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New Visa Scheme for Young Indian Professionals
Video Update - New Visa Scheme for Young Indian Professionals In this short update video I look at the new UK - India ‘Migration and Mobility Partnership’ signed on 4th May 2021 which includes a Young Professionals scheme to allow young Indian and British professionals to work and live in each other more...
4 May 2021 14:54
Environmental Law News UpdateIn this latest Environmental Law News Update, Christopher Badger, Nicholas Ostrowski and James Harrison consider the Government’s commitment to a 78% reduction in emissions by 2035, the publication of a climate change strategy by the Pensions Regulator and a case which rules that fluff is subject to more...
4 May 2021 14:50
Priti Patel – a new champion of criminal records reform?For four long years the Home Office fought tooth and nail through the courts to thwart a challenge to the legality of DBS criminal records checks. Backed by campaign groups (including Unlock), some brave individuals took their cases all the way to the Supreme Court to try to stop mandatory more...
4 May 2021 14:42
IN THE MATTER OF F AND G (DISCHARGE OF SPECIAL GUARDIANSHIP ORDER)Mark Senior appeared as counsel for subject children in a groundbreaking case in which the Court of Appeal considered for the first time the legality of a court making care and special guardianship orders in the same proceedings. The judgment is available on BAILII. more...
4 May 2021 14:39
Wills and Estates: Early Neutral Evaluation service from 3PB BarristersJudges are increasingly asking parties to use Alternative Dispute Resolution to resolve disputes. Whilst mediation has been the traditional route taken to achieve this; we are seeing a significant rise in the use of Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE) in contested probate cases. Use of ENE can often help more...
4 May 2021 14:35
“Injunctions against calls on bank guarantees and the relevance of emergency arbitration (Shapoorji Pallonji (India) v Yumn Limited (Rwanda))”This case analysis, produced by Shourav Lahiri in partnership with LexisNexis, discusses the recent matter of Shapoorji Pallonji & Company Private Ltd v Yumn Ltd & Anor [2021] EWHC 862 (Comm) providing an overview of the background to the case, the court decision and practical implications of the more...
4 May 2021 14:22
Sham or artifice – or what does a “real sham” look like?By Bill Hanbury That was the question Fordham J recently asked in Isle Investments v Leeds City Council [2021] EWHC 345 (Admin), in which I appeared for the successful local authority. As I explained in my recent webinar on this topic (delivered on 15 April 2021), the law on shams crosses borders more...
4 May 2021 14:19
Youth Defendants in the Crown CourtLast month the Judicial College published a specific bench book for dealing with youth defendants in the Crown Court. It is billed as “everything relating to young defendants that a Crown Court Judge needs to know” and will plainly become an essential judicial reference tool. The introduction more...
4 May 2021 11:06
Full repairing and insuring lease – a guide for commercial tenantsYour commercial tenancy agreement (lease) usually sets out who is responsible for repairs, maintenance and insurance of your premises and any larger building in which it is located. There are two main types of arrangements with different repairing obligations for you and your landlord, which are a more...
4 May 2021 10:23
Health and safety risk assessmentsYou must carry out regular and comprehensive risk assessments within your business . These are not just a box-ticking exercise . You must take action to minimise any risks to health and safety that you find . Failure to do so can endanger your staff and other people , and even result in criminal more...
30 Apr 2021 10:41
MA national chair speaks out about family court delaysMA national chair Bev Higgs has had an opinion piece published in the Law Society Gazette that urges that delays in the family court should not be overshadowed by the crown court backlog. She highlights the latest quarterly family court statistics which show that in the last quarter of 2020, only 27 more...
‘Obstacles and Aspirations’ A Conversation with Bushra Ali on her journey in the legal profession
New Video ‘Obstacles and Aspirations’ A Conversation with Bushra Ali on her journey in the legal profession In this wide ranging conversation I chat to Bushra Ali about her career journey from growing up in North Wales to becoming President of the Leicestershire Law Society and founding the Bushra more...
29 Apr 2021 13:10
Webinar – Growing your business in uncertain timesMissed our live webinar and Q&A? Watch it on demand below! In this webinar hosted by Osome on 27 April 2021, we teamed up with Outfund and Osome to discuss ways for businesses to thrive and survive in these uncertain times. From the key lessons learnt from Brexit and COVID-19, to preparing your more...
29 Apr 2021 09:41
David Flood in Supreme Court caseDavid Flood has recently appeared in the Supreme Court case of Efobi (Apellant) -v- Royal Mail Group (Respondent). The key issue is, in a claim for discrimination, whether the Claimant bears the burden of proving that discrimination has occurred or whether the burden is neutral under Section 136 of more...
29 Apr 2021 09:33
Immigration removal and an Article 2 inquestR (Lawal) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2021), Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), Unreported, JR/626/2020 (V) — read judgment The death of an immigration detainee, as with all prisoners, is rightly subject to legal scrutiny. This is because detainees are completely more...
29 Apr 2021 09:31
The missing Rule 35 mechanism for immigration detention in prisonThe Court of Appeal in MR (Pakistan) and Another v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2021] EWCA Civ 541 recently dealt with appeals regarding the absence of a process to assess the vulnerability of a person detained under immigration powers at Her Majesty’s Prisons (“HMPs”). This absence more...
28 Apr 2021 12:58
The Self-Employment Income Support SchemeOn 26 March 2020, the Chancellor provided details about a temporary scheme to provide grants to individuals who are self-employed or who are members of a partnership and who have been negatively affected by the COVID-19 outbreak; the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). Over the last year more...
Commercial Agents
The video of the second of Andrew Marsden's recent seminars on commercial agency #commercialagent #commercialagency #commercialagent Regulations is available here: http://commercialchambers.org/video/view/6 more...
Commercial Agents
The video of the first of Andrew Marsden's seminars on Commercial Agency is now available here: http://commercialchambers.org/video/view/5 more...
27 Apr 2021 15:39
MA national chair gives evidence to Justice Select CommitteeMA national chair Bev Higgs today gave evidence to the Justice Select Committee for their Covid-19 and the criminal law inquiry. After describing how the Single Justice Procedure (SJP) works and the kind of offences it is used for, Bev emphasised that the MA has concerns about transparency and more...
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