Switzerland’s shock migration vote has dealt the EU a huge blow February 10, 2014 THERE are two kinds of Eurosceptics. There is the pro-market, classical liberal variety: believers in the Four Freedoms – the free movement of goods, services, capital and people – across the countries of the European Union, but who oppose everything else, including political integration, the undemocratic nature of the European construct, the EU’s myriad subsidies, [...]
Supreme Court ruling on equal pay paves way for more claims October 24, 2012 A LANDMARK legal ruling on equal pay claims handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday could open the door for female workers in the City to make compensation claims against former employers. The Court, the most senior in the land, yesterday ruled scores of women previously employed by Birmingham City Council could seek compensation through [...]
Supreme Court rules in favour of London property aristocrats October 10, 2012 THE SUPREME Court yesterday ruled in favour of a controversial appeal by two London landlords, protecting their estates against a loophole that would have allowed commercial tenants the right to buy freeholds to properties that were once houses. The landmark ruling draws a line under a long-running battle by the Day Estate, which owns swathes [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 20 February 2014 February 19, 2014 FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Boomer bulge’ hits US jobs data The drop in the percentage of Americans at work in recent years is often cast as a story about the long-term unemployed who give up trying to find jobs. But declining workforce participation rates, which have sharply reduced headline unemployment calculations in the world’s largest economy, could [...]
Fleeing banker loses appeal February 26, 2013 THE SUPREME court yesterday rejected Kazakh fugitive Mukhtar Ablyazov’s final appeal, allowing creditors to start enforcement proceedings to recover $2bn (£1.2bn) he fraudulently took from BTA Bank. They will begin with £40m worth of UK properties the former bank chairman owns in the UK. Ablyazov fled to the UK after investigations were launched in 2009, [...]
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury to lead Britain’s Supreme Court July 12, 2012 LORD Neuberger of Abbotsbury will become Britain’s top judge in October when he becomes president of the Supreme Court, it was announced yesterday. As a result the 64-year-old will give up his current position as master of the rolls, the second most senior judicial position in England and Wales, where he is responsible for the [...]
Obamacare given green light by Supreme Court June 28, 2012 THE FUTURE of American healthcare will be a key battleground in the run up to this year’s presidential election, after the US Supreme Court waved through the controversial Affordable Care Act yesterday. Republicans had hoped the court would deem part of the bill, which is dubbed Obamacare, to be unconstitutional – a decision that would [...]
The Wolf of Wall Street is a joyous tale of decadence January 16, 2014 FILMTHE WOLF OF WALL STREETCert 18 | By Steve DinneenFour Stars THE WOLF of Wall Street is a film about awful people doing awful things in a company where being awful paid unbelievable dividends, for a while at least. Thankfully, in the hands of septuagenarian director Martin Scorsese, this doesn’t translate into an awful film; [...]
A hostile US Supreme Court risks trapping Obama in a political nightmare June 27, 2012 ALEXANDER Hamilton, the US Founding Father, described the judicial branch of government as the “least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution,” because it “has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society.” With the Supreme Court expected to rule [...]
Court says accountants cannot use privilege to protect advice January 23, 2013 CHARTERED accountants are not protected by the same rules on client secrecy as lawyers, the UK’s highest court decided yesterday. The Supreme Court said it could not extend legal professional privilege to cover tax advice given by non-lawyers. Prudential had claimed that the privilege rules meant it did not need to hand over documents to [...]