The Law Gazette A Yorkshire firm has been ordered to pay £229,970 to a former client over mishandled property transaction advice almost 10 years ago. Mansion Estates Limited accused Hayre & Co and its principal Rajinder Hayre of fabricating a series of attendance notes and exchanges following the 2007 sale of a £1.7m property in…
The Independent Vital information about prison attacks, penalty fares on London trains, NHS whistleblowing policies in the NHS and parking tickets has all been withheld Currently withheld information includes complaints made against the services provided by the private security firm G4S Rex Companies who operate everything from prisons to parking services and prosecuting TV licence evaders must be…
BBC The inquest, the longest in UK legal history, began on 31 March 2014 The jury at the Hillsborough inquests has been told one of its options is to consider whether the 96 victims of the disaster were unlawfully killed. The coroner has begun summing up nearly two years’ evidence into the disaster. Sir John…
The Law Gazette The number of professional negligence claims against law firms in the High Court has almost halved in a year, data compiled by City firm RPC reveal today. But the firm warned of a large amount of potential litigation in the background. The drop to 221 cases in 2015 down from 418 the…
BBC The defence secretary has said he is concerned about the “industrial scale” of claims against serving personnel and veterans The prime minister has said he wants to “stamp out” what he called “spurious” legal claims against British troops returning from war. David Cameron said ministers had been asked to draw up plans to…
The Guardian Force says BBC story was inaccurate and has damaged community relations with the police BBC newsroom studio at Broadcasting House. Lancashire’s police and crime commissioner has written to BBC Lancashire about its reporting of the story. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Police have criticised the BBC for publishing a story that claimed a spelling error…
The Bolton News Bolton’s Porsche dealership A PORSCHE-loving pensioner who was duped out of his £170,000 dream car by a lying motor dealership has triumphed in a landmark fight for damages. Avid Porsche enthusiast, Kevin Hughes, 67, set his heart on owning a limited edition Porsche 911 GT3 RS4 and sacrificed part of his pension…
The Guardian Judge says traditional cabs are ‘devoid of inherent distinctive character’, in legal row involving new eco-friendly taxi group The new Green taxi, Metrocab – the only zero-emissions capable black cab currently operating in London. Photograph: Metrocab A high court judge has ruled that one of London’s most famous sights, the black cab, is…
The Law Gazette The president of the Family Division has proposed introducing mandatory restrictions on the number of pages in court documents for family cases, alleging that lawyers have ignored previous calls for restraint. Last February Sir James Munby (pictured) criticised lawyers for ‘routinely’ ignoring practice directions imposing a 350-page limit on bundles, warning that…
The Law Gazette George Osborne today announced a raft of trade deals with his counterpart in India that include opening up the country’s legal market to foreign lawyers. The chancellor and Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley have reached a number of agreements following the eighth UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) in London, according to…
