Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers: Winner – ARDL Mentor of the Year Award 2024 & 2022
Twenty-five years on a second inquest is to be held into the deaths of 96 people who tragically died at a British sporting event. The FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was to taking place at Hillsborough Stadium,…
A recent address from Lord Thomas did nothing but revive old ideas from the new Lord Chief Justice. Until 1971 the criminal law system comprised three trial courts: magistrates’ courts for the lowest level of offending; Quarter Sessions for the…
FA Chairman, Greg Dyke, has said sorry to the widow of one of the country’s great soccer players. In 1968 Jeff Astle scored the only goal in the FA cup final against Everton thus winning the cup for West Bromwich…
The Information Commissioner has fined a charity, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the astonishing sum of £200,000 for a data breach which is said to have revealed the personal details of almost 10,000 people. Many will wonder how on…
Are you reliable? Can you be relied upon to do what you say you will do? In other words, how committed are you? Are you as good as your word? If you are asked to do a job by Friday,…
Yesterday, in a Premier League soccer match that may possibly be witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, we encountered the unsavoury spectacle of a football manager head-butting a player from the opposing team. Press reports appear to have…
If you feel you are stuck in a rut, think about changing your habits. Do something different. That is very simple advice but only successful people follow it; the unsuccessful don’t. Instead, they keep on doing what they always did…
Some time ago the coalition government announced that the General Teaching Council (GTC) would be abolished in March. It emerged that it was to be replaced by the new Teaching Agency, an executive agency of the Department of Education to…
Where defendants were alleged to have taken advantage of the allowances scheme designed to enable them to perform their important public duties as members of Parliament to commit crimes of dishonesty to which parliamentary immunity or privilege did not, had…
From October 2011 alternative business structures (ABS) will be permitted in England and Wales. But this major reform faces a challenge before the European Court of Justice because mainland bars suggest, with some force, that this is unethical. The President…