‘A firm of solicitors should have warned a client of the significant risk that a tax avoidance scheme would not withstand a challenge from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 12th December 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Former PM David Cameron once said that the thought of giving prisoners the vote made him feel “physically sick.” It was just one comment, but it’s reflective of just how emotive the debate over prisoner voting has been.’
Rights Info, 12th December 2017
Source: rightsinfo.org
The Drug Dealing Telecommunications Restriction Orders Regulations 2017
The Index of Company Names (Listed Bodies) Order 2017
The Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Conversion) Regulations 2017
The Corporate Interest Restriction (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2017
The Corporate Interest Restriction (Financial Statements: Group Mismatches) Regulations 2017
The Indirect Taxes (Notifiable Arrangements) Regulations 2017
The Indirect Taxes (Disclosure of Avoidance Schemes) Regulations 2017
The Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (Indexation of Annual Chargeable Amounts) Order 2017
The Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Regulations 2017
The National Citizen Service Act 2017 (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2017
The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2017
The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2017
The Fishing Boats Designation (England) (Amendment) Order 2017
The Immigration Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) (Immigration Bail) Regulations 2017
The Immigration Act 2016 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017
The Civil Legal Aid (Procedure) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2017
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
‘The future of the Serious Fraud Office has been secured under plans aimed at tackling economic crime – though it will have to answer to a newly created oversight body.’
Law Society's Gazette, 11th December 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Employment Appeal Tribunal has begun hearing the government’s challenge to a ruling that its transitional pension arrangements for 210 judges amount to unlawful age discrimination.’
Law Society's Gazette, 11th December 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A priest who was jailed for downloading hundreds of pictures of child sexual abuse is the latest offender to be identified as having close links with the monastic island of Caldey, which is at the centre of a growing scandal.’
The Guardian, 12th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The inability of long term cohabitees to claim the bereavement award in personal injury cases is incompatible with their human rights: this was the recent finding of the Court of Appeal in Smith (suing in her own right and as the surviving partner of John Bulloch, deceased) v Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and others [2017] EWCA Civ 1916.’
Family Law, 11th December 2017
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘At the tender age of seven, I was faced with the prospect of having to go to court to give evidence. Fortunately, the case settled and I was spared the ordeal of going to court, but I will never forget the endless sleepless nights and distress I felt at the thought of it. The experience made me determined to do whatever I could when I was older to prevent any other child feeling this way.’
Legal Voice, 11th December 2017
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
‘The government should curb Lord Justice Jackson’s recommendation to expand the use of fixed recoverable costs, limiting them only to the fast-track, according to a survey of costs lawyers.’
Litigation Futures, 12th December 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Seven years ago today, the House of Lords made a landmark judgment about the state’s duty to protect people at risk of suicide.’
Rights Info, 11th December 2017
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘The case of Durrant v Chief Constable of Avon & Somerset Constabulary [2017] EWCA Civ 1808, which arose out of the arrest of Ms Durrant on 13 June 2009, seems finally to have come to a conclusion, after three visits to the Court of Appeal. It is worth reading for its discussion on the award of damages for injury to “loss of feelings” where the police have racially discriminated against a person whom they have arrested and when aggravated and/or exemplary damages will be awarded.’
UK Police Law Blog, 11th December 2017
Source: ukpolicelawblog.com
‘In Ms Z De Groen v Gan Menachem Hendon Ltd [2017] UKET 3347281/2016, the claimant was employed by the respondent, a private Orthodox Jewish nursery school that followed the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.’
Law & Religion UK, 12th December 2017
Source: www.lawandreligionuk.com
‘Three-quarters of Britain’s small and medium-sized businesses are unprepared for the introduction of strict new EU data laws designed to protect people’s private information following a number of high profile data breaches, a merchant bank has warned.’
The Independent, 11th December 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘In three years, 5,500 sexual offences against pupils have been reported to police. Too often staff seem ill-equipped or unwilling to deal with the problem – now pressure is mounting for the government to take action.’
The Guardian, 12th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Graduates from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds are half as likely to obtain pupillages as their white peers, research for the Bar Standards Board (BSB) has found.’
Legal Futures, 12th December 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Hundreds of high-risk prisoners, many of them sex offenders, are being released each year from Dartmoor prison without proper preparation, in a “shocking and unacceptable” public protection failing identified by the chief inspector of prisons.’
The Guardian, 12th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The issue of single parent families has attracted the attention of headline writers for more than a generation. But in the reporting of data relating to them, much of it centres on the two million single parents who comprise a quarter of all UK families with dependent children. Notably, rather less coverage is given to the 3.2m children who live with a single parent, most of whom come from a divorced family. Far less likely to make headlines is that many of these children are adversely affected by parental conflict.’
Family Law, 11th December 2017
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The number of investigations into child abuse and neglect started by local authorities has soared by 60 per cent in the last decade, as councils warn children’s services are reaching “tipping point”.’
The Independent, 11th December 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Islamic Sharia Council and the Jewish Beth Din provide private, faith-related dispute resolution in a non-legal setting.’
Family Law, 11th December 2017
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A pensioner, who shot dead a burglar inside his secluded home, has avoided prosecution for killing the man, after it was deemed he acted in self defence and did “nothing more than was necessary”.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th December 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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