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Subrogation
Circumstances in which doctrine applicable - Loan used to pay off existing debt to third party Ibrahim and Barclays Bank plc and another: Chancery Division (Mr Justice Vos): 21 July 2011 ...
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Immigration
Deportation - Bail - National Security R (on the application of BB) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission: Queen's Bench Division, Divisional Court (Sir Anthony May, Mr Justice Maddison): 2 August 2011 ...
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Arbitration
Appointment - Arbitrators required by arbitration clause in agreement between parties to be members of Ismaili community Jivraj v Hashwani: Supreme Court (Lords Phillips P, Walker, Mance, Clarke, Dyson): 27 July 2011 ...
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The definition of reserved legal activities should be extended
The imminent liberalisation of the legal services market has resulted in issues relating to reserved legal activities receiving close scrutiny. Organisations that provide legal services are only regulated under the Legal Services Act if they undertake one or more reserved activities (litigation and advocacy, probate services and conveyancing). ...
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Sun exposure
Every office has one. The dedicated, workaholic employee who is so committed to their duties that they refuse to join their more carefree colleagues in abandoning their desks, boarding a flight to warmer climes and spending two weeks lying on a beach towel with their nose in a crime thriller. ...
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Expert witnesses
In parallel with the current debate about whether the law of privacy should be developed by the courts or by parliament, seven justices of the Supreme Court have been divided on a similar issue relating to the creation of an exception to the general rule that grants immunity from suit ...
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Advancing against the judicial ‘no-go area’ that has covered military action
'There shall be no Alsatia here’ is a traditional assertion of judicial jurisdiction over the objections of the Crown. The erudite Lord Justice Sedley was rather fond of the phrase. Historically, it alludes to the legal sanctuary derived from the presence of Whitefriars monastery, south of Fleet Street in London. ...
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Riots: glut of appeals anticipated
Crown courts could face a glut of appeals in response to the speed at which defendants were dealt with last week, when some magistrates’ courts worked through the night to process defendants. Criminal defence lawyers told the Gazette that the swift dispatch with which cases were ...
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Yorkshire councils combine legal teams
Five West Yorkshire councils have combined their legal teams in an attempt to maximise resources and save around £1.6m a year in legal spend. The legal teams at Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield councils have come together to form WYLAW, an umbrella group that will ...
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Sale of goods
Rejection of goods - Right to reject - Parties using terms and conditions from GAFTA 119 RG Grain Trade LLP (UK) v Feed Factors International Ltd: QBD (Comm) (Mr Justice Hamblen): 20 July 2011 ...
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Telecommunications
Mobile telephone networks - Claimants entering into agreements for use of sites by mobile phone network operators Arqiva Ltd and other companies v Everything Everywhere Ltd and other companies: QBD (TCC) (Mr Justice Ramsey): 26 July 2011 ...
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Partnership
Dissolution - Effect - Partnership property - Partnership Act 1890 Boghani v Nathoo: ChD (Sir Andrew Morritt): 2 August 2011 The parties carried on the business of hotel development as ...
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More litigants in person will threaten the county courts with additional delays
The House of Commons’ justice committee, chaired by Sir Alan Beith MP, predicts an increasing number of litigants in person by reason of the government’s curtailment of legal aid. We are told courts must make ‘adjustments’ to cope with this influx ‘in what are often emotionally charged cases’.