2 Hare Court Professional Discipline Newsletter June 2020 Contents Introduction A look into the remote future: Andrew Colman and Natasha Ricioppo Keep calm and carry on (remotely) – One Blackfriars: Lewis Macdonald The impact of Coronavirus on Inquests: Tom Day Reviving Article 2 – Re Dalton: Hannah Thomas […]
Following the Supreme Court ruling of Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 the Royal College of Surgeons have very recently published updated guidance advising its members on how to appropriately obtain consent from patients for medical treatment. The impact of Montgomery As practitioners will know, the Supreme Court’s 2015 judgment in Montgomery resulted […]
Barely a week passes by without a report of a high level cyber-attack. The focus on the hacking of the medical records of our top athletes including Sir Bradley Wiggins and Tour de France winner Chris Froome has rather drawn the attention away from a recent report by Reuters on 31 August 2016 of concern […]
On 10th February 2016 the Information Commissioner’s Office published a new guidance document entitled “Data transfers to the US and Safe Harbor – interim guidance” (“the Interim Guidance.”) The purpose of the document is to address the consequences of a European Court of Justice ruling that the Safe Harbor scheme is invalid. As many practitioners […]
With increasing amounts of prosecution evidence now served only on disc practitioners will be familiar with the tedious but financially important battle often required with the CPS to have certain categories of evidence, most commonly mobile phone and computer downloads, included in the page count. For an all too brief period the answer to an […]
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