Carl Gardner
October 16, 2007
In its judgment today in case C-411/05 Palacios de la Villa , the ECJ has ruled that Directive 2000/78, which outlaws discrimination on grounds of age, does not prevent member states from legislating so as to permit compulsory […]
Carl Gardner
October 16, 2007
The Times today has a few letters responding to the government and Lord Wedderburn on the Reform Treaty.
Robert Gutfreund Walmsley’s letter makes depressing eurosceptic reading. What does he mean by the dual nationality provision? There?s nothing new in […]
Carl Gardner
October 15, 2007
The Court of Appeal has in effect upheld as lawful the actions of the police during the May Day demo in Oxford Circus in central London in 2001. You may remember that the police in effect trapped several thousand […]
Carl Gardner
October 15, 2007
Both the mainstream media and leading blogs have picked up on Henderson J’s judgment in the Chancery Division of the High Court, ruling invalid Branislav Kostic’s will, in which he left millions of pounds to the Conservative […]
Carl Gardner
October 15, 2007
Carl Gardner
October 12, 2007
Just in case George and Alastair have got you running for the exits clutching your capital gains, there’s an interesting article in Accountancy Age suggesting that the taxman’s system of exit charges on businesses relocating elsewhere in the EU […]
Carl Gardner
October 11, 2007
I was amazed, watching Question Time on the BBC tonight, to hear both Harriet Harman and Simon Hughes suggest that one of the ways the Reform Treaty differs from the EU Constitution is in not providing for a “European President”. […]
Carl Gardner
October 11, 2007
I’m not entirely happy with Burton J’s Administrative Court judgment in Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education, in which he criticised Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. I think the judgment is an unfortunate exercise in micromanagement of […]
Carl Gardner
October 11, 2007
I was interested that at the Conservative conference last week David Cameron made clear a future Tory government will try to opt out of the EU social chapter. Not that that’s new – as this story shows – though […]
Carl Gardner
October 11, 2007
I noticed an interesting letter in the Telegraph yesterday from Lord Wedderburn QC. It’s a bit cryptic, but I think he’s suggesting the ECJ might be about to create a new, enforceable right to strike.
The two cases […]