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06/09/2010	Graeae Theatre wins British Council Offices award
31/08/2010	Special Alert: July/August 2010
07/07/2010	Chris Randall secures rugby star right to remain in the UK
06/07/2010	New online resource makes it easier to set up voluntary organisations and social enterprises
30/06/2010	Special Alert: June 2010
30/04/2010	Special Alert: April 2010
29/04/2010	Coleman v Attridge Law: Settlement
26/04/2010	ITV's London Tonight Featuring Sharon Coleman's Groundbreaking Disability Discrimination Case
26/04/2010	Trustees Unlimited launches a new Basic Service
01/04/2010	Lucy McLynn appears on BBC News at 10
26/04/2010	Public & Regulatory Law News Update
01/04/2010	Bates Wells & Braithwaite breaks though the 300 mark in Top Charities League Table
31/03/2010	Special Alert: March 2010
10/03/2010	Out of the Dogghouse: Snoop Dogg wins again in his appeal against refusal of entry clearance
09/03/2010	Bates Wells "hip hop lawyer" wins Snoop Dogg immigration battle - The Lawyer
02/03/2010	Rapper Can Enter U.K., Court Rules - The Wall Street Journal
01/03/2010	Equal Opportunities Review report on Muhammed v Leprosy Mission
28/02/2010	Special Alert: February 2010
23/02/2010	In the Dogg House: Snoop Seeks to End His Ban in UK - Wall Street Journal
22/02/2010	Association of Colleges HR Conference
18/02/2010	Marine Stewardship Council appoints three new Independent Adjudicators
01/02/2010	New charity British Waterways 'would be UK's 13th-biggest' - from Civil Society Governance
31/01/2010	Special Alert: January 2010
22/01/2010	Public & Regulatory Law News Update - Jan 2010
01/01/2010	Breach of competition law results in company suing its former employees
01/01/2010	BAA Limited v Competition Commission
12/11/2009	Coverage of the Sharon Coleman case in the Law Society Gazette
05/11/2009	Sue Kukadia recommended and Chris Randall Ranked #1 by Chambers UK Legal Directory
03/11/2009	Launch of Trustees UnLimited LLP
29/10/2009	Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP visits BWB on 29th October 2009 for a “Civil Society and Climate Change” breakfast seminar.
20/10/2009	BWB proud sponsors of the Honourary Treasurers Forum
25/09/2009	Andrew Phillips wins the Luke FitzHerbert Lifetime Achievement Award - from Third Sector
06/04/2009	Bates Wells & Braithwaite tops RCM Top 3000 Charities league table
16/03/2009	Pension Funds Class Action Against RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland)
17/03/2009	Bates Wells & Braithwaite acts to save “Tribune” magazine
13/02/2009	Important Court of Appeal Decision Regarding Football Agents
29/01/2009	BWB appointed lead legal consultant in major project to review functions of Guyanese Government's Ministry of Legal Affairs and Director of Public Prosecution
19/01/2009	Edward Pitt joins BWB as a consultant in our Public & Regulatory Law department
31/12/2008	Philip Trott hits The Hot 100
12/11/2009	Coleman v Attridge Law
27/11/2008	Coleman Press Release
19/11/2008	INHERITANCE TAX - Shared NRB goes unheeded, by Rose Phelps
08/10/2008	BWB launches National Poetry Day !
