Charlie Moloney

4 days ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Charlie Moloney

A Criminal Cases Review Commission applicant believed his sentence should be reduced because the victim’s social media posts did not display 'sufficiently traumatised behaviour', according to landmark research on digital communications. In a report commissioned by the CCRC and published by the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, researchers from Glasgow and Loughborough universities examined 119 CCRC applications involving rape and sexual offences.

4 days ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Charlie Moloney

A former managing partner of a Yorkshire firm has failed in his bid to argue he did not have the ability to pay up to £210,000 in costs. Michael Willis was diagnosed with cancer and went off sick from GWB Harthills LLP in 2018. He received payments from a permanent health insurance (PHI) scheme, but a ‘bitter dispute’ arose around whether the claimant could receive profit share paid into his pension in addition to the PHI payments, an employment appeal tribunal heard.

4 days ago | lawgazette.co.uk | Charlie Moloney

A solicitor has been struck off for working three jobs at the same time and billing them for the same hours. Belinda Sarkodie - who claimed to work 100 hours per week - had juggled jobs for Property Legal (Manchester) Limited (PLS), Wright & Lord Solicitors Limited (W&L) and Muve (Trading name Connect 2 Law) simultaneously, a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal heard.

4 days ago | thetimes.com | Charlie Moloney

Villagers in a Welsh beauty spot have won a battle to tear down a steel fence dubbed the Great Wall of Clydach, which was installed on a mountainside by a council at a cost of £40,000. The 6ft-tall steel fence was installed in the Brecon Beacons national park in April to block access to a road over concerns that the face of Gilwern mountain could collapse on to cars and pedestrians.

5 days ago | thetimes.com | Charlie Moloney

A 12-year-old boy who ran over and killed his foster carer had been placed in her care six days before the tragedy despite concerns raised by a social worker, an inquest has heard. Marcia Grant, 60, had been a foster carer for seven years when she suffered catastrophic injuries as she tried to stop the boy taking her car outside her home in the Greenhill area of Sheffield on April 5, 2023.