Issue: Vol 163, Issue 7586

Human rights lawyer is honoured in NYC

Bernard Pressman analyses the “new” approach of the courts to applications for relief from sanctions

Challenging a local authority on procedural grounds can prove difficult, as Tim Spencer-Lane reports

When does a failure to prosecute health & safety violations breach human rights? Kate Beattie reports

Threlfall v ECD Insight Ltd and another [2013] EWCA Civ 1444, [2013] All ER (D) 195 (Nov)

Preparados Alimenticos, SA v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) T-377/10, [2013] All ER (D) 218 (Nov)

Re L (leave to oppose making of adoption order) [2013] EWCA Civ 1481, [2013] All ER (D) 264 (Nov)

Dixons Retail plc v Revenue and Customs Commissioners C-494/12, [2013] All ER (D) 239 (Nov)

Venn v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and others [2013] EWHC 3546 (Admin), [2013] All ER (D) 202 (Nov)

Douglas v Ministry of Justice [2013] EWHC 3640 (QB), [2013] All ER (D) 253 (Nov)