The Supreme Court has changed the law about dispensing with the need for consultation for qualifying works or qualifying long term agreements where tenants of residential dwellings have to pay service charges: Daejan v Benson [2013] UKSC 14. The requirements for consultation in the 2003 Regulations (2003 SI 1987) are complex and lengthy. They vary according to
8th Mar 2013
A NHS TRUST v K (2012) EWHC 2922 (COP) This was an application by a NHS Trust for an order permitting doctors to perform major surgery, a hysterectomy, on a patient, Mrs K, who had refused to consent to the surgery but who lacked legal capacity to decide whether or not to consent to it.
25th Jan 2013
Frank Feehan QC and Gemma Taylor of 42BR’s Family team have succeeded in the Supreme Court case of Re A (A Child). Judgment was handed down on the 12th December 2012. Their arguments on the nature of “unqualified” rights under the European Convention were accepted by the Supreme Court in deciding that the right of
14th Dec 2012
In a new equal pay decision Haq v Audit Commission the Court of Appeal upholds the Respondent’s “genuine material factor” defence based on a form of “pay protection ”. The policy entailed that on reorganisation, employees kept the higher pay level of their old jobs where the new and old jobs were in the same
7th Dec 2012
Julie Stather, barrister, of 42 Bedford Row examines the advantages to child, parents and local authority of using section 34 of the Children Act Despite the obvious impact of an order allowing the local authority to refuse contact in the context of ongoing proceedings, or indeed the possible ramifications of applications made by the parents
2nd Dec 2012
Julie Stather, barrister, of 42 Bedford Row suggests some ways to benefit children by strengthening the position of grandparents Society is constantly evolving. Grandparents used to be very central figures in the lives of their grandchildren often living on the same street. Then as families became more mobile and the cities provided more possibility of
2nd Dec 2012
On 1 September 2012, section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into force. Greeted by much excited commentary in parts of the media with claims that it ended “squatters’ rights”, the section creates a new offence of squatting in a residential building. The section provides that a person
14th Oct 2012
THE LONDON LEGAL WALK The members of 42 Bedford Row are delighted to invite you to join them to help raise more money for the London Legal Support Trust with a Charity Casino reception at The Punch Tavern 99 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1DE 6:00pm until late on Monday 21 May 2012 CHARITY CASINO EVENING
20th Sep 2012
£350m cut to legal aid judged a 'false economy' and block to swift justice for most vulnerable "But it would actually be a false economy. Without legal advice more private family disputes would end up in court; without legal representation the hearings of them would take longer; and without assistant legal navigators the trial judges would more often be blown off course so there would be more appeals.
1st Sep 2012
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