“The UK’s data protection watchdog has defended its policy of issuing fines after newly released figures suggested private sector organisations are issued with disproportionately fewer fines than local Government ones.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The recent case of LB Islington v Al Alas and Wray, (where I was led by Ian Peddie QC [also of Garden Court Chambers] in representing the father, Rohan Wray) should have some pretty significant implications in cases involving alleged non-accidental injuries.”
Garden Court Family Law Blog, 23rd April 2012
Source: www.gcfamily.wordpress.com
“The High Court has ruled that Basingstoke and Dean Borough Council was wrong to exclude 809 hectares of land from its potential housing allocation sites in its emerging Core Strategy.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Local Government Law Update: 4 April (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 2 April (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 10 April (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 10 April (PDF)
11 KBW, April 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“On 25 March 2012 the government issued its new planning policy on the provision of caravan sites for Gypsies and Travellers: Planning policy for traveller sites (‘PPFTS’). The policy document replaces both Circular 1/2006 Planning for Gypsy and Traveller Caravan Sites and Circular 04/2007 Planning for Travelling Showpeople and should be read in conjunction with the government’s National Planning Policy Framework (‘NPPF’) which was published on 27 March 2012. Both policy documents came into force on that date.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 11th April 2012
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
Sunderland City Council v Brennan and others [2012] EWCA Civ 413; [2012] WLR (D) 113
“An employer had no defence to an equal pay claim where its reason for a differential in payment between female and male employees was that the male employees had attracted a bonus for productivity when at the material time the link between productivity and bonus had been broken.”
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The government’s reforms to the NHS in England are set to cause a wave of legal difficulties for local authorities, solicitors were warned this week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 5th April 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Councils should be prepared to disclose the names of senior staff members involved in recruiting senior councillors or officials as well as details of the role they played in that recruitment, an Information Rights Tribunal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Government’s ‘reinvigorated’ Right to Buy scheme is now in force and will apply to social housing tenants, following a consultation at the end of last year.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Local Government Law Update: 28th March (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 30th March (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 2nd April (PDF)
11 KBW, April 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
Public Sector Equality Duty: The Latest Guidance fromthe Equalities and Human Rights Commission (PDF)
11 KBW, 28th March 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“Julie Stather, barrister, of 42 Bedford Row examines the advantages to child, parents and local authority of using section 34 of the Children Act.”
Family Law Week, 31st March 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“The most significant cause of delay for children needing adoption in England is the length of time taken by court proceedings, a report by Ofsted says.”
BBC News, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A council has been left with a multi-million pound compensation bill after a High Court judge ruled that it was responsible for causing a serious crash by failing to repair a pothole.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“I [Elisabeth Laing QC] consider 6 topics in this paper
(1) the legislative framework
(2) the implied duty to assess need
(3) community groups
(4) Equality Impact Assessments (‘EIAs’) and libraries
(5) institutional arrangements
(6) the Localism Act 2011.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
Fortune and others v Wiltshire Council and another [2012] EWCA Civ 334; [2012] WLR (D) 90
“Section 67(2)(b) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, which provided that section 67(1), as to the ending of certain existing unrecorded public rights of way, did not apply where such a right of way was shown in a list of highways maintainable at public expense, as required to be kept by councils under section 36(6) of the Highways Act 1980, did not require that list to be fully complaint with section 36(6), rather the requirement was that such a list should exist.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An Irish traveller forced to leave an illegal site failed to persuade senior judges today that a local authority should be obliged to re-home him in a caravan.”
The Independent, 21st March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Academies – Land Transfers (PDF)
The Staffing, SEN and Admissions Issues for Local Authorities of Academy Creation (PDF)
The Process for Opening a Free School (PDF)
11 KBW, 13th March 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“A local authority should not have used a report recommending the refusal of planning permission as justification for allowing that planning permission, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Local Government Law Update: 6th March (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 8th March (PDF)
11 KBW, March 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
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