The High Court recently declined to lift a stay of the hearing of an application for the enforcement, under the Arbitration Act 1996, of certain arbitral awards and a related jurisdictional objection by the respondent (Russia) on grounds of sovereign immunity. Among other things, a court's powers under the Arbitration Act to order an adjournment of proceedings and the payment of security are not applicable where there is an unresolved state immunity challenge under the State Immunity Act.
Suffolk Constabulary Can t Appeal Matchday Policing Costs Ruling
Friday, 2nd Feb 2018 23:04
In the initial High Court hearing in July 2016 Mr Justice Green ruled that Suffolk Constabulary should have charged Town for policing two roads bordering the ground on matchdays (Portman Road and Sir Alf Ramsey Way) during the period 2008 to 2013.
The police had argued that the policing of the roads was inseparably linked to that inside the stadium and was therefore the club’s responsibility, while Town claimed the charges were unlawful.
Ruling in the police s favour, Mr Justice Green stated that the policing provided amounted to “special police services .
All the investigations engulfing Liverpool Council and the city s development scene
A number of probes, some criminal, have been launched into business activity in Liverpool over recent years
Updated (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo) The arrest of Joe Anderson came as part of a long-running probe into building and development contracts in Liverpool.
The city mayor was questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation in the third wave of arrests linked to Merseyside Police s Operation Aloft. The investigation is the latest to have been launched in response to allegations linked to either Liverpool Council s business activity or the city s development scene.