“Where restraint orders under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 were later set aside, the remuneration and expenses of the management receiver appointed under those orders were not recoverable either out of the assets of the companies to which the restraint orders related or from the Crown Prosecution Service.”
WLR Daily, 23rd November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Appleyard v Wewelwala [2012] EWHC 3302 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 345
“The court’s inherent jurisdiction to direct payment of the trustee in bankruptcy’s expenses extended to cases where the bankruptcy order was set aside on appeal. A trustee who had acted properly and innocently of any wrongdoing could expect to obtain payment of his reasonable expenses”
WLR Daily, 23rd November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
British Airways plc v Williams and others [2012] UKSC 43; [2012] WLR (D) 277
“Where a group of airline pilots’ claimed that their paid annual leave (as required by a European Aviation Directive) should include their regular supplementary allowances as well as their basic pay and, on a reference by the Supreme Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union had interpreted the Directive as requiring pay for annual leave to correspond to normal remuneration, assessed as being the average over a representative period of all remuneration save that intended exclusively to cover costs, the absence of a detailed domestic legislative scheme implementing the Directive’s requirements as to paid annual leave did not preclude an employment tribunal from making such an assessment.”
WLR Daily, 17th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“More than £750,000 has been taken from prisoners’ pay packets to support victims of crime, according to the new Minister for Victims.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The United Kingdom’s record of slowly improving judicial diversity has been dealt a severe blow by a comparative European report revealing that only Azerbaijan and Armenia employ fewer female professional judges. Despite what the study describes as a gradual ‘feminisation of the judiciary resulting in a near gender equality’ across the continent and its eastern borders, only 23% of judges in England and Wales and 21% of judges in Scotland are women.”
The Guardian, 20th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Legal aid in England and Wales is five times as generous as the average in Europe, figures show.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Reforms to the efficiency of the administration of justice have increased the burdens on the judiciary at a time when their pay and pension packages are being cut, according to a report from the lord chief justice, Igor Judge.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th August 2012
Source: www.gazette.co.uk
“The latest Lord Chief Justice’s Report has been laid before the House of Lords.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 3rd August 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The country’s most senior judge has warned that Government cuts to take-home pay could damage the quality of the judiciary in future.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Pay freezes, rising unemployment and inflation are to blame for rising levels of insider fraud, according to CIFAS, the UK fraud prevention service.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Unused holiday entitlement by workers on long-term sick leave should be automatically transferred into the next leave year if a worker is unable to take that holiday due to his or her sickness, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
NHS Leeds v Larner [2012] EWCA Civ 1034; [2012] WLR (D) 227
“An employee who had been on sick leave for a prolonged period of time and who was eventually dismissed thereafter had not lost her right to the holiday pay to which she was entitled in lieu of the annual leave which she had been unable to take.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A number of changes to the Immigration Rules come into effect on 9 July 2012. These changes will affect non-European Economic Area (non-EEA) nationals applying to enter or remain in the UK under the family migration route.”
UK Border Agency, 9th July 2012
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“This case about prisoner’s pay provides an interesting up to date analysis of the role of the doctrine of ‘margin of appreciation’ and its applicability in domestic courts.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Guidance in prison service instructions as to the approach to be followed by prison governors when exercising their discretion to make deductions from prisoners’ earnings to raise funds to support victims of crime was not unlawful.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Prisoners who took jobs outside jail have lost their High Court claim that a levy on their wages which goes to victim support is too high.”
The Independent, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The issue of not getting your salary paid has been in the news as a result of the problems at NatWest, but while those employees will eventually get their cash, some employees never do. So what are your legal rights if an employer does not pay you for work you have done?”
The Guardian, 28th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Employment tribunals will be able to order companies who lose sex discrimination cases to disclose the gap in pay between their male and female employees under plans announced by the Equalities Minister.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Company bosses who lose an employment tribunal claim over equal pay must review the wages for all staff, ministers have said.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“British citizens with foreign-born partners are to be given the choice of indefinite ‘exile’ in countries including Yemen and Syria or face the breakup of their families if they want to remain in the UK, under radical immigration changes to be announced next week, MPs have been told.”
The Guardian, 8th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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