Railway strikes in the UK have halted services throughout July and Augst 2022.
Sony, owners and creators of the gaming sensation PlayStation, have been hit with a lawsuit with a possible £5 billion pay out.
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The UK government has once again extended its trade sanctions with Russia.
The UK underwent a record-breaking heatwave in July with another hitting the country in August.
The UK has blocked a Chinese company from purchasing intellectual property from the University of Manchester using its powers under the National Security and Investment Act.
As the nature of cybercrime has changed, law firms have been a big target for cybercriminals due to the information that they acquire either from a client, a victim, or a criminal, and their finances. The National Cybersecurity Center announced that 11 million pounds have been stolen due to cybercrime in 2017-2018.
It was in February 2021 that Green Park, a recruitment and consultancy agency, published the findings from the Green Park Business Leaders 2021 index, with one of the headline statements concluding that only “10 of the 297 people in the top three roles of FTSE 100 companies have ethnic minority backgrounds.”
Due to the pandemic, female prisoners are limited to spending their time confined to their cells. The number of self-harm incidents in the women’s prison estate in England and Wales increased by 8% to 12,443 in the year to September, differentiated with the last 12 months, while on a trimestral basis the number of incidents rose by 24%. [1]
The Court of Appeal ruled on hyperlinking in the case of Warner & Sony v Tunein by stating that the Defendant, Tunein, infringed the right to communicate a copyright work to the public by allowing its users to access around 70, 000 music stations all around the world broadcast using its online platform ‘TuneIn Radio”. Post Brexit when the decisions of the CJEU are no longer binding on English Courts, the Court of Appeal, in this particular case, continued to follow the jurisprudence developed by the CJEU.
The giant Ever Given container ship was pried from the Suez Canal’s bank on the 29th of March, and traffic through the Suez Canal resumed soon after. The blockage began when the vessel slammed into the bank on the 23rd of March and caused the Canal’s longest closure since it was shut for eight years following the 1967 Six-Day War.
The FCA successfully followed up on their October announcement to ban cryptocurrency derivatives, taking effect on January 6th 2021. This has been justifiably criticised by the investing community, for a lack of factual ground and practical enforceability. It appears to be more of an attack on digital assets then a well-reasoned choice of regulation, hence, there should be concerns about the future of financial freedom.
Protests in Russia broke out on 23rd January 2021 supporting Alexei Navalny after he was arrested following the release of the film “Putin’s Palace”, uncovering a connection between President Vladimir Putin and a palace that is allegedly being built for him. [1] With more than 5,000 individuals detained, Moscow police had to block off the city centre as well as metro stations. Navalny was arrested when he returned to Russia after his recovery from a recent attempt on his life.
On 27 January 2021 the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman concluded an investigation into a Nottinghamshire County Council pursuant to the Local Government Act 1974, sections 26(1) and s26A(1). [1] [2] [3] It produced a damning report concluding that Nottinghamshire County Council had failed to have any regard for even the most basic human rights of a man living in a care home miles away for his family for 5 months.
Since 2014 Yemen has been steeped in a complex and brutal civil war that has involved many of its Gulf neighbours. Since 2015 the UK government has been sanctioning arms exports to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi coalition partners. The war has been widely decried as a humanitarian disaster with there being credible reports of war crimes and human rights abuses from all sides of the conflict.
Alexei Navalny is an opposition politician and anti-corruption campaigner in Russia, who was arrested on returning to Russia following treatment in Germany after being poisoned. Navalny has been sentenced to serve two years and eight months prison term as a result of his suspended sentence for a fraud conviction being made custodial.
For many generations, tea has been a symbol of relaxation, tradition, and pleasure. ‘Tea culture’ has been adopted in all parts of the world and is associated with different customs and rituals. Our future enjoyment of this herbal drink might be impacted by a recent decision of Kenyan tea farmworkers, to take legal action against a Scottish tea giant.
The topic of abortion has for many decades sparked controversy in Northern Ireland. In more recent years the laws have changed and now the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is attempting to reamend them. Simultaneously, the Northern Ireland (NI) Human Rights Commission is taking legal action against the Northern Ireland secretary, the Stormont Executive and Northern Ireland’s Department of Health over the delay in commissioning abortion services.
