A recent article by Tom Junod about the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team, Mike Tomlin, asks one very important question: Does it matter that Tomlin is a black coach? The answer varied based on who the journalist asked. For white people the
But the truth is that we do. It is now more than five years since the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) came into force in the UK and stripped legal aid down to the bare minimum. That is why thousands
I don’t think there is much of a grey area where it comes to this statement but in our latest episode of the UK Law Weekly podcast there is an argument presented to the Supreme Court that the safeguarding duty doesn’t apply when the headteacher
Known sex offenders obviously represent a threat to the safety of children but if a head teacher is friends with a convicted sex offender and fails to disclose it is she liable to be dismissed? Not only do we answer that question in this episode
Rates are a type of property tax that is based on the value of any given piece of property. That valuation can be affected by a range of factors but generally speaking there is an exception for ‘tools of the trade’. In this case we
What is the nature of the relationship between a director and their respective company? In this case an argument was made under the Limitation Act 1980 that it is analogous to the relationship between a trustee and beneficiary. For the claimant such a finding would
A Scottish solicitor made an error when drafting a deed that meant the security over an entire property was released instead of just one unit. Did that solicitor owe a duty of care to the other party who she was not representing? In this episode
Are you on email? You simply have to be these days but is our legal system and the administration of justice set up to deal with this technology? In this episode we explore that question in the context of a claim form that was served
One of the most controversial cases in recent months was the Parole Board decision to release the black can rapist, John Worboys, from prison but this case before the Supreme Court looks instead at the original police investigation. In particular the question was whether the
The term resulting trusts comes from the Latin term “resalire” meaning to jump back and we will see how this applies to property. In Westdeutsche Landesbank v Islington LBC [1996] Lord Browne-Wilkinson identified two examples of resulting trusts: 1) Where a settlor attempts to create