09/10/2008	Busta Trotts out of custody
06/10/2008	Head of Immigration, Philip Trott, in "Rapper vs Police Gun Showdown"
09/09/2008	Legal 500 places BWB Charity team into a new sole top rank
01/08/2008	BWB advise on Fiorelli deal
27/06/2008	Victory for Overseas Domestic Workers
24/04/2008	Decision to deny Snoop Dog a UK Visa overruled by Court Judge
29/02/2008	New Points Based System for Immigrants
06/02/2008	Lasting Powers of Attorney - The Way Forward
06/02/2008	Finance Act 2006 – Time for Urgent Action on Existing Trusts before 6th April 2008
16/01/2008	Private Schools Told, You Can't be an Exclusive Club - and a Charity, The Times
22/11/2007	Inheritance Tax - The Proposed Transferable Nil Rate Band
02/08/2007	Civil Partnerships – and Wills
31/07/2007	Finance Act 2006 – Reviewing Your Will
23/05/2007	Report by Advisory Group on Campaigning and the Voluntary Sector, chaired by Helena Kennedy QC
16/03/2007	New! "Charities - The New Law 2006; A Practical Guide to the Charities Acts" (by Stephen Lloyd and a team of specialist contributors from BWB); Jordans New Law Series
07/02/2007	BWB have lodged an application for judicial review on behalf of HSMP Forum
26/01/2007	Landmark UK disability discrimination test case to be featured on BBC Breakfast – Saturday 27th January 7am-10am
11/01/2007	HSMP (Highly Skilled Migrant Programme) Demonstration Clip
01/01/2007	Lucy McLynn listed in the Hot 100
31/10/2006	Disability Discrimination Law - The Times, 31st Oct 2006
22/09/2006	Age Discrimination Law - The Times, 22nd Sept 2006
12/06/2006	Bates Wells Takes Legal Secretary's Disability Fight to European Court - The Lawyer, 12th June 2006
21/12/2006	Edward Fennell in the City: Illegal Poetry - The Times
13/12/2006	New rules for managing access to the UK labour market by Romanians and Bulgarians
09/11/2006	Further Breakfast Seminars - Following the success of the breakfast seminars held in the summer of 2006, we will be running further breakfast seminars in January/February 2007.
09/11/2006	HSMP changes for initial and extension applications - On 7 November 2006 the Home Office announced a change in the Rules for the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP).
08/11/2006	The Charities Act 2006 received Royal Assent on 8th November 2006
08/11/2006	European Court of Justice case for BWB Employment Team - Bates Wells and Braithwaite's employment team working with Paul Michell of Cloisters has secured a reference to the European Court of Justice.
29/10/2006	The Times - Age Discrimination - Lucy McLynn was quoted and BWB was mentioned in an article which discussed the “ill defined” age discrimination laws.
02/03/2006	Most Visual Deal - BW&B advised Alphason Designs on its sale to Armour Group for up to £20 million.
22/02/2006	Sketch Stephen Left Bubbling - Two of the voluntary sector's most luminous figures, Lord Phillips of Sudbury and Acevo boss Stephen Bubb, were pitted head-to-head at the Kingston Smith-sponsored Chase exhibition over the vexed issue of payment to trustee.
08/02/2006	Peacock Hints at a Commission - Ethical investment by charities does not have to be 'mission-related', Geraldine Peacock, chair of the Charity Commision, said last week.
01/01/2006	Cello Group Buys Field Management - Insight Medical Research Ltd, a subsidiary of Cello Group, has acquired the business and assets of Field Management Ltd (FML) for up to £865,000 in cash and shares.
07/12/2005	New Code of Practice sets the standards on contracts- The code includes a new Model Contract that has been developed by Julian Blake of BW&B.
23/11/2005	Price-fixing by independent schools affect the public benefit debate in the Charities Bill - comments by Lord Phillips of Sudbury.
01/11/2005	Public benefit amendment defeated in the Lords - An ammendment to the Charities Bill requiring the Charity Commission to consider the effect on public benefit of the charging policy of any charity was lost to a vote at report stage in the House of Lords.
19/10/2005	Kid glove "treatment for Kingsway" - Should a free-spending evangelical pastor has faced more severe punishment?
28/09/2005	Community interest companies "should benefit from tax reliefs" - The Department of Trade & Industry officially launched community interest companies past week, amid calls for them to granted tax reliefs.
22/09/2005	Legal architect of community interest companies hits out at S&M group's bid - CICs are in danger of being 'brought into disrepute' by a sadomasochist group that offers a legal referral service to its members.
01/09/2005	Charities Bill latest - The Charities Bill received its second reading in the House of Lords before the summer recess.
25/05/2005	Bill unchanged on public benefit issue - The latest version of the Charities Bill includes several concessions on points raised in the House of Lords before the general election.
30/03/2005	Bill could force the publication of group accounts - The Government is considering an ammendment to the Charities Bill to oblige charities to publish group accounts.
23/02/2005	Intense time pressure on Charities Bill - The NCVO has written to the Government and the main opposition parties urging them to make sure that the Charities Bill completes its remaining Parliamentary stages and becomes law before the general election.
02/02/2005	Charities Bill volte-face - Liberal Democrat peer and charity lawyer Lord Phillips tabled an ammendment to the bill last week, with the support of the NCVO.
01/02/2005	Minor changes in Charities Bill - A new draft of the Charities Bill published at the end of last year received its second reading in the House of Lords last month.