A plea for flexibility of definition The government’s Transforming the Response to Domestic Abuse Consultation Response and Draft Bill January 2019 ...
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Immigration Law (1 April – 15 April)
Immigration News Home Office apologises for sharing EU citizens' email addresses The Guardian – 11 April The Home Office has apologised for a data breach, after it accidently shared the details of...
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Family Law (1 April – 15 April)
Family News New care applications received by Cafcass in March fell by nearly 10 per cent Family Law Week – 11 April Cafcass has reported a 9.9% drop in new care applications during March 2019,...
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From Mystery to Transparency
In a post derived from his recent participation in the 2019 Putney Debates, Paul Magrath of ICLR explains the various ways in which judges promote public understanding and respect for what they...
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Bloomsbury Family Law Briefing: April Teaser
Top five cases LR v A Local Authority & Ors [2019] EWCA Civ 525 (31 January 2019) – Foster carer (LR) appeal: order for 20-month-old child to be sent to Poland stayed. Judge had failed to take...
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Bloomsbury International Arbitration Briefing: April Teaser
CL v SCG [2019] HKCFI 398 [Hong Kong] In an important judgment considering the enforcement of arbitral awards in Hong Kong, the Court was required to make a determination on a preliminary issue as...
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Employment and Pensions Law (25 March – 8 April)
Employment News Employers must make ‘action plans, not excuses’ over gender pay People Management – 5 April As the deadline for the second year of gender pay gap reporting has come to a close,...
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IP & IT Law (25 March – 8 April)
IP & IT News Toyota Driving for Electric Vehicle Cooperation? Reddie & Grose – 5 April Toyota has followed in the footsteps of Tesla and are offering royalty-free licenses for almost 24,000...
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Resolution Conference 2019: Living in Interesting Times
Despite the many issues which seem to divide our country, no one can doubt that we are currently living in “interesting times”. Although I will, in a moment, say something briefly about Brexit, my...
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Immigration Law (18 March – 1 April)
Immigration News Foreign Office admits it doesn't know fate of DRC returnees The Guardian – 29 March Human rights organisation, Justice First, has obtained internal emails from the Home Office...
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