The timing of the study is embarrassing for the Government coming just days after it launched a report dismissing the existence of the North-South

The timing of the study is embarrassing for the Government, coming just days after it launched a report dismissing the existence of the North-South divide and head off criticisms that Labour has done little to reduce the poverty gap.The JFR report shows that there are large regional variations with twice the proportion of people living on benefits in the North-east compared with the South-east.The researchers from the NPI looked at 48 key poverty indicators, including numbers of people on benefits, children living in workless households, adult job insecurity and low rates of pay, and found that only 15 showed any improvement. A picture of persistent inequalities has emerged from the first independent assessment of the Government’s poverty record, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and conducted by the New Policy Institute(NPI).
The number of families and individuals living on low incomes has risen to 8 million, close to record levels reached earlier in the decade. THE GAP between the richest and poorest in Britain widened in the first year of the Labour Government, with a million more people earning less than two fifths of the national average income. If it had not , the court was content to follow the guidance of Nourse LJ in Parker-Tweedale v Dunbar Bank plc (No 2) [1990] 2 All ER 588 and of Carnwath J at first instance in Ezekiel v Orakpo (4 November 1994, unreported).Accordingly, the claimants’ costs, to be assessed if not agreed, should be paid out of the proceeds of sale of the properties.Kate O’Hanlon,Barrister.

Those rules were not found in section 1(1), but rather in the common law applicable to equitable chargees generally, applied to charging orders by section 3(4).It was not clear whether the issue of adding costs to the amounts secured by a charging order had actually been before the Court of Appeal in Ezekiel v Orakpo [1996] 3 All ER 659 If it had been, the court was bound by that decision. .”; that, therefore, charging orders could only be made in respect of ascertained indebtedness; and that it followed that a sum due in respect of untaxed costs could not be added to a charging order.Stephen Atherton (Wakefields) for the claimants; Adam Goodison (Morgan Cole) for the trustee in bankruptcy.Mr Justice Evans-Lombe said that the submissions of the trustee in bankruptcy involved a confusion between the rules which governed the nature of the debts in respect of which there was a power to make charging orders under section 1(1) of the Act, and the rules which applied to the holder of a charging order and which governed what right he had to add to the security conferred by the charging order further sums for interest and costs. In the meantime a bankruptcy order had been made against the landlord. The claimants issued a summons seeking an order that the costs of the proceedings to enforce the charging order be paid out of the proceeds of sale of the properties.Section 3(4) of the Charging Orders Act, provided that:Subject to the provisions of this Act, a charge imposed by a charging order shall have the like effect and shall be enforceable in the same courts and in the same manner as an equitable charge created by the debtor by writing under his hand.It was submitted for the landlord’s trustee in bankruptcy, inter alia, that section 3(4) was subject to the provisions of section 1(1) of the Act, which empowered the court to make a charging order for the purpose of “securing the payment of any money due or to become due under the judgment. Leave to rejoin the transferees to the proceedings was granted and it was ordered that issues be tried as between the claimants on the one hand and the landlord and the transferees on the other.Those proceedings resulted in an order for possession and sale of the properties against the transferees. The claimants commenced proceedings against the landlord and the transferees seeking to set aside the dealings with the properties which their searches had revealed and orders for possession and sale of the properties by way of enforcement of the charging order.The judge made an order in favour of the claimants against the landlord for sale of the properties.

A charging order was made over the properties in respect of that judgment, and cautions were duly lodged at the Land Registry on behalf of the claimants.Thereafter, searches against the registered titles of the properties revealed applications by the landlord to register transfers of the title to the properties, and the grant by the landlord of ten long leases in relation to the properties. The court ruled that the claimants were entitled to have their costs paid of the proceeds of sale of properties in respect of which charging orders had been made.
The claimants, who were long leaseholders of various flats in a number of converted properties, obtained judgment against their landlord in respect of breaches of leasehold covenants by him. WHERE PROCEEDINGS were necessary in order to enforce a charging order, the costs of those proceedings were payable out of the proceeds of sale of the property charged. The Old English form, camell, comes via Latin and Greek from Hebrew (in which perhaps it meant to bear), but there is, via another strand of Teutonic languages, an unexplained link with the Greek and Latin for elephant, which led to the camel also being known as an olfend until the 13th century – overlooked by Johnson, who gives camel and dromedary two of his longest definitions and quotes Thomson: “even the camel feels, / Shot through his wither’d heart, the firy blast”.. IS THE new Oxford Dictionary of Quotations right to credit Alex Issigonis with the phrase “a camel is a horse designed by a commitee”? One had assumed it current before he found fame with his idiosyncratic motor-car, the Mini

The word camel has a global committee behind it.

Probably the best thing about Delia – apart from promoting English apples while also raising money for children and shifting 11 million BBC cookbooks over the past 20 years – is her ability to tap into the zeitgeist and make copper-bottomed suggestions on how to keep our peckers up.For Delia is the lady who once said (vegetarians should look away now): “If you feel depressed or let down, if you are suffering from the pressures of life or simply having a grey day, my advice is to roast a chicken.”And you know, it really works.. If only she would release a single right now – it would be zoom straight to number one.Last year, when one particular hair-gel smothered chef slated Delia’s back-to-basics techniques as “offensive” and “insulting” – for his own ends, I might add, as he had a recipe book of his own to promote – Ms Smith refused to join the fray, remaining demurely silent in response How refreshing How Delia. Her latest, How to Cook: Book Two, published this Thursday has record advanced orders of 850,000 copies. It is to the nation’s credit that there will be 50,000 more copies of her product in circulation than Cliff Richard’s appalling Millennium Prayer.