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Family and civil law

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    Legal aid: the quashing of the 2010 contracts for family and social welfare work

    Friday, 28 January, 2011

    In 2010, the Legal Services Commission held a tendering exercise for new contracts for crime and civil legal aid work. This resulted in a significant drop in the number of firms awarded contracts for family and social welfare work. A judicial review brought by the Law Society led to those contracts being quashed.

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
    • Justice
  • Research Briefing

    Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule and Law of Succession) Bill

    Tuesday, 18 January, 2011

    The Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule and Law of Succession) Bill is a Private Member’s Bill introduced by Greg Knight under the ballot procedure. The Ministry of Justice has indicated to Greg Knight that it will support the Bill and has assisted with drafting the Bill and the Explanatory Notes. The Bill would protect the inheritance rights of the descendants of people who have: • forfeited their inheritance by killing the deceased; or • decided not to accept their own inheritance. It would give general effect to the recommendations of the Law Commission in its 2005 report, The Forfeiture Rule and the Law of Succession, which were accepted by the Labour Government in 2006. Similar provisions to those contained in the Bill were included in the Draft Civil Law Reform Bill which the Labour Government published in December 2009. The Coalition Government is not proceeding with that draft Bill.

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
    • Communities
  • Research Briefing

    Pleural plaques – the Government’s response

    Wednesday, 04 August, 2010

    • Research Briefing
    • Business
    • Civil law
  • Research Briefing

    Roads: pedestrian accidents on the pavement

    Wednesday, 16 June, 2010

    This note describes the duty of the local highway authority to maintain the highway (including, in the definition of that term, pavements) and those defences that an authority can use if a pedestrian is injured on the pavement.

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
    • Roads
  • Research Briefing

    Inheritance tax and probate

    Monday, 24 May, 2010

    In 2003 the Government introduced a new Direct Payment scheme, to deal with a problem created by the interaction between the conditions placed on an estate before a grant of probate is issued, and the requirements to pay inheritance tax on that estate. This note describes the introduction of the new scheme.

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
    • Communities
    • Tax
  • Research Briefing

    Providing identification when instructing a solicitor

    Wednesday, 28 April, 2010

    Providing identification when instructing a solicitor. By CATHERINE FAIRBAIRN. SN/HA/3086.

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
  • Research Briefing

    Reform of defamation laws

    Wednesday, 17 March, 2010

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
  • Research Briefing

    Marriage (Wales) Bill [HL]

    Wednesday, 03 March, 2010

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
    • Family law
  • Research Briefing

    Legal claims for pleural plaques

    Friday, 26 February, 2010

    • Research Briefing
    • Business
    • Civil law
    • Diseases
  • Research Briefing

    Children, Schools and Families Bill: Committee Stage ReportBill No 8 of 2009-10

    Monday, 15 February, 2010

    This is an account of the House of Commons Committee Stage of the Children, Schools and Families Bill. The Bill contained a clause on the charitable status of academies, but the Government decided it could achieve its objectives by non-legislative means, and at the end of the Committee Stage the clause was removed. No other changes were made to the Bill in Committee. There were many amendments proposed by the opposition parties but none was successful.

    • Research Briefing
    • Children and families
    • Children's social services
    • Civil law
    • Crime
    • Education
    • Schools
  • Research Briefing

    Bailiffs and distress for rent

    Friday, 29 January, 2010

    This note considers the remedy of Distress for Rent and what goods can be seized by the bailiff. It also considers a tenant's possible redress if the remedy has been used inappropriately.

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
  • Research Briefing

    The Draft Civil Law Reform Bill

    Friday, 29 January, 2010

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
  • Research Briefing

    Children, Schools and Families Bill. Bill 8 2009-10.

    Wednesday, 16 December, 2009

    This Bill provides ‘guarantees’ for pupils and parents in the school system, underpinned by new Home School Agreements, and makes provision for parental satisfaction surveys. It also makes changes to the powers of governing bodies of maintained schools; extends the remit of School Improvement Partners; provides greater powers for local authorities and the Secretary of State in relation to failing schools; paves the way for the introduction of School Report Cards; and makes provision to introduce a licence to practise for teachers. The Bill also seeks to implement the recommendations of several major reports. These changes affect the school curriculum; provide a registration system for home educators; and provide an additional right of appeal for parents of children with special educational needs. The Bill would also make changes to the reporting of information relating to family proceedings. Other provisions relate to Local Safeguarding Children Boards, Youth Offending Teams, the charitable status of academies, and the fees system for the inspection of independent schools.

    • Research Briefing
    • Children and families
    • Children's social services
    • Civil law
    • Courts
    • Crime
    • Education
    • Schools
  • Research Briefing

    Collective or class actions

    Monday, 07 December, 2009

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law
  • Research Briefing

    Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill [HL]: Committee stage report

    Wednesday, 28 October, 2009

    Report on the House of Commons second reading and Bill committee stages of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Bill (HL) 2008-09. It complements Research Paper 09/78 prepared for Commons second reading. The Bill received cross-party support in Second Reading Committee and there was no debate in Public Bill Committee.

    • Research Briefing
    • Civil law

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