Asda has won a temporary reprieve in a claim brought by one of the world’s largest Aspartame producers who accused the supermarket chain of misleading consumers about the characteristics of the sweetener.
The Supreme Court has upheld a terror suspect’s human rights appeal against a control order that separated him from his family.
The court agreed an Ethiopian national, referred to as AP, was deprived of his liberty because of home secretary orders to serve the 16-hour curfew 150 miles away from his London home.
The head of the government’s in-house legal team has apologised for errors in the way they defended their position in the case brought by social worker Sharon Shoesmith against her sacking over the Baby P affair.
Paul Jenkins, the Treasury solicitor, has written to Foskett J scolding his team for errors made in preparation for the judicial review.
A ‘state of the industry’ research project unveiled this week should kick off an era of “frank and open” debate, according to the profession’s new watchdog.
In a bundle of essays produced on behalf of the Legal Services Board (LSB), leading commentators put forward the arguments on how the future of the sector should be shaped.
A leading asylum advice charity has gone into administration following a legal aid cash-flow crisis.
The Ministry of Justice has blamed the charity for causing its own demise by refusing to adapt to modern funding models.
