Michael John Smith (appellant) v Fronterra Co-operative group Ltd and others NZSC 5 This appeal to the New Zealand Supreme Court concerned strike out of a claim in tort (comprised of three cause...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2024/03/27/developing-a-new-tort-for-climate-change/
Contax Partners inc BVI v Kuwait Finance House and others EWHC 436 (Comm) Legal news abounds these days with stories of fabricated decisions and authorities generated by ChatGPT and similar AI...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2024/03/09/lies-damned-lies-and-fakery/
Belgian Muslims and others v Belgium (Application no.s 166760/22 and 10 others) This is a rare case involving the welfare of non-human animals balanced against the rights in the Convention. In th...
Paul v Wolverhampton NHS Trust (SC) 11 January 2024 For decades, close family members have been able to claim for psychiatric illness caused by witnessing the death or serious injury of their lov...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2024/02/02/law-pod-uk-new-episode-secondary-victims/
In Episode 191 Jon Metzer and Lucy McCann join Rosalind English to review the judgements and decisions of the past year that we at Law Pod UK consider to have the most important implications for ...
Pickering Fishery Association by Martin Smith, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs EWHC 2918 (Admin) Brief Overview This interesting case conce...
Episode 190: join environmental law expert David Hart KC of 1 Crown Office Row and Roy Harrison, professor of public health and expert in airborne emissions of Birmingham University, for a fascin...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2023/12/11/law-pod-uk-latest-toxic-torts/
This was an appeal by a doctor against a decision of the medical practitioners’ tribunal that he was guilty of misconduct. He also appealed against the tribunal’s decision to suspend his regi...
Internationale Humanitäre Hilfsorganisation v Germany (Application no. 11214/19), 10 October 2023 A German group that raises funds for the terrorist organisation Hamas has lost its claim under A...
The King (on the application of Wildfish Conservation v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Environment Agency (Defendant) and the Water Services Regulation Aut...
In Episode 189 presenters Rosalind English and Lucy McCann reprise some of the leading episodes of Law Pod UK this year, ranging from the potential impact of AI on the legal professions, to the p...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2023/09/19/best-of-law-pod-2023-so-far/
Listen to Family law expert Richard Ager talk to Melissa Patidar about her intermediary service company, Comunicourt, which provides communication support between lawyers and witnesses in remo...
Traditionally, the courts have been extremely reluctant to impose a positive duty of care on the police to protect or warn members of the public who may be potential victims of crime. This sort o...
In the latest episode of Law Pod UK, Robert Kellar KC discusses the developing law on NFTs with Victoria Walters, library learning advisor at the Bristol campus of the University of Law. We are g...
Professor Richard Susskind OBE is the IT adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, author of several books on technology and the law, and has been warning the legal profession about...
https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2023/05/22/law-pod-uk-latest-episode-is-ai-coming-for-the-lawyers/