Emma has been invited by Practical Law Company to write a series of practice notes on the duties and powers of local authorities under Part VII Housing Act 1996, covering the major legal concepts including eligibility, homelessness, priority need and intentional homelessness. Their first practice note, an overview of the law of homelessness, has now […]
(From left to right: Mark Townsend, Max Thorowgood, Barry McAlinden, James Trumble, Ian Boardman and Mark Baumohl) This year a team from Field Court entered ‘Movember’, a charity event in which participants have to grow a moustache during the month of November in order to raise vital funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate […]
From 1 September 2012 a new offence of squatting in a residential building took effect but whether jail for up to 51 weeks and/or a fine will deter would-be squatters remains to be seen. However those advising property owners or occupiers dispossessed by squatters will, by definition, be dealing with a situation where the existence […]
R (Sunderland City Council) v South Tyneside Council [2012] EWCA Civ 1232. Tony Harrop-Griffiths and Steven Fuller have successfully represented the appellant local authority, Sunderland City Council, in their claim against South Tyneside Council in which the Court of Appeal handed down judgment today http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1232.html . The case concerned the question of which local authority […]
On the eve of the 2012 Trades Union Congress, the Tax Payers Alliance (TPA) published a new legal briefing, by Francis Hoar, examining facility time in the public sector, which finds that “many public sector employers have not approached ‘facility’ time in the manner envisaged by industrial relations law”. The briefing shows that: Paid facility time […]
Almost two months on and the sponsored walk funds are still coming in. For the second year running Field Court Chambers walkers have raised over £2,000 in the 10km London Legal Support Trust sponsored walk. So, a huge “THANK YOU” to all our sponsors. Team Field Court’s 2012 walkers were John Critchley, Lesley Tapson (with […]
On Monday 21 May ‘Team Field Court’ along with 6000 members of the legal profession took part in the 8th London Legal Support Trust 10km sponsored walk along the River Thames. Team Field Court walkers were John Critchley, Lesley Tapson (with Humphrey & McIntosh), Sabina Smith, David Brounger, Marina Brounger, Elise Kinnear, Ayeesha Bhutta, Martina […]
The London Philharmonic Choir and the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple will present An Evening of Choral Music on Friday 19th October at 7.30pm at Middle Temple EC4. So do keep your diary free for this event which is sponsored by Field Court Chambers. Full programme and ticket information will follow shortly and will be […]
Field Court Chambers co-sponsored the London Universities Mooting Shield (LUMS) for the fifth year running. The Grand Final took place on 14 March at Allen and Overy’s auditorium in London. John McLinden QC sat as one of the Justices of the Supreme Moot Court of the United Kingdom for the Grand Final between University College […]
Victoria Flowers‘ article, published in the Elder Law Journal (ELJ 2011, Volume 1, 432), considers the Court of Appeal authority of AVS (by his litigation friend CS) v NHS Trust and B PCT [2011] EWCA Civ 7, [2011] 2 FLR 1 (Ward, Patten and Black LJJ) and the circumstances in which the Court of Protection should […]