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Sanctions Guidance is not a score sheet – Court of Appeal findings from GMC v Gilbert & PSA
Jessica Etherington
7 July 2015
Judicial review and suitable alternative remedies
It is commonplace to say judicial review is a remedy of last resort and in particular that if there is an adequate alternative remedy that is or was available to a claimant, permission to bring proceedings will normally be refused.
23 January 2015
European Parliament demands legal communications are protected from surveillance
Following the frank admission by the Dutch Minister of Security that a law firm, Prakken d’Oliveira, had been under surveillance for years by the Dutch secret service, a question was raised in the European Parliament last week concerning the apparent tolerance by the EU of secret surveillance of legal communications and the steps which would be taken to ensure that Member States respected lawyer-client confidentiality.
29 October 2014
At last some hope: defeat in the House of Lords of Judicial Review Proposals
Studies may have found Tuesday to be the most depressing day of the week, but this Tuesday, many legal practitioners received a small mercy for which to be grateful. The news was in that the previous evening’s Report Stage consideration of Part 4 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill had taken place, and the government had experienced heavy defeats in several important votes on proposals to restrict access to judicial review.
28 March 2014
Divorcing wife wins domicile war and can divorce her husband in the UK
Domicile is a tricky and fascinating concept because it is so fact-specific that no two cases are the same. It is usually relevant to people making Wills or administering Estates because where you are domiciled when you die depends on where you pay tax and some jurisdictions tax harder than others.
9 October 2013
Search warrants and non-disclosure: will the new Criminal Procedure Rules raise standards?
The Criminal Procedure Rules 2013, which came into force on 7 October 2013 include, for the first time, provisions governing applications made by the police, and other law enforcement agencies, for search warrants. To anyone practising in this area, the need for a clear set of rules, as a means of trying to ensure full compliance with the legal requirements for obtaining warrants, has been clear for a long time – the more interesting issue is how far in reality the new provisions are likely go in achieving that aim.