• Health Act 2006: smoking ban now in force

    Carl Gardner
    July 1, 2007

    As has been widely reported, sections 1 to 12 of the Health Act 2006 came into force this morning, in effect introducing a ban on smoking in enclosed public places – including pubs, bars, caffs and restaurants as well […]

  • Terri King’s successful unfair dismissal claim

    Carl Gardner
    May 24, 2007

    I’ve just heard a report on BBC News 24 about Southampton Employment Tribunal’s compensatory award of £18,000 for unfair dismissal to Terri King. Ms. King was sacked by her employer, Lymington Citizen’s Advice Bureau, for breaching their client confidentiality policy. […]

  • Remedy UK loses judicial review

    Carl Gardner
    May 23, 2007

    RemedyUK has lost its judicial review claim against Patricia Hewitt, and she’s claiming costs against them, which they’re miffed about, not surprisingly. They’re not intending to appeal, so she can get on with the way ahead for the […]

  • RemedyUK’s judicial review of MTAS

    Carl Gardner
    May 16, 2007

    RemedyUK was in the Administrative Court at the RCJ today, at the hearing of its judicial review challenge to the government’s MTAS system for appointing junior doctors. Tom De La Mare of Blackstone Chambers is for them, instructed by Leigh […]

  • Pegylated interferon: straight to market?

    Carl Gardner
    January 3, 2007

    Yesterday it was reported that a team at Imperial College, London have developed a new, cheap version of interferon to treat hepatitis C, by altering its molecular structure. Instead of coating the interferon with sugar, they can insert […]

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  • Roll on 1 July 2007

    Carl Gardner
    December 1, 2006

    Patricia Hewitt has announced that she’ll bring sections 2 and 7 of the Health Act 2006 – they’re the sections that provide for a smoking ban and an offence of smoking in smoke-free premises – into

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