‘Lawyers who mislead the court will end up with “exemplary and deterrent” punishments, the Lord Chief Justice has warned.’
Legalfutures, 12th September 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘As stalking-related prosecutions rise, prosecutors and police are being reminded to focus on the devastating impact these crimes have on victims. After the first full year of operation, new stalking legislation has seen 743 cases brought to court – cases which may not have been charged under previous law.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 11th September 2014
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘The qualified one-way costs shifting provisions under CPR 44.13 and 44.14 were not ultra vires the general discretion of the court on the ordering of costs under section 51(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981, and although applying to claims for damages for personal injuries brought by a claimant against a defendant, they did not apply to claims for an indemnity or contribution brought by such a defendant against a third party.’
WLR Daily, 31st July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Banfield, R. v [2014] EWCA Crim 1824 (11 September 2014)
Virgin Media Ltd, R (On the Application Of) v Zinga [2014] EWCA Crim 1823 (11 September 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Brett v The Solicitors Regulation Authority [2014] EWHC 2974 (Admin) (11 September 2014)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Brand & Anor v Szilvia (aka Sylvie) Berki [2014] EWHC 2979 (QB) (11 September 2014)
Interface Europe Ltd v Premier Hank Dyers Ltd [2014] EWHC 2610 (QB) (11 September 2014)
‘Mandip Ghai, solicitor and legal officer, with Rights of Women, updates practitioners on developments in the prevention of domestic violence.’
Family Law Week, 11th September 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘A man with mental health problems killed himself at a young offenders institute after he was wrongly judged “low risk” and was inadequately monitored, an inquest jury has decided.’
BBC New, 11th September 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Celebrity couple win court order in ongoing dispute with Szilvia Berki, which they say has caused considerable distress.’
The Guardian, 11th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A psychiatrist who circumcised 41 boys at a “non-sterile” clinic in a terraced house has been found guilty of misconduct. Dr Hassan Abdulla was not registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) when he operated at the Al-Khalill Clinic in Leicester.’
BBC News, 11th September 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An investigation into abuse at a children’s care home has been widened to include other establishments.’
BBC News, 12th September 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The United Kingdom was not in breach of the human rights of those individuals ineligible for student loans because they did not have indefinite leave to remain in the country. The relevant legislation limits eligibility for student loans to those who are “settled” in the United Kingdom (within the meaning of the Immigration Act 1971 ) and who have been ordinarily resident in the UK for three years.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th September 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘There are too many cases of prisons failing to identify inmates who are a suicide risk despite the presence of clear warning signs, an official watchdog has warned after a “troubling” 64% rise in self-inflicted deaths behind bars in the past year.’
The Guardian, 11th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A landmark ruling of the European Union Court of Justice, in May of this year, held that it is Google’s responsibility to remove outdated or ‘irrelevant’ search results hosted by third parties. EU justice commissioner Viviane Reading praised the decision, hailing a “clear victory for the protection of personal data of Europeans”, while others have raised concerns over its implementation, fearing that it could mark a slippery slope toward online censorship.’
CPD hours 1.25
Date: 15th October 2014, 6.00-8.45pm
Location: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
‘It is trite that recent decades have seen an explosion in levels of senior executive remuneration in public companies, both absolutely and relative to ordinary worker pay. A conspicuous corresponding trend over recent years, though, has been the development of a range of countervailing regulatory tools designed to mitigate this disparity within various national environments. These include regulatory pay ratio caps, bonus bans, and mandatory pay ratio disclosures. Notwithstanding these salient developments, prevailing legal and economic debates on executive and worker pay remain rooted in the dominant principal-agent paradigm of corporate governance, which consistently disputes the relevance of equitable or distributive fairness concerns to the essentially functional challenge of determining effective agent incentives. In this lecture I will take issue with the orthodox principal-agent perspective on pay equity, by demonstrating the centrality of equitable concerns to effective agent-incentive design, both at senior executive and ordinary worker levels.’
Date: 27th November 2014, 6.00-7.00pm
Location: UCL Law Faculty, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG
Charge: Free, registration required
More information can be found here.
‘It is well established that high numbers of people in the criminal justice system experience mental health problems or learning disabilities. In 2007, Lord Bradley was invited by the government to undertake an independent review of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities in the criminal justice system. ‘
CPD hours 2.25
Date: 15th October 2014, 4.30-6.45pm
Location: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
‘Legislation has the limited object of changing the law. So it consists of abstract rules of general application which appeal to the intellect. Other forms of writing can summon up mental pictures of individual people and events and appeal to the emotions. Another consequence of its limited object is that every word of an Act counts and its language is spare. Techniques available to other writers (like repetition and exuberance) are generally denied to the drafter. So drafting is unlikely to produce literature. The fascination lies in producing something precise and clear while operating within the inherent restraints.’
Date: 3rd November 2014, 6.00-7.00pm
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.
‘Join expert speakers for a detailed examination of the pressing issues affecting litigators, which aims to cut through the confusion and uncertainty currently afflicting our profession.
As well as unique presentations on key issues, delegates will have the chance to quiz our speakers both during and after the conference.’
Date: 16th October 2014, 3.30-7.00pm
Location: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
‘For our first jurisprudence event of the year, we will host Professor Martin Krygier at our Legal Philosophy Workshop. Professor Krygier, who is a highly respected theoretician of law, will present his paper “Transformations of the Rule of Law: Legal, Liberal, and Neo.” As always, a lively discussion will then follow.’
Date: 1st October 2014, 3.30-5.30pm
Location: SW1.09 Somerset House East Wing
Charge: Free, registration required
More information can be found here.
‘This year’s programme includes keynote speeches from leaders in the field, breakout session updates on disability, surveillance and privacy, criminal law, judicial review and immigration and an unequalled review of essential case-law developments in our now renowned ‘Review of the Year’ with Nathalie Lieven QC, Landmark Chambers.
Plenary debate with:
Simon Hughes MP, Minister of State for Justice and Civil Liberties
Emily Thornberry MP, Shadow Attorney General
David Davis MP
Professor Conor Gearty, LSE & Matrix
Anthony Speight QC, 4 Pumpcourt
Keynote speeches:
Gareth Peirce, Birnberg Peirce
Lord Pannick QC, Blackstone Chambers’
Date: 20th October 2014
Location: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Tudor Street, London, EC4Y 1HT
Charge: See website for details
More information can be found here.
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