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News@9 Gough Square (February 2011)

Contents

Your past as other see it... p1
Edwin Buckett

Government renews commitment to Mediation and ADR. p3
Giles Eyre

Foxtons - to be followed or forgotten? p4
Tom Restall

Res judicata in disciplinary proceedings. p6
Ben Rodgers

Harmonisation of port state control inspection standards and introduction of an online register of inspections (EU Directive 2009/16EC) p8
Linda Nelson

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News@9 Gough Square (November 2010)

Contents

Care Claims - Can the value of hospice care be recovered by the claimant? p1
Stephen Glynn

Hildebrand Rules (Not) Ok. p3
Oliver Millington

Pressure mounts on the Lord Chancellor. p3
Lycia Parker

"Bloodgate" Sports Medicine in the spotlight. p4
Esther Pounder

Primus Inter Pares: Disabled employees the first amongst unequals. p6
Ed Lamb

The Golden Rul Survives. p8
Tim Parker

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News@9 Gough Square (June 2010)

Contents

New Act makes life easier for lawyers! p1
Giles Eyre

Maga v Trustees of the Birmingham Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church. p2
Laura Elfield

Liability of a Chief Constable as 'Employer'. p4
Vince Williams

Mediating injury claims and the Jackson report. p6
Giles Eyre

Work at height (at Sea). p7
Linda Nelson

New in Chambers. p8

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News@9 Gough Square (January 2010)

Contents

Wolf at the station door. p1
Susan Belgrave

Text Messages - Nothing but Hearsay. p3
Tim Godfrey

Search Warrants - Solicitors and Experts. p4
Edwin Buckett

Current issues in infant approval costs. p6
Ben Rodgers

Overriding Necessity: Removal at Birth. p7
Tim Parker

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News@9 Gough Square (June 2009)

Contents

Simon Carr Appointed Circuit Court Judge. p1

Can You Go Bankrupt and Still Have a PI Claim? p2-3
Stephen Glynn

A Claimant's Right to Go Private. p4
Benedict Rodgers

Bad Character: Is It or Isn't It? p5  
Tim Godfrey 

'Last In, First Out' - Length of Service and Redundancy Selection. p6 
Esther Maclachlan

Making Your Bed and Lying In It: Falling Out of Love in a Recession. p7-8
Ed Lamb    

Andrew Ritchie Appointed to Silk. p8       

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News@9 Gough Square (January 2009)

Contents

Maritime Piracy Employers’ Personal Injury Liability. p1-2
Grahame Aldous QC and Catherine Atkinson

All you need to know about the Court of Appeal Criminal Division in One Handy Blue Book. p3
Rosina Cottage 

Limitation Update. p4  
Jennifer Scott  

CICA 2008 SCHEME. The good, the bad and the ugly. p5-6
Aileen Downey 

SPORTELLI. Marriage & the triumph of hope? p6-7 
Philip Jones     

Stress at work mediation – 2 case studies Mediation in stress at work claims can benefit all involved. p8
Giles Eyre

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News@9 Gough Square (October 2008)

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Negligence and Human Rights claims against the Police: The end of the road? p1
Edwin Buckett

Coleman v Attridge Law. p3
Ben Rodgers 

The Sixth Edition of the Ogden Tables: A Year On. p4
Catherine Atkinson

Family Law Case Review. p6
Emma-Jane Mahood

When is a Door Not a Door? Or how the House of Lords will finally save me from having to buy a round. p7
Simon Carr

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News@9 Gough Square (May 2008)

Contents



Crane v Canons Leisure Centre & Wolley v Haden Building Services. p2
John Foy QC

Complaints under the Criminal Justice Act 2003. p2
Simon Carr and Shahram Sharghy

Corr v IBC. p3
John Foy QC, Andrew Ritchie and Robert McAllister.

