Ministers to decide on ‘missing’ people law change – BBC News
“Ministers will decide by next April whether to change the law on missing people in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 30th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
University student convicted of murdering fellow student – The Guardian
“A university student is facing life imprisonment after being convicted of killing a fellow student and stuffing him into an airing cupboard.”
The Guardian, 30th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Family judges must take bigger role to curb court battlegrounds – Daily Telegraph
“Judges should take a more active role in family cases to stop them becoming ‘battlegrounds’ for warring parents who use children as ‘ammunition’, one of the country’s most senior judges said.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Gas Transporter (Modification of Licence Conditions) Regulations 2011
The Private Dentistry (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
The Regulated Covered Bonds (Amendment) Regulations 2011
The Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011
The Incidental Flooding and Coastal Erosion (England) Order 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Council meeting prayers challenged at high court – The Guardian
“The long tradition of prayers being said before local council meetings is to be challenged at the high court on Friday.”
The Guardian, 30th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BEWARE statutory time limits to appeal: if you are late, you are out – UK Human Rights Blog
“Any lawyer dealing with civil or criminal cases tends to think that, if there is a time limit for doing something in the case, then if that thing does not get done on time, the court may be lenient if there is good reason for extending time. The problem comes where the court is only given power to hear an appeal by a specific set of rules, and the rules say, for instance: you must appeal within 14 days of the decision. In the statutory context, that may mean precisely what it says. And the court, however sympathetically inclined, cannot do otherwise and allow a late appeal.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th November 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Football League in court fight with HMRC over football creditors’ rule – The Guardian
“A high court judge has been asked to take action against a football industry debt rule described as revealing ‘the ugly side of the beautiful game’.”
The Guardian, 30th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Brown & Anor v Pretot & Anor [2011] EWCA Civ 1421 (30 November 2011)
HM Revenue and Customs v PA Holdings Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1414 (30 November 2011)
Legal Services Commission v Henthorn [2011] EWCA Civ 1415 (30 November 2011)
Potter v Dyer [2011] EWCA Civ 1417 (30 November 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Clive Rees Associates, Solicitors, R (on the application of) v Swansea Magistrates Court & Anor [2011] EWHC 3155 (Admin) (30 November 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Enterprise Inns Plc v Palmerston Associates Ltd & Anor [2011] EWHC 3165 (Ch) (30 November 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
STU v UVW & Anor [2011] EWHC 3133 (QB) (30 November 2011)
QWE v SDF & Ors [2011] EWHC 3121 (QB) (30 November 2011)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Directors’ Fiduciary Duties – 11 KBW
“Were the statutory duties in the Companies Act 2006 intended to be simply a replacement without change?”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.11kbw.com
Costs Management Orders – Hardwicke Chambers
“Whether you have been preparing diligently for months or have just stumbled upon it recently, most of you should now have had the pleasure of acquainting yourself with CPR Practice Direction 51G – the Cost Management Pilot Scheme in the TCC and Mercantile Courts.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 25th November 2011
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
Managing Major Change: Employment and Corporate Governance – Cloisters
“National governments impose obligations on local government. Electors have needs and preferences to be met. Politicians have aspirations to achieve. None of this will happen without the worker – bees of local government – from chief executive to road sweeper – willingly putting their shoulder to the wheel or hand to the broom. So good human resource management is what makes things happen well.”
Full story (PDF)
Cloisters, 15th-17th November 2011
Source: www.cloisters.com
TUPE and Collective Agreements – 11 KBW
“Terms and conditions of employment are often found, especially in the public sector, not in the individual contracts of employment themselves, but in collective agreements between the employer and trade unions, collective agreements which are expressly incorporated into the individual contracts. If the employer and the unions agree changes in the collective agreement then the individual contracts will automatically be varied accordingly.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 24th November 2011
Source: www.11kbw.com
The Atomic Veterans Litigation – 4 New Square
“In the week commencing 14 November 2011, a seven-member panel of Justices of the Supreme Court (L Phillips, L Walker, L Hale, L Brown, L Mance, L Kerr and L Wilson) heard the Claimants’ appeal from the Court of Appeal’s decision in the Atomic Veterans Litigation (AB v Ministry of Defence [2010] EWCA Civ 1317). Argument took place over four days and judgment was reserved by the Supreme Court.”
4 New Square, 21st November 2011
Source: www.4newsquare.com
General, Equal and Certain: Law Reform Today and Tomorrow – Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of The Rolls
General, Equal and Certain: Law Reform Today and Tomorrow (PDF)
Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of The Rolls
Lord Renton Lecture 2011, 28th November 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Changing the culture – Speech by Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division
Changing the culture (PDF)
Speech by Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division
The Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council, 29th November 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWHC 2677 (QB) (11 November 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corp & Ors [2011] EWHC 3107 (Ch) (29 November 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
Legal aid reform prompts further protest from top judges – The Guardian
“Two more senior judges have publicly joined the chorus of those urging the government to rethink proposals to restrict legal aid, branding the plans a false economy and impediment to swift justice.”
The Guardian, 29th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Jeremy Hunt hints at demise of Press Complaints Commission – The Guardian
“Newspapers are to likely to come under the auspices of a new regulatory body that is ‘better at enforcing standards of accuracy’ than the Press Complaints Commission, according to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt.”
The Guardian, 29th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
