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Law Society highlights attacks on lawyers in Zimbabwe

The Law Society of England and Wales has called on the UN to investigate the alarming attacks against Zimbabwean lawyers and human rights defenders

R (Cornwall Council) v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government: £2.1m ERDF clawback upheld

Threshold error immaterial; late amendment refused for want of procedural rigour.

Ideasoft Solutions v Kolomiets: harassment claim sent to trial despite strong argument victims were abroad

Linden J declines to decide territorial reach of the 1997 Act summarily.

Emerging Media Ventures v Kundra: High Court enforces Rajasthan Royals settlement with permanent anti-suit injunction

Summary judgement granted in defendants' absence after they filed no evidence at all.

London North Eastern Railway v Jiwanji: EAT upholds section 145B finding over direct pay offer to RMT members

Business reasons for abandoning collective bargaining do not displace the prohibited purpose.

R (Worsley) v Tameside Magistrates' Court: conviction quashed after bench announced verdict before closing speeches

High Court criticises trainee legal adviser's refusal to state a case as frivolous.

Gibson Dunn expands London practice group

Gibson Dunn has announced the addition of Richard Surtees as a partner in London’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice Group

Howard Beckett v Sharon Graham and Unite the Union: privacy claim survives strike-out over ambiguous tribunal finding

Employment Tribunal paragraph too unclear to found issue estoppel, High Court holds.