Coalition to stick with Labour’s Equality Act – BBC News
“The government is pressing ahead with Labour legislation which could require employers to disclose whether they pay women as much as men.”
BBC News, 2nd July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: legislation
Regina v Budimir and another; Interfact Ltd Liverpool City Council – WLR Daily
“Where defendants had been convicted of criminal offences under a statute enacted by Parliament which was unenforceable owing to a failure by the United Kingdom Government, before its enactment, to comply with a Directive from the European Community, it was not incumbent upon the Court of Appeal to re-open their cases out of time unless their convictions had given rise to any substantial injustice.”
WLR Daily, 1st July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Your Freedom website launched – Ministry of Justice
“Nominate laws and regulations you would like to see abolished.”
Ministry of Justice, 1st July 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Tell us which laws to scrap, urges Clegg – The Independent
“Inviting the public to nominate unnecessary laws they would like to see repealed is a move away from ‘the old way of doing things’, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said today.”
The Independent, 1st July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Terrorism Act 2006 (Disapplication of Section 25) Order 2010
The Non-Domestic Rating (Small Business Rate Relief) (England) (Amendment) Order 2010
The Zoonoses and Animal By-Products (Fees) (England) Regulations 2010
The Medicines for Human Use (Prescribing by EEA Practitioners) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Baroness Hale: Human Rights Act hampered by constitutional problems – The Guardian
“Baroness Hale of Richmond has spoken to the Salford Human Rights Conference on the development of human rights law, and has lamented the time spent on constitutional wrangling rather than applying the essence of the Act.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
UK bill of rights plan a ‘bad idea’, warns head of European court – The Guardian
“Senior judge’s remarks that human rights could be hit if act repealed threatens to inflame row over power of Strasbourg.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The M4 Motorway (Rogiet Toll Plaza, Monmouthshire) (50 mph Speed Limit) Regulations 2010
The Health Protection (Part 2A Orders) (Wales) Regulations 2010
The Health Protection (Local Authority Powers) (Wales) Regulations 2010
The Health Protection (Notification) (Wales) Regulations 2010
The Education (Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales) (No. 2) Order 2010
The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 7) Regulations 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Government reinstates Equality Act timetable – OUT-LAW.com
“Last week we reported that the Government Equality Office had withdrawn the published timetable for implementing the Equality Act.
Now the GEO has reinstated the original timetable, saying that ‘the Government Equalities Office continues to work on the basis of the previously announced timetable, which envisaged commencement of the Act’s core provisions in October 2010’.”
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
Government shelves Equality Act timetable – OUT-LAW.com
“The Government Equality Office (GEO) has withdrawn the timetable that detailed which parts of the recently passed Equality Act would come into force when. Some elements were due to come into force in October.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
