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text: summer 2015 hilldickinson.com/localauthorities Growing pains Page 4 Public procurement regime - reboot 2015 Page 10 Claiming inquest costs in civil proceedings - a new era of scrutiny Page 8 >>> continues on page 2 keeping it local local authority legal update What is fundamental dishonesty? The concept of fundamental dishonesty was introduced by CPR 44.16(1) as an exception to qualified one way costs shifting (QOCS) in personal injury claims. A claimant will not benefit from QOCS if, on application by the defendant, they are found to have been fundamentally dishonest. In such circumstances, an order for costs may be enforced against the claimant. The term has since been incorporated into section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015. This section came into force on 13 April 2015 and applies to all proceedings issued on or after that date. It will take a while for claims to filter through, however those defending personal injury claims should familiarise themselves with the new rules so as to be ready when they do. What does the new law say? Section 57 places a duty on courts to strike out a personal injury claim, if, on application by the defendant, the court is satisfied on a balance of probabilities that the claimant has been fundamentally dishonest. Points to bear in mind: • Personal injury includes any disease or impairment of a person's physical or mental condition. • The dishonesty can relate to the primary claim, or a related claim. A related claim is defined as a claim for damages in respect of personal injury which is made either in connection with the same incident or series of incidents with which the primary claim is made, and is made by a person other than the person who made the primary claim. • Dismissal of the personal injury claim under section 57 will only be considered if the defendant makes an application. • In considering an application, the court is afforded some discretion in cases where a strike-out would cause the claimant to suffer substantial injustice. 'Substantial injustice' is not defined. • If a claim is struck out under this section, then the court must record the amount that the claimant would have received for any genuine element of the claim had it not been dismissed. The claimant will be ordered to pay the defendant's costs, but the amount recorded for the genuine element will be deducted from the amount that the claimant will have to pay. On 13 April 2015, section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 came into force. It places an obligation on courts to strike out personal injury claims found to be fundamentally dishonest, as Stratos Gatzouris summarises. Fundamental dishonesty - new rules for personal injury claims Court fee increase On 9 March 2015, a controversial increase to court fees came into force, dramatically increasing the cost of issuing a civil claim. Issue fees now include a 5% levy on all claims over £10,000, up to and including claims valued at £200,000. The maximum court fee payable is £10,000. The increase will affect all claims, from personal injury to costs and uninsured loss recovery. For example: Value of claim Court fee pre-9 March 2015 Court fee as of 5 March 2015 £50,000 £610 £2500 £100,000 £910 £5000 £200,000+ £1315 £10,000 Various legal professional bodies including the Law Society have challenged the increase on the basis that it impedes access to justice, and threatened to commence proceedings for judicial review. The Law Society has now confirmed that it will not pursue those proceedings but does intend to continue to lobby the new Government to reconsider the increased fees. Lisa Walker firstname.lastname@example.com 2 Welcome Welcome to the latest edition of keeping it local, Hill Dickinson's local authority legal update. We trust that you will find this both an enjoyable and informative read. We have included the usual selection of articles from across the range of disciplines in which we specialise for our public sector clients. You will have seen that on the front page we have considered a new statutory provision with relevance to personal injury claims that you suspect to have been brought dishonestly. Anyone dealing with these claims should read up on this developing picture. Also in the claims arena, on page 6 I consider the current position in the public sector following the civil justice reforms - where are we now two years down the line? In other articles, Ian Carroll reviews a recent limitation decision of great relevance to those handling allegations of historic abuse, Paul Edwards tells us about one of his recent costs successes concerning inquest costs claimed in civil proceedings, and Mark Fitzgibbon and James Clayton review the new public procurement regulations. On the property front, Nicholas Pye and Andrew White consider review recent changes to selective licensing provisions. We hope that you will enjoy this edition of keeping it local. If you would like any more information about the areas covered, would like to discuss the issues featured in more detail or make suggestions for