“A High Court bid to block plans for a hotel and flats on a derelict site on the opposite side of the Thames from Hampton Court Palace has failed.”
BBC News, 31st January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Jones v Jones [2011] EWCA Civ 41; [2011] WLR (D) 26
“Even if an earning capacity might also sometimes be relevant to a fair distribution of the assets pursuant to the sharing principle, it did not follow that the earning capacity should itself be treated as one of those assets, still less that an attempt should be made to capitalise it.”
WLR Daily, 31st January 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A firm of solicitors which erroneously advised a bank that municipalities would not be acting ultra vires if they entered into a swap arrangement with the bank was not liable for the losses resulting from the municipalities’ inability to make restitution once the void nature of the swap agreement came to light. Despite their negligence in relation to the vires of the municipalities, the solicitors had taken no responsibility for their creditworthiness or good faith or for the fact that the bank could not lawfully obtain execution against them when they defaulted on the arrangement.”
WLR Daily, 31st January 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Daejan Investments Ltd v Benson and Others [2011] EWCA Civ 38; [2011] WLR (D) 24
“The proper exercise of the discretion in section 20ZA of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (as inserted) to dispense with the requirement of consultation laid down in the Service Charges (Consultation Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003 did not depend on financial consequences for the landlord or tenant of granting or refusing such a dispensation.”
WLR Daily, 31st January 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“The Press Complaints Commission is setting up a working group to ‘draw together lessons learned’ from the new police investigation and various legal cases relating to the News of the World phone-hacking affair.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government has been urged to change the law to ensure pensions of all workers are protected if their employer goes bust.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st January 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“British companies may face international blacklisting as a result of the government’s attempts to water down the Bribery Act, the chairman of an international anti-corruption watchdog warned.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Plans to remove Legal Aid for clinical negligence cases would damage access to justice and allow risks taken by doctors to go unchecked, according to the father of a boy who died after a medical blunder.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st January 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Companies that use automated telephone calls that leave householders hearing nothing can now be fined up to £2m.”
BBC News, 1st February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Detailed maps providing a monthly snapshot of crime and antisocial behaviour on every street across England and Wales are published for the first time today.”
The Guardian, 1st February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A coroner has told a jury to decide if authorities’ actions contributed to a woman’s death at the hands of a sex offender on licence from prison.”
BBC News, 31st January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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