“The Burgundy Book (the Conditions of Service for School Teachers in England and Wales) provides that a teacher is entitled to full pay where her ‘absence was due to an infectious or contagious illness contracted directly in the course of the teacher’s employment’, and that ‘such absence was not be reckoned against the teacher’s entitlement to sick leave’.”
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Employment Law Blog, 30th May 2013
Source: www.employment11kbw.com
“Courts are taking an increasingly tough stance on non-compliance with the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR), an expert has said, following comments by a High Court judge that parties that do not comply with court rules and practice directions will be likely to face ‘severe sanctions’.”
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OUT-LAW.com, 31st May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Henderson Chambers is inviting applications for Third Six to start in October 2013.
Pupils have 2 seats of 3 months each and will usually be considered for tenancy towards the end of this period. Pupils are expected to go to Court regularly on their own account.
Funding by way of Guaranteed Earnings may be available on terms to be agreed.
For more information about Chambers see www.hendersonpupillage.co.uk and follow our Twitter feed @HendersonPupils.
To apply send a covering letter, CV, names of your past supervisors and a summary of work undertaken in pupillage so far to pupillages@hendersonchambers.co.uk.
Applications should reach us by 5th July 2013.
“A man who wed his Canadian bride in Las Vegas while still married to a woman in England has had his jail term cut.”
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BBC News, 31st May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman jailed by a ‘secret court; for trying to take her dying father out of his care home and fly him to Turkey has spoken about her ordeal for the first time.”
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Daily Telegraph, 30th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Recorded crime, convictions and the number of individuals entering prisons have shown a dramatic decline since 2011. We take a closer look at the data.”
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The Guardian, 30th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former abattoir worker and lifeguard who was found to have abducted and murdered April Jones began a whole-life prison term on Thursday, still refusing to say what he did with her body.”
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The Guardian, 31st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Tens of thousands of workers who were denied the minimum wage have received hundreds of pounds in back pay from their employers following tougher enforcement policy by tax inspectors. Over the last year more than 26,000 workers were paid back £4m after action by HM Revenue and Customs, who are responsible for enforcing minimum wage laws.”
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The Guardian, 30th May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A driver who made 17 whiplash claims in eight years is to be investigated for perjury after a judge heard details of his latest compensation bid.”
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Daily Telegraph, 30th May 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Three local authorities who were told in February that the Government was withdrawing previously-awarded financial support for waste management projects have launched legal challenges to the decision.”
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OUT-LAW.com, 30th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Big data projects that build profiles of individuals would ‘almost certainly’ trigger privacy rules and safeguards proposed by an EU watchdog, an expert has said.”
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OUT-LAW.com, 30th May 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Lucy Scott-Moncrieff urges you to join the fight.”
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Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 25th May 2013
Source: www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk
“Sian Cox, barrister, Harcourt Chambers analyses the court’s power to strike out in family proceedings and considers in the light of the Court of Appeal judgment in Vince v Wyatt, the circumstances in which such applications may succeed.”
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Family Law Week, 29th May 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Are laws designed to protect individuals and minority groups from offence and harassment, inhibiting free speech?
Clive Anderson and his guests discuss whether cases such as the conviction of a woman for telling David Cameron he had ‘blood on his hands’ and the arrest of a man for calling a police horse ‘gay’ are bringing the law into disrepute.”
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BBC Unreliable Evidence, 29th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, art.14(6) requires state parties to compensate those who have suffered ‘a miscarriage of justice’. Although the UK ratified the Covenant in 1976, for more than a decade compensation for miscarriages of justice continued to be paid by the Home Office only on an ex gratia basis. Payment was first put onto a statutory basis in 1988.”
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Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 1st June 2013
Source: www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk
“The EU is taking Britain to court over migrants’ entitlement to benefits.”
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The Independent, 30th May 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Communications Data Bill, shelved amid political heavy weather, is back on the agenda in the wake of last week’s Woolwich murder. Today for example, Conservative MP and former policing minister Nick Herbert wrote an article in The Times in support of the Bill and responding to those who have called it a ‘snooper’s charter’.”
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Panopticon, 29th May 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“On 22 April 2013 the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in refusing to pay for a lawyer to assist Lindsay Sandiford as she faces the death penalty for drug offences in Indonesia. Last Wednesday, they handed down the reasons for their decision.”
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UK Human Rights Blog, 29th May 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Ninety leading barristers have urged the government to withdraw ‘unjust proposals’ to restrict legal aid for people demanding judicial reviews.”
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BBC News, 29th May 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
