All Courts business articles – Page 154
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Law Report
Trademark
Claimant companies owners of intellectual property in game of Scrabble – Defendant company exploiting digital game with similar name
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Law Report
Costs
First claimant being famous pop star – Order for costs – Payment on account – Injunction – Infringement of intellectual property rights
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Law Report
Sentence
Imprisonment – Appeal against sentence – Defendant and deceased being very close friends – Defendant and deceased taking Class A drug PMA when believing it to be MDMA
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News
New role for Leveson
Top role for judge who carried out the 2011-12 public inquiry into the behaviour of the British press.
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FeatureLegislation and case law
Important updates in self-defence law, case management, bail, cautions and 17-year-olds in police stations.
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Opinion
Refugees: building a defence
The Crown Prosecution Service must be more sensitive to the provision of refugee defences.
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FeatureThe legal questions raised by One Barnet
Barnet council’s radical outsourcing plans raised novel legal questions.
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NewsRamsey: I'll change Jackson if necessary
Team to review success of costs reforms six months after implementation.
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NewsLawyers must stop treating victims as criminals, says Khan
The shadow justice secretary says Labour would introduce a ‘victim’s law’ setting out ‘tangible and enforceable rights’.
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Law Report
Judicial review
Report upholding complaint, and finding case to answer and arrest by officer being unlawful – Claimant challenging report on basis exceeding lawful ambit
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NewsJudges' religious service 'undermines public confidence'
The Westminster Abbey service to mark the start of the legal year faces a possible legal challenge.
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Law Report
European Union
Common foreign and security policy – Restrictive measures against Syria – Council adopting Decision concerning restrictive measures against Syria - Names of persons responsible for violent repression against civilian population in Syria and associated persons associated listed in the annex to Decision
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FeatureEffect of Jackson reforms on expert witness contracts
How might the Jackson reforms impact on contracts arising from the engagement of expert witnesses?
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Law Report
Criminal
Sentence – Imprisonment – Appeal against sentence – Defendant being convicted of fraud after making false personal injury claim in bogus RTA
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News
'Office' hearing plan for motor offences
Uncontested road traffic offences will be dealt with by single magistrate in an office.
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OpinionJudges quick off the mark to overhaul their divisions
Judges who became heads of division on the same day in January have swept away time-honoured practices.
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Opinion
Court support
If an experienced solicitor, legal executive or paralegal takes the view that the client has capacity, then the High Court should be supporting us.
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NewsJudge allows veiled woman to enter a plea
A woman wearing a niqab has been allowed to plead not guilty after a police officer identified her in private.
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News
Fee remission reforms to go ahead
The government has approved plans to means-test waivers for civil court and tribunal fees