This month’s Briefing rounds up some recent patent developments in the UK courts.
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Immigration Law (16 July – 30 July)
30th July 2018
Immigration News Sajid Javid to consider ending indefinite immigration detention The Guardian – 24 July Following the publication of a highly critical report of conditions in immigration detention,...
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Family Law (16 July – 30 July)
30th July 2018
Family News Excluded pupils 'abandoned by education system' Cypnow – 25 July The education select committee has released a report stating too many children are being excluded and failing to receive...
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Dealing with the liberty of a damaged young person
27th July 2018
Deprivation of liberty and care proceedings ‘[15] Lennox House is a large detached house in a rural setting in Scotland, which was originally a working farm. It is on the outskirts of a village,...
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Bloomsbury Family Law Seminars
26th July 2018
Mediation law: negotiation and agreement Mediation forms a fundamental part of any proceedings for family – married and unmarried – breakdown. But to what extent can mediation and court proceedings...
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Six key issues to check in any contract
26th July 2018
There are recurring themes which cause problems in many types of agreements because the issues are not raised during negotiations and so are not drafted with any certainty in the contract clauses....
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IP & IT Law (9 July – 23 July)
23rd July 2018
IP & IT News Google hit with €4.3bn Android fine from EU BBC News – 18 July Google has been fined €4.34billion (£3.9 billion) after the European Commission stated the firm had used Android’s mobile...
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Employment and Pensions Law (9 July – 23 July)
23rd July 2018
Employment News Care workers not entitled to minimum wage for sleep-in shifts Lewis Silkin – 18 July Lewis Silkin discusses the case of Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake. The Court of Appeal...
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Family Law (2 July - 16 July)
16th July 2018
Family News Courts Service to up the ante on digital divorce and probate Legal Features – 16 July According to HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), the next step for modernising the courts is to...
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Immigration Law (2 July – 16 July)
16th July 2018
Immigration News Widowed father ordered to leave UK against advice of Home Office's own lawyers The Guardian – 16 July The Guardian reports on another case of the Home Office misusing paragraph...
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Why Quizzes are working to attract browsers to websites
By John Fenna
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Columnists
16th July 2018
The idea of a quiz may seem like a superficial thing. A bit of frivolity to pass the time perhaps. But in the competitive landscape of web and digital, they have come to represent a powerful type of...
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Bloomsbury Family Law Briefing: July Teaser
13th July 2018
Care Crisis Review: Family Rights Group and Sir Andrew McFarlane The Family Rights Group has published its review of care proceedings; and this was introduced by the next Family Division President,...
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Q&A with Paul Lambert
12th July 2018
Bloomsbury Professional catch up with author, Paul Lambert.
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July Online Service Updates
By Ellie MacKenzie
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BPRO
12th July 2018
What’s new in our plethora of law online services? Steve Savory summarises the highlights.
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Employment and Pensions Law (25 June - 9 July)
10th July 2018
Employment News One in five LGBT people still aren’t ‘out’ at work, according to national survey People Management – 4 July According to a recent survey of LGBT employees, 19% of respondents have not...
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IP & IT Law (25 June - 9 July)
10th July 2018
IP & IT News Privacy policies of tech giants 'still not GDPR-compliant' The Guardian – 5 July Pan-European consumer group BEUC have criticised companies such as Amazon, Facebook and Google, for...
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Immigration Law (18 June - 2 July)
4th July 2018
Immigration News Retirees returning to Jamaica face 'extreme' murder risk, say police The Guardian – 29 June According to a former Police Chief of Jamaica, Jamaican expats who retire to Jamaica...
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Family Law (18 June - 2 July)
4th July 2018
Family News Childminders leave sector at rate of six-a-day Cypnow – 27 June Between December 2017 and March 2018, an average of six childminders left the sector per day. In the past six years, there...
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Cyber Security
2nd July 2018
In today’s age, the use of technology has progressed to the point that we rely on it in almost all aspects of our life. Whether it’s using computer desktops at work, watching the news on your tablet...
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Judges on Twitter: some other common law jurisdictions
2nd July 2018
During a high profile criminal trial in Canada some years ago, the trial judge discovered that someone had created a fake Twitter account in his name. Reporters covering the trial began following the...
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