This month’s Briefing includes two important patent judgments in the UK courts, as well as trade mark decisions from the IPEC and the CJEU, as well as information on the impact of the Covid-19...
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Bloomsbury Immigration Law Briefing: April Teaser
29th April 2020
Welcome to the latest Bloomsbury Immigration Law Briefing which covers the period up to 24 April 2020.
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The LPP ‘iniquity exemption’ and financial provision proceedings
By David Burrows
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Family Law
28th April 2020
Iniquity and overriding privilege One of the more difficult areas of practice is to identify, in the real world, what may and may not be ‘iniquity’ in relation to legal professional privilege (LPP)....
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‘A fair hearing’ and an order in a time of Corvid 19
By David Burrows
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Family Law
21st April 2020
A message for civil and family proceedings In a Message for Circuit and District Judges sitting in Civil and Family from the Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Rolls and President of the Family...
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Five from 5: Furloughing
20th April 2020
Message from the Editor, Dan Hobbs: This is a special edition produced to answer many of the employment law questions arising out of the present COVID-19 pandemic.On 1 April 2020, Alastair Hodge and...
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Bloomsbury International Arbitration Briefing: April Teaser
By Paul Fisher
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Arbitration
15th April 2020
In Brief OCBC Wing Hang Bank Ltd v Kai Sen Shipping Co Ltd [2020] HKCFI 375 [Hong Kong]
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Coronavirus ground activity to a halt
14th April 2020
The plan was to spend a couple of months in Italy at the start of the year and then begin promoting the book in March. It’s fair to say it was all going swimmingly until I broke my leg on a ski slope...
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A remote advocate and jurist
14th April 2020
Coronavirus, in a perverse way, opens up new vistas for me as a family litigation lawyer; and it may have benign consequences for open justice in family courts.I stopped conventional practice (daily...
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Remote but transparent? Open justice under the lockdown
14th April 2020
As a law reporter and legal commentator, one of my main concerns is open justice. The aims, obstacles and methods of achieving that in the context of the generally private hearings of the family...
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Mediating clinical claims – the new way
14th April 2020
Probably the fastest growing sector in mediation practice in the last five years has been in clinical claims. In 2014, NHS Resolution (then called the NHS Litigation Authority) piloted a scheme for...
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The virtual Court of Appeal
By James Nurton
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Intellectual Property & Media Law,
IT Law,
Covid-19,
Working from home,
CoronaVirus
14th April 2020
Last week I watched a Court of Appeal hearing. As a reporter and editor covering the law, that’s something I’ve done from time to time over the past 20 years. But this occasion was different: I was...
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Will Covid-19 refocus Court processes?
14th April 2020
How does working from home during Covid-19 affect your clients?Remote hearings are satisfactory to the extent that they offer a fair process with fair outcomes. But yet, something is missing. For...
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We have got out of problems before
14th April 2020
How does your new work pattern affect you as a solicitor?
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Keeping in touch and being available is key
14th April 2020
How does your new work pattern affect you as a solicitor?As a corporate partner at Charles Russell Speechlys I was set up to work remotely so luckily the work pattern hasn’t been affected.My sector...
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Mediating in your pyjamas
14th April 2020
Covid 19 is making us all mediate online. But not just online. We’re mediating from home. Online mediation is different. And home mediation is even more different.
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"Break the neck of the day's work before breakfast"
14th April 2020
The reality for me is that there is no discernible difference between now and before the lock-down edict was issued. I have happily worked from home for many years even with 5 young children on board...
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Conduct and matrimonial financial provision
By David Burrows
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Family Law
14th April 2020
‘Conduct’ and a 1984 ‘development’ Almost at the end of the list of factors the court must take into account when it is being asked to make a financial provision order is ‘(g) the conduct of each of...
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Nullity and marital status under the reformed divorce legislation
By David Burrows
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Family Law
7th April 2020
A procedure beyond divorce When the new divorce reform legislation – the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill – comes into operation, a challenge for our family law reformers will be how they...
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Bloomsbury Family Law Briefing: March Teaser
By David Burrows
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Family Law
3rd April 2020
Cases of the month Re A (Children) [2020] EWCA Civ 448 (25 March 2020) – Where there had been serious injuries to a child, and a judgment was sought by the police, Re C (A Minor) (Care Proceedings:...
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Bloomsbury Immigration Law Briefing: March Teaser
2nd April 2020
Welcome to the latest Bloomsbury Immigration Law Briefing which covers the period up to 27 March 2020.
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Confidentiality: where does the public interest lie?
By David Burrows
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Family Law
1st April 2020
Confidentiality and family proceedings Confidentiality is a term which crops up frequently in family law – of family, especially children, proceedings; of the extent to which couples financial and...
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