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Employment
Health and safety at work - Organisation of working time - Rest breaks Hughes v Corps of Commissionaires Management Ltd: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Sir Anthony May, president, Lords Justice Thomas, Elias): 8 September 2011 ...
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Hargreaves’ IP framework
On 3 August, the government published its response to the independent review of the intellectual property framework carried out by the journalist, academic and public servant, Professor Ian Hargreaves. The review set out to determine whether copyright laws obstruct innovation and economic growth, preventing companies such as Google (that relies ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence R v H: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Elias, Mr Justice Maddison, Mr Justice Burnett): 27 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, ...
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Sentencing
Custodial sentence - Dangerous offenders - Robbery R v McKenzie: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Richards, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith, Mr Justice Underhill): 29 September 2011 The Court of ...
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Immigration
Leave to remain - Appeal - Claimants coming to United Kingdom in 2000 R (on the application of Mine) and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (Mr Justice Simon): 9 September ...
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Removing an arbitrator on grounds of bias
One of the fundamental principles upon which arbitration rests is the entitlement of each party to have a fair hearing by an impartial arbitral tribunal. Indeed, this is a principle upheld by article 6 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights. And this is also ...
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Immigration
Leave to enter - Indefinite leave Bah v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights (Garlicki, President, Bratza, Mijovic, Hirvela, Nicolaou, Bianku and De Gaetano): 27 September 2011 The European ...
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Immigration
Leave to enter - Indefinite leave Bah v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights (Garlicki, President, Bratza, Mijovic, Hirvela, Nicolaou, Bianku and De Gaetano): 27 September 2011 The European ...
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Litigants in person numbers soar
The dire state of the economy has already led to a dramatic increase in the number of litigants in person, new figures from a voluntary organisation suggest. This is before government cuts to civil legal aid come into effect, which many solicitors predict will trigger another huge rise.
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Keep ministers out of legal aid decisions - LSC
The chairman of the Legal Services Commission has warned of the risk of ministers intervening for political reasons in decisions about the granting of legal aid. Speaking at the Legal Aid Practitioners Group conference in Birmingham last week, Sir Bill Callaghan (pictured) expressed concerns that ...
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Spending cuts 'could threaten' innovative court
Spending cuts could threaten the future of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC), the judge behind the innovative institution has warned. He called for joined-up government to recognise the savings it makes.
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Extended opening hours could boost magistracy
Government plans to extend magistrates’ operating hours into evenings and weekends could increase the diversity of the magistracy, but should not be carried out at the expense of daytime sitting, according to the chair of the Magistrates’ Association. John Thornhill told the Gazette that justice minister ...
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Wales ponders Welsh law
The Welsh government is to start a public debate on separate legal jurisdiction for the principality. A green paper will be launched early in 2012, first minister Carwyn Jones told last week’s Legal Wales conference in Cardiff. In March, the people of Wales voted to ...
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MoJ faces further challenge over legal aid
The Ministry of Justice faces another legal challenge to its legal aid reforms. The charity Disability Law Service has applied for permission to start judicial review proceedings in relation to the removal of civil legal aid funding for welfare benefits cases. The charity argues the ...
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Southern comfort
The Economist once described Australia as a country that ‘never makes the front pages of foreign newspapers’. But from the perspective of many UK lawyers, that description no longer rings true. Ashurst’s prospective tie-up with Blake Dawson has shown that City interest in Australia as a hub for Asia-Pacific expansion ...
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Conveyancers could sue over panels
Conveyancing firms removed from the panels of Santander and Lloyds Banking Group could have claims against the lenders, according to legal advice obtained by a Hertfordshire firm. Paul Judkins (pictured), a partner at Judkins, has received advice from Philip Coppel QC, of London’s 4-5 Gray’s Inn ...
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Family immigration proposals 'unethical'
Solicitors have rejected as ‘venal’ and ‘unethical’ proposals from the UK Border Agency (UKBA) to prevent abuses of the family immigration route into Britain. They warn that some of the proposals, part of a package of measures to reduce immigration released for a consultation that closed ...
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Employment
Unfair dismissal - Reasonableness Of dismissal Perry v Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mr Justice Wilkie, Mr Justice Harris, Mr D Smith): 22 September 2011 The Employment ...
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Young lawyers will seek 'bespoke incentive plans'
Ambitious young lawyers will increasingly seek ‘bespoke incentive plans’ after as little as three years’ service with a firm, rather than wait decades for rewards under the ‘anachronistic’ partnership system, a City bank claimed this week. In a report on the future of legal services ...