Issue number 7353

Last-ditch attempt to halt extradition
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon, who is facing extradition to the US, is due to hear this week whether the House of Lords will grant his application for judicial review.
23 Jan 2009

QC Selection Biased
Solicitors claim the silk selection procedure is biased towards barristers and too costly and time consuming to complete.
23 Jan 2009

RBS more accessible
The Royal Bank of Scotland has become the first service provider to be ordered to make its building accessible to wheelchair users.
23 Jan 2009

What recession?
Personal injury and clinical negligence lawyers expect to thrive in the economic downturn, with nearly threequarters predicting they will increase earnings in 2009.
23 Jan 2009

Sick workers get holiday pay
Workers on sick leave are entitled to their holiday pay, the European Court of Justice has held.
23 Jan 2009

Law to open its doors
The Bar Council and Law Society will contribute to a review of social mobility led by MP Alan Milburn.
23 Jan 2009

Kill Bill 2?
Just when directors thought it was safe to take off their tin hats in the aftermath of corporate manslaughter and Companies Act legislation, they now face another legal minefield exposing them to further personal liability—the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2009 (HS(O)A 2009).
23 Jan 2009

Judging civil justice
All Hamlyn Lectures are equal but some are decidedly more equal than others. The latest in that distinguished series, by Professor Dame Hazel Genn, are in that rare category.
23 Jan 2009

The king is dead…
In Brief : The repeal of the statutory dismissal and grievance procedures will definitely go ahead in April of this year. Discrimination and the clash of civilisations?
23 Jan 2009

The virtue of virginity
In Brief : The French civil code provides that a spouse may seek a decree of nullity if they have made a mistake about the person they have married, or about an essential quality of that person. Could an annulment be granted in England in similar circumstances?
23 Jan 2009

Rebuild & renewal
In Brief : An easement granting access to adjoining property for the purposes of “rebuilding or renewal”, can be used to develop the property.
23 Jan 2009

A licence to govern
In Brief : The court should not add a burden of consultation where a statutory consultation process exists. The courts will afford “anxious scrutiny” to a Wednesbury review where fundamental rights are in issue. However, despite such a review there was no irrationality on the facts. To establish legitimate expectation the representation(s) relied on must be clear, unambiguous and devoid of relevant qualification. In the present case the ambiguity of the alleged representations was fatal to the claimants' claim.
23 Jan 2009