July 2012

Ex-footballer “racially victimised” by Gillingham FC

Filed under Employment law, Legal news, July 31, 2012 by , No Comments

Footballer Mark McCammon won his employment tribunal in Ashford, Kent yesterday 18 months after having his contract terminated by Gillingham FC.

The tribunal ruled his dismissal was unfair and that he was racially victimised, according to the BBC.

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New video game ratings now legally enforceable in UK

Filed under General legal information, Legal news, July 31, 2012 by , No Comments

From this Monday, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) will no longer be responsible for rating the vast majority of video games in the UK.

Instead, the more comprehensive Pan-European Games Information system (PEGI) has been adopted for three ratings categories, under new provision added to the Digital Economy Act 2010.

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New IoD Chairman advocates tougher stance on employee rights

Filed under Editorial, Employment law, July 30, 2012 by , No Comments

Ian Dormer, the new Chairman of the Institute of Directors, told The Telegraph last week that he believes Adrian Beecroft’s draconian employment law reforms are “halfway there”.

Beecroft’s study, titled ‘Report on Employment Law’, was released to wide-spread criticism last year.

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‘Titled’ company director made £1.5 million from benefits scam

Filed under Criminal law, Legal news, July 30, 2012 by , No Comments

The Mail reports that this week at Southwark Crown Court, a self-styled ‘baronet’ was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud, and guilty of the further charge of dishonestly obtaining disability benefits.

Barry Brooks, a 49-year-old company director from Bromley in London, who insisted everyone called him ‘Sir’ Barry, claimed benefits after saying he had been in a car crash in March 1993.

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A clean break – terminating leases

Filed under Guest blog, Property law, July 27, 2012 by , No Comments

Given the on-going recession, tenants are increasingly looking to exercise break clauses in their leases to get out of occupying expensive premises.  Understandably, landlords are making it increasingly difficult for tenants to exercise these rights knowing too well that it could take many months to get a new tenant for their premises, probably at much lower rents.

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Florida woman charged over botched buttock surgery death

Filed under Criminal law, Legal news, July 27, 2012 by , No Comments

“The Dutchess”, aka Oneal Morris, has been charged with manslaughter after allegedly sealing another woman’s buttocks-enhancement injections with super glue and cotton balls, reports the BBC.

Shatarka Nuby, 31, died in March after suffering a “massive systemic silicone migration” as a result of the procedure, according to an assistant medical examiner.

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Pair of farmworkers plead guilty to shocking cruelty to pigs

Filed under Criminal law, Legal news, July 27, 2012 by , No Comments

An unhappy story first reported by BBC Norfolk back in February 2012 may be drawing to a close. This week, two farmworkers admitted causing unnecessary suffering to pigs in their care.

Geoffrey Towell, 45, and James Dove, 37, worked with the pigs at Harling Farm, East Harling, where they were filmed by an undercover member of the animal rights group, Animal Equality.

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The lighter side of personal injury cases

Filed under Editorial, Personal injury claims, July 26, 2012 by , No Comments

This morning’s blog post about a woman awarded almost £112,000 after slipping on some mushy grapes in a grocery store and fracturing her wrists got the Contact Law office talking about slightly silly personal injury cases, large claims and big payouts.

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Shopkeeper pays £111,859 compensation after customer slips on ‘mushy grapes’

Filed under Legal news, Personal injury claims, July 26, 2012 by , 1 Comment

This week, Onkar Singh Gill, a grocer from Middlesex engaged in a seven-year-long legal battle, has been ordered by the Appeal Court in London to pay a large amount of compensation to a female customer who slipped on some fruit outside his shop.

According to the Daily Mail, in November 2005 the customer, 57-year-old Samira Hassan, was looking at fruit on tables outside the shop in Greenford, when she slipped on some grapes lying on the pavement, despite wearing ‘sensible shoes’.

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Paddy Power fights back over Olympic sponsor protection

Filed under Commercial law, Legal news, July 25, 2012 by , No Comments

Paddy Power has instructed the UK law firm Charles Russell to seek a court order allowing an advertising campaign to continue, according to Marketing Magazine and The Guardian.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) instructed French billboard operator JCDecaux to remove advertising that promotes Paddy Power’s support of an egg and spoon race in the French town of London.

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