Liability of Local Authorities to Compensate for Failure to Protect. p4
Shahram Sharghy

Clinical Negligence and the Human Rights Act: Do the cases of Van Colle and Savage
create a parallel system of remedies? p6
Linda Nelson

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News@9 Gough Square (January 2008)

Contents

Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics on the fraud in relation to the collapse of Independent Insurance. p1 
Andrew Baillie QC;

Berry V Ford Motor Corporation (2007) & Burtt v Lidl UK Limited. p2
Andrew Ritchie and  Simon Carr

Religious convictions v sexual preferences: how do we reconcile conflicting discrimination strands? p3
Susan Belgrave

When Is An Injury Not An Injury? p4
Stephen Glynn

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News@9 Gough Square (June 2007)

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News@9 Gough Square (October 2007)

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News@9 Gough Square (January 2007)

• Christopher Goddard strengthens PI team.
• Genetic Practice under the Human Tissue Act 2004: Curbing Frankenstein or Placating Luddites?
• Experts and Conflicts of Interest.
• An Overview of the Health and Safety Statistics 2005/06.
• Serious Organised Crime & Police Act 2005 - New Offences created by the Act.
• 9 Gough Square first chambers to become APIL training provider.

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News@9 Gough Square (October 2006)

• Video conferencing facilities installed at 9 Gough Square.
• Inconsistencies in medical records - Denton Hall Legal Services v Fifield.
• Negligence claim for failure to maintain records on Police National Computer - Tilbury v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis.
• No sanctuary for first instance judges behind a finding of fact - Hardisty v Aubrey.
• Sentencing Guidelines: Court of Appeal call for urgent review of guidelines in relation to the discount available for a guilty plea where a defendant was caught red-handed.
• Fatal accidents, uninsured drivers and the Motor Insurers Bureau.
• Police Officer not employee nor to be treated as such for the purposes of RTA - Guy Miller v (1) Ricky Hales (2) QBE International Insurance Ltd (3) The Motor Insurance Bureau.
• Animals Act horse riding case appealed in Court of Appeal - Clark v Bowlt.
• Damages for assault in children's home - K v Birmingham City Council.

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News@9 Gough Square (May 2006)

• Fatal accidents: Suicide, Causation and Remoteness - a tragic case but one which clearly defined the law surrounding suicide in personal injury and fatal accident claims.
• Considering "maintenance in an efficient state" - Six Pack Regulations imposition of strict liability on employers.
• Will you still need me when I'm 64? - The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006.
• The Changing Landscape of Fraud - now no longer a traditional police function; a review of recent legislation and changed responsibilities.
• DNA and the police - Can the Family Court compel the police to disclose samples obtained in the investigation of crime?

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News@9 Gough Square (March 2006)

• Reform of private hospital regulation: A universal assurance of standards? 
• The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005.
• Family law reform - opportunities taken, wasted and yet to be seized.
• Corporate manslaughter.   
• The need for mediation.   
• 9 Gough Civil team strengthened.

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News@9 Gough Square (Autumn 2005)

• Last year a legal landmark met its demise - its value as bricks and mortar was negligible, but its place in history runs at £300 billion a year.
• Hampstead Heath Winter Swimming Club & Others v Corporation of London Health and Safety Executive.
• Civil Partnerships under the Civil Partnership Act 2004.
• Majrowski v Guys and St. Thomas NHS Trust - Vicarious Liability for Harassment.
• Failure to comply with Health and Safety Regulations as a fundamental breach of contract.
• Personal Injury - Unreasonable behaviour in recovering more than Fixed Costs.
• The Adoption and Children Act 2002 - the end of the legislative process.
• Essex County Council v X and Y and A and B.
• Donoghue v Stevenson - Would the famous snail case run today?
• Work at Height Regulations 2005

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News@9 Gough Square (May 2005)

• Chester v Ashfar: the effect on product liability.
• Abandonment of criminal appeals.
• Conditional Fees – Unconditional success?
• All change: New Employment Tribunal Rules.
• Periodical Payments – the pros and cons.
• Dropped in it by your expert?

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News@9 Gough Square (Spring 2005)

• Causation: A question of Principle?
• Deductions form Damages – A retread?
• The New Criminal Procedure Rules – A cultural change
• Reasonable success fees in “old regime” CFAs.
• A red card is issued to organised crime.
• Legal Bullocks – PI and animals.
• Protocol on the disclosure of police information in family proceedings.
• Hammond – the final chapter

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News@9 Gough Square (Autumn 2004)

• The agency, the client and the dismissed worker.
• Has the Court of Appeal destroyed Six Pack?
• “Small hole – Big case” – interpretation of Six Pack Regulations
• The Adoption and Children Act 2002.
• Closing the Stable Door – personal injuries caused by animals.
• Mediation in Practice.
• The Sexual Offences Act 2003 – A New Beginning?
• Close Shave in the decision in Barber v Somerset CC employment case.

