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Theresa May gives Brexit speech in Florence

The Prime Minister Theresa May has given a speech in Florence on Brexit setting out the UK's current stance in relation to Article 50 wi...

NHS Counter Fraud Authority replaces NHS Business Services Authority

The NHS Counter Fraud Authority (Investigatory Powers and Other Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2017 (SI 2017/960) comes into force on 1 Nov...

House of Lords European Union Committee launches Brexit inquiry into transition period

On 26 September 2017, the House of Lords European Union Committee launched an inquiry into the key components of any implementation or trans...

Scaffolding company fined �80,000 and company director given suspended sentence following conviction for health and safety breaches (Magistrates' court)

On 6 October 2017, Boundary Scaffolding Limited pleaded guilty to breaching regulation 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 a...

House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee publishes report on European Union (Withdrawal) Bill 2017-19

The House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (Committee) published a report on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill 2...

Assurances from Paraguay sufficient to dispel Article 3 ECHR violation (High Court)

In Serra and Galino v Paraguay [2017] EWHC 2300, The High Court rejected the appellants claim that their extradition to Paraguay would viola...

Brexit negotiations: Start of the fourth round of negotiations and statement by Mr Barnier on transitional period

The fourth round of Brexit negotiations started on 25 September 2017 and Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, made a statem...

Sentence unduly lenient for offender who ran a cottage industry in perverting the course of justice (Court of Appeal)

In R v Cronin [2017] EWCA (Crim) 1357, the Court of Appeal held that the sentence of 2 years imprisonment suspended for 2 years with 300 hou...