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Dec 23, 2024 | 
7news.com.au | James H Wood |Alexandra B Hogan
This article first appeared in The Conversation. As the holiday season approaches, COVID cases are rising again in Australia, particularly in Victoria and Tasmania. This is now the fourth year running with a summer rise of COVID, and the second year with a roughly six-month gap between waves. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Will we see a wave every six months from now on? And what can we expect from COVID this Christmas?
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Nusrat Zar |James H Wood |Andrew Lidbetter |Jasveer Randhawa
In R (Elliott Associates and Elliott International) v The London Metal Exchange and LME Clear [2024] EWCA Civ 1168 the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal concerning the cancellation of nickel trades, despite disagreeing with the judgment below on a number of key issues of wider application.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Andrew Lidbetter |Nusrat Zar |James H Wood |Jasveer Randhawa
The Supreme Court has delivered its highly anticipated judgment in R (on the application of Finch on behalf of the Weald Action Group) v Surrey County Council and others [2024] UKSC 20. It has held, by a majority, that emissions resulting from the eventual use of refined products from a proposed oil development, known as downstream emissions, should have been assessed in the environmental impact assessment process.
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May 29, 2024 | 
lexology.com | James H Wood |Nusrat Zar |Hannah Lau |Andrew Lidbetter
What happens to Parliament and government leading up to the general election? When a general election is called, this triggers the end of the current Parliament and vacates every MP's seat. Parliament was originally scheduled to run until the summer recess (23 and 25 July for the House of Commons and the House of Lords respectively). However, following the announcement of the election on 22 May, Parliament was prorogued on 24 May.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
nrla.org.uk | James H Wood
Court fees will be increasing by 10% from next Wednesday.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
nrla.org.uk | James H Wood
Recently, the NRLA raised the issue of local authorities telling tenants to stay put and wait for the bailiffs when served with a Section 21 notice. This practice should no longer be common. Both the Homelessness code of practice and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 mean that most local authorities should take a Section 21 notice as the trigger to support tenants with a homelessness action plan.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
medicalxpress.com | James H Wood |Bette Liu |Katie Flanagan |Stuart Turville
Australia is now into its next COVID wave. We've seen hints of this for a while. Case numbers and indicators of severe disease began rising in Victoria in August. But it has taken several months for a consistent pattern to emerge across Australia. Now we see evidence of this new wave via wastewater surveillance for traces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. We also see rises in COVID-related hospital admissions and antiviral prescriptions.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
thetimes.com.au | James H Wood |UNSW Sydney
Australia is now into its next COVID wave[1]. We’ve seen hints of this for a while. Case numbers and indicators of severe disease began rising in Victoria in August. But it has taken several months for a consistent pattern to emerge across Australia. Now we see evidence of this new wave via wastewater surveillance[2] for traces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. We also see rises[3] in COVID-related hospital admissions and antiviral prescriptions.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
stuff.co.nz | Michael J. Plank |James H Wood
ANALYSIS: Interventions designed to limit the spread of Covid have been rolled back around the world. In New Zealand, the government removed all remaining public health measures last week. But although the emergency is over and the disease is rapidly becoming endemic, the risk of new variants remains. Covid is still causing a significant health burden. Is there more we could be doing to prevent infections? We lack quality evidence about how effective different interventions are.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
medicalxpress.com | Michael J. Plank |James H Wood
Interventions designed to limit the spread of COVID have been rolled back around the world. In New Zealand, the government removed all remaining public health measures last week. But although the emergency is over and the disease is rapidly becoming endemic, the risk of new variants remains. COVID is still causing a significant health burden. Is there more we could be doing to prevent infections? We lack quality evidence about how effective different interventions are.
