28 Apr, 2020 Lockdown musings By Doughty Street Chambers The Guardian article written by Amelia Gentleman that appeared in the paper on 27th April 2020 gave a compelling account of the immediate...
28 Apr, 2020 Covid-19 deaths and Inquests By Theo Huckle KC Theo Huckle QC updates on current advice from the Chief Coroner, HHJ Lucraft... An Inquest is not a foregone conclusion, since death by...
23 Apr, 2020 The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: An Update By Doughty Street Chambers The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme started accepting applications on the 20th April through the Government Gateway website. HMRC chief...
23 Apr, 2020 What is the Home Office not telling us? By Alasdair Mackenzie How can the Home Office be prevented from withholding important information in immigration appeals? In Nimo (appeals: duty of...
22 Apr, 2020 At the front line of Covid-19 – forgotten victims? By Doughty Street Chambers Theo Huckle KC Nick Brown Frederick Powell +1 more... Show less In a sense, we are all “victims” of the 2020-1 Coronavirus pandemic. Our lives have been changed dramatically by its effects at the...
21 Apr, 2020 The UK Government's guidance on combating coronavirus in care homes is inconsistent with WHO standards By Oliver Lewis Submission to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into the human rights implications of the Government’s...
20 Apr, 2020 Children, parents & deportation: an update By Alasdair Mackenzie In an earlier post a couple of weeks ago I suggested a way through the increasingly severe approach in cases where parents of British or...
17 Apr, 2020 Covid-19 and homelessness applications By Doughty Street Chambers The onset of Covid-19 gave rise to a massive effort to provide health care services and accommodation for homeless persons. This...
17 Apr, 2020 Finding a way to possession: UCH v MB By Doughty Street Chambers As discussed in this post by Daniel Clarke, Practice Direction 51Z imposes a stay on all possession proceedings. Paragraph 3 makes clear,...
14 Apr, 2020 Employee Dismissal Rights when Shielding: An Overview By Paras Gorasia I am in the shield group and I have a letter. Can my employer sack me if I don’t come into work? If your employer dismisses you as a...
14 Apr, 2020 Compensation at the limits of public policy By Doughty Street Chambers Frederick Powell In the case of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust v X[1], the Supreme Court awarded damages for the cost of entering into a commercial...
14 Apr, 2020 The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme - An Overview By Doughty Street Chambers On 20th March 2020, HMRC announced that it would set up the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. The purpose of the scheme is to prevent...