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An overview of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025
Claire Lamkin
16 July 2012
The regulation of health and social care professionals - a glimpse into an uncertain future?
The Law Commission are not due to publish the results of their recent consultation on the restructuring and reform of the major health and social care regulators until early 2014, but if the early indications are anything to go by, the one thing we can be sure about is that we cannot be sure about anything.
12 July 2012
E-Regulator: Russell v Bar Standards Board
Visitors of Inns of Court find that panel member of the Disciplinary Tribunal was lawfully nominated and even if he had not been, the principle of ‘de facto authority’ would apply.
9 July 2012
Impeding freedom of speech - disciplinary offence or legitimate protest?
The outcome of a recent appeal against the decision of Cambridge University’s Court of Discipline highlights that a non-violent student protest may give rise to disciplinary proceedings for those involved.
3 July 2012
The Operator: Hiring and Firing - are these red-tape measures enough to fuel growth?
The Government has made a big play of its ‘Red Tape Challenge’ and reform of Employment Laws in particular as a way, so we are told, of encouraging business growth led recruitment. To that end, a raft of changes were introduced on 6 April 2012 to improve the way employers
can hire and fire and manage disputes. It remains to be seen if they will in fact have their desired effect, but certainly it makes sense for both managers and employees to be aware of the new provisions.
3 July 2012
The Operator: Five rings to rule them all - marketing and the Olympics
You may have read in the newspapers recently about the abandonment of plans by Jamie Oliver to hold a food and drink festival in Hackney, East London. The “Big Feastival” had been scheduled to take place in Victoria Park in summer this year. However, organisers feared that stalls might breach Olympic branding restrictions and have therefore decided to reschedule the event for September, relocating to Oxfordshire.