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Exchanging ideas

Frederico Singarajah reports on the recent Brazil-British lawyers’ exchange programme in London. Last year, the inaugural British-Brazilian lawyers’ exchange programme took... read more

A long road to peace

Between February and June 2014, Jelia Sane worked as a legal adviser for the Political Prisoner’s Solidarity Committee, Colombia’s oldest human rights NGO. Here she... read more

The changing face of international law

There is no greater time to unite behind international bodies to bring justice to those wronged, writes Lewis Power QC, reporting from the annual International Bar Association (IBA)... read more

Chemical Weapons and The ICC

Can the International Criminal Court start prosecuting for the use and supply of chemical weapons? Sheryn Omeri considers the ICC’s options. The centenary of the start of... read more

A new "global deal"

Illari Aragón explains the importance of this December’s Conference of the Parties (COP 20) in Peru and the pursuit of a new climate change agreement. In December this year... read more

Work hard, Play hard

Helen Tung and Laura Newton report on their time in a Korean law firm on the Bar Council placement programme. From 28 April to 9 May 2014, six English barristers... read more

Out of Africa

The United Nations risks again overlooking the rule of law in African development, says Suella Fernandes. I first visited Rwanda in 2008 with a group of volunteer lawyers... read more

Brazil - World Champions 2014

The first Bar Council-led trade mission to Brazil took place in March this year. Mission member Frederico Singarajah anticipates the World Cup headlines and suggests that Brazil is... read more

Universal Jurisdiction

Illari Aragón examines threats to universal jurisdiction within Spain and the effect upon the Tibet case against China in the Spanish National Court. For decades, the... read more

The Race to Issue Sukuk

Britain is making a bid to become the next global centre of Islamic finance, with preparations under way for a £200m bond-like sukuk issue. Scott Morrison explains the background.... read more

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McCashin v Revenue and Customs Commissioners

Income tax – Pension. On the basis that there had been unauthorised payments which had amounted to almost the full value of the pension scheme at issue and because those payments had been in respect of the taxpayer, there had been a loss of tax for the purposes of the Taxes Management Act 1970....

Wiemer & Trachte GmbH v Tadzher

European Union – Civil and commercial matters. Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1346/2000 should be interpreted as meaning that the jurisdiction of the courts of the member state within the territory of which insolvency proceedings had been opened to hear and determine an action to set...

* R (on the application of Rafique-Aldawery) v St. George's, University of London; R (on the application of Sivasubramaniyam) v University of Leicester

Practice – Stay of proceedings. The judge had erred in the guidance he provided when staying the applications for judicial review pending the conclusion of the respondent students' complaints to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator. Accordingly, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, allowed...

Wellington Properties Ltd v Trustees of the Will of the Second Duke of Westminster and another

Boundary – Party wall. The appellants' appeal against a decision in a property dispute succeeded. The Chancery Division held that, on the true construction of a transfer, a wall adjoining two properties in London was not to be considered a party wall, within the meaning of s 38(1) of the Law of...

Cardtronics Europe Ltd and other companies v Sykes and others (Valuation Officers); Sykes and others (Valuation Officers) v Tesco Stores Ltd and another company

Land – Rates. In considering an appeal by several supermarkets over the ratable valuation of the floor space on which ATM's stood, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, Upper Tribunal (Lands Tribunal) had not erred in its approach to the identification of a hereditament but had erred in its...

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