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There are reasons for giving reasons in planning decisions, says Nicholas Dobson

Nicholas Dobson explores the public sector equality duty in relation to homelessness

How local must local housing be, asks Nicholas Dobson

Although all local authority employees are officers, are all authority officers necessarily employees, asks Nicholas Dobson

What constitutes a fair public consultation following the Moseley judgment, asks Andrew Eaton

Matthew Harpin examines the meaning of a s 58 defence under the Highways Act 1980

A recent Court of Appeal ruling on residence is a significant one for local authorities, as Jennifer Kotilaine explains

Bring judicial review claims promptly, warns Nicholas Dobson

Keith Davies considers the vexed question of whether prayers should be said at town council meetings

Nicholas Dobson highlights a case where property rights trumped the local authority well-being power

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Slater Heelis—Charlotte Beck

Partner and Manchester office lead appointed head of family

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

Civil Justice Council—Nigel Teasdale

DWF insurance services director appointed to Civil Justice Council

R3—Jodie Wildridge

R3—Jodie Wildridge

Kings Chambers barrister appointed chair of R3 Yorkshire

NEWS

The abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC

Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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