what you would like to see covered in future editions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us - by phone, by email or come and find us at our stand at the Alarm 2015 National Educational Forum! Best wishes, Sarah Swan Senior Associate Head of Local Authority Group firstname.lastname@example.com What constitutes fundamental dishonesty? There is no definition of fundamental dishonesty in the Act. However, the concept was considered in the context of QOCS in the case of Gosling -v- Screwfix in 2014: • Dishonesty that is 'incidental' or 'collateral' to the claim is not fundamental. • Dishonesty that goes to the 'whole or a substantial part' of the claim is fundamental. • Significant exaggeration and/or misrepresentation of the extent of ongoing symptoms is dishonesty, but only exaggeration or misrepresentation that equates to around half the value of the claim is likely to constitute fundamental dishonesty. • You do not need to plead fraud for the court to make a finding of fundamental dishonesty (Oana -v- O'Duinn and Aviva, 2015). It remains to be seen whether fundamental dishonesty for the purposes of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 will be applied in the same way. During debate in the House of Lords regarding section 57 Lord Faulks suggested that judges: '…. will know exactly what the clause is aimed at - not the minor inaccuracy about bus fares or the like, but something that goes to the heart.' This is a developing area to keep a close eye on if you deal regularly with personal injury claims that you suspect are being pursued spuriously. We will keep you updated in future editions! Stratos Gatzouris firstname.lastname@example.com >>> continued from page 2 2015 Legal background Before January 2008, people bringing personal injury claims arising from alleged deliberate assaults had to do so within a rigid non-extendable six year window. Otherwise, their claim was barred under section 2 of the Limitation Act 1980. Therefore, someone who had been sexually abused as a child had until his or her 24th birthday to bring a claim i.e. within six years of them attaining majority. However, in 2008 in the case of A -v- Hoare the House of Lords decided that these claims fell under section 11 of the Act. It was held that victims of alleged deliberate assaults now had a 'more generous' three year period in which to bring a claim. The generosity of this shorter period arose because it also meant that section 33 of the Act now applied. Section 33 permits the court to override the limitation period where it is equitable to do so. This was seen as a welcome development for victims of historic sexual abuse, for whom a rigid six year limitation period had been an insurmountable hurdle. Not surprisingly, the result has been a flurry of claims arising from abuse alleged where claimants, despite long delays, are seeking to persuade the court to exercise its discretion in their favour. Facts RE (the claimant) alleged that her father GE (the defendant) had sexually abused her as a child between 1974 and 1982. She complained on numerous occasions of the alleged abuse, most notably during her parents' divorce proceedings, during which her mother had relied on the alleged abuse as evidence of the defendant's unreasonable behaviour. Nonetheless, the claimant did not ultimately issue a civil claim until 2012; 26 years after attaining her majority and almost five years after the Hoare judgment to which her solicitors had promptly alerted her. The judge at first instance, HHJ Harris QC, declined to exercise his discretion under section 33 to extend the limitation period and therefore dismissed her claim. The claimant appealed. Court of Appeal judgment The claimant appealed on four grounds. All were rejected by McCombe LJ in his leading judgment. The claimant's first ground was that the judge had applied the wrong test under section 33 of the Act by not considering whether a fair trial was still possible, but rather asking whether it was fair to the defendant to face such a trial. LJ McCombe stated that the test under section 33 was whether it 'would be equitable to allow the action to proceed'. He considered that this was no different a question from the question HHJ Harris asked, namely whether it is fair in all the circumstances for the trial to take place. McCombe LJ added that this question can only be decided with reference to all the circumstances. These include the factors set out in section 33 as well as factors specific to the case. All are potentially important though their intensity will vary from case to case. The claimant's second ground was that the judge erred in stating that the section 33 discretion was only to be exercised in exceptional cases. However, McCombe LJ found that the judge had not said any more than that the claimant was asking for the 'exceptional indulgence' of proceeding outside the limitation period. The third ground was that the judge had failed to consider the balance of prejudice. In rejecting this, McCombe LJ noted that the judge had in fact recognised that the memories of the parties could not be supposed to have