All articles by Nicholas Dobson – Page 5

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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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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?