EVENT: Politeia – What Future for Trial by Jury?

Posted November 20th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“Trial by jury is widely seen as central to the UK’s justice system. But as the justice system faces new challenges, many will question whether the current system is still fit for purpose. Do today’s juries understand their task? Are they the most effective guarantor of justice?”

The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP is the Attorney General and Conservative MP for Beaconsfield.”

Date: 11th December 2013, 6.30-7.30 pm

Location: Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James’s Street, London SW1A 1LR.

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

Teenager accused of planning repeat Columbine massacre faces retrial – The Independent

Posted November 20th, 2013 in explosives, learning difficulties, news, retrials, terrorism, weapons, young persons by sally

“A teenager accused of planning a ‘Columbine-style’ attack on his former school will face a re-trial after an Old Bailey jury were unable to reach verdicts on two terrorism charges.”

Full story

The Independent, 20th November 2013

Source: www.independent.co.uk

EVENT: IALS – Responsibility and Accountability in the Financial Sector

Posted November 20th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“Keynote Speech by Professor Arthur Grimes: Micro-prudential settings and financial markets conduct regulations are important in controlling risk within any country – no matter how well or poorly performing its macroeconomy. In an environment of pervasive information asymmetries, an unfettered market can lead to socially sub-optimal risk-taking. Some restrictions on financial market participants’ activities and disclosure requirements are therefore required. However, adoption of policies that make the financial markets appear low risk, or even risk free, to uninformed participants can result in moral hazard that may produce even less stable outcomes than in a free market. Drawing on New Zealand’s relatively light-handed approach to financial market regulation, this lecture examines whether the GFC and other crises are caused not by too little regulation, but instead by too much.”

Date: 3rd December 2013, 3.00-7.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

EVENT: UCL – Private Equity and Hedge Funds after the Global Financial Crisis

Posted November 20th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“As the recession stutters onwards systemic and structural causes for the financial crash continue to dominate international news and debate. Never has there been such an appetite and desire to understand the financial institutions that govern us. But despite public interest, alternative investment vehicles such as private equity and hedge funds remain elusive. Both have always had a unique position in the market, designed as they are to function outside of the rules that govern other financial organizations. But what is it that they do and – significantly – how is it that they have prospered since the 2008 meltdown despite the introduction of new regulatory regimes?”

Date: 27th November 2013, 6.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws – Graduate Wing, 1-2 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

EVENT: IALS – Whatever happened to the European Arrest Warrant?

Posted November 20th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“The Home Secretary proposes opting out and then back to the EAW, but not the one we know. The Croatians don’t want to use it either and the new Forum Bar (in force 14.10.13) will change it; as will the latest Anti Social, Crime & Policing Bill currently before Parliament. Find out what exactly is going on, and how it will affect existing Extradition arrangements.”

Date: 9th December 2013, 3.00 – 18:30

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

Command Papers – official-documents.gov.uk

Posted November 20th, 2013 in parliamentary papers by sally

The Government Response to the House of Commons Health Committee Third Report of Session 2013-14: After Francis: making a difference, Cm 8755 (PDF)

Treasury Minutes Government responses on the Second, the Sixth, the Thirteenth and Fourteenth, the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth, the Twenty First, the Twenty Second and the Twenty Fourth Reports from the Committee of Public Accounts. Session 2013-14, Cm 8744 (PDF)

Government Response to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Clinical Trials, Cm 8743 (PDF)

Post Legislative Assessment of the Local Transport Act 2008, Cm 8752 (PDF)

Source: www.official-documents.gov.uk

Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk

Posted November 20th, 2013 in legislation by sally

The Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (Victims’ Code of Practice) Order 2013

The Value Added Tax (Flat-rate Valuation of Supplies of Fuel for Private Use) Order 2013

The Additionally-developed Oil Fields Order 2013

The Motor Vehicles (Third Party Risks) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 16) Order 2013

The Motor Fuel (Composition and Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2013

Source: www.legislation.gov.uk

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted November 20th, 2013 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

Wells v R [2013] EWCA Crim 2043 (19 November 2013)

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

E D and F Man Sugar Ltd v Unicargo Transportgesellschaft GmbH & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 1449 (19 November 2013)

Ryanair Ltd v Esso Italiana Srl [2013] EWCA Civ 1450 (19 November 2013)

Leicester City Council v Shearer [2013] EWCA Civ 1467 (19 November 2013)

London Christian Radio Ltd & Anor, R (on the application of) v Radio Advertising Clearance Centre & Anor [2013] EWCA Civ 1495 (19 November 2013)

High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)

Mireskandari v Centaur Media Plc [2013] EWHC 3551 (QB) (19 November 2013)

High Court (Chancery Division)

Cody v Murray & Ors [2013] EWHC 3448 (Ch) (19 November 2013)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Fajemisin v The General Dental Council [2013] EWHC 3501 (Admin) (19 November 2013)

JB Trustees Ltd & Ors v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Ors [2013] EWHC 3555 (Admin) (18 November 2013)

High Court (Family Division)

Surrey County Council v Al-Hilli & Anor [2013] EWHC 3404 (Fam) (04 November 2013)

Source: www.bailii.org

Critics of legal aid cuts force Law Society vote – The Guardian

Posted November 20th, 2013 in budgets, consultations, Law Society, legal aid, news, solicitors by sally

“Solicitors opposed to government cuts in criminal legal aid have forced an emergency meeting of the Law Society to consider a no confidence motion in the profession’s leadership.”

