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Public and Employment Law barristers from 11KBW will tackle the big questions in local authority law for Wales. They will look at what’s happening in legislation and case law across a number of key areas, and what it means for authorities, their in-house legal teams and advisers.

The “11KBW strollers” were out in force to take part in the London Legal Walk raising around £2,000 for London Legal Support Trust, London Legal Support Trust, the Free Representation Unit and the Bar Pro Bono Unit.

11KBW Employment Law Conference takes place this year in London and Leeds.
15th May 2011 – London
29th May 2011 – Leeds

11KBW will be taking part in the London Legal Walk on 21st May 2012. We are raising funds for the London Legal Support Trust, the Free Representation Unit and the Bar Pro Bono Unit.

11KBW are very pleased to announce appointments to the Treasury Panel for Ben Hooper and Jason Coppel to A panel with Paul Nicholls being reappointed to A Panel. James Cornwell and Holly Stout to B Panel and newly appointed to the C Panel are Tom Cross and Robin Hopkins.

The second edition of the Information Law Reports is now available. Reported cases include: OFCOM v Information Commissioner, Department of Health v IC, University of Newcastle upon Tyne v Information Commissioner and BUAV.

Sean Jones and Paul Nicholls appointed Queen's Counsel

Timothy Pitt-Payne QC

The Commission’s reform proposals are set out in detail at: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/newsroom/data-protection/news/120125_en.htm

They were announced on 25th January 2012. The proposals consisted of two main elements: a draft Regulation, dealing generally with data protection (the General Data Protection Regulation); and a draft Directive relating to the processing of personal data within the criminal justice system. 

11KBW were awarded with a Gold Award in the City of London's Clean City Awards Scheme.

The papers from the 11KBW Information Law Data Protection Seminar are now available to download.

11KBW’s Elisabeth Laing QC, Joanne Clement and Deok Joo Rhee have successfully defended Brent Council.

Following the grant of permission to bring judicial review proceedings brought by a patient group, “FOBS”, to challenge a decision of the Northumberland Care Trust to make cuts to one of the UK’s most rural GP surgeries, the Care Trust has agreed to re-take the impugned decision.

The Guardian reports this week that the First-Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) will hear the appeal of Montague v Information Commissioner on Friday 27 January. The disputed information is the identity of one of the founding donors to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a climate change sceptic thinktank chaired by former Chancellor Lord Lawson.

Akhlaq Choudhury has recently been voted one of the top 100 British Bangladeshis influencing the community and Britain today. Click here for more information.

Joanne Clement will be speaking at The Public Law Project Wales Conference 2012 on 4th April 2012.
This is the fourth annual PLP conference in Wales which this year will be opening by John Wotton, President of the Law Society. The programme includes plenary sessions on The top ten judicial review cases in Wales, Litigating the cuts, and The tribunal system in Wales as well as a panel discussion on Public law in a future Wales. Seminar topics include:

In JBW Ltd v Ministry of Justice [2012] EWCA Civ 8 (16 January 2011), the Court of Appeal has analysed and applied recent Court of Justice case-law on the definition of “services concession” contract and made an important ruling on the availability in procurement litigation of claims based on an implied contract created by an invitation to tender.

In R (Greenwich Community Law Centre) v Greenwich LBC [2011] EWHC 3463 (Admin), the Administrative Court (Cranston J) has dismissed a challenge by a leading law centre to the decision by Greenwich Council to withdraw its funding of around £200,000 per year.

The EAT has delivered judgment in this the first case to consider the “supply of goods” exception to the service provision change rules in the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (“TUPE”). The case concerned the supply of axle assemblies for vans built by a company within the General Motors group. James Goudie QC and Holly Stout appeared for two out of the three respondents. Instructing Solicitor was Jon Taylor of EMW Picton Howell LLP.

Akhlaq Choudhury was junior counsel for the Claimants in this application for springboard injunctive relief in a team move context. The case was unusual in that the “team” comprised only three people and all of them had given due contractual notice of their termination (which notice had already expired in respect of two of the Defendants by the time of the application).

11KBW is delighted to announce that David Stead will be joining Chambers as Chief Executive with effect from 18th January 2012. David is currently the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Gill Jennings & Every LLP, having held similar positions at Field Fisher Waterhouse, Eversheds and KPMG.

