Issue: Vol 160, Issue 7414

The guideline hourly rates for solicitors have been increased on the basis of “insubstantial” evidence, according to a leading costs barrister.

Bressol and others v Gouvernement de la Communaute francaise Chaverot and others v Gouvernement de la Communaute francaise C-73/08, [2010] All ER (D) 48 (Apr)

Union of European Football Association and another v Euroview, [2010] All ER (D) 87 (Apr)

Jones v Environcom Ltd and another. MS PLC t/a Miles Smith Insurance Brokers, third party, [2010] EWHC 759 (Comm), [2010] All ER (D) 76 (Apr)

R (on the application of March) v Secretary of State for Health, [2010] EWHC 765 (Admin), [2010] All ER (D) 93 (Apr)

David Cameron describes the forthcoming election as: “The most important election for a generation.” But, how important is it for property professionals?

The Daily Mail was keen on Lord Judge’s Judicial Studies Board lecture. It linked his caution on the use of judgments of the Strasbourg European Court of Human Rights to David Cameron’s policies to strengthen British sovereignty. Lord Judge himself, though he uttered the usual judicial disclaimers (“political debate is not for a holder of judicial office”), can hardly have been surprised. He dealt with politically touchy matters—the role of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and that of the European Court of Justice. On the former, he entered the murky waters of the authority to be accorded by the domestic courts to judgments of the Strasbourg court.

Charles Pigott predicts more uncertainty for agency workers

Despite media hype courts are reluctant to extend the categories of liability to occupiers. Roddy Macleod explains why

Energy performance certificates—ignored or disregarded? asks Malcolm Dowden