Full story

The Guardian, 19th November 2013

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Regina v Sakalauskas – WLR Daily

Posted November 20th, 2013 in appeals, energy, fraud, law reports by sally

Regina v Sakalauskas [2013] WLR (D) 442

“‘Any article’ in section 6(1) of the Fraud Act 2006 meant any article the defendant had with him for the purpose or intention of using in the course of or in connection with any fraud and use necessarily related to use in the future and not articles which had been used in the past.”

WLR Daily, 15th November 2013

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Aspinalls Club Ltd v Revenue and Customs Comrs – WLR Daily

Posted November 20th, 2013 in appeals, gambling, law reports, taxation, tribunals by sally

Aspinalls Club Ltd v Revenue and Customs Comrs 2013 EWCA Civ 1464; [2013] WLR (D) 441

“For the purposes of section 11 of the Finance Act 1997, when calculating the ‘gross gaming yield’ from gaming taking place on a gaming club’s premises, commissions and rebates paid and allowed by the gambling club to its customers under incentive schemes there were not to be taken into account as reducing the amount of ‘banker’s profits’ from dutiable gaming.”

WLR Daily, 15th November 2013

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Regina v Fields and others – WLR Daily

Regina v Fields and others [2013] EWCA Crim 2042; [2013] WLR (D) 440

“In a joint benefit case, where each defendant was found to have obtained the joint benefit, he was not required by a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to disgorge benefit he had not obtained and a confiscation order made in the amount matching the correctly assessed benefit, was not disproportionate.”

WLR Daily, 14th November 2013

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

CF v Security Service and others; Mohamed v Foreign and Commonwealth Office and others – WLR Daily

CF v Security Service and others; Mohamed v Foreign and Commonwealth Office and others [2013] EWHC 3402 (QB); [2013] WLR (D) 439

“A court could make a declaration under section 6 of the Justice and Security Act 2013 permitting a closed material application to be made to the court before a public interest immunity claim had been made or determined.”

WLR Daily, 7th November 2013

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Guantanamo’s last UK inmate Shaker Aamer speaks from cell – BBC News

Posted November 20th, 2013 in Afghanistan, detention, media, news, terrorism by sally

“The last British resident being held in Guantanamo Bay has been broadcast speaking from his prison cell for the first time.”

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BBC News, 19th November 2013

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Council makes £1,500 payout after failure to tackle anti-social behaviour – Local Government Lawyer

“A city council has agreed to pay a resident £1,500 after a series of errors meant she was forced to suffer anti-social behaviour from a neighbour for more than two years.”

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Local Government Lawyer, 19th November 2013

Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk

Dying asylum seeker on hunger strike must stay in custody, says high court – The Guardian

Posted November 20th, 2013 in asylum, demonstrations, deportation, detention, immigration, news by sally

“A failed asylum seeker said to be near death following an 85-day hunger strike in protest at his detention must remain in custody, the high court ruled on Tuesday.”

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The Guardian, 19th November 2013

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Midwife ‘failed’ four-day-old baby left in cupboard – BBC News

Posted November 20th, 2013 in children, employment tribunals, midwives, news, professional conduct by sally

“A midwife who left a baby face down in a stationery cupboard was guilty of failing to provide appropriate clinical care, a tribunal has ruled.”

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BBC News, 19th November 2013

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Emma Way: Driver in #bloodycyclists Twitter storm convicted after knocking cyclist off bike – The Independent

“A 22-year-old woman who posted about ‘bloody cyclists’ on Twitter hours after knocking a cyclist off his bike has been convicted of failing to stop and failing to report an accident, but cleared of driving without due care and attention at Norfolk Magistrates Court today.”

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The Independent, 19th November 2013

Source: www.independent.co.uk

TV gambling ads have risen 600% since law change – The Guardian

Posted November 20th, 2013 in advertising, gambling, news, statistics by sally

“The number of gambling commercials on British TV has rocketed from 234,000 a year to nearly 1.4m annually since the deregulation of the sector six years ago, according to new research.”

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The Guardian, 19th November 2013

Source: www.guardian.co.uk