“The principle of equal treatment did not preclude a contracting authority from asking a candidate, after the deadline for applying to take part in the contracts award procedures pursuant to Parliament and Council Directive 2004/18/EC, to provide documents describing that candidate’s situation which could be objectively shown to pre-date that deadline.”
WLR Daily, 10th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Performing Right Society Ltd v B4U Network (Europe) Ltd: [2013] EWCA Civ 1236; [2013] WLR (D) 385
“Where a composition fell within the terms of an agreement assigning copyright to the Performing Right Society the effect of section 2(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 was to vest copyright in the society as soon as the work was created, notwithstanding an agreement with those commissioning the work which purported to assign to them all rights in future works.”
WLR Daily, 16th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Caterpillar (NI) Ltd v John Holt & Company (Liverpool) Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 1232 (17 October 2013)
Robbins v London Borough of Bexley [2013] EWHC 1233 (Civ) (17 October 2013)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Speed, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 1650 (07 October 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Trail Riders Fellowship & Ors v Powys County Council [2013] EWHC 3144 (Admin) (17 October 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Shearer & Ors v Spring Capital Ltd & Ors [2013] EWHC 3148 (Ch) (17 October 2013)
High Court (Family Division)
M-T v T [2013] EWHC 2061 (Fam) (15 October 2013)
AK and MK (Fact Finding : Physical Injuries), Re [2013] EWHC 3158 (Fam) (15 October 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A coroner has pleaded guilty to a £2 million fraud which saw him steal some of the money from the estates of the dead.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former BBC radio presenter described as a ‘dominant predator’ has been found guilty of sexually abusing boys.”
BBC News, 17th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The NHS has admitted liability for the death of a new mother suffering severe post-natal depression after she was allowed to leave a hospital unsupervised despite warnings she was at ‘very high risk’ of suicide.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Court of Protection could be opened up to the public and media in the future, one of the country’s most senior judges said.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A maximum life sentence for the worst cases of human trafficking and exploitation is to be introduced.”
BBC News, 18th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“British military operations are at risk of being undermined by human rights law and health and safety red tape, a research institute has warned.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“PC Emma Chapman alleges that Essex Police did not do enough to help officers
understand transgender issues or investigate her claims properly, in what is
believed to be the first case of its kind. ”
Daily Telegraph, 18th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service has published detailed guidance on how to handle sex abuse allegations. It comes down to is a simple shift in thinking that can make a profound difference: Trust, rather than doubt, what the victim is saying.”
BBC News, 17th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The seminars will provide an authoritative and concise overview of the year’s most significant legal developments and will clearly set out their impact on the areas of law under discussion.
At each seminar, the two speakers will be Professor Charles Mitchell (an author of Goff and Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment and Underhill and Hayton: Law Relating to Trusts and Trustees) and Professor Ben McFarlane (an author of The Structure of Property Law and Land Law: Text, Cases and Materials).”
1.5 CPD hours
Date: Unjust Enrichment – 4th December 2013, 6.00-7.30pm
Land Law and Trusts – 11th December 2013, 6.00-7.30pm
Location: UCL Faculty of Laws – Graduate Wing, 1-2 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0EG
Charge: Single seminar: £100. Both seminars: £160.
More information can be found here.
“Guessing that it was not on my usual diet of journals, a colleague recently suggested an article in The Conveyancer that might be of interest. Emma Lees had written an interesting piece ((2013) 77 Conv. 211) on protest occupations and actions for possession but one aspect unrelated to the main topic intrigued me more than any other. In Olympic Delivery Authority v Persons Unknown [2012] EWCA 1012 Ch, the ODA, established under s.3 of the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006, sought injunctions to restrain protesters from entering and/or occupying land that was being developed as part of the Olympic site. Mr Justice Arnold had held that he was required to balance the rights of the putative protesters under Articles 10 and 11 with the ODA’s rights to peaceful enjoyment of possessions under the 1st Protocol (at [24]). I’d skimmed the case last year when judgment was delivered but hadn’t really noticed the point that Emma Lees was making: that it was ‘somewhat surprising that [the ODA] is deemed capable also of possessing human rights’ (Lees, p.215) as it is acknowledged elsewhere in the judgment as a public authority (though Lees uses the term ‘public body’).”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 17th October 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“Both our common law constitution and human rights law treat liberty as a central value. Yet, immigration detention remains less constrained, both normatively and institutionally, than other forms of detention. International human rights bodies and courts, and indeed domestic courts, routinely review and indeed sometimes condemn detention of migrants. Yet, that jurisprudence has been subject to a convincing critique, for failing to properly scrutinise the necessity of immigration detention. Many scholars have thus pointed out the law’s anomalously indulgent approach to immigration detention, compared with other forms of deprivation of liberty. Yet, powerful as this critique is, it sometimes fails to address prior questions concerning the political purposes and legal grounds of detention. By examining these grounds and purposes, both legitimate and illegitimate, the lecture will aim to elucidate the manner in which immigration law produces reasons to detain, and thwarts any test of necessity from effectively constraining the state’s power to detain migrants. The diverse approaches of the UN Human Rights Committee, European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union will be contrasted. The likely impact of new EU norms on detention of asylum-seekers and pre-removal detention will also be explored.”
