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Variation
Mid Suffolk District Council v Clarke [2006] EWCA Civ 71; [2006] All ER (D) 190 (Feb); NLJ 24 March
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New Practice Rules
Although, the new Solicitors’ Practice Rules were approved by the Council of the Law Society in September 2004, and an amendment to the Client Care Code relating to CFAs was fast-tracked to come into force on 1 November 2005, the remainder of..
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Stuff and nonsense
Referring to the president of the Law Society’s fear that solicitor advocates might be mistaken for mere ushers (25/LL p46) Bryan Woodhams, solicitor advocate of Liverpool, wrote in the Law Society’s Gazette of 23 March that the Lord..
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Easements survive enfranchisement
Kent and another v Kavanagh CA TLR 24 March
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Possession v Right to Buy
Basildon District Council v Wahlen CA TLR 17 April
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Waiver of bias
Smith v Kvaerner Cementation Foundations Ltd CA TLR 11 April
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Injudicious interventions
Southwark London Borough Council v Kofi-Adu [2006] EWCA Civ 281; SJ 7 April
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Representation for child in financial proceedings
In re S (a child: unmarried parents: financial provision) CA TLR 17 April
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Unlawful removal of children
In re H (children) [2006] CA 29 March; SJ 7 April
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Emergency protection orders
In re X (emergency protection orders) [2006] EWHC 510 (Farn); SJ 7 April
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Children of same-sex partner – part 2
Residence with non-biological parent CG v (1) CW (2) G (children) [2006] EWCA Civ 372
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Children of same-sex partner – part 1
In re G (children) [2005] EWCA Civ 462
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Contact with donor father
In re D (contact and PR: lesbian mothers and known father) (2) [2006] EWHC 2 (Fam); SJ 3 February
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Effect of long-term removal
In re M (children) (interim care order) [2005] EWCA Civ 1594; [2005] All ER (D) 50 (Nov)
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Special guardianship orders
A Local Authority v Y, Z and others NLJ 31 March
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Factual issues in medical cases
Hifield v Denton Hall Legal Services (a firm) CA TLR 22 March
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Part-time workers
Matthews and others v Kent and Medway Towns Fire Authority and others [2006] UKHL 8
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Is agency worker an employee?
Muscat v Cable & Wireless plc CA TLR 10 April
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Sickness during period of notice
Langley and another v Burlo EAT TLR 3 March
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Burden of proof
EB v BA [2006] EWCA Civ 132; SJ 3 March
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Emails
According to the DTI Minister, Lord Sainsbury, electronic documents are the equivalent of paper documents. When in the House of Lords on 30 March, Lord Sharman moved an amendment to the Company Reform Bill on behalf of the Law Society’s..
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Knowledge of facts
Lowe v Associated Newspapers Ltd QBD TLR 29 March
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Psychiatric harm
Home Office v Butchart CA LSG 30 March
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40% contributory negligence
Wells v Mutchmeats [2006] All ER (D) 401 (Feb)
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Liability of temporary deemed employer
Hawley v (1) Luminar Leisure Ltd (2) ASE Security Services Ltd (3) Mann (David Preston) [2006] EWCA Civ 18; LSG 13 April
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Psychiatric injuries to police
French and others v Chief Constable of Sussex Police CA TLR 5 April
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Misfeasance in public office
Watkins v Secretary of State for the Home Department and others HL TLR 3 April
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Liability for faulty equipment
Maguire v Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council and another CA TLR 16 March
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Forseeability of suicide
Corr (Eileen) (administratrix of the estate of Thomas Corr, deceased) v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 331; LSG 21 April
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Who wrote the cheque?
Day v Day CA LSG 30 March
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Material breach in CCFA
Jones v Caradon Catnic Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 1821; NLJ 7 April
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The Da Vinci Code
Baigent and another v Random House Group Ltd [2006] EWHC 719 (Ch); NLJ 14 April
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New court building
According to the Law Society’s Gazette of 25 March, a move into a modern court building is not forecast until 2008 at the earliest. It suggested that with other modern jurisdictions in Europe, the Far East and New York snapping at..
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Outdated technology and poor accommodation
The 2005 annual report of the Commercial Court recorded 97 trials during the year (a 67% increase), the vast majority being for sums ‘well in excess of £1 million and one for over £1 billion’, despite outdated technology and..
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IT trial
A group of four law firms, members of the Commercial Court Users Group, are to trial an electronic filing project in a pilot that could presage ‘much larger IT changes in the future’. The firms are expected to represent a spectrum of..
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Judicial Appointments Commission
The Commission for Judicial Appointments has been superseded by the Judicial Appointments Commission. Future appointments will be made by the independent Judicial Appointments Commission, chaired by Baroness Usha Prashar, consisting of 15 lay..
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Lord Chancellor replaced
On 3 April the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 transferred the position of head of the judiciary for England and Wales from the Lord Chancellor to the Lord Chief Justice, whose major responsibilities now cover the welfare, training and guidance of..
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