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…
By Emma
Notwithstanding the suggestive title of this article, there is nothing sexy about the termination of employment. However, the publication of the arguably eye-watering pay-outs received by civil servants leaving the States and the follow up report from the Comptroller and Auditor General this month examining the States’ use of “golden…
By Emma
The media is awash with stories of Rachman-esque landlords charging their tenants extortionate rents for substandard and even hazardous accommodation. In some instances, the moniker “rogue” landlord may be well-deserved. However, at the other end of the spectrum are the reasonable (and lesser reported) landlords who are simply seeking to…
By Emma
What a busy start to Spring generally for Jersey Plc and, indeed, our own unique legal world. Obviously all news has been dominated by the so-called Panama Papers about which I will comment on more in another edition, once the moral tub thumpers have gone away to bang on another…
By Emma
I am going to start this column off with a question that I suspect has never been asked: what do Simon Cowell and Jacques Barzun have in common? For the uninitiated, Cowell is a popular music/tv impresario who wears high waisted slacks. Barzun was a French-born American historian, famous for…
