
Charlie Moloney
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1 week ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Charlie Moloney
A school which says it struggled to afford heating will have to disclose how much it paid a law firm for its headmaster’s £500,000 lawsuit against two parents. Kevin Flanagan, headteacher of Pensby High School in Wirral, claimed damages of £20,000 from Keith and Stephanie Critchley for harassment. In September last year, the claimant’s costs of the entire proceedings were forecast to be approximately £545,000. The school confirmed it was funding the action, but not whether that was in part or full.
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1 week ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Charlie Moloney
A school which struggled to afford heating will have to disclose how much it paid to an independent law firm for its headmaster’s £500,000 lawsuit against two parents. Kevin Flanagan, headteacher of Pensby High School in Wirral, claimed damages of £20,000 from Keith and Stephanie Critchley for harassment. In September last year, the claimant’s costs of the entire proceedings were forecast to be approximately £545,000.
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1 week ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Charlie Moloney
Baroness Casey (former victims’ commissioner Louise Casey) has recommended changing the law on child sexual offences so adults who have sex with children are charged with rape. The recommendation appears in the cross-bench peer’s ‘National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’ (the so-called grooming gangs report), which was published yesterday. The report prompted the government to announce a national inquiry.
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1 week ago |
lawgazette.co.uk | Charlie Moloney
A non-practising barrister has failed to persuade the High Court that ‘unseasonably hot weather’ during a county court trial made the proceedings unfair. Natasha Sivanandan challenged Capstone Foster Care’s decision not to approve her application to be a foster carer, alleging breaches of the Equality Act 2010, the Human Rights Act 1998 and negligence.
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Reading about this month’s judgement of Amersi v British Broadcasting Corporation [2025] EWHC 1323 (KB) and came across arguably the greatest X bio of all time https://t.co/Y02ycPL7QK

This change would - if nothing else - certainly stop journalists being abused for trying to write accurate headlines which do not include the word ‘rape’ when the accused of charged with sexual activity with a child under 16. One of those areas readers struggle with

Casey Report here recommending changing the law so that adult men who have sex with children under 16 are charged with rape That's because an adult is charged with sexual activity with a child under section 9 of the Sexual Offences Act if there is ostensible consent - not rape https://t.co/A5VCXtqbgY

RT @TonyDowson5: Casey Report here recommending changing the law so that adult men who have sex with children under 16 are charged with rap…