dimmed, but also correctly weighed in the balance the loss of some evidence. The claimant's fourth and final ground was that the judge had erred in finding that the reasons for the delay had not been adequately explained. In rejecting this ground, McCombe LJ emphasised that while it might have been possible to explain away some of the early period following the claimant's 18th birthday, it was quite impossible to do so for the period after 2008, when it was clearly incumbent upon the claimant and her solicitors to proceed with despatch. Although much of the near five year delay was caused by problems obtaining a report from the first medical expert, there is no evidence that the claimant was anxious about the progress of her claim. As a result, the judge was fully entitled to conclude that there was a lack of good reason for the delay. Consequences Although the Court of Appeal did not appear to take into account the entire period of the claimant's delay, and not just the post-Hoare period, this is clearly a helpful judgment for defendants. This is particularly so where there is evidence that a claimant took legal advice following Hoare, or indeed where a claimant has issued a letter of claim but has then failed to issue proceedings promptly and without any reasonable explanation for the further delay. Ian Carroll firstname.lastname@example.com Limitation in abuse cases - putting causes of action onto a shelf keeping it local summer 2015 3 In the recent case of RE -v- GE, the Court of Appeal provided some welcome guidance on limitation in abuse claims. Ian Carroll considers the decision and likely impact on both claimants and defendants. Growing pains 4 Community Right to Bid As the fledgling scheme finds its feet, Bill Chandler assesses its impact so far and considers recent proposals for change. The Community Right to Bid was introduced in England two and a half years ago, empowering communities to protect cherished local amenities by nominating them as Assets of Community Value (ACV). Once listed as an ACV, a moratorium on disposal of up to six months affords valuable time for the community to negotiate their purchase and thereby preserve them, but restricts the landowner's traditional freedom. An emerging picture After a slow start, it took just over a year to reach the one thousand mark. The number of ACV listings is now rising steadily, but still represents a tiny fraction of eligible properties. Village shops and pubs were touted from the outset as obvious candidates and as such figure prominently, although ten times as many pubs have been nominated than shops. With influential consumer group CAMRA rallying loyal customers to protect their 'local', pubs are overwhelmingly the largest category of ACVs and account for one third of all listings. Under-threat public services such as libraries, community centres and sports facilities are also well-represented among the wide variety of ACVs listed so far. Unexpected surprises include the number of professional football stadia that have been listed, including Old Trafford and Anfield. What football teams share with pubs, of course, is a passionate fan base and effective supporters' groups. Differences of opinion On the whole, local authorities seem happy to accept most nominations. The wide definition of an ACV is largely selffulfilling: if the community cares enough to nominate an asset, then it is almost by definition an ACV. Several landowners have appealed against ACV listings, with mixed results. The first legal challenge saw the tribunal uphold the ACV listing of the closed Chesham Arms in Hackney, despite the owner's protestations that it is no longer financially viable as a pub. Other challenges on similar grounds have met a comparable fate, including a publican near Bridgnorth who had unsuccessfully tried to find a 'going concern' buyer for his business for several years. Early successes Since the CRB only bites on a disposal, it will inevitably take time for ACV listings to convert into significant numbers of assets transferring into community ownership. That said, the Government has identified over 120 cases where community groups have already triggered the moratorium, but only a handful where this has led to the asset actually being acquired. The Ivy House in south London reopened as a co-operatively owned pub in August 2013 and claims to be the first building in the country successfully purchased under the CRB, taking advantage not just of the moratorium, but also the increased advice and access to funding that accompanies the CRB. The 'P' word Planning is not mentioned in the chapter of the Localism Act that introduced the CRB, or in the Regulations that implemented it, but has quickly become a key battlefield. The Government's non-statutory guidance to local authorities allows them to decide how much weight, if any, to attach to ACV status when considering planning applications. That advice has inevitably led to inconsistent outcomes. Supporters of the Chesham Arms pub in Hackney, having defeated the legal challenge to its ACV listing, found that the pub's ACV status subsequently influenced the