Nullity goes up; legal aid cuts no ice; homicide in Court of Appeal.
NIKAH NULLITY NEWS
The impacting judgment in Akhter v Khan and another [2018] EWFC 54 (see NLJ 19 October 2018, p14) is going to the Court of Appeal to be reassuringly listed by 7 February 2020. However, it is the intervening Attorney- General who is taking it there having been granted permission to appeal on paper and with Deepak Nagpal retained for the appeal. Paula Rhone-Adrien who represented the husband below tells me that he and the wife have come to terms and so there was no further appeal permission sought for him.
SYMPATHY FOR LEGAL AID CUTS: NOTHING ELSE!
Your tax was due on 31 January 2019, my self-employed friends. If you have failed to pay, read on. For the purpose of this therapy, I will call you the taxpayer although, in reality, you are the taxnonpayer.
Late payment penalties can be appealed to the first tier tribunal of the tax chamber with a further appeal to the chamber’s upper tribunal. Either can quash the
