All Law Gazette articles in Archive – Page 1256
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Education, housing bonds and sulphur deals
Saudi sukuk: Magic circle firm Allen & Overy, alongside its affiliate, Saudi firm Abdulaziz AlGasim, advised Saudi Electricity Company on a $1.87bn (£1.13bn) sukuk issue, believed to be the largest sukuk issue of 2009. HSBC Saudi Arabia and Samba Capital were joint lead ...
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Businesses should be liable for employee bribery
Businesses should face strict liability for bribes paid by their employees, the Joint Committee on the Draft Bribery Bill recommended today. Publishing its report on the draft bill, the committee said that liability for bribes should rest with companies and partnerships unless they can prove they ...
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BVT is dead in the water – so why persist with the pilots?
Before the LSC announced its response to the best value tendering consultation last week, we at the Gazette were pretty sure what the story was going to be.
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Causes and consequences
Roger Smith’s article on anti-terror legislation hit the nail on the head (see [2009] Gazette, 25 June, 6).
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Challenging debates remain on Islam and English law
The Temple Church is to be commended for its efforts to improve interfaith relations over the past 18 months, even though some of the public meetings it held on Islam in English law did not turn out quite as intended. Since Muslims were well represented among ...
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Changes to forced marriage protection orders
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 (the act), in force from 25 November 2008, is an important social reforming statute of power and humanity, protecting the basic right to marry by choice. The act inserts into the Family Law Act 1996 (the 1996 act) a ...
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Child overnight detention is an institutional failure that must end
by Dr Peter Green, a forensic medical examiner for the Metropolitan Police Service and as designated doctor for child safeguarding at St George’s Hospital and NHS Wandsworth The improper detention of children in prison was highlighted by a recent Barnardo’s report. But another manifestation of state ...
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Circuit overload
You might have thought that judges could never have too much law. But that is apparently not the case.
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Tories pledge to hike salaries to lure top City lawyers to regulator
The Conservatives will attempt to lure top City lawyers into the public sector with the promise of improved salaries should they take power at the next general election. Outlining Conservative policy for financial regulation on Monday, shadow chancellor George Osborne said he would scrap the FSA ...
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Civil Justice Council moves to fix fast-track fees
A move to fix the level of legal fees for all fast-track civil cases will begin this week, the Gazette can reveal. The Civil Justice Council has gathered together 13 representatives from the legal profession and insurance industry, including the Law Society, to start work initially ...
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Public confidence undermined by ‘rush to legislate’
The government’s ‘ad hoc and piecemeal’ attempts at constitutional reform risk further undermining public confidence, a report published today has warned.
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The new Supreme Court is opening soon
The new Supreme Court (pictured) is to open for business on 1 October, justice secretary Jack Straw announced last week. The court, which will be based at the refurbished Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court, will replace the jurisdiction of the House of Lords.It has cost nearly £60m to create and running ...
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Reel crisis
When you’re organising a big event, there are always a few nagging fears of terrible things that might happen. What if no one turns up? What if the speaker gets heckled or cancels with a sore throat? But Obiter suspects that the organisers of an event about human rights abuses ...
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Custody nurses at police stations risk ‘miscarriages of justice’
Police plans to employ full-time custody nurses at police stations could undermine the independence of medical provision and lead to miscarriages of justice, criminal and mental health lawyers have warned.
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Warning - recession can damage your health
The Grim Reaper, it would appear, has our cards marked and is sharpening his scythe in anticipation. That’s because suicides go up when unemployment goes up, like now, and accidents at work also increase in times of recession, like now.
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Working group to examine probate disclosure rules
The President of the Family Division, Mark Potter, is to set up a working group to establish a ‘fair and efficient procedure’ for the publication and disclosure of wills. Sir Mark said the current rules were ‘far from user friendly’ for practitioners and the public ...
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Employment
Equal pay – Independent experts – Job evaluation F A Hovell v Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Trust: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Mummery, Etherton, Elias): 9 July 2009 ...
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Employment
Contracts – Affirmation – Fiduciary duty - Repudiation Ben Cook v (1) MSHK Ltd (formerly Ministry of Sound Holdings Ltd) (2) Ministry of Sound Recordings Ltd: CA (Civ Div) (Lady Justice Smith, Lords Justice Wilson, Rimer): 9 July 2009 ...
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Halifax launches next step in its expansion into legal services
Halifax has taken the next step in its expansion into legal services by launching an online ‘pay as you go’ legal document production and advice service. Halifax Legal Express offers customers three levels of service: ‘self-serve’ allows them to create one of a range of more ...
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Family law
Ancillary relief – Appeals – Divorce Richard Barry Brisset v Ann Brisset: CA (Civ Div) (Lords Justice Sedley, Jacob, Wilson): 9 July 2009 The appellant husband (H) appealed against ...