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22 June 2009
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Legislation round-up

Legislation news update

This update is provided by Current Awareness and News

In force
1 June 2009

Legislation
Transfer of Tribunal Functions (Lands Tribunal and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2009 (SI 2009/1307)

Summary
Transfers the functions of the Lands Tribunal to the Upper Tribunal and abolishes the Lands Tribunal.

Provides for members of the Lands Tribunal to hold the offices of transferred-in judge or transferred-in other member of the Upper Tribunal.

Provides that the current procedural rules for the Lands Tribunal, the Lands Tribunal Rules 1996, become Tribunal Procedure Rules.

In force
1 July 2009

Legislation
Pension Schemes (Reduction in Pension Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (SI 2009/1311)

Summary
Amend the Pension Schemes (Reduction in Pension Rates) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/138) in order to prescribe further circumstances in which a pension may be reduced without infringing the condition in the Finance Act 2004, Sch 28, para 2(3).

If that condition is breached, the pension will not qualify as a “scheme pension” and this will give rise to certain tax charges.

In force
N/A

Legislation
Energy Act 2008 (Commencement No 3) Order

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Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

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Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

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NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
A polished legal defence may owe more to artificial intelligence than legal merit—and creditors risk paying the price in delay and expense
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