It is an honour to be invited to give the keynote address at the start of the very first Bloomsbury Family Law Conference. Bloomsbury Publishing are to be congratulated for picking up the baton by...
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Bloomsbury Professional Family Law Conference Review
30th May 2018 |
Family Law
The first Bloomsbury Professional Family Law Conference was held in London on 16 May. The opening address was given by the incoming President of the Family Division, Sir Andrew McFarlane, a founding...
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IP & IT Law (14 May - 28 May)
29th May 2018 |
Intellectual Property & Media Law
IP & IT Law Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws BBC News – 25 May Within hours of the new GDPR laws coming into force Google and Facebook, amongst others, have received complaints that...
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Employment and Pensions Law (14 May - 28 May)
29th May 2018 |
Employment Law
Employment News Trainee pay slump followed scrapping of minimum wage The Law Society Gazette – 24 May The Solicitors Regulation Authority has published an impact assessment, revealing that abolishing...
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Joining the dots: what social workers have been trying to tell us
23rd May 2018 |
Family Law
Many of you reading this will have shared this experience. You are cross-examining a witness (in this case a social worker) and gradually, as a result of your thorough prep and impressive forensic...
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Judges on Twitter – ‘They do it over there but we don’t do it here'
17th May 2018 |
Columnists
Here’s a short legal discussion on Twitter of the sort that happens every day, beginning with a question:
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Family Law (30 April - 14 May)
15th May 2018 |
Family Law
Family News Third of children referred by schools denied mental health treatment Cypnow – 14 May An NSPCC Freedom of Information request to the NHS has revealed that one-third of children who are...
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Immigration Law (30 April – 14 May)
15th May 2018 |
Immigration & Nationality Law
Immigration News Tracking illegal immigrants using NHS records will end, says Minister The Telegraph – 9 May The Government has announced that NHS health records will no longer be used to track down...
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Spring Scottish Online Service Updates
11th May 2018 |
News,
Bloomsbury Professional Scotland
What’s new in our plethora of Scottish online services? Steve Savory summarises the highlights.
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Arbitration (28 March – 11 May)
11th May 2018 |
Mediation
Arbitration News White & Case partner Dipen Sabharwal discusses the 2018 International Arbitration Survey White & Case – 9 May White & Case have partnered with the School of International...
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Employment and Pensions Law (23 April - 7 May)
10th May 2018 |
Employment Law
Employment News Failing to enhance shared parental pay may be indirectly discriminatory, finds EAT People Management – 2 May People Management discuss the case of Hextall v Chief Constable of...
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Native ads are now king
9th May 2018 |
Columnists
How to use content style promotions on social media 'Blend in to the environment’: it sounds like a military command and certainly not a concept you would associate with the execution of an...
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IP & IT Law (23 April - 7 May)
8th May 2018 |
Intellectual Property & Media Law
IP & IT News Cambridge Analytica: Closure 'will not stop investigation' BBC News – 3 May It was announced on 2 May that Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the heart of the recent data scandal, has...
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Bloomsbury IP/IT Law Briefing: April Teaser
3rd May 2018 |
Intellectual Property & Media Law
Regeneron and insufficiency The Court of Appeal judgment in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc v Kymab Ltd & Anor [2018] EWCA Civ 671 (28 March 2018) reviewed the law on insufficiency, and in particular...
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We live in interesting times: changing models, mental health and (in)capacity law in Scotland
3rd May 2018 |
Bloomsbury Professional Scotland,
Medical law
When enacted at the start of this century, Scotland’s mental health and capacity legislation was regarded as world leading in its principled and rights-based approach to interventions concerning...
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May Online Service Updates
1st May 2018 |
BPRO
What’s new in our plethora of law online services? Steve Savory summarises the highlights.
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