‘A Discussion Forum with Special Guest Speakers
Henry Grunwald OBE QC & Imam Ajmal Masroor
Chair: Peter J Kirby QC
Religious practices in the modern world: Food’
Date: 16th March 2015, 6.30-8.30pm
Location: Central London location
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
‘It is 2015 and the relentless appetite for consumption of content has never been greater. Consumers demand access to content that is immediate and available anytime anywhere in Europe without restriction. Binge viewing is the new norm. The desire for a virtual Europe without borders is palpable. But how does all this sit with Europe’s copyright laws? ‘
RPC IP Hub, 6th March 2015
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘Judges are paradigmatic interpreters because they are under a duty to interpret for others. Such a duty stems from an epistemic gap between judges and their addressees. I wish to suggest that, in adjudication, such a gap is bridged by an act of explanation. Judges interpret when they explain legal meaning.’
Date: 25th March 2015, 6.00-7.30pm
Location: Bentham House, UCL Laws, WC1H 0EG
Charge: Free, registration required
More information can be found here.
‘Professor Horder will use an examination of the concept of dishonesty in criminal law as a way of considering a broader issue. This issue is the role of the criminal law in creating and maintaining the ‘bureaucratic’ state.’
Date: 19th March 2015, 6.00-7.00pm
Location: UCL Laws, Bentham House, WC1H 0EG
Charge: Free, registration required
More information can be found here.
‘In an important judgment handed down recently by the Court of First Instance in Hong Kong, the companies judge has ruled on the ambit of the power to order a person to produce documents to a provisional liquidator pursuant to section 221(3) of the Companies (Winding-Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance.(1) For now and pending any appeal, the judgment confirms that the scope of documents “relating to the company” that have to be produced to a liquidator (pursuant to section 221(3) of the Ordinance) is narrower than the matters in respect of which a person can be examined on oath concerning the “affairs of the company” (sections 221(1) and (2)). In so doing, the judgment gives a more literal interpretation of the power to order production pursuant to section 221(3) without reference to section 221(1).’
RPC Commercial Disputes Blog,
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
‘A man who supplied “Superman” ecstasy tablets linked to two deaths in Suffolk has been jailed.’
BBC News, 12th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A new law has come into force today (12 March 2015) which removes the £5,000 cap that used to limit the maximum fines magistrates could impose.’
Ministry of Justice,
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘Historic sexual abuse is fuelling the rise in the number of child rape cases being recorded in some parts of Wales, say two police forces.’
BBC News, 12th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Britain’s laws governing the intelligence agencies and mass surveillance require a total overhaul to make them more transparent, comprehensible and up to date, parliament’s intelligence and security committee (ISC) has said in a landmark report prompted by the revelations of Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor.’
The Guardian, 12th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘UKIP leader Nigel Farage has claimed that concerns over race discrimination in the workplace are outdated, and no longer relevant to his “colour-blind” party.
Mr Farage said the laws “would probably have been valid” 40 years ago, but that he would scrap many of them today.’
BBC News, 12th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority has ignored most respondents to its consultation on ceasing to regulate insolvency practitioners (IPs) and will press ahead with the plan.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 12th March 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Government consultation document sets out plans to give patients more powers to plan and make decisions about their “end of life care”.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A champion golfer who claimed £26,000 in benefits saying he was too ill to walk but played the sport regularly has been jailed for six months.’
BBC News, 12th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A teenager has appeared in court after allegedly trying to join Kurdish fighters battling Isis in Syria, in the first prosecution of its kind in Britain.’
The Independent, 12th March 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Four new panel members, including the author of a report on sexual exploitation in Rotherham, have been appointed to the reformed independent inquiry into child abuse, the home secretary has announced.’
The Guardian, 12th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man has been convicted of carrying out a campaign of throwing balloons full of excrement at a club used by ex-servicemen and women.’
The Guardian, 11th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘In Blakesley v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2015] EWCA Civ 141 the Court of Appeal considered whether the UK Government is in breach of its international obligations towards refugees because of the lack of any provision to make back-payments of welfare benefits to those asylum seekers who, upon inquiry, are found to be refugees.’
Free Movement, 12th March 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘The Catt and T cases are both concerned with this important question: to what extent may the police lawfully retain records relating to individuals who have not in fact been arrested or charged in connection with any criminal offence. The Supreme Court has now had its say on this question – see the judgment here.’
Panopticon, 11th March 2015
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
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