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With keynote speeches from the new Lord Chief Justice and from Lord Pannick QC, Saba Naqshbandi explains why you should attend this year’s Annual Bar Conference Key... read more

The Professional Negligence Bar Association

Hon. President: The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Jackson FORTHCOMING EVENTSTuesday 28 February 2012 Seminar: “Experts – their use and abuse” Moderated by The Hon. Mr Justice Akenhead read more

Association of Women Barristers

Fiona Jackson reports back from the anniversary dinner held at the House of Lords to celebrate twenty years of the Association of Women Barristers. On Tuesday 4th October... read more

Shaping the Future - A modern Bar for a modern market

Shape the future or become the past The Chairman of the Bar, Peter Lodder QC, told Bar Conference delegates that they needed to shape the future or risk becoming the past in a lively opening... read more

Australians in London

The Australian Bar Association Conference examined how English law deals with human rights considerations, privacy issues and direct access, reports Justice Glenn Martin.... read more

Family Crisis

The family Bar is at breaking point, warns Desmond Browne QC read more

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G4S plc v G4S Trustees Ltd and another

Pension – Pension scheme. A pension scheme that was closed to future accrual, but where the members' benefits continued to be linked to their final salary, was to be regarded as a 'frozen' scheme for the purposes of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt) Regulations 2005, SI 2005/678,...

Seadrill Ghana Operations Ltd v Tullow Ghana Ltd

Force majeure – Contract. The claimant company succeeded in its claim against the defendant company, in a dispute concerning the hire of a semi-submersible rig from the claimant by the defendant. The Commercial Court held that the defendant was unable to rely on a force majeure clause in its...

Bevola and another company v Skatteministeriet

European Union – Companies. Article 49 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union had to be interpreted as precluding legislation of a member state under which it was not possible for a resident company which had not opted for an international joint taxation scheme to deduct from its...

Marle Participations SARL v Ministre de l'Économie et des Finances

European Union – Value added tax. Council Directive (EC) 2006/112 should be interpreted as meaning that the letting of a building by a holding company to its subsidiary amounted to 'involvement in the management' of that subsidiary, which had to be considered to be an economic activity, within...

X v Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie

European Union – Immigration. Article 23(3) of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 should be interpreted as meaning that the member state in which a new application for international protection had been lodged was responsible for examining that application when no take back request has been made by that...

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