We are delighted to announce that Marcus Pilgerstorfer has joined 11KBW, Chambers and Partners Employment Set of the Year 2011.

Peter Oldham QC and Julian Milford, instructed by North Kensington Law Centre, appeared for the claimants in these joined cases, which was the first time the EAT has considered the domestic workers exemption in the National Minimum Wage Regulations.

and Pensions and others.

A Divisional Court of three judges (Elias LJ, McCombe and Sales JJ) has by a majority rejected the judicial review challenge to the Government’s decision to change the basis of uprating public sector pensions from the Retail Price Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI). 

Judgment has today been given in another challenge to two local authority decisions to re-structure their library services: R (Green) v Gloucestershire County Council and R (Rowe & Hird) v Somerset County Council [2011] EWHC 2687 (Admin).

Mrs Justice Lang has today handed down judgment in R (JM&NT) v Isle of Wight Council [2011] EWHC 2911 (Admin), an important decision on the scope and application of the Prioritising Need guidance in the adult social care context.

The First-Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) will this week begin hearing appeals concerning information about the UK's role in the arrest and extraordinary rendition of a number of individuals who came to be detained at the US' Guantanamo Bay facility.

An Employment Tribunal has decided that Miss Abigail Lawrence, who worked as a receptionist at a massage sauna near Nottingham with a predominantly homosexual and bisexual clientele, was discriminated against during her employment, and on dismissal, on the grounds that she was undergoing a process of gender reassignment from male to female, and (once she had legally become a female part way through her employment) on the grounds of her sex.

19/10/11

James Goudie QC, leading Sailesh Mehta and Howard McCann, appeared for the Environment Agency in the Court of Appeal, successfully resisting interlocutory appeals by KV and others, in which Judgment was given on 19 October 2011.

The Upper Tribunal has promulgated its decision in two cases (heard together) about the public benefit requirement for educational charities. The judgment runs to 116 pages.

Following an oral hearing at the Administrative Court sitting in Leeds, Mr Justice King has granted permission to apply for judicial review to a patient group of one of the UK’s most rural GP surgeries, in respect of funding decisions made by the Northumberland Care Trust, including to withdraw certain payments previously made to surgeries in the region on account of their “rurality” and size.

We are proud to announce that 11KBW won Employment Set of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards 2011

Barristers from 11KBW represent all three parties in a case before the Information Tribunal regarding the status of the Duchy of Cornwall under the Environmental Information Regulations.

We are proud to announce that 11KBW have been shortlisted as Employment Set of the Year and John Cavanagh QC has been shortlisted for Silk of the Year at this year's Chambers Bar Awards.

Important new series in an expanding area of law online and in print

Leading chambers 11KBW and legal publisher Justis Publishing are collaborating in a first for both organisations: the creation of a new series of law reports available both in bound volumes from next week and on the established Justis platform from this morning.

For the 19th year, 11KBW Barristers will tackle the big questions in local authority law. We will look at what's happening in legislation and case law, and what it means for authorities, thier in-house legal teams and advisors.

11KBW was a finalist for the Chambers of the Year Award 2011 at this years Lawyer Awards.

the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution to the CEDR Solve panel of mediators for 2011-12.

11KBW is proud to announce that we are the first Chambers to be accredited as a London Living Wage Employer.

11KBW launches it new Employment Law Blog www.employment11kbw.com

11KBW launches it new Employment Law Blog www.employment11kbw.com

11KBW would like to thank everyone who sponsored the 11KBW team this year on the London Legal Walk, to date we have raised over £2200 for the London Legal Support Trust which funds Law Centres and pro bono agencies in and around London. We know from our own pro bono work that these agencies do a fantastic job in preventing homelessness, resolving debt problems, gaining care for the elderly and disabled and fighting exploitation.

We are delighted to annouce that 11KBW has been shortlisted for the Chambers of the Year Award 2011 at the forthcoming Lawyer Awards. The ceremony is due to take place on 21st June.
For more details click here

Thank you for visiting 11 KBW's walk team's fundraising page for the 2011 London Legal sponsored walk. This is the second year that we have participated in the walk and we are hoping to exceed the total that we raised last year, so we are very grateful for all donations.