In this post, Erin Crawley, a trainee solicitor in the Infrastructure, Construction and Energy Disputes team at CMS, comments on the case of McCue (as guardian for Andrew McCue) v Glasgow City Council [2023] UKSC 1. On 11 January 2023, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the appeal in McCue (as guardian for Andrew McCue) v […]
Author: Dr. Rys Farthing Seven years ago, Australia passed its first online safety bill, the Enhancing Online Safety Actupdating and expanding it in 2021 with the Online Safety Act. While both Acts had problems and pitfalls, these were ‘global firsts’ at attempts to legislate to address the problem. As the UK’s Online Safety Bills slowly […]
Priscilla Presley has made a challenge to the “authenticity and validity” of Lisa Marie Presley’s will, citing an unusual signature and other allegedly inconsistent details. Lisa Marie, the only daughter of Priscilla and music icon Elvis Presley, died at 54 on 12 January after suffering cardiac arrest. She was laid to rest on January 22 […]
Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website. On monday 30th and Tuesday 31st January 2023 the Court will hear Jones v Birmingham City Council and another, on appeal from [2018] EWCA 1189. The issue in this case is whether Part 4 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 is […]
Comment on this story Comment KYIV — The 25 Russians convicted so far of war crimes in Ukrainian courts include a soldier who was forced two Ukrainians at gunpoint to hand over laptops and money, four who beat and tortured Ukrainian soldiers and two who admitted shelling residential buildings in the first weeks of the […]
In this post, Neal Chandru, an Associate in the Tax team at CMS, comments on the case of DCM (Optical Holdings) Ltd (“DCM”) v Commissioners for his Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (“HMRC”) [2022] UKSC 26 – handed down on 12 October 2022. The issues on appeal before the Supreme Court were whether HMRC: were, on […]
Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website. On Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th January 2023, the court will hear the case of Republic of Mozambique (acting through its Attorney General) v Privinvest Shipbuilding SAL (Holding) and others. The issue in this case is whether the Court of Appeal erred […]
Explosions heard near Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: IAEA Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power station. Carl Court | Getty Images Monitors from the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported hearing explosions near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as Russia hit the country with a new wave of attacks. Rafael […]