planning inspector who rejected proposals for its conversion. They are not alone, with ACV status influencing several other planning decisions around the country. Conversely, last year's High Court case concerning the proposed redevelopment of East Meon Forge in Hampshire attracted considerable press coverage over the judge's ignorance of scoring in cricket matches, but Mrs Justice Lang also validated the planning officer's decision to attach 'negligible weight' to the property's ACV listing, citing the 'inherent limitations' of the CRB scheme. ACV status obviously has no influence where a planning application can be avoided by relying on permitted development rights. It will already be apparent that pubs are a particularly emotive sector, sitting at the very heart Growing pains of the ACV regime. However, planning permission has not been required to change the use of a pub or former pub to class A1 (shops), A2 (financial and professional services) or A3 (restaurants and cafes). Under review The Government has promised a review of all community rights during 2015, but started the year with one very specific proposal. Apparently not satisfied that the CRB moratorium is sufficient to protect the great British pub, the Government announced on 26 January that it would 'at the earliest opportunity' remove permitted development rights from pubs listed as ACVs. The following week, DCLG's Select Committee made several recommendations in its Sixth Report on Community Rights, including: • Withdrawing permitted development rights from all ACVs, not just pubs. • Clarifying that ACV status should always be a material consideration on planning applications, except for minor works. • Extending the moratorium from six to nine months, but allowing it to be terminated if the community group abandons its bid. • Allowing an appeal to the tribunal against a local authority's refusal to list. Regulations came into force on 6 April 2015 giving effect to the Government's announcement on pubs (see inset box). It will be interesting to see which of the Select Committee proposals are adopted and when, bearing in mind the recent general election. The future? Time will tell whether the CRB can establish genuine credentials as the saviour of treasured community services, or will simply act as a brake on regenerating unprofitable properties for new uses. In the meantime, a significant number of ACVs remain closed for business and any proposal to increase the impact of ACV listing, particularly on planning matters, will inevitably encourage more landowners to challenge the current liberal approach to listing. Bill Chandler firstname.lastname@example.com An earlier version of this article appeared in the Estates Gazette on 7 March 2015. Last orders? The new Regulations that took effect on 6 April 2015 remove permitted development rights for pubs that are listed as ACVs. This means that planning permission will now be required when converting such pubs to new uses or demolishing them. Even where a pub is not listed as an ACV, the developer cannot simply press ahead regardless. They must now ask the local planning authority whether the pub has been nominated and must then wait 8 weeks before implementing permitted development rights. If a nomination has been made (or is made after the request), permitted development rights are withdrawn until either: • the pub is listed as an ACV, in which case permitted development rights remain withdrawn; or • the nomination is declined, in which case permitted development rights will revive. If the developer is able to take advantage of permitted development rights, they must be fully exercised within one year of the initial request to the local planning authority. 5 keeping it local summer 2015 6 Time to take stock Even in these relatively early days in the life of the reforms, an initial picture is starting to emerge, particularly in respect of lower value claims. It is possible to analyse the impact of the reforms on those claims. However, it will take longer to assess any changes in the higher value (damages over £25,000) arena as these more complex, longer lifecycle claims will require more time to mature. Some initial observations We have compared lower value claims across our client base during the periods of 16 months before, and 16 months after, the introduction of the employers' liability and public liability portal. Our headlines are as follows: • General damages awards have increased by approximately 10%, as expected. • Claimant costs and disbursements have decreased by just over 50%. • We have recorded reduced 'notification times' (incident date to us receiving the claim) of around 10 days as claims are received via the portal. • Many clients have improved their processes so that authoritative, early decisions on liability can be made to ensure the right claims are retained within the portal. • Claims lifecycles are showing signs of reducing. In respect of the higher value claims, more time is needed to forecast the overall impact on public sector organisations. For higher value claims, cost budgeting has been introduced with the aim of reducing