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16th of November 2017
Planning: Breakfast Seminar Series
Northampton: 16 November 2017
07:30am - 09:30amThe Planning Team will provide an update on the implementation of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and the progress of the Neighbourhood Planning Bill together with a round up new case law, legislative and policy changes relating to housing and planning.
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22nd of June 2017
Whose Right is it Anyway?
The case of Gore v Naheed and Ahmed (2017) EWCA Civ 369 recently decided by the Court of Appeal has provided useful guidance as to when a right of way granted for a specific property can be extended to cover neighbouring land.
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21st of June 2017
A new route to obtaining disclosure of Trust documents?
The principles applying to a beneficiary’s right to disclosure of Trust documents and information were set down by the Privy Council in the case of Schmidt –v- Rosewood [2003] 2 AC 709. That case confirmed that no beneficiary has a proprietary right or absolute entitlement to information concerning a Trust...
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15th of June 2017
Sports Governance Code
The Government’s Sporting Future strategy published in 2015 set out the requirement for a Code of Governance for publically funded sports organisations in the UK. The Code for Sports Governance (the ‘Code’) was published jointly by UK Sport and Sport England in October 2016 and came into effect in April...
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