By Emma
All is well with the world. The football season has now commenced. We will have wall to wall coverage of all things football over the next 10 months. Mr Murdoch’s revolution of our football watching habits is in stark contrast to the position in the 80s when we scrabbled around…
By Emma
In an important Judgment published earlier this month, the Royal Court has provided clarification to the complex area of “Insolvent” Trusts. As the Court itself noted, it is, strictly speaking, a misnomer to call a trust insolvent, given that a trust is not a separate legal entity and cannot, as…
By Emma
What are you currently doing? Well, if you are interested, I am sitting here at my desk on a typically cold Jersey summer morning looking through Judgments on the Jersey Legal Information Board website. I have happened upon a 16 page Judgment delivered by our Learned Bailiff. Experience dictates that…
By Emma
The Brexit referendum result of 23 June 2016 and the consequent negotiations of Brexit have the clear potential to compel Jersey to emerge as an independent state if fundamental rights of Jersey residents and are preserved in the Brexit negotiations. Jersey, unlike Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not…
By Emma
I understand that the spin merchants employed by Governments throughout the world often deploy a tactic whereby they take advantage of “a good day to bury bad news”. I recall that the Blair Labour Government came under some scrutiny in 2001 when the Government’s press office department received an email…
By Emma
Two Jersey Judgments, some two years apart, Tantular & Others v AG [2014] JRC128 and AG v Rosenlund and Another [2016] JRC062 have held that there is no realisable property that can be subject to a seizure order under Jersey’s International standard proceeds of crime confiscation provisions in a validly…