legal costs. However we are still seeing mixed judicial responses to the new process. While costs certainty may be more likely to be guaranteed, lower costs may not as new elements such as the claimant's percentage fee for preparing the budget are added in. What is clear from our experience is that, in spite of qualified one way costs shifting (QOCS); our clients within the public sector have not been deterred from fighting appropriate cases. Areas to watch The impact of the reforms on claims costs overall can only be measured once further time has been allowed to allow claims to mature. The public sector is exposed to a wide spectrum of claims, for example historic abuse/ failure to protect claims, where claim lifecycles tend to be longer. For the public sector, therefore, the true picture of the impact of the reforms will take longer to emerge. The coverage of the Savile revelations, and subsequent much-publicised investigations such as Operation Yewtree, have brought claims for historic abuse to the forefront of the public consciousness. We are regularly defending historic claims where claimants are stating that extensive media coverage has triggered memories of their own experiences; emboldened them to make a claim on the basis that they feel that they are more likely to be believed now; and also that they are now aware that claims can be brought for historic abuse and/ or failure to remove or protect. With the increase in justified claims for historic abuse, it is somewhat inevitable that there has been an increase in claims which may be considered to be suspect. Claimants' solicitors are actively pursuing clients in respect of claims for historic sexual abuse, particularly with regard to group actions against large organisations such as local authorities. Where abuse against one or more individuals has been proven, particularly in a criminal court, when other claimants come forward it is then very difficult to prove to a sufficient standard that other abuse has not occurred. With the introduction of QOCS, and the complexity associated with defending such claims, commercial settlements have to be considered at an early stage in such circumstances. There is much speculation in the industry regarding fraudsters switching or extending their focus from whiplash to EL and PL claims. Local authorities have reportedly seen increased injury fraud and those dealing with public sector claims must therefore be vigilant in identifying possible fraudulent claims. If it is correct that would be fraudsters are diverting their attention from whiplash to slip and trip claims, then it is not difficult to foresee that those defending claims in the public sector are more likely to be affected than those in other areas. The civil justice reforms have now had some time to bed in. Two years after implementation, what has the impact been on claims within the public sector and the claims industry overall, and what is likely to happen next? Sarah Swan reviews the emerging picture. Civil justice reforms in the public sector - where are we now? >>> 7 Since April 2006, the Housing Act 2004 has allowed local authorities to adopt selective licensing in areas affected by low demand or antisocial behaviour. Once implemented, all privately-rented dwellings within the affected area must be licensed, except where they are already licensed under the legislation relating to Houses in Multiple Occupation or benefit from an exemption (such as accommodation provided by universities or social housing providers). From 1 April 2015, local authorities must seek confirmation from the Secretary of State for any selective licensing scheme covering more than 20% of their geographical area or affecting more than 20% of privately rented homes in the local authority area. Changes are also being made to the criteria and consultation requirements. In the meantime: • several London Boroughs have already introduced selective licensing, including Newham, Brent, Barking & Dagenham and Waltham Forest; • a borough-wide scheme proposed by London Borough of Enfield was quashed by the High Court in December 2014; • Sheffield City Council adopted a selective licensing scheme for Page Hall in January 2014; • Liverpool City Council introduced a citywide scheme on 1 April 2015; and • Wirral Council is introducing a scheme on 1 July 2015, affecting four specific areas. Conversely, Manchester City Council was one of the first local authorities to adopt selective licensing but decided not to renew its own scheme when the initial five-year period expired. Nicholas Pye email@example.com Andrew White email@example.com Selective licensing has been around for several years, but has recently been back in the headlines, write residential property specialists Nicholas Pye and Andrew White. Selective evolution Evidence of the claims industry's adaptability is demonstrated by the impact of noise induced hearing loss claims, which have reportedly increased by 400% over the last four years. It is therefore vitally important to nip any adverse trends in the bud at the earliest possible opportunity, particularly given that fraudulent