Legal updates – Page 19
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FeaturePartnership agreements: Lateral hires and restraint of trade
How far can a law firm go to protect its business from the threat of team defections?
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FeatureProperty: Clarity needed for process for obtaining writs of possession
Partridge has reduced the confusion surrounding rules in relation to obtaining wits, but these are small steps.
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FeatureEducation: Ofsted marked its own homework
Durand Academy Trust School challenged critical Ofsted report.
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FeatureFamily: Undertakings and variations
Birch v Birch emphasises the variation of family orders.
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FeatureEmerging Welsh law and procedure
In the first of a regular update, Richard Owen reports on legislative and legal policy developments that apply solely to Wales.
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FeatureCompetition: Anti-competitive damages
A tale of two trials: Mastercard, death spirals and MIFs.
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FeatureLocal government: Scrutinising councillor conduct
Holders of public office must be publicly accountable for their decisions and actions and able to submit to scrutiny.
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FeatureArbitration: 'Non-existent' respondents
What is the position when the respondent in the arbitration is dissolved before commencement?
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FeatureCriminal - statutory changes
The criminal law provisions of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 have been brought substantially into force and with unusual speed. Urgent provisions were brought into force on royal assent on 31 January 2017. These included a redefinition of ‘sexual exploitation’ in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 so as to ...
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FeatureCompetition: Certification and the class action regime
Second-class certification judgment in relation to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 handed down.
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FeatureData protection: GDPR and employee surveilance
At present all employers have to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) when conducting employee surveillance, as they will be gathering and using personal data about living, identifiable individuals (location, movements, internet browsing history and so on). Part 3 of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Data Protection Employment ...
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FeatureDigital pirates – on a sinking ship?
CJEU decision could make file-sharing sites constitute as copyright infringement.
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FeatureLocal Government: Scope of power to prosecute
R v AB and others raises questions about the powers of local authorities.
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FeatureLegal update: media law - The right of erasure
Most social media sites have no age restriction for registration and children are free to interact with the online community as they see fit. Even where they do not post information themselves, a child’s image will often feature in pictures posted by friends and family.
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Feature‘Excessive pricing’ and pharmaceuticals
Alleged abuse of dominance through excessive pricing in the pharmaceutical sector could be curbed.
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FeatureBarnsley in a hole
Local governments are under extreme financial pressure from pothole damage repairs
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FeatureLeases and side letter concessions
Courts will intervene on one-sided landlord-biased precedent.
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FeatureCases shaping costs budgeting
On 1 April 2013, the 64th update to the Civil Procedure Rules came into force and brought with it the requirement for budgets to be filed and served in all multi-track claims (initially with the exception of those in the Commercial/Admiralty Courts but subsequently extended to those courts) issued on ...