MONTAGUE, Texas — A judge ruled to temporarily suspend Clay County Sheriff Jeffrey Lyde from his official duties after a hearing Thursday for a petition to oust him from the elected office.

The judge did not designate an interim sheriff Thursday. Lyde’s suspension will not take effect until the judge appoints an interim sheriff and that person posts a bond.

Senior Justice Lee Gabriel requested both sides to send lists of potential candidates. She opted not to go with the

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On monday 20^th and Tuesday 21^st February 2023the Court will hear the case of Lifestyle Equities CV and another v Ahmed and anotheron appeal from [2021] EWCA Civ 675. The case concerns two issues; 1) What is the nature and extent of the liability of a director, or senior executive employee, for causing a company to commit a civil wrong, for which a claim can be brought without a finding of fault by the wrongdoer (eg a ‘strict liability tort’)? Here, the strict

Oak Ridge Schools Superintendent Bruce Borchers will give an update on the school system after the COVID-19 pandemic at Wednesday’s noon meeting of Altrusa International of Oak Ridge.

On a related topic, attorney Joe Jarrett will discuss the policing of guns in schools, according to information from Altrusa.

People wishing to attend the meeting at the Doubletree Hotel in Oak Ridge must RSVP by sending an email to [email protected] by noon Monday. The in-person Altrusa meeting will begin at 11:30 am with a time to socialize. The buffet opens at 11:45 am A short business session will begin

The ILPC Book Launch Event – Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism (Elgar Law 2021) took place on 11th May. The ILPC was delighted to host this online event and congratulates former ILPC Research Associate Dr Peter Coe (University of Reading) on ​​its publications.

This timely and highly topical event was organized as a panel discussion with an impressive and international panel of speakers from academia, regulation, and legal practice – Professor David Rolph (University of Sydney), Professor Paul Wragg (University of Leeds), Rebecca Moosavian ( University of Leeds), Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana (Head of Regulation at IMPRESS), and

On appeal from [2020] EWCA Civ 104

The Tate Modern (the Tate), a public art gallery in London, opened a new extension in 2016 called the Blavatnik Building. This building is ten stories high and, on its top floor, has a viewing platform which offers panoramic views of London.

The claimants own flats in a block of flats neighboring the Tate that are at around the same height above ground as the viewing platform and have walls constructed mainly of glass. On the south side of the viewing platform, visitors can see directly into the claimants’ flats.

At the time

On appeal from [2021] EWCA Civ 21

This appeal is concerned with the validity of a provision in a lease which allows the landlord to revise the proportion of the overall costs of maintaining the wider estate that a leaseholder should pay by way of a service charge.

The dispute related to long leases of residential flats in a block in Southsea, Hampshire. The leaseholders were required to pay service charges towards the overall costs incurred by the landlord in maintaining the building and wider estate. Each lease provided that the leaseholder was to pay a specific percentage of the

On appeal from [2020] EWCA Civ 1521

The Appellant (“Blacks”) rented commercial retail premises from the Respondent (“S&H”) under two successive leases dated 2013 and 2018 (the “leases”). The leases stated that S&H as landlord should provide a certificate each year “as to the amount of the total cost and the sum payable by the tenant” and that this was to be “conclusive” in the absence of “manifest or mathematical error or fraud ” (the “certification provision”). Blacks refused to pay the service charge for the years 2017-18 and 2018-19, claiming that the service charge was excessive. S&H issued proceedings