Hundreds of staff at the Inner London Magistrates Court will receive a 3.3 per cent pay rise after a strike ballot forced a U-turn on government ministers. Gary Streeter, parliamentary secretary to the LCD, had previously blocked the pay rise, which unions had agreed with the local courts management. But after a strike ballot, organised by the public service unions PTC and CPSA, Treasury minister Michael Jack agreed to honour the agreement.
In brief: Lovells beats challenge to development
Lovell White Durrant has helped defeat a High Court challenge by a group of Camden residents which fought plans for a development scheme. Planning permission for the mixed office, retail and residential scheme had been challenged by the residents in the High Court on the grounds that the inspector had applied the wrong tests in […]
