| Human Law Ezine - August 2015 Welcome to this month's edition of the Human Law Ezine, please take a look at my latest blog posts: - Can You Still Disinherit Your Kids?
One of my favourite authors is the legal thriller writer, John Grisham and in particular his older material.
To those of you who do not know his work one of his earlier books was called The Runaway Jury where effectively the jury on a tobacco case start acting out of control and legal precedent in order to punish tobacco companies.
With this thought in mind, we now have the judgment in the Appeal Court on the case of Ilott and Mitson in which the judges(rather than a jury) really have acted out of control and left wills and probate lawyers almost clueless...
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- Speculative Damages Claims Undermine Tribunal Claimants
It is being reported that a sacked Harrods worker is suing his ex-employer for the princely sum of £1m.
Chilean national Mr Mackenzie claims he was discriminated against by colleagues between July and October 2014 due to his race, age and sex.....
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