‘Victims of people trafficking who are pregnant or have children have had their needs “systematically overlooked” in the UK, a report has suggested.’
BBC News, 23rd February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Terri-Marie Palmer was convicted of murder and jailed for life for stabbing boyfriend Damon Searson to death.’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘An HR consultant who fractured her wrist tripping over a rope outside one of London’s best-known gastropubs is suing its owners for £4.2m.’
The Guardian, 22nd February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Gun debate in Britain tends to focus on what is happening in the US, but more than 700,000 firearm owners live in England and Wales. Who are they, and why do some want laws relaxed?’
BBC News, 23rd February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Civil servants in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are giving British companies the all-clear to press ahead with contracts even though they are likely to lead to human rights abuses, the foreign affairs select committee will be told on Tuesday.’
The Guardian, 22nd February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘On 12 February 2016, the Government published the draft Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations 2016, which will affect some 8,000 businesses. This means that it finally implemented s.78 of the Equality Act 2010 (“EqA”), the section enabling the Secretary of State to make Regulations concerning equal pay audits. (The gender reporting implemented by these Regulations is not be confused with the compulsory audits ordered by ETs under s. 139A of the EqA). Section 78 was shunted sideways in 2010, then revived following pressure from the Lib Dems in the Coalition and Mind the Pay Gap, the campaign launched by Grazia magazine. And you thought Grazia was all about clothes and celebrities…’
Cloisters, 15th February 2016
Source: www.cloisters.com
‘Sarah Lucy Cooper, barrister, of Thomas More Chambers considers the perils of relying on undertakings in cases with a foreign element.’
Family Law Week, 18th February 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘A programme in which illusionist Derren Brown suffocated himself as part of trick has broken broadcasting rules.’
BBC News, 22nd February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘In its recent judgment in Fulton Shipping Inc of Panama –v- Globalia Business Travel SAU the Court of Appeal considered a short, but important, point of law in relation to the calculation of damages in English law. The context in which it arose was an appeal from the decision of an arbitrator in a shipping charterparty dispute, but it is of significance much more widely in relation to English law contractual damages claims. In some ways, the question of principle which was being considered is remarkably simple, but that belies the complexity of the considerations needed to resolve it. ‘
Commercial Disputes Blog, 17th February 2016
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘In Claverton Holdings Ltd v Barclays Bank plc, the Commercial Court rejected an application by the claimant for specific disclosure against the defendant bank. The court found that the documents sought, which related to other mis-selling allegations against the bank employees featuring in the claimant’s case, would have little probative value and adducing them would place a disproportionate burden on the defendant.’
Commercial Disputes Blog, 16th February 2016
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘In R (on the application of City Shoes Wholesale Ltd) v Revenue & Customs Commissioners [2016] EWHC 107 (Admin), the High Court rejected an application for judicial review of HMRC’s refusal to grant the nine claimants, all of whom had operated employee benefit trusts (EBTs), the full benefits of the Liechtenstein disclosure facility (LDF). The court dismissed the claimants’ application for judicial review on the basis that their applications were never registered and therefore they had no legitimate expectation to receive full benefit of the LDF, and there had been no abuse of power or error of law by HMRC.’
RPC Tax Take, 18th February 2016
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘The FCA’s “further decision notice” on Mr Tariq Carrimjee (senior partner and CEO of Somerset Asset Management) revealed that, the regulator has taken on board the Tribunal’s view that banning Mr Carrimjee from all regulated activity would be “irrational and disproportionate”, and it has instead decided to prohibit him from performing compliance oversight (CF10) and money laundering reporting functions (CF11).’
Financial Services Blog, 15th February 2016
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘In a recent case, the English Commercial Court has determined that a claim in restitution based on unjust enrichment was governed by English law pursuant to EU Regulation 864/2007 (Rome II) and not the law of Geneva.’
Commercial Disputes Blog, 19th February 2016
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘Whatever happens on 23 June 2016 HMG will have to make rules to implement the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court in the United Kingdom. The reason I say that is that the Agreement comes into force after 13 countries, including France, Germany and the UK, ratify the Agreement. Nine countries including France have already done so (see the European Council’s website). Parliament has enacted primary legislation to enable the Secretary of State to give effect to the Agreement in the UK by order in council (see S,17 of the Intellectual Property Act 2014 inserting a new s.88A and s.88B into the Patents Act 1977). As it would take time to negotiate an exit agreement under art 50 (2) of the Treaty on European Union the Agreement will almost certainly come into force while the UK is still an EU member. There would have to be some sort of secondary legislation at least for the time in which the UK remains a party to the UPC Agreement.’
NIPC Law, 22nd February 2016
Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
‘Why are there so few women at the top of the legal profession? Just one in five partners in top-20 firms is a woman, and just eight hold senior management roles in the top 50 firms, despite the fact that more women enter the profession than men. FLUX asked four senior lawyers for their take on the challenges and solutions.’
The Future of Law, 22nd Febraury 2016
‘Transgender people are waiting up to 18 months for an initial consultation at specialist NHS gender identity clinics.’
BBC News, 21st February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Jonathan Leuty has been jailed for four years after running over his girlfriend’s ex-husband multiple times’
Daily Telegraph, 21st February 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘An arms dealer who supplied some of the firearms that made up the UK’s biggest stash of illegal weapons has been jailed for six years.’
BBC News, 19th February 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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