Malik v Persons Unknown [2013] EWCA Civ 798 (Lloyd and Toulson LJJ and Sir Alan Ward): a challenge to the rule in McPhail v Persons Unknown [1993] Ch 447. The Defendants had been squatting on an area of land close to Heathrow Airport since 2010. They were part of a group known as “Grow Heathrow” […]
THE ONLINE PETITION CALLING FOR A HALT TO REDICAL NEW PLANS TO CUT LEGAL AID HAS REACHED 100,000 SIGNATURES This matter should now be debated in parliament. For further details see press release ‘Petition reaches 100,000!’ on the Young Legal Aid Lawyers’ website. Click here. A backbench debate on Legal Aid Reform took place on […]
News New DWP statistics on first phase of the benefit cap On 3 July 2013 the DWP issued ad hoc statistics based on data relating to the first phase of the cap that began, on 15 April 2013, in Bromley, Croydon, Enfield and Haringey. Key findings include that, at the end of May 2013, across […]
Dorset NHS Primary Care Trust & another v Timothy Frederick Coombs [2013] EWCA Civ 471 (Rix LJ, Aikens LJ, Black LJ): On dismissing the Trust’s appeal the court held that there was nothing inherent in the Mental Health Act 1983, the National Health Service Act 2006, or by way of public policy to exclude absolutely […]
PS v LP[2013] EWHC 1106 (COP) (HHJ Cardinal): concerned whether it was in the best interests of LP to have contact with her husband and family. She had left home aged 59 with another man, alleging domestic abuse from her family, not wishing to be traced by them, and shortly afterwards had a stroke such […]
R v L; R v HVN; R v T; R v THN [2013] EWCA Crim 991 (LCJ Judge, Moses LJ, Thirwall J): The Court of Appeal Criminal Division heard 4 unrelated but linked appeals against conviction brought by four victims of trafficking, three of whom were children at the time of the conviction. The Court […]
Nothing of note to update this month.
In RM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 775 (Longmore & Gloster LJ and Sir R Jacob), the Court of Appeal held that a third country national is entitled to permanent residence pursuant to Article 17(3) of Council Directive 2004/38/EC where she was married to an EU citizen with […]
