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To say that parents bear a moral responsibility to ensure that their children behave themselves in public is uncontroversial – but are they also under a legal duty to do so? The High Court addressed that issue in ruling that the sins of an allegedly anti-social teenager could not be visited upon his mother. A local authority claimed that the 15-year-old boy had engaged in various forms of anti-social behaviour, including assaulting another schoolboy and setting fire to a public bench, which resulted in a detrimental effect on the quality...

If a neighbour obtains planning permission for a building project to which you object, that does not always mean you just have to grin and bear it. In a case on point, objectors to a householder's plans to extend his garage succeeded in blocking his proposal despite the fact that it had received local authority approval. Three years after moving into a five-bedroom detached house on a newly built estate, the householder, whose family owned five cars and three motorbikes, obtained planning consent to extend his garage both outwards, to...

UPDATE: The Domestic Abuse Bill The Domestic Abuse Bill started in the House of Commons in 2019. It was introduced to further support and protect victims of Domestic abuse by improving the effectiveness of the justice system in bringing perpetrators to justice. The Bill will create a statutory definition of domestic abuse, including physical, emotional and financial abuse; it will prohibit perpetrators of abuse from cross-examining their victims in person in the family courts in England and Wales; and as confirmed by the Justice Minister yesterday, it will make provisions...

Further Insecurity for Renters following Court of Appeal Decision PRESS RELEASE: Trecarrell House Limited v Patricia Rouncefield EWCA CIV 760 Today, 18 June 2020, the Court of Appeal handed down judgement in Trecarrell House Limited v Patricia Rouncefield. The case was heard on 29 January 2020 in front of Lord Justice Patten, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Moylan. A copy of the judgement is available to download here. The key question in the matter was whether or not a landlord could evict a tenant using the no-faults eviction process...