change-related disputes have evolved beyond damages-based claims to a new and diverse class of legal action.
The role of courts at the seat of arbitration
Alternative dispute resolution.
Business interruption cases and the Financial Ombudsman Service
Businesses should not be so hasty to throw themselves into the risks, stresses and costs of litigation.
Okpabi – a ‘real issue to be tried’
Personal injury.
Break clauses: too much and not enough
Commercial property.
Unified Patent Court put on hold – again
Intellectual property.
DIFC Data Protection Law No. 5
Data protection.
Cabbies win road curbs challenge
Local government.
Charity disputes and ADR
Civil procedure.
Clarity on Quincecare duty for banks
Commercial law.
How Brexit changes the status of advice
Legal privilege.
A ‘brave new world’ for UK extradition law?
The UK extradition landscape has changed - although not as much as one might think.
Housing allocation and Catch-22
Local government.
Principle of finality in litigation
Civil procedure.
Criminal law update
Credit for Guilty Plea, allocation of youths, identification by social media and sentencing.
Supreme Court lowers the bar
Collective actions.
Governance failures at Croydon Council
Local government.
Judicial clarity on anonymity orders
Civil procedure.
Information commissioner gets busy with fines
Data protection.