August 2018 - Amending Claims of Discrimination in the Employment Tribunal
30th August 2018 |
Employment Law with 5 Essex Court
Message from the Editor, Dan Hobbs
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Arbitration (2 July – 27 August)
28th August 2018 |
Mediation
Arbitration News Conoco says Venezuela will pay $2 billion arbitration award The Washington Post – 20 August ConocoPhillips, a US oil giant has now reached an agreement with Venezuela’s state-owned...
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Immigration Law (13 August – 27 August)
28th August 2018 |
Immigration & Nationality Law
Immigration News Migration from EU to UK continues to fall, ONS figures show BBC News – 23 August Over the last year the number of EU citizens moving to the UK has decreased, reaching lows not...
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Family Law (13 August – 27 August)
28th August 2018 |
Family Law
Family News Overall ‘cost of a child’ is £150,753 for a couple Family Law Week – 21 August A report titled Cost of a Child, by Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has estimated that the overall cost of...
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Bloomsbury Family Law Briefing: August Teaser
21st August 2018 |
Family Law
Defended divorce: Owens v Owens In Owens v Owens [2018] UKSC 41 the Supreme Court held that on the evidence before the first instance judge he and the Court of Appeal were correct to refuse her...
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IP & IT Law (6 August – 20 August)
20th August 2018 |
Intellectual Property & Media Law
IP & IT News Google employees criticise 'censored China search engine' BBC News – 17 August Numerous Google employees have written to the technology company to protest against its plans to launch a...
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Employment and Pensions Law (6 August – 20 August)
20th August 2018 |
Employment Law
Employment News 55% of employers have increased salaries to improve staff retention Employee Benefits – 15 August According to research by The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD)...
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Judges on social media: being ‘friendly’ is great, but is it judicious?
16th August 2018 |
Columnists
Judges in England and Wales are more or less forbidden to engage on social media, and if any do so they are almost invisible to the public gaze. But in the United States the position is markedly...
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Family Law (30 July – 13 August)
13th August 2018 |
Family Law
Family News Alternative provision projects receive £4m funding boost Cypnow – 6 August The Department for Education has allocated a further £4 million to nine projects across the country that...
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Immigration Law (30 July – 13 August)
13th August 2018 |
Immigration & Nationality Law
Immigration News Immigration: Scrap targets after Brexit, CBI urges BBC News – 10 August According to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the current net migration targets should be scrapped...
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Bloomsbury Immigration Law Briefing: July Teaser
9th August 2018 |
Immigration & Nationality Law
In this month’s briefing we cover case law and other developments in June and July 2018. Although it is now the summer season there was a lot of activity in the run up to it with some amendments to...
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Legal Helplines: Threat or Opportunity?
7th August 2018 |
Columnists
The idea of free legal advice will likely inspire many different images in the minds of population at large.
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IP & IT Law (23 July – 6 August)
6th August 2018 |
Intellectual Property & Media Law
IP & IT News Marketing firm fined £100,000 after making more than 75,000 nuisance calls ICO – 1 August AMS Marketing Ltd, based in Peacehaven, has been fined £100,000 by the (ICO) for making 75,649...
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Employment and Pensions Law (23 July – 6 August)
6th August 2018 |
Employment Law
Employment News Employers must do more to tackle male ‘stigma’ around shared parental leave People Management – 30 July Sandie Dennis, career coach and CEO of Confidence to Return has noted in a...
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Modern drafting conventions
1st August 2018 |
Property & Planning
This blog item is based on a much longer article in the National Infrastructure Planning Handbook 2018.
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