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Government announces another in increase in court fees!

The Government has just announced another raft of increases in court fees. The fee for issuing a divorce petition now goes from £410 to £550. The fee for issuing a…

August 21, 2015

Patrick Allen

Opinion

Cosmetic Surgery – At Last the GMC Issues Guidance

The cosmetic surgery industry is currently unregulated. There has been talk since around 2005 about regulation but nothing up until now has happened so the recent draft Guidance for cosmetic…

August 21, 2015

Andrew Harrison

Opinion

The cost of protecting your data

We have seen a marked increase in clients wanting to bring a claim for the misuse and/or mishandling of their personal data. The starting point is that under the Data…

August 21, 2015

Chun Wong

Blog

Sex – Don’t Sext

There is a growing concern amongst factions of the criminal law community and civil liability groups regarding the rising trend of teenagers being labelled sex offenders for sending sexually explicit…

August 19, 2015
Blog

The Croydon Private Property Rented License Scheme

As part of a bid to tackle rogue landlords, Croydon Council has pushed forward with a scheme to designate the borough a Private Rented Property License Area. This means that…

August 18, 2015
Opinion

Right to Buy: Aspiration or Social Cleansing?

Another day, another dramatic, divisive social policy. The Conservatives are pushing ahead with plans to extend ‘right to buy’- traditionally the right of long term council tenants to buy their…

August 17, 2015
Blog

Fixed costs will impact access to justice and lead to long term deterioration of healthcare in the UK

Proposals to enforce fixed costs in clinical negligence cases will deny those who have suffered life changing injuries access to redress and will prevent failings in our healthcare services from…

August 13, 2015
Blog

A businessman whose commodity happens to be cocaine…

In Layer Cake (2004) Daniel Craig’s character told us “that one day, all this drug monkey business will be legal”. Eleven years later and it’s still not. In fact, earlier…

August 12, 2015
Opinion

Housing and the Immigration Bill 2015

As we’re sure many other housing law practitioners will agree, we all love a good challenge. It is imperative and all the more rewarding in the current political climate with…

August 7, 2015

Farzana Chowdhury

Opinion

No Safety Net for Justice

In the latest ruling in the ongoing battle to secure access to justice in the face of cuts to legal aid, both the Exceptional Case Funding (‘ECF’) scheme and the…

August 6, 2015
Opinion

New court charges – a further blow to our justice system

On 13th April this year the then Justice Secretary Chris Grayling brought in new court charges for those convicted at magistrates’ or crown courts. The new charges are payable on…

August 6, 2015
Blog

New Lasting Power of Attorney forms from 1 July 2015

The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) promised it would simplify the Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) forms following responses to its 27 July 2013 consultation. The aim was to…

August 5, 2015
Blog

LIBOR sentencing may herald a tough approach for financial crime such as bribery

It has already been well documented that the 14 year sentence imposed yesterday on trader Tom Hayes, for manipulating LIBOR is higher than many of the sentences imposed on other…

August 5, 2015

Raj Chada

Blog

Criminalised Doping

The Sunday Times expose on drugs in sport has reopened an interesting issue for criminal lawyers – should doping be criminalised – and what would the likely effect be? Under…

August 4, 2015

Raj Chada

Opinion

Bribery Act Review – Facilitation payments still problematic

Last week, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) sent letters to industry leaders, inviting them to comment on whether the Bribery Act has had an impact on their…

August 4, 2015

Raj Chada

Blog

Do we still have testamentary freedom?

A ruling by the Court of Appeal has awarded a woman £164,000 from her mother’s estate, despite having been excluded from the will. Heather Ilott was estranged from her mother,…

July 31, 2015

Nicola Waldman

Blog

Why we need to empower and educate young people about stop and search

At a recent event attendees heard how the work of the Stop & Search Legal Project is paying dividends, but there are still challenges ahead for those working to combat…

July 31, 2015
Blog

Policing Methods: Should Police Officers of England and Wales be armed with tasers?

The introduction in the use of tasers by frontline Police Officers of England and Wales came in 2003 as an alternative to Police Officers being armed with firearms. Of course…

July 29, 2015
Blog

Who wouldn’t want to be a leaseholder, rather than simply a tenant?

Of course this makes sense. Being a leaseholder would of course provide more security, right? For example, the Right to Buy Scheme boasts to bring about such security for leaseholders.…

July 28, 2015
Blog

Human Rights: Euro interference or paving the way for swifter access to justice for those living in Britain?

The right to life – and the duty this places on the police to protect life; and the right not be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment – along with…

July 27, 2015
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