Category: legislation
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Leeds College of Music (Dissolution) Order 2011
The Leeds College of Art (Transfer to the Higher Education Sector) Order 2011
The Joseph Priestley College, Leeds (Dissolution) Order 2011
The Non-Domestic Rating (Small Business Rate Relief) (England) (Amendment) Order 2011
The Cleaner Road Transport Vehicles Regulations 2011
The North Somerset Levels Internal Drainage Board Order 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Ignore headlines about squatters, government proposals target Gypsies and travellers – The Guardian
“The prime minister’s confirmation that the government will be bringing forward legislation for the criminalisation of trespass and the proposed removal of removal of legal aid from trespassers in the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill amount to the most significant changes to the law of trespass in England and Wales for generations.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Legal Services Act 2007 (Licensing Authorities) (Maximum Penalty) Rules 2011
The Welsh Language Commissioner (Appointment) Regulations 2011
The Plastic Kitchenware (Conditions on Imports from China) (Wales) Regulations 2011
The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
The Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996 (Commencement) (England and Wales) Order 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Prospectus Regulations 2011
The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2011
The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 7) Order 2011
The Childcare (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
The Education (Non-Maintained Special Schools) (England) Regulations 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Solicitors and others remain divided over desirability of the government’s civil justice reforms – Law Society’s Gazette
“In The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, the government conceded remarkably little following extensive – though hardly protracted – periods of consultation.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 7th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Police bail debate raises legal eyebrows – The Guardian
“The supreme court seemed to be exercising powers it does not have when it offered to consider suspending the bail ruling”
The Guardian, 6th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme court dismisses police bail ruling appeal – The Guardian
“The supreme court has dismissed an application from the police to suspend a ruling that triggered a bail crisis, leaving the legal position of 85,000 suspects in doubt.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Strasbourg ruling may change UK’s responsibilities under the Human Rights Act – The Guardian
“The Human Rights Act applies in the UK. That much is clear. Whether it applies outside of UK territory is a whole other question, and one for which we may have a new answer when the grand chamber of the European court of human rights (ECtHR) gives judgment in the case of Al-Skeini and others v the United Kingdom & Al-Jedda v the United Kingdom this week.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2011
The Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (Section 684(3A)) Order 2011
The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2011
The Finance Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Emergency law to overturn court ruling on police bail – The Guardian
“Emergency legislation is to be introduced to overturn a court ruling that has severely restricted police powers to detain suspects for questioning and plunged police bail laws into chaos.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Right to self-defence in homes to be ‘much clearer’ – BBC News
“Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has said a householder who knifes a burglar will not have committed a criminal offence under plans to clarify the law on self-defence in England.”
BBC News, 29th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court ruling on bail ‘a disaster’, say police – The Guardian
“The home secretary, Theresa May, is considering whether emergency legislation to stem growing concern among senior police officers over their ability to hold suspects is needed in the wake of a court ruling.”
The Guardian, 29th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
