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Stewarts strengthens medical negligence practice in London

Stewarts has appointed Alexandra Winch and Richard Lodge as new partners to enhance their medical negligence team

Forbes Solicitors makes strategic acquisition move

Forbes Solicitors has acquired e3 employment law LLP to enhance its employment law capabilities and growth ambitions

Swire v Canterbury City Council: EIA screening, park and ride capacity, and the limits of cumulative assessment

High Court dismisses judicial review of A2 slip road planning permission — [2026] EWHC 478 (Admin)

Shah Ali v General Medical Council: erasure upheld following persistent lack of insight

A doctor's removal from the medical register was confirmed after successive tribunals identified an entrenched failure to accept responsibility for two serious matters.

XY, Re: welfare deputyship, internet use and the court's ultimate authority

Internet and social media decisions fall outside standard welfare deputyship authority; the Court of Protection retains ultimate best interests jurisdiction regardless of deputy appointment.

Secretary of State for the Home Department v AB: subjective fear and the limits of deportation appeals

Deportation, Article 8, and the weight of subjective fear in relocation assessments

Zinda v Ark Schools: fraud claim to set aside judgement fails where evidence was always in claimant's possession

Setting aside a judgement for fraud requires new evidence, conscious dishonesty, and materiality — none of which were established here.

Re A, B and C: Court of Appeal upholds mother as perpetrator of non-accidental fracture in care proceedings

Witness credibility and delayed medical attention central to perpetrator finding