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Insurance companies - codification
03/11/09 from EU Developments
Date created: 03/11/09.On 22/04/09 European Parliament approved compromise proposal with amendments, after committee report A6-413/2008. Text on European Commission's internal market website (link below). Report on Parliament website. Commission accepted amendments. Council of the EU hopes for formal adoption in April 2009. Commentary at Europolitics, 23 April 2009, 6.Article on status of proposal
Guidance: Statement of Ethical Principles for the Public Prosecutor
03/11/09 from UK Regulatory Materials Summaries
CPS statement lays down standards of conduct and practice expected of every prosecutor
*Thames Valley Housing Association Ltd and others v Elegant Homes (Guernsey) Ltd and others
02/11/09 from General Case Digest
Solicitor – Negligence. The Chancery Division held that it would enforce undertakings given by a firm of solicitors as there was no serious issue to be determined as regarded the sum payable to secure release of a charge over land.
*R (on the application of L) v Metropolitan Police Commissioner (Secretary of State for the Home Dep
30/10/09 from General Case Digest
PoliceHuman rights – Disclosure of informationRight to respect for private and family life. The Supreme Court held that, although the claimant's right to respect for her private life had been engaged in the chief police officer's disclosure in an enhanced criminal records certificate, for the purposes of s 115(7) of the Police Act 1997, of an accusation of child neglect made against her in 2002, t
No Guarantees Against Prosecution in Assisted Suicide Cases
29/10/09 from UK Legal News Analysis
Assisted suicide legislation was proven to be unclear in Purdy R (on the application of Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions. Evelyn Reid talks to Adrian Turner, barrister and co-author of Stone’s Justices’ Manual, about why the legislation actually needs to include information such as whether only doctors should directly participate in the action of suicide.