Issue: Vol 159, Issue 7389

An online Twitter campaign has thwarted an attempt to gag the media from reporting an MP’s question.

Proposed draft regulations seeking to outlaw the blacklisting of trade unionists are “flawed”, the Employment Lawyers Association’s (ELA) has said.

Gary McKinnon, the Asperger’s sufferer who faces extradition to the US for hacking into Pentagon military networks, has been refused permission to apply for judicial review against the director of public prosecutions.

The High Court has granted a third party costs order against the parents of a man who brought a negligence claim for nearly £1m against his former school for failing to prevent him being bullied.

On the very day that the spanking new Supreme Court opened for business, legal tradition reasserted itself. Over the flagstones that had witnessed the trial of Charles I in Westminster Hall walked the elite of the legal world as they made their way to lunch after the traditional service for the opening of the legal year.

Recent cases have raised questions about the safety of chip and pin cards from fraudulent attack, for example by cloning. Typically, in such cases, the claimant is an individual whose account has been debited as a result of one or more allegedly unauthorised card transactions; the defendant is a bank or building society.

Ian Pease identifies the cracks in Chartbrook

Pereda is causing major concerns for employers, says Ben Collins

Emily Campbell highlights potential pitfalls in processing inheritance claims

Michael Tringham provides an update on family intrigue, delusion & greed