Blog archive

Here are my final top tips in relation to delay and disruption claims...

A recent ASA adjudication concerned ITV’s scheduling of a McDonald’s advert for their ‘Double Quarter-Pounder with Cheese’ burger...

According to recent reports in several media outlets, HMRC is preparing to inform as many as 200 academics in UK universities that they are being investigated for potential breaches of export control rules.

The Treasury has issued a Direction which disapplies the Regulations which introduced a cap on public sector exit payments in November last year...

The Treasury has issued a Direction which disapplies the Regulations which introduced a cap on public sector exit payments in November last year...

In Re TA (Recording of hearings; Communication with Court office), the Court of Protection recently made an injunction to restrain P’s son, TA, from communicating with the court office by e-mail and telephone...

The High Court has today ruled against the Official Receiver in its case for disqualification brought against the directors of the charity “Kids Company”, together with its CEO Camila Batmanghelidjh...

The third top tip in relation to delay and disruption claims is about recording disruption. Claims for disruption live and die by the contemporaneous factual evidence...

Following our recent webinar on delay and disruption claims I have 5 top tips for those bringing or defending disruption claims...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision to reject an employer’s defence to a racial harassment claim, based on training which had been delivered several years before the events in question and was “clearly stale”...

In 2018, the Independent Review of the Mental Health published their final report which included over 150 recommendations to help modernise the Act, address the rising number of detentions and the disparity in use of the Act on people from BAME backgrounds...

In a recent decision, the Court of Protection granted a declaration that it was lawful and in the best interests of a mentally incapacitious person to be given anti-hypertensive medication covertly...