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- News
- Case of Baby P highlights flaws in the care system. Large increases to application fees could discourage some local authorities making applications to court in child protection cases, ...
- HIP requirements
- As the credit squeeze spreads across the property sector, solicitors are increasingly directing their dwindling HIP business to the larger HIP providers, while many of the smaller, less ...
- Challenge or opportunity?
- The Legal Services Act 2007 pushed through radical legal reform and English and Welsh lawyers will soon have the opportunity to become much more competitive and financed in different ways. ...
- Judicial activism
- The common response to any argument which supports the concept of judicial activism is that it strikes against the very fundamentals of democracy, that of electoral accountability and the ...
- Three double acts
- Lady Justice Arden, tipped soon to join Baroness Hale on what will become the Supreme Court, has given a spirited defence of the Human Rights Act (HRA 1998). The “overarching” point of her ...
- The measure of injury
- The issue of assessment of damages arose in Gray v (1) Thames Trains Ltd (2) Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd (Formerly Railtrack Plc) [2008] EWCA Civ 713, [2008] All ER (D) 326 (Jun). Gray, ...
- News
- Lawyers unite to condemn “over-personalised” attack on privacy judge Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre’s attacks on Mr Justice Eady’s privacy rulings and the “wretched” Human Rights Act has ...
- No place like home
- The recent High Court litigation involving Roman Abramovich and the development of part of the Priobskoye oil fields, regarded by one oil analyst as the “pearl of Western Siberia”, ...
- Unfair selection?
- The decision in R(E) v JFS [2008] EWHC 1665 (Admin) has been championed as clarifying the meaning of race discrimination under the Race Relations Act 1977 (RRA 1976). However, would it be ...
- Another way
- If court activity is a barometer of the economic climate then life out there is somewhat rosy. In September, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published its court statistics for 2007. The ...
