‘Lois Rogers, solicitor at Vardags, and Lily Mottahedan, barrister at 1 Hare Court, examine the court’s treatment of bonuses in financial remedy claims in light of the recent decision of Mrs Justice Eleanor King in H v W [2014] EWHC 4105 (Fam) and pre-existing case law.’
Family Law Week, 17th April 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Supermarkets may have to pay millions of pounds in higher wages and back pay to store staff, mainly women, if test cases for equal pay being brought by 400 workers are successful.’
The Guardian, 11th April 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Pullan v Wilson and others [2014] EWHC 126 (Ch); [2014] WLR (D) 107
‘An automatic entitlement of a professional trustee to charge his normal hourly rates at least unless those rates had been specified and sanctioned by other trustees and principal beneficiaries before the relevant work was undertaken would deprive a court of equity of any effective control over that trustee’s remuneration.’
WLR Daily, 28th January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Solicitor advocate Caitriona McLaughlin fears government cuts will deter firms from taking loss-making magistrates court cases.’
The Guardian, 27th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Salliss v Hunt [2014] EWHC 229(Ch); [2014] WLR (D) 56
‘When considering whether or not to grant an application to annul a bankruptcy order there was no reason in principle why the court should take any account of a debt due to a creditor where the creditor was aware of the bankruptcy but had never submitted a proof and had made an informed commercial decision not to lodge one in the future.’
WLR Daily, 10th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Sarah Phillimore, barrister of St John’s Chambers, Bristol, and Daniela Nickols, associate solicitor with Mowbray Woodwards, analyse the recent case of X,Y, and Z [2014] EWHC 87 (COP) in which the Court of Protection considered the interplay between the best interests of a protected party and that party’s children.’
Family Law Week, 5th February 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The Government consulted on a proposal to change the current family legal aid fee payment schemes in October 2013. This document reflects the responses that we have received to the consultation and describes how the Government intends to proceed.’
Ministry of Justice, 31st January 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘The right guaranteed by article 11 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of individuals to form and to join trade unions for the protection of their interests encompassed the right to engage in collective bargaining relating to the terms and conditions of employment of a particular group of workers.’
WLR Daily, 22nd January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Council Directive 80/987/EEC of 20 October 1980 relating to the protection of employees in the event of the insolvency of their employer (as amended by Parliament and Council Directive 2002/74/EC of 23 September 2002) did not preclude national legislation which did not guarantee wage claims falling due more than six months before the commencement of an action seeking a declaration that the employer was insolvent, even where the workers initiated, prior to the start of that period, legal proceedings against their employer with a view to obtaining a determination of the amount of those claims and an enforcement order to recover those sums.’
WLR Daily, 28th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Costs Committee of the Civil Justice Council (CJC) has issued a call for evidence to assist it in making recommendations for Guideline Hourly Rates (GHR) for 2014.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 1st November 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Abercrombie and others v Aga Rangemaster Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 1148; [2013] WLR (D) 381
“The question governing liability to make guarantee payments under section 28 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 was whether the employee ‘would normally be required to work [on the day in question] in accordance with his contract of employment’. The fact that an agreement introducing changes to an employee’s working hours was temporary did not prevent the day in question remaining ‘normally’ a working day.”
WLR Daily, 11th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“New EU rules which will cap bankers’ bonuses will lead to an increase in fixed salaries, ‘undermining’ global reforms to promote greater responsibility in the banking sector, the UK Government has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th September 203
Source: www.out-law.com
“Blaming over-zealous police or irresponsible prosecutors for miscarriages of justice makes for a simple and straightforward narrative, writes Daniel Newman. As with most things, though, the reality is more complicated, and defence lawyers may also have a role to play. This being the case, the neat binary opposition we so rely on in criminal justice is somewhat obscured.”
LegalVoice, 26th September 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“The UK Treasury has launched a legal challenge against European Union (EU) plans to cap bankers’ bonuses.”
BBC News, 25th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“James Segan discusses the difficult issue of how sponsors can recover endorsement payments when the sponsored athlete confesses to inappropriate or unlawful behaviour.”
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 19th September 2013
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
“A single system of fee remission, based on a combination of claimants’ income and ‘disposable capital’, will be introduced across all courts and tribunals, including employment tribunals, the Government has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th September 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“UK citizens must earn more than £18,600 to bring a non-EU spouse into the country.”
The Independent, 8th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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