11 Gray’s Inn Square Chambers invites applications for tenancy from Immigration and Employment practitioners.
The Civil teams undertake work at all levels. Chambers also undertakes both Criminal defence and prosecution work.
Application is by way of Chambers application form. For further information about 11 Gray’s Inn Square Chambers, or to request an application form, please contact the clerks to Chambers, Lloyd Addison or Wayne Thomas,on 0207 405 6879 or by email at clerks@11graysinnsquare.com
The deadline for application is 4th July 2015.
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Please note we do not have vacancies for squatters
‘Speaker: Charles Mynors, Barrister (Francis Taylor Building)
There are now around 60 statutes in force dealing with town planning and related matters. It might seem to be obviously attractive to undertake a massive consolidation exercise. But how far should it go? What should be included? Should the new statutes codify principles developed by the courts clarifying the meaning of the statutory text? And what about actual changes? How much should be delegated to secondary legislation? What about definitions? Could there be a new on-line version? And why is the Government so reluctant to undertake consolidation? What are the lessons to be learnt from the tax law rewrite programme? ‘
Date: 8th June 2015, 6.00-7.00pm
Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square
London WC1B 5DR
Charge: Free, registration required
More information can be found here.
‘This symposium will provide a forum for presentations and discussion on the relationships between law and compassion, focusing on the conceptual and theoretical approaches to compassion, and the relationship of compassion to litigation, judging and regulation, with particular concern to learn from critical interdisciplinary and socio-legal approaches.’
Date: 1st July 2015, 9.15am-4.45pm
Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square
London WC1B 5DR
Charge: SLSA Full Members: £59.00; SLSA Student Members: £30.00; Non-members: £79.00.
More information can be found here.
‘A delay in paying welfare benefits to two disabled people was “unlawful”, the High Court has ruled.’
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BBC News, 5th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Johnston v Westminster City Council: [2015] EWCA Civ 554; [2015] WLR (D) 238
‘For the purposes of section 175 of the Housing Act 1996, the fact that an applicant for homeless assistance in one local housing authority might be offered accommodation by another authority which might satisfy section 175(3) of the Act did not entitle the decision-maker to find that the applicant was not homeless.’
WLR Daily, 3rd June 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
In re K (Children): [2015] EWCA Civ 543; [2015] WLR (D) 237
‘The Family Court had no power to order the Lord Chancellor to provide public funding for legal representation outside the legal aid scheme in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.’
WLR Daily, 22nd May 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Solicitors were the least successful group of people applying for judicial appointment over the last six months, and the situation is getting worse, the latest figures from the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) have shown.’
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Litigation Futures, 4th June 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The Ministry of Justice will have to find a further £249m of savings this year, as part of a fresh round of spending reductions following Whitehall’s in-year budget review announced today.’
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Law Society’s Gazette, 4th June 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A trustee looking after the affairs of a bankrupt law firm has been refused permission to claim costs from the client accounts of the practice.’
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Law Society’s Gazette, 5th June 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Are new laws needed to cover surrogacy arrangements and modern family set-ups? Mai-Ling Savage, a barrister and specialist in surrogacy, same-sex parenting and fertility law at Fourteen, a specialist family chambers, analyses a recent case which highlights the lack of a clear legal framework to enforce agreements made before the birth of a child.’
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Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 4th June 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘The NHS has been accused of backtracking on improvements to patient safety brought in after the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal in an effort to tackle its escalating financial problems. The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) watchdog has unexpectedly scrapped work to set out how many nurses are needed in different parts of hospitals to ensure safe patient care.’
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The Guardian, 4th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Two men have each received 10-year jail terms for leading a gang supplying cocaine worth tens of thousands of pounds into the Wrexham area.’
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BBC News, 4th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Education and Adoption Bill was presented to Parliament on 3 June 2015. The proposed legislation would make the following changes to education law in England and Wales.No date has been announced yet for the second reading.’
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Education Law Blog, 4th June 2015
Source: www.education11kbw.com
‘The High Court is expected to rule later on whether the government took too long to process benefit claims by two disabled people.’
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BBC News, 5th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Prosecutors are facing questions about their decision to bring perjury charges against Andy Coulson after the judge dismissed the case against the ex-tabloid editor halfway through his trial.’
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The Independent, 4th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The British pressure group which claimed the Islamic State executioner known as “Jihadi John” was radicalised by MI5 has launched legal action against the Charity Commission, accusing it of acting like a branch of “counter-terrorism police”.’
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The Independent, 4th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Downing Street’s decision to publish the second batch of letters that Prince Charles had sent to ministers was unexpected. The government had been preparing to resist the publication of the latest batch, covering the years 2006 to 2009, even though a previous batch, covering 2004 and 2005, was released after a ten-year legal battle with the Guardian.’
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The Guardian, 4th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Senior judges at the European Court of Human Rights are to examine the case of three men jailed over the 21/7 plot to bomb the London transport network.’
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BBC News, 3rd June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
