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Charities and Appeals Supplement Spring/Summer 2016

24 May 2016News

By Jean-Yves Gilg

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SJ's dedicated charities supplement is now available to view online

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Latest Articles

Government urged to review legal costs

A senior costs lawyer has called for an independent review of fixed costs in the legal industry, highlighting the detrimental impact on firms and access to justice.

Building Safety Act litigation redefines investor risk

Recent case law shows how courts and tribunals are extending Building Safety Act liabilities beyond what investors originally anticipated

The United States’ Reactivation of Deep-Seabed Mining Under DSHMRA and Executive Order 14285

President Trump’s 2025 executive order has reactivated a long-dormant US legal regime for deep seabed mining, raising profound legal, environmental and geopolitical questions for advisers operating beyond national jurisdiction

US musicians lose challenge over UK performers' rights restrictions

High Court rules treaty obligations non-justiciable in domestic law without parliamentary incorporation.

Actinon PTE Limited v Char Biocarbon Inc: Affirmation and contractual obligations

Commercial dispute highlights principles of waiver by election and contract interpretation

Matthew Haydon v R: Court of Appeal clarifies "likely" in explosive substances offences

Court confirms "likely" means "could well happen" rather than "more probable than not"

Cloisters Business Centre v Anvari: mixed-use premises and service charge protection

Court confirms tenants of mixed-use properties qualify for statutory service charge controls.

NHS commissioning activities fall outside TUPE protection, Court of Appeal rules

Employment law case clarifies when healthcare reorganisations trigger transfer protections for staff.

BTR Core Fund v HMRC: Upper Tribunal clarifies overpayment relief exclusions

Stamp duty land tax overpayment relief and the meaning of "mistake in a claim"

Court of Appeal rules criminal earnings count as income for ESA purposes

Criminal activity constitutes work and generates income for benefits assessment purposes.

Alpha Anne v Great Ormond Street Hospital: Indirect discrimination and TUPE transfers

Post-transfer pay disparity constitutes unlawful indirect race discrimination despite TUPE complications.

Edozo Limited v Valos (UK) Limited: functionality of computer programs not protected by copyright

Software functionality copying does not infringe underlying source code copyright in UK law.

Mahadevan Krishnamohan v Secretary of State: planning permission validity and procedural compliance

Certificate of lawfulness rejected after attempt to circumvent Green Belt occupancy conditions fails

Williams v Information Commissioner: NCND policy upheld for asylum accommodation locations

Tribunal confirms Home Office entitled to neither confirm nor deny holding information about asylum seeker transport to protect vulnerable individuals.

Preparing for the Great Wealth transfer

As wealth passes between generations, early planning and cross-generational engagement are becoming critical to effective estate administration.

SJ Interview: Joelle Grogan

Dr Joelle Grogan is a legal scholar specialising in the rule of law in times of crisis. She presents The Law Show on BBC Radio 4, and is Co-Academic Director of the Rule of Law Clinic at the CEU Democracy Institute (Budapest), and a Senior Research Fellow at the UCD Sutherland School of Law. Her work focuses on constitutional accountability, emergency powers, and legal misinformation. In this interview, she examines the pressures facing the rule of law in the UK, from executive power and court delays to media narratives, emergencies, and the impact of AI on legal practice.

Justice reform risks targeting the wrong fix

As 2026 approaches, ministers eye jury trials while ignoring deeper causes of England’s criminal justice crisis