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Responding to a freezing injunction—checklist

Responding to a freezing injunction—checklist This Checklist provides a suggested approach for dealing with and responding to a freezing injunction. It is intended as a starting point, listing various key matters which you should consider when preparing your client’s response. It is assumed that: • the freezing injunction was granted pre-action and without notice, and • your client is the defendant in the underlying substantive claim For further guidance on freezing injunctions generally, see Practice Notes: • Freezing injunctions—guiding principles • Freezing injunctions—the application • Freezing injunctions—the draft order Ensuring you have all the necessary documentation The applicant should have provided the following documentation (at the very least): • the application notice • the affidavit(s) in support • the sealed order • a transcript of the hearing • the skeleton argument (if one was used at the hearing) If any of the above documents are missing, ask the applicant’s solicitors for them as a matter of urgency. You will need all of the documents relied upon at the without notice...

Case management in the magistrates’ court—checklist

Case management in the magistrates’ court—checklist This Checklist should be read in conjunction with Practice Note: Case management in the magistrates’ courts. Prior to getting to court Note that certain criminal cases are managed via Common Platform (the digital case management system for the magistrates’ court). In these cases, the Initial Details of the Prosecution Case (IDPC) and other case material will be served and accessed online through Common Platform. Case progression, including completing the Preparation for Effective Trial form (PET form) and serving any applications, will also be conducted through Common Platform. For more information, see Practice Note: How to use Common Platform and the Digital Case System. Requesting the Initial Details of the Prosecution Case • defence advocates should obtain the Initial Details of the Prosecution Case (IDPC) by emailing, telephoning or writing to the relevant contact at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The contact details are published on the website for the relevant district of the CPS. The following information is usually required for IDPC requests: ◦...

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Industrial action that has statutory immunity—flowchart

Industrial action that has statutory immunity—flowchart FORTHCOMING CHANGE: The legal framework for giving protected status to industrial action and picketing is to be amended under clauses 54 to 61 of the Employment Rights Bill, introduced on 10 October 2024 (see Practice Note: The right to take industrial action—Employment Rights Bill). Clause 118 of the Bill confirms that many of the proposed changes will come into force two months after the Employment Rights Act 2025 is passed. The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 will be repealed on the day on which the Act is passed. For further information on the Employment Rights Bill, generally, see Employment News Analysis: The Employment Rights Bill, and Employment Rights Bill 2024-views from the sector, LNB News 10/10/2024 85. To track the progress of the Bill through Parliament, see Practice Note: Employment Rights Bill—tracker. The government also launched a public consultation on creating a modern framework for industrial relations. The consultation seeks views on several specific...

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) news & analysis—March and April 2023 [Archived]

Coronavirus (COVID-19) news & analysis—March and April 2023 [Archived] ARCHIVED: This Practice Note has been archived and is not maintained. This table contains an archive of news and analysis on coronavirus (COVID-19) and coronavirus developments that has been published within various Lexis®PSL Practice Areas in March and April 2023. 24–30 April 2023 Date News Analysis Brief description of the News Analysis 27 April 2023 World Challenge tells £10m COVID-19 loss trial Zurich changed policy Law360, London: Counsel for a student travel company seeking £10.5m in unpaid claims for cancelled holidays argued on 26 April 2023 that its insurer Zurich secretly changed its policy at the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on the first day of a London trial.  27 April 2023 IfG report on Treasury’s involvement during the pandemic LNB News 27/04/2023 54 The Institute for Government (IfG) has published a comment accompanying a report by the IFG's Chief Economist, Gemma Tetlow and Senior Economist, Olly Bartrum, discussing lessons learnt from the Treasury’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The report examines...

General Optical Council—fitness to practise proceedings

General Optical Council—fitness to practise proceedings Who is the General Optical Council (GOC) The General Optical Council (GOC) is a body corporate created by the Opticians Act 1989 (OA 1989) to have the general function of promoting high standards of professional education, conduct and performance with an over-arching objective of the protection of the public. The GOC role is to protect, promote and maintain: • the health, safety and well-being of the public • public confidence in the professions they regulate • professional standards and conduct for Registrants and prospective Registrants, and • proper standards and conduct for business Registrants This Practice Note provides a guide to GOC fitness to practise proceedings, investigations, and applications to be restored to the Register. The GOC regulates registered Optometrists as well as Dispensing Opticians. In this Practice Note a ‘Registrant’ is: • a registered Optometrist • dispensing Optician • student Optometrists, or • a Registered Business This Practice Note should be read in conjunction with Practice Notes: Common principles in fitness to practise...

