29 Jul, 2020 "Slow, inconsistent and, at times, negligent" By Oliver Lewis Today, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee published a highly critical report on "Readying the NHS and social care for the...
25 Jul, 2020 Unfit for work? Fair trial rights means benefit pending review By Simon Cox Mr Connor, a litigant in person, yesterday persuaded the High Court to strike down a benefit review rule as a breach of Article 6 of the...
18 Jul, 2020 Disputed bad character evidence By Patrick O'Connor KC 1. Fichardo [2020] EWCA Crim 667 is the latest in a long line of authorities addressing the criteria for leave to cross-examine a witness...
10 Jul, 2020 The non-treatment scandal and the ‘hidden’ victims of Covid-19 By Theo Huckle KC This is becoming an increasingly topical and contentious issue about diagnostics and treatment of non-covid conditions and the...
07 Jul, 2020 UK Sanctions regime targets Human Rights abusers By Peter Caldwell The UK Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, has finally introduced a long awaited equivalent to the US Magnitsky Act. The new Sanctions...
01 Jul, 2020 Mediating in the Time of Corona By Doughty Street Chambers Conflict will survive the neutron bomb of the current pandemic, just as cockroaches are said to survive a nuclear explosion. Actually the...