3/27/2025 8:28:09 AM Community Care Law Reports March 2025 By Stephen Cragg KC The March 2025 edition of the Community Care Law Reports published by the Legal Action Group is available now. Produced four times a year...
3/27/2025 8:00:25 AM A Deep Dive into the Mental Health Bill 2024 – Autism and Learning Disability By Jordan Briggs On 4 March 2025, Dr Oliver Lewis held the third seminar in Doughty Street Chambers’ series about the Mental Health Bill 2024 (‘the...
3/25/2025 3:55:34 PM Local Inquiries: What do they mean and what might they do? By Rosa Polaschek In January 2025, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a plan to fund work on five inquiries to explore allegations into failures by...
3/18/2025 8:00:00 AM A Deep Dive into the Mental Health Bill 2024 – Changes to the Bill and Advance Choice documents By Jordan Briggs On 4 March 2025, Doughty Street Chambers hosted their second seminar in the series about the Mental Health Bill 2024 (‘the Bill’). This...
3/13/2025 10:04:45 PM The Genocide Convention Before the World Court, Again By Cian Murphy On 6 March 2025, Sudan brought proceedings against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before the International Court of Justice (ICJ),...
3/10/2025 11:51:40 AM How does an assured shorthold tenancy become a secure tenancy? By accident! By Cara Hall In the London Borough of Redbridge v G (Romford County Court, 5 February 2025), a series of unusual events lead to an assured shorthold...
3/6/2025 8:00:53 AM A deep dive into the Mental Health Bill 2024 - Overview By Jordan Briggs On 21 January 2025, Doughty Street Chambers hosted the first event in a series of webinars taking a ‘deep dive’ into the Mental Health...
2/26/2025 4:17:00 PM Court orders “short sharp mediation” – “capable of cracking even the hardest nuts” By Amelia Nice In DKH and Others v City Football Group Limited [2024] EWHC 3231 (Ch), heard in November 20204, the court made an order that the parties...
2/13/2025 3:09:57 PM Law of the sea & human rights – Improvements achieved in draft IMO Guidelines – but some opportunities missed By Alex Tinsley For the context of this post, see this previous post. In short, there is an ongoing initiative to set out new international standards to...
2/6/2025 2:14:02 PM Is it Madness? By Anselm Eldergill Professor Anselm Eldergill examines the government’s Mental Health Bill. The government’s Mental Health Bill is currently before...
1/29/2025 9:15:00 AM The McDonald's Model: What happens next following a McFlurry of harassment complaints? By Lameesa Iqbal Initial Complaints of Sexual Harassment In 2019, the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union said it had received around 1,000 complaints...
1/28/2025 11:53:50 AM The need to plead a positive case in defence if you have a positive case in defence By Cara Hall In Man v St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWHC 1304 (KB), the High Court exercised its case management powers...