The judge considered the work that Mrs Doble and her firm had carried out on Mr Persey's behalf, to see if it amounted to the conduct of litigation.

Since 2014, there has been an alarming rise in cases of individuals and companies having their bank accounts abruptly closed in a practice known as ‘debanking'.

In January, Mr Justice Chamberlain granted permission for Al-Haq's case to proceed to a rolled-up hearing. The trial has now been listed to take place over four days from 12 May 2025.

The government is in the process of digitalising the system for providing proof of immigration status. Biometric residence permits (BRPs) and biometric residence cards (BRCs) have been discontinued and will no longer be issued.

A new pilot for Domestic Abuse Protection Notices (DAPNs) and Orders (DAPOs) was introduced today, Monday 8 April 2024.

On 20 January 2023, the High Court handed down judgment in the case of R (on the application of Roehrig) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWHC 31 (Admin).

Today the Police Appeal Tribunal of the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime overturned the 25 October 2023 decision of the Misconduct Panel, which after a six weeks of hearings...

Mr Justice Chamberlain has granted permission to Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organisation, to proceed to a rolled-up 3-4 day hearing of its challenge to the government's decision to continue granting licences.

This page will be updated with new information every Monday throughout this month, check back next week for the next installment.

The future of data protection law in the UK is currently unclear. In a speech delivered at the Conservative Party Conference on 4 October, the Minister for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport...

On 25 April 2024, the much-heralded Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act came into force. The preamble states that it is ‘An Act to make provisions about the removal of certain migrants to the Republic of Rwanda'.

The new legislation gives those who are pregnant or individuals returning from parental leave preference for redeployment opportunities in a redundancy situation.

Jason Pulman, a 15-year-old trans teenager died a self-inflicted death on 19 April 2022 in East Sussex. His family had reported him missing earlier that day.

Before embarking on time consuming and potentially expensive litigation against an individual or company, it is often worth checking that the individual or company has sufficient assets...

Starting October 2024, the Ministry of Justice mandates compulsory mediation for small claims under £10,000 to reduce court delays. The new Civil Procedure Rules empower courts to order Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and penalize non-compliance in costs.

Can a solicitor, acting in person in litigation, charge themselves out at their usual hourly rates? This issue was recently considered at a hearing at the County Court in Oxford.

Notably, we have recently seen the media storm that arose from Philip Schofield's admission that he lied about a relationship with a much younger colleague at ITV.

tephen Dymond, aged 63, died around 7 May 2019 of an overdose shortly after appearing on the Jeremy Kyle Show (JKS).

Not so long ago, following the Court of Appeal's judgment in the seminal case of Lloyd v Google LLC [2019] EWCA Civ 1599, commentators and media outlets predicted an era where organisations

As the clock struck midnight on Monday, 29 April 2024, the Family Procedure (Amendment No 2) Rules 2023 (SI2023/1324) fully came into effect.