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• Disappointed Polar Cruise Couple Triumph in Breach of Contract Claim

  • Posted18 May 2023

  Almost everyone has returned from a holiday feeling deeply disappointed, but a right to compensation by no means necessarily follows. However, in one case, a couple whose £20,000 polar cruise...

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• High Court Opens Way for Teenager to Undergo Gender Surgery Abroad

  • Posted20 April 2023

  Any proposal for a child to have gender surgery is likely to be subject to close judicial scrutiny. In opening the way for a teenager to undergo a double mastectomy...

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• Adults Lacking Decision-Making Capacity Should Not Be Equated to Children

  • Posted21 March 2023

  Adults who lack the capacity to make important decisions for themselves are entitled to their autonomy and should never be equated to children. The Court of Appeal trenchantly made that...

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• Landowner Target of Poison-Pen Letters Receives Substantial Damages

  • Posted7 March 2023

  There can be few things more wounding or worrying than to be on the receiving end of a poison-pen letter campaign. However, as a High Court ruling showed, the law...

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• High Court Refuses to Authorise Collection of Gametes from Dying Student

  • Posted16 February 2023

  Is it right for gametes – sperm or eggs – to be collected from dying people who can make no choices for themselves so that their genetic legacy can live...

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• Running a Business from Home? Are You Sure You’re Allowed To?

  • Posted30 January 2023

  With many more people running businesses from home in a post-COVID-19 world, the spotlight has inevitably fallen on commonplace restrictions on the use to which domestic premises can lawfully be...

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