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  • 20/05/2022

    MDW Holdings Ltd (claimant/respondent) v Norvill & ors (defendants/appellants)

    Thursday 12 – Friday 13 May 2022 The Defendants below,  appeal paragraph 1 of the Order of HHJ Keyser QC (High Court, Chancery Division), dated 4 May 2021 whereby he ordered that there be judgment for the claimant against the defendants, jointly and severally, for £382,600.  The appeal is against the reasoning and order following […]

  • 20/05/2022

    Revised burglary offences sentencing guidelines published

    The Sentencing Council has published revised sentencing guidelines for domestic, non-domestic and aggravated offences in England and Wales, following consultation. The guidelines will come into effect on 1 July 2022. The revised guidelines introduce new middle categories for both culpability and harm factors, to allow judges and magistrates greater flexibility in deciding on an appropriate sentence.  The Council has […]

  • 17/05/2022

    Revised sentencing guidelines for child sexual offences published

    The Sentencing Council has published revised sentencing guidelines (external link, opens in a new tab) for child sexual offences in cases where no sexual activity takes place, or the targeted child does not exist. The revised guidelines clarify how courts in England and Wales should sentence offenders convicted of these offences. The revised guidelines, which will […]

  • 17/05/2022

    District Judge – Death in Service: Britton

    The Lord Chief Justice, The Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon, and the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Dominic Raab MP, were saddened to learn of the death of District Judge James Britton on 14 May 2022. Background information District Judge James Robert Britton (48) was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1996. […]

  • 16/05/2022

    Interim Guidance from the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber: taking oral evidence from abroad

    INTRODUCTION This guidance is issued to draw to the attention of judicial office holders and parties in proceedings in the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber the decision of the Upper Tribunal in Agbabiaka (evidence from abroad; Nare guidance) [2021] UKUT 286 (IAC) (external link, opens in a new tab)) and the procedure to be […]

  • 16/05/2022

    Practice Direction from Senior President of Tribunals for the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal (FtT IAC) and Practice Statement from FtT IAC President Michael Clements

    Attached below is a Practice Direction from the Senior President of Tribunals, Sir Keith Lindblom, for the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal (FtT IAC). Alongside the note, the Chamber President Judge Michael Clements has published a Practice Statement which is also attached below.

  • 14/05/2022

    Gosturani (appellant) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department (respondent)

    Thursday 12 May 2022 National of Albania but who had claimed on arrival to be from Kosovo. He was granted refugee status and ILR in his Kosovan status. He was sentenced in Italy to 6 years and 6 months imprisonment for living off immoral earnings and blackmail in 2006 and extradited to Italy for those […]

  • 14/05/2022

    Build a Bear Workshop UK Holdings Ltd (appellant) v Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (respondent)

    Wednesday 11 May 2022 Second appeal. The taxpayer Build-a-Bear Workshop UK Holdings Limited (The Appellant) appeals the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) order of Joanna Smith J and Ashley Greenbank J dated 29 March 2021 by which it dismissed the appeal against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal date 27 November 2019 which upheld […]

  • 14/05/2022

    Antonio (appellant) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department (respondent)

    Tuesday 10 – Wednesday 11 May 2022 Second appeal. Nationality disputed. Father is Portuguese and mother Jamaican but neither country has given nationality. He appeals against a decision of the respondent made on 9 July 2013 that he is a person to whom section 32(5) of the UK Borders Act 2007 applies on the basis […]

  • 14/05/2022

    Tonstate Group Ltd & ors (respondents) v Candey Limited (appellant)

    Tuesday 10 May 2022 Candey appeals the Orders of Zacaroli J (dated 30 April 2021 and 28 July 2021). By Order dated 30 April 2021, Zacaroli J declared that (1) Candey has no entitlement to any payment from Mr Wojakovski pursuant to the Damages Based Agreement (`DBA’) dated 20 September 2019 and (2) Candey has […]