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Employment
Workplace stress - Employee diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome MacLennan v Hartford Europe Ltd: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Hickinbottom): 24 February 2012 The Queen's Bench Division held that given ...
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Intellectual property
Application - Supplementary protection certificate - Application University of Queensland and another v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks: ChD (Patents) (Mr Justice Arnold): 14 February 2012 The first ...
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Valuation of general damages in mesothelioma claims
Unless one has been in a life-threatening situation, it is impossible to grasp the concept of imminent mortality. When young, human beings are blinded from seeing the horizon of their lives by the light of expectation.
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Environmental
Nuisance - Motor racing - Defendants using land for motor racing Lawrence and another v Fen Tigers Ltd and others: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Mummery, Jackson, Lewison): 27 February 2012 ...
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Employment
Sex discrimination - Employee married to husband - Tribunal dismissing claim Dunn v Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management: EAT (Judge McMullen QC, Mrs R Chapman and Mr P Smith): 2 December 2011 ...
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SRA 'grey areas' an issue for troubled firms
The implementation of the Legal Services Act in October 2011 has brought a significant wave of changes and challenges to the legal profession, which is only just starting to be felt by law firms. Law firms are facing several challenges and opportunities: new regulatory structures ...
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Immigration
Appeal - Weight to be given to expert evidence SS (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lords Justice Maurice Kay VP, Stanley Burnton and Lewison): 21 February 2012 ...
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Human rights
High Court Appeal - Defendant protesters setting up camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral - Freedom of expression City of London Corporation v Samede and others: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (Master of the Rolls), Lord Justices Stanley ...
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Driving lessons
Case law about liability for road traffic accidents is sparse. Now, oddly, within the space of a month, no fewer than four cases have been reported concerning driving habits. They are instructive both for those of us who are drivers and also for those who have to deal with the ...
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Non-disclosure of assets in divorce proceedings
Is the non-disclosure of assets a common problem within divorce proceedings or not? Is it simply the case that suspicious spouses expect the worst of their soon-to-be former partner? Is it just the case that family lawyers are a cynical bunch? The 2011 Grant Thornton matrimonial ...
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Blagging and the DPA - is it time to make offences imprisonable?
Despite it being almost 10 years since the start of Operation Motorman, and the subsequent furore which lead to the closure of the News of the World, it is still not possible for a person found guilty of illegally obtaining and disclosing personal information to be imprisoned for that offence. ...
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Immigration
Asylum seeker - Appeal - Respondent North Korean nationals seeking asylum SP (North Korea) and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Justices Maurice Kay, McFarlane and Davis): 16 February 2012 ...
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Discrimination
Defendants running hotel - Defendants having strong religious beliefs Hall and another v Bull and another: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Sir Andrew Morritt, Lord Justice Hooper and Lady Justice Rafferty): 10 February 2012 ...
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Human rights
Right to respect for private and family life - Freedom of expression Spelman (by his litigation friends) v Express Newspapers: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Lindblom): 15 February 2012 The ...
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Data protection
On 25 January, the European Commission presented a proposal to reform the EU’s data protection regime. The proposal consists of a regulation governing private sector use of data that would replace the current Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC), and a new directive that would further regulate the processing of personal ...