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CHAPTER ONE – PRIVATE CHILDREN LAW CASES AND IMPACT OF COVID-19 INTRODUCTION Many of you who are family law practitioners, will know that enforcement of child arrangements has got to be the most difficult areas of family law to be able to deal with, as there are often very strong emotions [...] -
CHAPTER THREE INVESTIGATING BARRISTERS – TRAPS AND TIPS 3.1 Some barristers tend to come out fighting. But this is precisely the wrong way to go about responding to a BSB complaint. Moreover, many barristers will be up to capacity, or beyond it, with professional commitments. So the temptation not only [...] -
CHAPTER TWO REGULATION OF ESPORTS As esports have grown, the question of how the various aspects of the esports world should be regulated has not been consistently addressed. This has resulted in a range of different rules and bodies becoming involved. In the United Kingdom, the government has taken the [...] -
CHAPTER ONE PERSONAL INJURY TRUSTS: OVERVIEW AND PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS 1.1 An Overview of Personal Injury Trusts Personal injury trusts were originally created as a response to the capital rule in means tested social security benefits. Put simply, this rule denies certain means tested benefits to those with capital in excess [...] -
CHAPTER ONE COMMENCING PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ANONYMOUS FRAUDSTERS Where a person has been the victim of a fraud, the most obvious target for any civil recovery action is the person who perpetrated that fraud in the first place. However, one of the primary difficulties in any instance of cyber fraud is [...] -
CHAPTER TWO AN OVERVIEW OF THE LAW This chapter is an overview of the current law in England and Wales. Later chapters will address the law in more detail. In order to understand how the different provisions inter-relate, it will be helpful to read this chapter first. ________________________________________________ The law [...] -
CHAPTER TWO – PRINCIPLES AND ACCOUNTABILITY 2.1 Introduction The basic architecture of the DPA 1998, in terms of principles, remains largely unchanged in the GDPR and DPA 2018. The most significant development however has been the introduction of the concept of ‘accountability’. Each of these issues will now be discussed in [...] -
CHAPTER ONE – FORFEITURE OF LEASES – OVERVIEW This chapter describes the law of forfeiture of leases in outline, summarising its main features. In reading this book, it will be helpful to have a clear idea of the basics of the law of forfeiture, and some of its main features. We [...] -
CHAPTER SEVEN – UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFICULTIES Language English (or Welsh) may not be the first language of a Litigant in Person, and he/she may have particular difficulties with the written language. Any papers received from the court or from the other party may need to be translated. In some circumstances, [...] -
CHAPTER TWO – ELEMENTS OF CLASSIC PASSING OFF There is no statutory basis for the law of passing off. It has developed entirely through the common law over the last several centuries. As such, passing off suffers from the inevitable ambiguities resulting from different judges attempting to explain the analysis they [...]