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Training materials—tax evasion facilitation

Training materials—tax evasion facilitation The corporate offence of failure to prevent the criminal facilitation of tax evasion is created by the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (CFA 2017), which came into force on 30 September 2017. The training materials are customisable. This training pack has been prepared in PowerPoint and it therefore cannot be downloaded to Word from this page. Click to download the PowerPoint presentation. Contents • What does the law say? • Risks and red flags • Our approach • Reporting concerns • Consequences Summary This training session covers the laws and requirements you need to be aware of relating to the offence of failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion. Purpose of the slides This training aid consists of a pack of PowerPoint slides and accompanying ‘Speaker notes’, and has been written to dovetail with Precedent: Tax evasion facilitation prevention policy. How to use the ‘Speaker

Order for strike out for failure to comply

Order for strike out for failure to comply Claim No. [insert claim number]. [IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE [BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS [OF ENGLAND AND WALES OR IN [insert location] OR [Specify division] [Specify specialist court] [Insert location] DISTRICT REGISTRY THE COUNTY COURT AT [insert location] [BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS LIST before [The Honourable Mr Justice OR The Honourable Mrs Justice OR His Honour Judge OR Her Honour Judge OR Master OR District Judge] [insert name] dated: [insert date] Between [insert name]        Claimant / [Applicant OR Respondent] and [insert name]        Defendant / [Applicant OR Respondent] _______________________________________ [ Draft ] Order for strike out for failure to

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If administrators of a policyholder did not notify insurers of a claim against the policyholder within the 28-day time limit stated in the policy, can insurers reject cover?

If administrators of a policyholder did not notify insurers of a claim against the policyholder within the 28-day time limit stated in the policy, can insurers reject cover? It is assumed that the claim would otherwise trigger cover under the insurance policy and that it is a liability insurance policy. Under a liability insurance policy, a notification clause is framed as a condition precedent to indemnity under the policy, to allow insurers to investigate the claim at an early stage. In the absence of a clause allowing for extended reporting of claims notifications, an insurer can rely on a breach of a condition precedent to deny liability, regardless of whether insurers have suffered any prejudice. See Practice Note: Liability insurance—notification of claims and circumstances and defence of claims. It should be noted that the purpose of section 11 of the Insurance Act 2015 relates to terms that define the risk as a whole, and it is to prevent insurers from relying on a breach unconnected to the...

How does the court sentence a defendant who has a suspended sentence, but is convicted of an offence that predates the conviction for which the suspended sentence was imposed? What are the implications if a witness observes a criminal trial from the public gallery?

How does the court sentence a defendant who has a suspended sentence, but is convicted of an offence that predates the conviction for which the suspended sentence was imposed? What are the implications if a witness observes a criminal trial from the public gallery? How does the court sentence a defendant who has a suspended sentence, but is convicted of an offence that predates the conviction for which the suspended sentence was imposed? Paragraph 8 of Schedule 12 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA 2003) (CJA 2003, Sch 12, para 8) governs what happens if an offender breaches a suspended sentence order (SSO) imposed by a court. It is only where it is proved to the satisfaction of a court before which an offender appears or is brought under of CJA 2003, Sch 12, paras 6 or 7 or by virtue of CJA 2003, s 192(6) (periodic review) that the offender has failed without reasonable excuse to comply with any of the community requirements of...

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FTT refuses costs application because HMRC’s behaviour was not unreasonable (Generator Power v HMRC)

Tax analysis: In Generator Power, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) refused the taxpayer’s application for costs because it was not persuaded that HMRC had acted unreasonably by not withdrawing from the case earlier.

Property weekly highlights—14 November 2024

This week's edition of Property weekly highlights includes: a Law Commission consultation on the right to renew business tenancies under Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, regulations bringing into force local authority rental auctions of vacant high street premises and cases on adverse possession, constructive trusts in family disputes and bankruptcy proceedings and a test case on the provision of electrical reports under the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016.