Airline wanted to pay smaller damages by applying English law rather than Irish, as stipulated in contract.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/ryanair-barred-from-changing-jurisdiction-choice-in-pi-claim/5110535.article
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Firm said former associate did not earn the right to be promoted further and blamed others for his own failings.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ex-dwf-solicitor-alleges-he-faced-discrimination-as-wifes-carer/5110546.article
Feras Al Jayoosi wore clothing supporting two banned Palestinian groups on a number of occasions.
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59262848
‘Reaching Over The Noise – Is Labour Really Antisemitic?’ – New Film Debunks Panorama
— Read on www.prole-star.co.uk/single-post/reaching-over-the-noise-is-labour-really-antisemitic-new-film-debunks-panorama
Coronavirus: MRNA vaccines
MoD documents show UK Special Forces officers suspected their men were killing unarmed Afghans.
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59238181
Police investigation threatened after peaceful protest against Israeli ambassador at London School of Economics.
— Read on electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/uk-government-attacks-palestine-student-protesters
Supreme Court kills multi-billion-pound Google data claim
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/supreme-court-kills-multi-billion-pound-google-data-claim/5110478.article
U.K. Torture: Oman
FTP: journalist: Steve Sweeney
Coronavirus: current situation
Data breach: the Labour Party
Data breach damages: how much?
TLT and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Home Office [24.06.16]
— Read on kennedyslaw.com/thought-leadership/article/data-breach-damages-how-much/
Police watch: Mexico: Chiapas
The Master of the Rolls Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture 2021
— Read on www.judiciary.uk/announcements/the-master-of-the-rolls-tom-sargant-memorial-lecture-2021/
Safe traveling in public transport amid COVID-19
— Read on www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg3691
Police watch: Scotland
U.K. torture: Kenya
Coronavirus: top 5 symptoms
Medicine: Nice guidance Re: CFS/ME
Professor Tim Spector said government Covid figures are a ‘big under-estimate’ and he predicted coronavirus infections could hit 100,000 a day ‘sooner than expected’
— Read on www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-close-hitting-100k-covid-25334870
Coronavirus: JCVI
FTP: Munib Masri, Palestine 🇵🇸
Coronavirus: statistics 2% +
Coronavirus: masks: German diagram
Legal action, if successful, could radically change how player information and data is used.
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58873132
EXCLUSIVE BY KIERAN GILL: The article highlights examples of players whose deaths were said to have been linked to playing football. FIFA have been accused of ignoring the issue.
— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10062039/FIFAs-dementia-SHAME-Governing-body-knew-footballs-brain-damage-link-1984.html
Politician Watch: Lisa Nandy
FTP: Huda Ammori (Pal Action 🇵🇸 )
Coronavirus: death statistics
NHS: Sajid Javid
Macmillan analysis of NHS England data finds overstretched hospitals struggling to cope with backlog
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/22/cancer-patients-face-perfect-storm-as-covid-piles-pressure-on-nhs
NHS: calls for action
Guantánamo Watch: Ahmed Rabbani
FTP: Eran Aviv
FTP: Shahar Perets
Police watch: Hawaii
Consultation on government’s proposals to reform 1998 act expected within the next two months.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/hr-reform-raab-plans-mechanism-to-correct-incorrect-judgments-/5110196.article
Georgina Cursham analyses of the decision in Robinson v (1) Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2) Mercier (County Court at Liverpool, 9 September 2021) to make a third party costs order in the Defendant’s favour against the Claimant’s expert, after the Claimant discontinued dental negligence proceedings at the conclusion of the evidence at trial.
— Read on www.ropewalk.co.uk/knowledge-sharing/blog/clinical-negligence/1851/costs-order-against-dental-expert-who-showed-a-flagrant-reckless-disregard-for-his-duties-to-the-court
FTP: Steven Donziger
Police watch: Holland
Coronavirus: statistics
Coronavirus: statistics
Face coverings and COVID-19: statement from an expert panel
— Read on www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-and-covid-19-statement-from-an-expert-panel
Dispute will centre around whether delivery drivers are classified as self-employed.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/amazon-drivers-poised-to-launch-potential-140m-group-claim/5110135.article
Coronavirus: wear a mask
Early handling and belief in ‘herd immunity’ led to more deaths, Commons inquiry finds
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/12/covid-response-one-of-uks-worst-ever-public-health-failures
Calls for civil procedure rule committee to intervene after judgment on costs set-off.
— Read on www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/despondent-defendants-say-supreme-court-costs-ruling-is-alarming/5110104.article
Palestinians hire UK-based law firm to prosecute UK gov’t over Balfour Declaration
— Read on www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210225-palestinians-hire-uk-based-law-firm-to-prosecute-uk-govt-over-balfour-declaration/
Police watch: Australia
Data sharing: a code of practice
Politician watch: Robert Jenrick
Pandora Papers
Coronavirus: Portugal 🇵🇹
Politician watch: Angela Rayner
Police watch U.K.: the Labour Party
Politician Watch: Michael Gove
Funded by Israel
Judges criticise Met police after woman wins spy cop case
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/30/activist-duped-into-sexual-relationship-with-spy-wins-case-against-met-police
The IHRA definition of antisemitism, with its attendant examples, has been critiqued and rejected by a range of legal experts, academics, and civil society groups citing the definition’s flaws: conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, and wielding it to suppress advocacy for Palestinian human rights.
— Read on noihradefinition.co.uk/who-opposes-the-ihra-definition/