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Private prosecutions – A route to justice for the charity sector
Sophie Tang
7 November 2017
R (on the application of Ngole) v University of Sheffield (Health and Care Professions Council intervening) [2017] EWHC 2669 (Admin)
When do personal religious views, publicly expressed, affect fitness to practise? Mr Ngole, a former mature student at the University of Sheffield, brought judicial review proceedings to challenge the decision of his university to remove him from his course, following comments he posted on a website .
6 November 2017
Discrimination by qualification bodies: a more accessible, cost-effective solution
Michalak v General Medical Council and others [2017] UKSC 71.
2 November 2017
Social Drugs Findings In Sport: Doping or Misconduct
Recently, Dan Evans received a one year ban from Tennis for testing positive for Cocaine. This decision throws into sharp focus the relationship between Social Drugs and the Anti-Doping Rules.
30 October 2017
#LSA10 and the future of Legal Services: Artificial Intelligence, cyber-courts, global markets and block chain
The Legal Services Act 2007 (‘the Act’) marked a profound upheaval of the regulation of the legal services market that, for centuries, had existed practically in stasis. While the provision of legal services had traditionally been the preserve of practitioners operating within conventional partnerships or barristers’ chambers, the Act enabled other types of organisation to offer a competitive alternative.
27 October 2017
#LSA10: The Impact of Alternative Business Structures
One of the most radical of changes to the legal market as a result of the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA) was the introduction of Alternative Business Structures (ABSs) which are law firms owned partly or wholly by those outside the legal profession Whilst some considered that this would reshape the legal profession in England and Wales it is worth reflecting as to whether this is indeed the case 10 years on.