1st Mar 2022Newsletters
Dr Samuel White has strong views on the management of the Covid pandemic, and on the appropriate treatment of those with Covid. Among the views he expressed on a video uploaded to social media were that the vaccine is a form of genetic manipulation that can cause serious illness and death, and that masks should […]
26th May 2021Newsletters
Last year in Dutta v GMC [2020] EWHC 1974 (Admin), Warby J found the Tribunal’s reasoning contained at least three fundamental errors. First, the Tribunal had approached the resolution of the central factual dispute by starting with an assessment of the credibility of a witness’s uncorroborated evidence about events ten years earlier, and only then […]
16th Feb 2021Blog
Last November the Law Commission began its review of the law relating to the criminal liability of non-natural persons, including companies and limited liability partnerships. The review will focus in particular on the identification principle by which, where a particular mental state is required to prove an offence, only the acts of a senior person […]
22nd Jan 2020Newsletters
It is only relatively recently that the psychological effects of racism and homophobia, such as anger, humiliation, loss of self-confidence and depression, have become the subject of focused research and inquiry. This issue is as relevant in the sporting context as it is in any other. Certainly, in the past BAME football players were expected […]
23rd Mar 2018Newsletters
Peter Gray QC and Chris Gillespie examine the Supreme Court’s decision in HM Inspector of Health and Safety v Chevron North Sea Ltd [2018] UKSC 7 and consider the implications for companies faced with Improvement or Prohibition Notices An Employment Tribunal hearing an appeal under s24 of HSWA 1974 against an Improvement or Prohibition Notice […]