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Insolvency
Company - Voluntary winding up - Liquidator Re Sunwing Vacation Inc and others: Chancery Division (Mr Justice Morgan): 22 June 2011 The Chancery Division of the High Court allowed the ...
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Discrimination
Social security - Services for sick and disabled persons - Assessment of needs of sick and disabled persons JG and MB v Lancashire County Council: Administrative Court (Manchester) (Mr Justice Kenneth Parker): 2 September 2011 ...
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Employment
Employer’s duty to consult - Failure to consult union - Affected employee seeking protective award against employer Independent Insurance Co Ltd (in provisional liquidation) v Aspinall and another: EAT (Judge Serota QC, Mr D Bleiman, Mr J R Rivers): ...
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Unless orders - securing a party’s compliance
Unless orders (otherwise known as Hadkinson orders) were established in Hadkinson v Hadkinson [1952] P 285, CA. Although still relatively uncommon, there has been a series of reported cases where the power has been used by the courts over the last few years. It is an approach to be used ...
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Arbitration
Award - Enforcement - Freezing order - Claimant appealing Mobile Telesystems Finance SA v Nomihold Securities Inc: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Ward, Tomlinson): 1 September 2011 The claimant company, ...
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Immigration
Asylum seeker - Detention - Claimant being detained prior to deportation R (on the application of S) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: QBD (Admin) (David Elvin QC sitting as a deputy judge of the High Court): ...
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Environmental considerations are rising up the law firm management agenda
Environmental issues have steadily climbed up law firms’ agendas. As corporates seek to capitalise on both consumers’ growing awareness of the need to save the planet, and government incentives on the environment, solicitors, as part of their clients’ supply chain, are responding by boosting their own green credentials.
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Employment
Determination whether dismissal fair or unfair - Dismissal for misconduct - Employee failing to follow instruction and being dismissed Oudahar v Esporta Group Ltd: EAT (Judge Richardson, Mr D Evans, Mr B Warman): 22 July 2011 ...
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Criminal procedure
Unsafe conviction - Bias - Defendant appearing before Crown court - Recorder criticising defence statement R v Malcolm: CA (Crim Div) (Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Lord Justice Hooper, Mr Justice Blair): 1 September 2011 ...
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Duty of candour plans 'watered down'
The government proposes to introduce a duty of candour as part of its health reforms, requiring hospitals to tell patients when they have made mistakes - a move that follows a long campaign by Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) and other patient safety bodies. While the plans are welcome and ...
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David Cameron’s comments on human rights were prejudiced
In the modern world, the domestic and the international become entwined. News of David Cameron’s assault on the Human Rights Act in the aftermath of the riots was noted around the globe. The Tehran Times quoted the prime minister as saying that ‘human rights and health and safety can interfere ...
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UK ‘unattractive’ to foreign legal high-flyers
The government’s commitment to reducing net migration to the UK will do long-term damage to the competitiveness of UK law firms and inhibit their ability to develop business internationally, the Law Society’s immigration law committee (ILC) has warned. Law firms have told the ILC that, under ...
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Santander makes Conveyancing Quality Scheme mandatory
Santander has become the first lender to make membership of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme mandatory for firms applying to be on its conveyancing panel. The bank reopened its panel to new members in August, with the introduction of a £199 application fee. A Santander spokesman confirmed that CQS ...
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Clarke to promote UK legal services
Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke was preparing to update City lawyers on the government’s blueprint for promoting UK legal services abroad as the Gazette went to press. He was expected to reiterate the government’s opposition to European contract law harmonisation and reassure foreign markets that alternative ...
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Legal aid cuts: the fight goes on
Campaign groups have vowed to continue their fight against the government’s legal aid cuts, following the rejection of opposition amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill by a committee of MPs. The Public Bill Committee, charged with scrutinising the proposals, last week ...
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LSC chief’s exit worries lawyer groups
Lawyers have paid tribute to departing Legal Services Commission (LSC) chief executive Carolyn Downs, following the announcement that she is leaving to take up a senior role in local government. Downs took over as chief executive of the LSC in March 2010 on secondment from the ...
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Lucy Scott-Moncrieff among AWS award winners
Law Society vice-president Lucy Scott-Moncrieff was named best woman solicitor in a legal aid practice at the Association of Women Solicitors (AWS) third annual awards ceremony held in London last week. She is pictured (centre) with AWS chairwoman Joy Van Cooten (right) and award judge ...
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Vickers review puts lawyers centre stage
Banks’ legal and compliance departments are expected to grow with the implementation of reforms recommended this week by the Independent Commission on Banking, chaired by Sir John Vickers (pictured). The centre of power for corporate counsel will be located firmly on the retail side and ...
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A return to articles of clerkship would help solve the access problem
I was amused to read Michael Robinson’s letter suggesting a solicitor apprenticeship as a way of reducing the cost of training. What he describes is virtually a return to the articles of clerkship, through which I and countless other solicitors entered the profession until entry was restricted to graduates some ...