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03/02/12
Brent Libraries Litigation Ends
11KBW’s Elisabeth Laing QC, Joanne Clement and Deok Joo Rhee have successfully defended Brent Council in the Judicial Review litigation which was started following their decision of 11 April 2011 to close 6 libraries and approve the Libraries…
30/01/12
High Court makes pro bono costs order in healthcare judicial review
Following the grant of permission to bring judicial review proceedings brought by a patient group, “FOBS”, to challenge a decision of the Northumberland Care Trust to make cuts to one of the UK’s most rural GP surgeries, the Care Trust…
24/01/12
Global Warming Policy Foundation: Tribunal to consider disclosure of donor identity
The Guardian reports this week that the First-Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) will hear the appeal of Montague v Information Commissioner on Friday 27 January. The disputed information is the identity of one of the founding donors to…
16/01/12
Procurement update: Court of Appeal rules on service concessions and implied contract claims
In JBW Ltd v Ministry of Justice [2012] EWCA Civ 8 (16 January 2011), the Court of Appeal has analysed and applied recent Court of Justice case-law on the definition of “services concession” contract and made an important ruling on the…
03/01/12
Greenwich Community Law Centre: High Court upholds withdrawal of funding from law centre
In R (Greenwich Community Law Centre) v Greenwich LBC [2011] EWHC 3463 (Admin), the Administrative Court (Cranston J) has dismissed a challenge by a leading law centre to the decision by Greenwich Council to withdraw its funding of around…
21/12/11
Pannu and ors v Geo W King Ltd and ors UKEAT/0021-23/11/DA
The EAT has delivered judgment in this the first case to consider the “supply of goods” exception to the service provision change rules in the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (“TUPE”). The case concerned…
21/12/11
Coulson v NGN
On the day when Glen Mulcaire succeeded in arguing that News International should pay his legal costs under the terms of his contract with the organisation, Andy Coulson did not.
Coulson’s claim turned on the construction of a clause…
19/12/11
Court of Appeal dismisses campaigners’ appeal against Brent libraries judgment
The Court of Appeal has this afternoon dismissed an appeal from the judgment of Ouseley J of 13 October 2011. The Judge refused an application to quash the decision of Brent London Borough Council to implement a libraries transformation…
15/12/11
Clear Edge UK Ltd v Elliot and others [2011] EWHC 3376 (QB)
Akhlaq Choudhury was junior counsel for the Claimants in this application for springboard injunctive relief in a team move context. The case was unusual in that the “team” comprised only three people and all of them had given due contractual…
08/12/11
Udin and others v Chamsi Pasha and others
Peter Oldham QC and Julian Milford, instructed by North Kensington Law Centre, appeared for the claimants in these joined cases, which was the first time the EAT has considered the domestic workers exemption in the National Minimum Wage…
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