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Legal updates – Page 11
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FeaturePenalised for parking on your own land
Funny thing, the law. You would not, for instance, think you could get a ticket for parking on your own land. But you can.
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FeatureService charges and careful drafting
Some cases are interesting because the facts are unusual; others are interesting because the facts are ubiquitous.
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FeatureMagic of the machine: can artificial intelligence invent?
The ways innovation is achieved will change, and patent and copyright law will require reform to address this.
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FeatureAn analysis of the Sentencing Code
Code will provide single reference point for law on sentencing and will apply to all offenders convicted of an offence after 1 October 2020.
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FeatureWhen being stuck indoors becomes a nuisance
Spending time at home can be far from peaceful, due to the activities of neighbours or those working close by.
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FeatureCriminal law roundup
Dishonesty, intermediaries, statutory surcharge, and prison conditions.
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FeatureWhat Morrisons means for employer liability
Employers must continue to assess their obligations under GDPR and apply appropriate technical and organisational security measures.
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FeatureInterim injunctions against persons unknown
As George Harrison once sang: ‘All things must pass.’
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FeatureComply with ADR duty or risk costs sanction
The recent decision of DSN v Blackpool Football Club Limited [2020] EWHC 670 (QB) illustrates the need for litigating parties to consider and engage with alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures in trying to resolve their disputes.
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FeatureCoronavirus Q&A: Changes to housing eviction notices
Coronavirus Act amends sections under the Housing Acts 1985, 1988 and 1996, as well as the Rent Act 1977.
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FeatureFixed penalty notice for breach of lockdown: notifying the SRA
Ordinarily the regulator is not overly interested in fixed penalty notices. But these are not ordinary times.
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FeatureA ‘setback’ for unexplained wealth orders
On 8 April, two prominent Kazakhstan citizens successfully persuaded the High Court to discharge three unexplained wealth orders (National Crime Agency v Baker and ors [2020] EWHC 822 (Admin)). The UWOs related to three London homes owned for the benefit of Nurali Aliyev and his Kazakh politician mother, Dariga Nazarbayeva. ...
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FeatureRowing back on vicarious liability
Two judgments from the Supreme Court have set restrictions on the scope of vicarious liability. In Barclays Bank v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13 the test was whether the tortfeasor was in fact the ‘employee’ of the employer.
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FeatureLocal democracy survives Covid-19
A near 50-year-old way of administering local democracy was in danger of coming to a rather abrupt halt.
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FeatureMorrisons’ data breach win
Ruling will be a relief to companies, but that relief may be misplaced.
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FeatureLegal realities of an ‘extension’ to the football season
by Sport Resolutions’ panel member John Mehrzad QC and Joe Bryan, both from Littleton Chambers’ Sports Law Group.