“Today, as the Legal Services Bill receives its Second Reading in the House of Commons, the Bar Council is keen to emphasise the need to put consumers first in any changes to the current legal framework.”
The Bar Council press release, 4th June 2007
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The campaign to force the Government to scale back its controversial legal aid reforms has been dealt a blow after the High Court rejected the first call for a judicial review over the planned changes.”
Legal Week, 4th June 2007
Source: www.legalweek.com
“Corporate Britain may have shied away from fighting its battles in court, but the City’s leading litigation law firms are hoping their salvation may lie in disputes involving hedge funds.”
The Times, 5th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Employees’ free advice compensation is chargeable to income tax
Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Barclays Bank plc
Court of Appeal
“Payments to former employees of a bank to compensate them for the termination of an arrangement to provide them with a free tax advice service were made in connection with past service and were chargeable to income tax as relevant benefits requiring the bank to account to the Revenue for the tax under the pay-as-you-earn provisions. ”
The Times, 5th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Removing disparity in life tariffs reflecting age disparity of murderers
Court of Appeal
“Where two codefendants committed a murder jointly and one was aged just over 18 and the other just under, the sentencing judge, in fixing the minimum terms to be served, should adopt the starting point appropriate to each age and then move to a position where any sentence disparity was no more than a fair reflection of the age difference between the offenders.”
The Times, 5th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“The government will unveil a new alcohol strategy on Tuesday expected to focus on how to counter binge-drinking by changing young people’s attitudes and behaviour.”
Reuters, 5th June 2007
Source: www.reuters.co.uk
“The body of an elderly woman is to be the first of three exhumed by police probing seven deaths at a care home.”
BBC News, 5th June 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Tony Blair may be preparing to abandon Britain’s veto over law and order policy in Europe on the eve of his departure from Downing Street this month, MPs fear.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th June 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Treasury has agreed to reconsider its draft anti money laundering regulations after the European Commission backed a Law Society campaign calling for rules to be relaxed.”
The Times, 4th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Detectives have been instructed to reopen their inquiries in the cash for honours investigation which has engulfed Downing Street”
Daily Telegraph, 5th June 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“We have the longest pre-charge detention period in the free world. Extending it would boost extremism.”
The Guardian, 5th June 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer has outlined plans that will see lawyers who cause delays to court cases replaced, following the collapse of BCCI and Equitable.”
The Lawyer, 4th June 2007
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Alternative routes to qualifying as a solicitor will not be piloted this year as planned, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has revealed.”
The Lawyer, 4th June 2007
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The arrival on UK soil of Michael Hausfeld, the doyen of American class-action lawyers, earlier in the year has inspired some fairly excitable headlines anticipating a tidal wave of US-style group litigation. ‘Big business beware,’ cautioned a profile in The Sunday Times. Another report in the insurance press started with the simple declaration: ‘The eagle has landed .'”
The Times, 4th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“All five magic circle firms have thrown their weight behind attempts to amend the Legal Services Bill ahead of a parliamentary debate on the issue today (4 June).”
Legal Week, 4th June 2007
Source: www.legalweek.com
“The Bar Council, the representative body for UK barristers, has called on MPs to prioritise consumers in any changes to the British legal system ahead of today’s second reading of the wide-ranging Legal Services Bill in the House of Commons.”
The Times, 4th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service has asked cash-for-honours probe police to ‘undertake further inquiries’.”
BBC News, 4th June 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No. 3) Order 2007
The Export Control (Iran) Order 2007
The Companies (Political Expenditure Exemption) Order 2007
The Asylum (Designated States) Order 2007
The Gambling Act 2005 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2007
The Home Information Pack (Revocation) Regulations 2007
The Human Tissue (Quality and Safety for Human Application) Regulations 2007
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Quality and Safety) Regulations 2007
The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2007
The Street Litter Control Notices (England) (Amendment) Order 2007
The Road Tunnel Safety Regulations 2007
The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Corresponding Amendments) Order 2007
The Bus Lane Contraventions (Approved Local Authorities) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2007
The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2007
The Education Act 1996 (Amendment of Section 19) (England) Regulations 2007
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Training cost is not tax-deductible
Revenue and Customs Commissioners v. Decadt
Chancery Division
“For expenses to be deductible from a taxpayer’s earnings, they had to be necessarily incurred in the performance of his duties and not simply because he was obliged by his contract to incur them.”
The Times, 4th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
No private right of way possible
Housden and Another v. Conservators of Wimbledon and Putney Commons
Chancery Division
“A prescriptive right based on 40 years of use could not be acquired under section 2 of the Prescription Act 1832 where the servient owners had powers derived from a statute that rendered it unlawful for them to grant the right claimed.”
The Times, 4th June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
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