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Local taxing districts that include Southlake Mall likely will have to pay millions of dollars in refunds after a long-running property tax assessment dispute was resolved in the malls favor.

Once the Local Authorities and Police and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/392, which permitted local authority meetings to be held remotely (in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic), ceased to apply, such meetings had to take place at a single, specified geographical location; attending a meeting at such a location meant physically going to it; and being ‘present’ at such a meeting ...

In the latest episode of Legal Eagle, Sr Advocate Gaurav Pachnanda recalled his experience representing J&K at the SC and rekindled memories of Arun Jaitley

The Colorado Court of Appeals rendered an interesting decision in March 2020: The central issue focused upon the assignment of an impairment rating by the treating physician. The Court recognized that the American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment have been in use for years, and that reference to various editions of those Guides may result in various impairment ratings for the same malady and complaints. It is somewhat intriguing as consistency is one of the...

An Overview Of Vicarious Liability Under Section 149 Of IPC Share This - x An "Offence" shall mean any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force as defined in Section 3(38) of the General Clauses Act. Section 40 of the Indian Penal Code, inter alia, defines the word "Offence" denoting a thing made punishable by this Code. Article 20(1) of the Indian Constitution by guaranteeing as a fundamental right, mandates that no person shall be convicted of any offence...

The Florida First District recently rendered Mobley v. Fussell, 1D19-4286, regarding the intriguing topic of whether a court clerk might charge someone for copies of public records. Please do not tune out just yet, as the analysis delves far deeper than the seeming banality of copy costs, and is actually a somewhat intriguing and educational expose of the process of statutory analysis. As an aside, this matter came to the Court as a "mandamus petition." Mandamus is one of the extraordinary wri...

George Hepburne-Scott Prior to our departure by far the highest volume of extradition cases were through the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) scheme. The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was signed on the 24 December 2020 and came into force at 11:01pm on 31 December 2020. Among other things, the TCA created a new extradition warrant called simply the Arrest Warrant (AW). The AW surrender arrangements are contained in Title VII of Part 3 in the TCA. Legislatively, as incorporated into t...