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25 March 2020
Issue: 7880 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Law digests: 26 March 2020

Children & young persons

R (on the application of SXM) v Disclosure and Barring Service [2020] EWHC 624 (Admin), [2020] All ER (D) 107 (Mar)

The refusal to disclose information on whether a person had been barred from regulated activity with children, or the reasons for not doing so, to a person who alleged that she had been the victim of abuse by that person was lawful. Accordingly, the Divisional Court dismissed the claimant’s application for judicial review of the defendant Disclosure and Barring Service’s refusal to inform her whether the interested party had been barred, and further held that the refusal to provide that information did not amount to a breach of any positive obligation imposed by Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Contempt of court

Andreewitch v Moutreuil [2020] EWCA Civ 382, [2020] All ER (D) 108 (Mar)

There had been a procedural irregularity in the conduct of the appellant’s contempt proceedings by the judge proposing that he

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