Category: legislation
Victorian child neglect laws in ‘urgent’ need of overhaul, warns Baroness Butler-Sloss – Daily Telegraph
“The current laws on child neglect are not fit for the 21st Century and in ‘urgent’ need of reform, Britain’s most senior authority on family law warns today.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Related link: The criminal law and child neglect: an independent analysis and proposal for reform (PDF)
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Alteration of Timetables for Accounts) Order 2013
The Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2013
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Prescribed Financial Institutions) Order 2013
The Belarus (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2013
The Iran (European Union Financial Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Financial Restrictions (Iran) (Revocation) Order 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Financial Services Act 2012 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2013
The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2013
The Non-Domestic Rating (Renewable Energy Projects) Regulations 2013
The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas) Regulations 2013
The Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments) Regulations 2013
The Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 (Commencement No.6) Order 2013
The Passenger Car (Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Railway Heritage Committee) Order 2013
The Offers to Settle in Civil Proceedings Order 2013
The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Publication of Jackson regulations is ‘starting point’ of 1 April reforms, says expert – OUT-LAW.com
“The publication of three draft statutory instruments (SIs) that will implement part of the ‘Jackson’ reforms to civil court costs and procedures shows that the Government remains intent on a 1 April start date, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Taxation of Chargeable Gains (Gilt-edged Securities) Order 2013
The Criminal Legal Aid (General) Regulations 2013
The King’s Lynn and West Norfolk (Electoral Changes) Order 2012
The Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) etc. (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Pamphlet on Royal consent legislation published – The Independent
“Official legal advice about when Royal consent is required for legislation to proceed has been published after a long-running battle by the Cabinet Office to keep it under wraps.”
The Independent, 15th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Related link: Queen’s or Prince’s Consent (PDF)
In Defence of Rights – London Review of Books
“We [Philippe Sands and Helena Kennedy] were appointed to the Commission on a Bill of Rights in March 2011 by Nick Clegg. The circumstances were not auspicious, and we were concerned from the outset that our composition – all white, almost all male, almost all lawyers and London-based – would undermine our ability to speak with any legitimacy. The Conservatives had come into government committed to tearing up the Human Rights Act, an early product of the previous Labour government seen by many of the new government’s Tory supporters (and some in the media) as little more than a charter for foreign terrorists and local criminals. The Liberal Democrats, on the other hand, strongly supported the Act and the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights that it introduced into UK law. There were eight members, under the chairmanship of Leigh Lewis, a retired senior civil servant who was hopeful that we might exceed the miserably low expectations of most commentators and come up with something useful.”
London Review of Books, 3rd January 2013
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
Equalities: Two Years after the Equality Act 2010 – 11 KBW
“The introduction of the Equality Act 2010 was a landmark in non-discrimination law, bringing together (and making some amendments to) a myriad of different statutory regimes covering various types of protected characteristics. However, such is the nature of litigation, that very little appellate case law has, as yet, had cause to consider the provisions of the Equality Act in any detail. As a result, the very substantial developments which have taken or are taking place recently in the equalities field have tended to arise out of the previous legal regimes, or related regimes such as the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 20th December 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
Bang to human rights – The Lawyer
“On the one hand the former Lord Chancellor Ken Clarke declared London’s courts to be among the best of British exports, while on the other the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) tore up the legal aid budget. Then there was the proposed crackdown on judicial reviews, while the personal injury sector has seen its business model declared dead, with no detail on an alternative forthcoming.”
The Lawyer, 7th January 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
