President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv, Japan announced a generous financial aid package, and a “people’s court” put Russian President Vladimir Putin on trial for the crime of aggression Monday as the war with Ukraine followed up the one-year mark with no end in sight. Biden also announced an additional $500 million […]
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. Bruce Borchers People wishing to attend the […]
Day 13 in the trial of Alex Murdaugh is set to start at 9:30 am on Wednesday, Feb. 8. The double homicide trial of Murdaugh started Monday, Jan. 23, with the selection of the jury that would decide his fate in the deaths of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, in June 2021. The start […]
Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website. On Tuesday 7th February 2023 the Court will hear Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Vermilion Holdings Ltd (Scotland), on appeal from [2021] CSHI 45. The Court will consider if it is the right or opportunity for Mr Noble to […]
Author: Dr Marion Oswald Last week, Rt Hon. Lord Geidt resigned as the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests, citing – as the straw that broke the camel’s back – a still rather opaque issues relating to international lawputting him ‘in an impossible and odious position’. This non-statutory role advises the Prime Minister on the Ministerial […]
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 […]
The suspected gunman who allegedly shot 20 people, 10 fatally, at a dance studio near a Lunar New Year celebration in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park has been identified and linked to a second incident the same night, authorities said Sunday. Huu Can Tran, 72, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound […]
In this post, Mathew Purchase KC of Matrix Chambers previews the forthcoming judgment in the case of R (Day) v Shropshire Council, on appeal from [2020] EWCA Civ 1751. background Shrewsbury Town Council owned a plot of land which was subject to a statutory trust arising either under section 10 of the Open Spaces Act […]