motor claims are now being firmly targeted. A further area that we are mindful of is the possibility of claimants seeking to portray diagnoses that are subjective, such as chronic regional pain syndromes or psychological injuries triggered by an injury. Such conditions, which may not be obvious from the outset of a claim when liability is being considered, have the potential to significantly increase the value of a claim and, hand in hand, the value to the claimant's solicitor. Longer-term predictions It is still early days in comprehensively assessing the impact of the reforms on the public sector and the full picture will develop as time goes go by. As we assess the data now across our client base, savings on lower value claims are to be welcomed, but we must be mindful that at 16 months maturity the majority of claims settled are of low value and low complexity and the costs reduction may erode as more mid to high-range value claims are concluded. As the new regime beds in, our clients are managing the new systems far more efficiently, and streamlining procedures for investigating claims and are thereafter able to take quick, fully informed, liability decisions. As processes continue to improve, the benefits of the new regime will continue to increase and our clients' reserves will continue to decrease. Sarah Swan email@example.com keeping it local summer 2015 >>> continued from page 6 8 The facts Colette Lynch was murdered by her former partner in 2005. In the lead-up to the murder, the victim and her family contacted the police on a number of occasions to seek help and there was also interaction with health and social services. The defendants were sued by the victim's mother on behalf of her estate, brother and children. The claims were eventually settled and the claimants obtained an order for costs, through which they sought to recover the costs of attending the ten day inquest. They claimed a total of £750,000 in relation to the inquest, £600,000 of which was for attendance - nearly half of the total bill for the civil claim. At the inquest the claimants were represented by senior and junior counsel, a partner and a trainee solicitor. Claiming inquest costs in civil proceedings - a new era of scrutiny Paul Edwards acted for the defendants in the costs proceedings. Here, he analyses the importance of this decision. Lynch -v- Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police, Warwickshire County Council and Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust At the end of 2014 the Senior Courts Costs Office handed down a decision setting out a welcome new approach to the recoverability of costs for attending an inquest in civil proceedings. Master Rowley has made it clear that given the recent introduction of disclosure in inquest proceedings, the courts should take a hard line when considering what costs should be allowed. The background Wrongful death claims may be linked to coroner inquests that deal with evidence relevant to the civil proceedings. In principle, inquest costs are recoverable as costs 'of and incidental' to the civil proceedings, as set out in Roach -v- Home Office. However the extent to which those costs are recoverable will depend on the specific facts of each case. Before Lynch there had been a paucity of guidance as to how this should be approached although three principles had emerged with the Gibson test stating that costs must: • be of at least potential benefit to the claimant; • relate in some way to the issues which arise or are likely to arise in the proceedings concerned; and • be attributable in some way to the defendant. The subjective nature of the test, while helpful in part, has had little impact on the levels of costs claimed. Often, parties will claim and recover huge sums for attendance by the whole litigation team at every stage of the inquest. Since the introduction of the Coroners (Inquests) Rules 2013, disclosure is now a regular part of the inquest process which means that parties have access to relevant documents and evidence outside of the hearing itself. This inevitably impacts on the need to attend the hearing. The arguments While accepting that attendance at an inquest may be justified for the purposes of gathering evidence, to recover the costs of attending a claimant must demonstrate benefit to the civil claim and that the Gibson test has been satisfied. Looking to reduce the costs claimed to a more reasonable level, we questioned the necessity and proportionality of attending, pointing out that, as a result of the disclosure that had taken place prior to the hearing, the claimants already had access to sufficient evidence in support of each particular in the civil claim. This, we said, negated the need for attendance at the inquest hearing itself. We also objected to the level of representation contending that it was unnecessary and disproportionate to have a four-strong legal team. We divided the claimant's attendance into categories inviting the court to make a ruling that no attendance by the claimant's litigation team was required on each. In response, the court considered it