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News@9 Gough Square (Spring 2004)

• Corporate Manslaughter - what's the problem?
• Cost Estimates - the new battle ground?
• Every Child Matters - review of Government's Green Paper.
• Unavoidable Operations - liability for damage following failure to warn.
• Secure Accommodation - a user's guide to s25 Children Act 1989.
• Damages for the Unwanted Child.

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Special Law Bulletins - Employment

Employment Law Bulletin (January 2011)

Contents

Malone & Ors v BA. p1
Catherine Atkinson

The Lonliest Number. p2
Philip Jones

The Malicious Reference

Religion in the work place - Amachree v Wandsworth. p4
Susan Belgrave

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Employment Law Bulletin (Spring 2010)

Contents

Stuart Peters Ltd v. Bell. p1
James Holmes-Milner

Private sector transferrees not bound by public sector pay settlements. p2
Ben Rodgers

Buckland v Bournemouth College. p3
Susan Belgrave

Compensation for stigma. p4
Ed Lamb

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Employment Law Bulletin (Autumn 09)

Contents

Heyday, age is anything but a number p1
Kate Lamont

Mutual Trust and Confidence: An Update p3
Tom Restall

Amnesty International v Ahmed [2009] IRLR 884: The paradox of a fair but discriminatory dismissal p4
Catherine Atkinson

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Employment Law Bulletin (Spring 09)

Contents

Old wine in new bottles? p 1
Susan L Belgrave

The Posted Workers Directive. p 2-3
Catherine Atkinson

Legislation updater. p 3

Case law digest. p 4

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Employment Law Bulletin (November 2008)

Agency workers: Has that ship finally sailed? Ben Rodgers

Employers’ Liability: Pirates of the high seas. Catherine Atkinson

For whom the whistle blows. Susan L. Belgrave

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Employment Law Bulletin (July 2008)

• Employment Rights for Temporary Agency Workers: Another door closes, by Laura Elfield and Catherine Atkinson.
• Equal Pay: An Update by Esther Maclachlan.
• Legislation Updater and Case Law Digest by Ed Lamb.
• Spiked: inadmissable documents and failed claims.

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Employment Law Bulletin (October 2006)

• Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure - Minutiae creates problems instead of intended simplicity; Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure), by Louise Jones.
• Big Brother is Listening; Whether secret recordings of disciplinary panel private deliberations can be adduced in evidence, by Susan Belgrave.
• Legislation updater, by Dorothea Gartland.
• Case law updater, by Dorothea Gartland.

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Employment Law Bulletin (Spring 2006)

• Mutuality in employment contracts.
• The future for maternity rights.
• Legislation updater.
• Case law updater.

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Employment Law Bulletin (Autumn 2005)

• Required information is not necessarily required and a letter before action amounts to a grievance...?  Welcome to the Alice in Wonderland World that is now Employment Law. 
• Have the ADR Regulations and the Employment Tribunal Procedural Rules achieved their objectives?
• Unfair Dismissal and the Territorial Jurisdiction of Employment Tribunals.
• Will you still want me, when I am 64? - The new Draft Age Discrimination Regulations.
• Grievance Procedures under the new ADR rules.

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Employment Law Bulletin (January 2005)

• New disability discrimination provisions.
• Grappling with the burden of proof.
• Case law update.

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Employment Law Bulletin (May 2004)

• Employed through an Agency? "The good news for applicants is that it should be easier to establish a contract of service in which the end user is the employer .... although such a claim would not necessarily be plain sailing."
• The agency - the client and the dismissed worker.
• Calderbank - offers, costs & unreasonable litigants.
• "It's a game of two halves, Gary" - submissions at half time.
• Case law digest.

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Commercial Law Bulletin (January 2004)

• Sale of Goods – the new consumer rights.
• Limits to the law of restitution - how to have your cake and eat it.
• A Stop to Estoppel.
• Buyer's Right to Reject

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Special Law Bulletins - Family

Family Bulletin (February 2011)

Contents
Pre-nuptial agreements: the end of the line for marriage as we know it? p1
Oliver Millington

New Rules and More Micro-Management. p3
Tim Parker

The test that failed - the limits of alcohol hair strand testing. p4
James Dove

L-B (Children) p6
Esther Maclachlan

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Family Bulletin (July 2010)

Contents
The Application of Stack v Dowden. p1
Tim Parker

Family team welcomes. p2
James Dove.

