All articles by Nicholas Dobson – Page 5

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    Local government law: age discrimination

    2009-07-09T00:00:00Z

    How LIFO (last in, first out on redundancy) fares under ageism laws is a subject with far-reaching impact for local government lawyers.

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    Local government: surveillance powers, tenancy and effective consultation

    2009-06-11T00:00:00Z

    There is always a public authority tension between what might be called 'customer-centred governance' and regulation. So while most local authorities will try to be 'customer responsive' to their council tax payers and other stakeholders, their regulatory functions mean that not everyone will always feel treated as a 'customer'. For, ...

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    Trespassing in the public interest; functional entanglement

    2009-03-26T00:00:00Z

    A Birmingham city councillor was found by the Administrative Court to have breached the council’s Code of Conduct...

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    Local government law – ASBOs, injunctions and anti-social behaviour

    2009-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Birmingham City Council has had a setback in its use of injunctions to curb serious gang-driven criminal and anti-social behaviour.

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    Local government: a new code of conduct

    2008-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Pity the poor Local Authorities (Model Code of Conduct Order) 2007 – the 18-month-old toddler, currently scampering innocently around local and police authority floors, has been given a proposed sentence of death by the government.

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    A white paper cure for local government ills?

    2008-07-31T00:00:00Z

    John Lennon, unless he kept it a close secret, was no physician. However, this never seemed to stop him prescribing a range of musical remedies. Once, after giving us all a quick once-over, he diagnosed that all we needed was love. And in a later ‘surgery’ his prescription was Power ...

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    Local authority vires: procurement law

    2008-07-03T00:00:00Z

    I am afraid that my social circle does not include many amoebae. However, this is undoubtedly my failing, since it appears that this remarkable one-cell life-form can not only change shape at will but can also split its cell to create a whole new amoeba. How clever is that?