necessary to adopt a general approach, which, although not binding on other cases, was specifically formulated to be persuasive. To that end, the judge considered, in the context of the issue of proportionality, what would be the most efficient and cost-effective method of gathering evidence for the purpose of the civil claim. The claimants contended that events should be taken as they happened and that so long as the attendances and associated work were of some use and benefit to the civil claim they should be recoverable. However, the court adopted the approach suggested by us, extracting periods of time that were incidental to the civil claim and allowing only the reasonable costs for those aspects. The decision On the facts, the court found the claimant's costs to be globally disproportionate. Indeed, while accepting that the case commenced before the costs management regime was introduced, the judge held it to be 'inconceivable that the approach adopted by the claimants in this case would be upheld as a proportionate method of bringing these claims to a civil hearing. No case managing judge would allow sums of the magnitude claimed here to be spent in the working up of the claim before the close of pleadings in the court proceedings'. What does this mean? This decision is a remarkable success for defendants who are often faced with eye-watering bills of costs for attendance at an inquest by claimant litigation teams. While attendance should be allowed where it is of use and benefit to the civil claim, the robust approach taken in this case will hopefully serve as a tool for management of such costs, and is clearly aligned to the objective behind the civil justice reforms, of achieving proportionate costs in civil proceedings. Paul Edwards firstname.lastname@example.com 9 The detail The court took the view that any time that did not serve as evidence gathering would only be recoverable if it fell within the Gibson criteria. In this case, it did not. Time spent listening to statements fell into this category and was not recoverable. Time spent 'assisting the coroner' was also not recoverable. The judge made it clear that costs such as housekeeping, pre-inquest hearings or procedural matters are irrelevant to the civil claim and are not recoverable. This also includes time spent summing up, witness evaluation, questions to the jury and the verdict itself. The concept of use and benefit should be viewed in respect of the civil proceedings themselves and not negotiations outside of those proceedings. There was no real evidence to suggest that, in this case, the inquest verdict against the defendants ensured a settlement in the civil claim. It may have been that the evidence that came out of the inquest caused the defendants to re-evaluate their position in respect of the civil claim, but it did not affect the verdict itself. In any event, the use of evidence gathered from the inquest simply for negotiation in the civil claim is irrelevant. In terms of the level of people in attendance, the judge agreed that, for those times when attendance is required, there needs to be someone present who can ask questions when the need arises. A trainee or grade D fee earner is unlikely to be experienced enough however senior counsel would be disproportionate. A more senior solicitor or junior counsel would be appropriate. In relation to evidence from witnesses who had given evidence at earlier hearings then attendance may be necessary in the event that any witness says something different from previous statements. However, attendance for this purpose should be limited to a trainee solicitor. Finally, in response to the claimant's submission that additional attendance was needed to support and provide client care to the claimants, the judge held that this work should form part of the exceptional funding for the inquest and should not be linked to the civil claim. keeping it local summer 2015 10 Earlier this year the Cabinet Office finally published the final version of the new Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (implementing the long awaited Public Contracts Directive 2014/24/ EU) which in large part came into effect on 26 February 2015. This follows a period of relative uncertainty post-consultation which took place in September/ October 2014 in relation to the first draft regulations. So, what are the big headlines? What has changed? In short summary, while clearly this is seen as an opportunity to move along the regulatory framework to take into account changes in practice, discipline and circumstances and to make procedures quicker and simpler, in reality the changes are not necessarily as dramatic as were originally feared. We have picked up on some of the more significant changes below: Part A/Part B? The long-heralded removal of the distinction between Part A services and Part B services has materialised, albeit morphing what we traditionally understood Part B services to be into a new classification of Schedule 3 services for 'social and other specific services'. Where Schedule 3 services are being procured in excess of a value of £625,050, the only