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Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation

Location: Flexible within the United Kingdom. However, you will be required to work from Home Office Headquarters in Central London on occasion, in order to review sensitive material in a secure environment, and be prepared to travel throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland read more

9 Stone Buildings

Chambers are delighted to announce that Paul Wright (2017 call), has accepted an invitation to join chambers as the Junior Tenant on successful completion of his pupillage, effective from 1 October 2018. read more

Regulatory List Board

List of Specialist Regulatory Advocates read more

The Inns of Court College of Advocacy

Based in London, the Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) is recruiting two key leadership roles to design and implement an innovative approach to the delivery of the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC). read more

Bar Standards Board

Are you keen to make a contribution to the regulation of barristers? read more

Undercover Policing Inquiry

National Crime Agency

Cabinet Office

Assistant Parliamentary Counsel Cabinet Office Grade: Legal Assistant Counsel Salary: £62,100 (pay award pending) Location: London Ref: 1595112 read more

Henderson Chambers

Henderson Chambers is seeking to recruit established practitioners in its main areas of practice. read more

Red Lion Chambers

Chambers is delighted that Max Hill QC is to become the new Director of Public Prosecutions and congratulates him on his appointment. Following his departure we are pleased to announce that Tony Shaw QC and Gillian Jones QC have been appointed as Joint Heads of Red Lion Chambers. 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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