One Crown Office Row Mini Podcast: Recent Episodes
One Crown Office Row
One Crown Office Row is one of the largest and most highly regarded barristers Chambers in England. It provides a wealth of free legal information (including details of recent cases and articles) through the resource section of their website at www.1cor.com. This also contains recorded versions of their talks, available as podcasts, which are normally accredited for solicitors or barristers under their relevant “Continuing Professional Development” (CPD) schemes.
They also run the unique Human Rights Update website at www.humanrights.org.uk which is also accessible through the main website. This contains over 900 commentaries on human rights cases, updated twice monthly, in a fully searchable format – all free of charge. This site has been recognised as one of the best free online legal services.
Chambers has regularly been listed by Legal Directories and journals as being among the country’s top 20. It currently has over 90 barristers, including 17 QCs, practising in London and in an Annexe in Brighton.
In London, Directories recognise it as having leading practitioners in a wide range of specialisms including clinical negligence, professional disciplinary work, personal injury, public and administrative law, public inquiries, human rights, healthcare, environmental law, matrimonial finance and property, professional negligence, costs and VAT and duties. Members also have successful practices in employment and equality law, immigration and asylum, multi-party actions, technology and construction and sports law.
In Brighton, Members practice in family and criminal law and in a wide range of civil law including landlord and tenant.
The first talk focuses on the origins of Article 9 and the justification for the protection it affords. The second talk addresses the relationship between Article 9 and religious dress. The third addresses religious education.
The case is important for all clinical negligence and personal injury practitioners in particular. The Court was to decide whether it is appropriate for periodical payments for future care and case management to be index-linked not to RPI but to an earnings related measure, namely ASHE 6115, and to give guidance as to the correct approach to deciding how to allocate heads of damage between lump sum and periodical payments.
The talks are titled –
UU and all that: how to intepret a Directive (by David Hart QC) Waste not, want not: the definition of waste and the new Waste Framework (by Rachel Marcus) Directive Nuisance, Negligence and Human Rights: when does the statutory process preclude a cause of action? (by Jeremy Hyam)
The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 imposed a Disability Equality Duty on all public authorities from December 2006 and makes an understanding of discrimination law vital for anybody who undertakes public law cases.
The Adoption and Children Act 2002 is also now in force. Special Guardianship, Residence Orders and Adoption are all options available in private and public law cases - as the first cases reach the Court of Appeal, how are they being approached? What of step-parent adoption/parental responsibility for the new partner?
Where things have gone wrong and offenders or patients have committed serious crimes after release, there has been intense public scrutiny. The pressures on those involved with administering the system are now immense. These talks analyse these developments and offer the practitioner guidance as to how best to adapt to these changes.
Four speakers from 1 Crown Office Row are joined by Professor Andrews for this seminar. The issue addressed are negligence liability for regulators; the way statutory immunities do or do not work; misfeasance liability after the BCCI case; EU liability and the interplay between accountability, liability and control.
The issues addressed include the extent of the liability; recent cases on public authority liability; European influences on English case law; how causation and breach now apply; related developments in clinical negligence and the Law Commissions work on public authority liability.