Lessons to be drawn from Re S. p3
James Dove

Special Advocates. p4
Kate Lamont

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Family Law Bulletin (January 2010)

Contents
Imminent Risk of Really Serious Harm. p1
Jennifer Newcomb

Adoption panel decisions are under scrutiny. p2
Aileen Downey

Ancillay Relief in 2009. p4
Tim Parker & Ed Lamb

Guidance on Forced Marriages from the Ministry of Justice. p6
Emma-Jane Mahood

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Special Law Bulletins - Criminal

Crime Bulletin (April 2011)

Contents

All change in cash forfeiture proceedings. p1
Gareth Munday

Criminal Procedure Update. p3
Jennifer Newcomb

Anything you do say may be used against you. p4
Tom Restall

Changes to sentencing and the new assault sentencing guidelines. p6
Eleanor Mawrey

Heasay Evidence. p8
Laura Bumpus

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Crime Bulletin (Sentencing Issue - July 2010)

Contents

Rape and the Sentencing Guidelines Council. p1
Rosina Cottage

Sentencing: A view from the bench. p3
Simon Carr

The effect of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. p4
Esther Pounder

The Sentencing Advisory Panel and Sentencing Guidelines Council. p6
Claire Harden

New Youth Sentencing Provisions. p7
Jennifer Newcomb

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Criminal Law Bulletin (May 2005)

• Long criminal trails – a brave new world?
• Hearsay: Trust the Jury?
• Bad character –“All Change?”
• The New Sentencing Provisions.

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Hate Crime Bulletin (Spring 09)

 

Racially Aggravated Offences
Claire Harden

Homophobic and Transphobic Hate Crime
Jennifer Scott

Hate Crime against the disabled
James Thacker

Sentencing Hate Crime
Eleanor Mawrey

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Mediation (Brochure)

Mediation Brochure: Immediate Solutions

• Mediation in Practice – a briefing note.
• The Mediation Team at 9 Gough Square.

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Special Law Bulletins - Fraud

Fraud Bulletin December 2010

Contents

Business or Bribery p1
Emily Verity

FSA Retains Prosecutions p3
Eleanor Mawrey

How do we treat complaints of NHS Fraud? with a health warning! p3
James Thacker

Who should pass the sentence? Judges, politicians or the administration? p4
Andrew Baillie QC

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Fraud Bulletin Autumn 2009

Contents

Sentencing - Guidelines or Tramlines p1
Tom Little

To negotiate or not? p3
Andrew Baillie QC

Overseas Corruption - is  a new picture emerging? p4
Peter Kiernan - Partner at Crowell & Moring LLP

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Fraud Bulletin - (December 2008)

Follow the sucess of our first edition this is now our second Fraud Bulletin. We are delighted to have received assistance from both Tim Slater of Grant Thornton UK LLP and Ben Summers of Peters & Peters.

THE AFTERMATH OF FRAUD by Tim Slater, Grant Thornton UK LLP

A LESS DRACONIAN APPROACH TO CONFISCATION? by Gareth Munday

BACK TO THE FUTURE: REVITALISING THE SFO

THE REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT AND SANCTIONS ACT 2008 by Ben Summers, Partner at
Peters & Peters

A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER? by James Thacker

WHEN IS PROPERTY CRIMINAL PROPERTY? by Benedict Rogers

BAE REVISITED by Philip Henry

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Fraud Bulletin - (May 2008)

This is our first Fraud Bulletin and we are delighted to have received the assistance of Mark Beardsworth of Kingsley Napley and Graham More of the Serious Fraud Office in its production.

• Criminal Liability and the Boardroom in 2008: The Grip Tightens, by Mark Beardsworth;
• Money Laundering/Proceeds of Crime;
• Recent Case law by Eleanor Mawrey;
• If at first you don't suceed Try, Try and .......
    - The case for Juries by Andrew Baillie QC;
    - The Case against Juries by Graham More;
• The Fraud Act 2006 and other Recent Developments by Emily Radcliffe;
• Preparatory Hearings: The impact of the House of Lords by Fred Ferguson and Tim Godfrey;
• Multiple Offending - Have the problems been solved by Tom Little.

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9 Gough Square PI Update

PI Update (January 09)

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