25 May 2018
GDPR: A guide for therapists
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past few months, you’ll be aware that changes are afoot in the data protection world. Your inbox is probably full of emails from organisations using various catchy phrases to get you to “opt in” to receiving communications (my favourite was headed “darling you’ve got to let me know, will you stay or will you go?” – who said data protection couldn’t be fun?!). But what is GDPR and what does all this mean for you as a therapist?
18 May 2018
Coroner’s ‘cab rank queue’ burial policy quashed in successful judicial review claim
In Adath Yisroel Burial Society v HM Senior Coroner for Inner North London [2018] EWHC 969 (Admin), the First Claimant was a charitable organisation responsible for managing and facilitating the burials of a large proportion of the orthodox Jewish population in Inner North London. The Second Claimant was a 79 year old orthodox Jewish woman who lives within the administrative area of the Senior Coroner for Inner North London (the Defendant). The Defendant was the Senior Coroner for Inner North London.
3 May 2018
Will Your Voice Be Heard? – A Re-Examination of Standing in Judicial Review in the Light of Worboys
The judicial review of the decision by the Parole Board to release John Worboys garnered significant media attention. One of the factors that increased its profile was the involvement of the Mayor of London, who was the first party to bring a claim. At the substantive hearing, the High Court took the relatively unusual step of denying him standing as a claimant. This article looks at some of the questions raised by the Court’s approach to standing in this instance, and at an alternative option available to individuals or organisations looking to have their voice heard in judicial review proceedings.
25 April 2018
‘Enough is enough’ : IPCC delay found to be ‘extraordinary and indefensible’ in case against Sean Rigg officer
On 21 August 2008, Sean Rigg, a 40 year old black British musician and music producer, died following a cardiac arrest while in police custody at Brixton Police Station. Nearly 10 years later, the on-going investigation into Andrew Birks, one of the officers investigated as a result of the death, and the claimant in this case, has been labelled by the courts as ‘grossly inefficient’.
16 April 2018
Dog walker successfully challenges local authority’s PSPO in High Court
The High Court has, for the first time, considered the validity of a Public Space Protection Order and ruled in favour, at least in part, of a local resident who challenged some controversial restrictions which criminalised the normal behaviour of dogs in council owned parks and public spaces.
