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Amber Rudd to lead prison safety review

Amber Rudd will lead a comprehensive review of prisons in the UK aimed at improving safety and tackling crime

Swatch files historic trademark lawsuit against Samsung

Swiss watchmaker Swatch is pursuing $170 million in damages from Samsung in a landmark trademark case

R (Manby) v Hackney: planning permission quashed over failure to apply the 45-degree rule

The Planning Court quashes a Hackney extension permission after officers noted but never applied the 45-degree rule.

easyGroup v Cubico: IPEC dismisses trade mark claim against Easy Bathrooms and rejects 'easy' family of marks

IPEC dismisses easyGroup's infringement and passing off claims against Easy Bathrooms and rejects its pleaded family of marks.

R (LMN and EFG) v Work and Pensions Secretary: Court of Appeal upholds two-child limit exceptions against discrimination challenge

The Court of Appeal finds the universal credit two-child limit exceptions justified and compatible with Article 14.

GMC v Tripathi: High Court quashes GP's suspension over sexual misconduct but declines to order erasure

The Administrative Court finds serious irregularities in a tribunal's sanction but remits rather than erasing.

Ward v Rai: Court of Appeal restores costs judge and warns against appealing case management decisions

The Court of Appeal reinstates a deputy costs judge's ruling and cautions against uneconomic second appeals.

Day v Health Education England: EAT upholds refusal of wasted costs order against Hill Dickinson

The EAT finds no error in a tribunal's refusal to sanction HEE's solicitors over non-disclosed training agreements.