Date: Thursday 21st November 2013, 6.00-7.00pm
Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
“Social media has revolutionised the way we interact with each other and is increasingly being used by law firms and lawyers to communicate with their clients.
This seminar will explore how social media can assist with business development and how the personal brand of an individual solicitor can complement that of their firm’s. It will also promote discussion around core issues, including reputation management and ethics.
This will be an interactive seminar and you will be encouraged to tweet questions to the speakers at the end of each session.”
CPD hours 3.5
Date: 4th December 2013, 12.30-4.50pm
Location: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL
Charge: See website of details
More information can be found here.
“Crime against households and adults in England and Wales fell 7% to a record low in the year to June, official figures have revealed.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Of all areas of law, it is property – particularly as it relates to housing and home – that affects people most consistently and directly. Yet, while people are intensely interested in property, property – broadly understood as the laws, doctrines and policies that govern the acquisition, accumulation, management and transfer of resources – does not appear to reciprocate. This lecture explores how the traditional methodologies of property law scholarship – centred on the status quo of established rights, obligations and duties, and invoking the ‘property values’ of certainty, autonomy, efficiency – marginalise the human ‘subjects’ of the property system. The lecture seeks to raise questions concerning the role of property law and property scholarship: is it to understand and make the best out of the available material; to achieve change in a progressive (or progressive but incremental) way; or to contribute to, or at least not to prevent, progress towards greater substantive equality between property’s ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’? In exploring these questions, the lecture reflects on the hidden politics of property discourse and its impact on the (in)visibility of the property outsider’s human experience within legal analyses, arguments and decision-making. Finally, this analysis is related to a series of ‘property problems’ in which ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ compete for ownership or access to resources, with the aims of considering an alternative approach to problem-based property scholarship that starts from the person rather than the law, and reflecting on the implications of this approach for normative arguments invoking ‘property’s values’.”
Date: Thursday 5th December 2013, 6.00-7.00pm
Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
“Liz Davies explains that, although the courts may be able to help a few individuals, we need to step up the political battle.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 17th October 2013
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’, wrote Santayana at the dawn of the twentieth century. And indeed, throughout history, politicians and policy-makers have — more or less self-consciously — turned to the lessons of their nation’s past to shape their judgement and inform their decision making. I shall be asking the question, ‘Is this a strategy which can be followed today?’ when the boundaries of nationhood are giving way to global histories and narratives in which forgetting is as important as remembering.”
Date: Tuesday 19th November 2013, 6.00-8.15pm
Location: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre, UCL Main Campus, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
“UCL is hosting a symposium on the occasion of the re-publication of Hersch Lauterpacht’s An International Bill of Rights of Man, with an Introduction by Professor Philippe Sands, UCL,
published by Oxford University Press
The symposium will have the participation of
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht QC CBE
And contributions from:
Lord Faulks QC
(1 Chancery Lane)
Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws QC
(Labour Member, House of Lords)
Lord McNally
(Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords)
Stuart Wheeler
(Treasurer, United Kingdom Independence Party)
Chaired by
Professor Philippe Sands QC
(UCL / Matrix Chambers)”
Date: Thursday 31st October 2013, 6.30-7.30pm
Location: UCL Faculty of Laws – Graduate Wing, 1-2 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0EG
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
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