real change from current practice is that an OJEU Notice or a PIN (as a call for competition) must be used to advertise the opportunity from the outset (and, in the case of an NHS trust, if the contract value is greater than £25,000, that opportunity must also be advertised on Contracts Finder within 24 hours of the OJEU Notice or PIN being despatched). Finally, and in some ways a more significant development, is the removal of the catch-all 'other services' at the end of the existing Part B service list; the presumption moving forward will be that if a service does not come within the exhaustive Schedule 3 list, that it is otherwise subject to the full rigours of procurement. New procedures • A new 'Innovation Partnership Procedure' has been introduced for use in very specific circumstances where a contracting authority has identified a need for an innovative product, service or works that cannot be met by purchasing products, services or works already available on the market. Where this is appropriate to be used, a contracting authority is permitted to engage with a number of 'partners'; during the competition, to pay them contractually for work undertaken during the competition; to undertake the negotiation in successive stages and to reduce the numbers of participants as it proceeds. Public procurement regime - reboot 2015 • A new 'Competitive Procedure with Negotiation has been introduced (looking very similar to the old Negotiated Procedure). This new procedure includes a right to request initial and subsequent tender submissions. However, the precondition for using the procedure has been aligned exactly with the new pre-condition for use of the Competitive Dialogue Procedure which makes it difficult to understand whether one procedure is preferable over another… time will tell. New shorter mandatory time limits The mandatory minimum time limits for existing procedures, which in the main remain largely otherwise unchanged (Open Procedure, Restricted Procedure, Competitive Dialogue Procedure), have been reined back considerably: • Open - ITT - 35 days (reduced from 52), reduced by a further 15 where a PIN has been issued and a further 5 days where submissions can be made by electronic means. • Restricted - PQQ - 30 days, ITT - 30 days, reduced to 10 days where a PIN has been issued and by a further 5 days where tender submissions can be made by electronic means. • Competitive Dialogue - PQQ - 30 days. Use of PIN as call for competition While the use of the Prior Information Notice has long been a mechanism to warm up the market to planned public purchasing, the new Regulations go a step further and permit the use of the PIN itself as the call for competition, which would otherwise have been set out in an OJEU Notice. How this will work in practice will remain to be seen from a planning perspective. Codification of case law concepts For many years, we have had to rely upon EU and English case law to develop concepts for which the existing procurement law didn't make explicit provision. In recognition of the importance of the need for procurement law to be dynamic and to change with the needs of the market, various specific areas developed by case law have now been inserted into the new Regulations themselves giving certainty and clarity around these concepts: • Teckal - the 'in-house exception'; finally, the principles which have been used for many years to create public sector companies (wholly or jointly owned across public sector parents) for the provision of services back to its parents has been formally recognised; one key clarification is the insertion of a definite figure (80%) of the subsidiary's activities which must be provided back to its parents to take advantage of the exception. • Pressetext - the rules around the sorts of variations which can be made to a contract once awarded, and during its life without having to retender have been recognised and clarified • Hamburg Waste - the case which finally forced a discussion around what kinds of public/public shared service arrangements might be permitted without having to undertake a competitive procurement have been formalised. Turnover threshold limit In a move to give greater access to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to public sector contracts, a cap on turnover has been introduced as a selection criteria; unless there are exceptional circumstances (which would need to be justified), when procuring, a body cannot require a provider to have a minimum yearly turnover that exceeds twice the estimated contract value (over its life). What has stayed the same? The well-worn Open, Restricted and Competitive Dialogue Procedures remain largely intact (as does the Negotiated Procedure without Prior Publication). Perhaps most importantly, the remedies regime remains exactly as it has since being first introduced in 2009. Clearly the devil is in the detail around the changes to a certain extent, but in the main, the changes are intended to make procurement simpler and quicker, which ought to reduce the risk of challenges and to promote best practice. Well, that's the theory… Mark Fitzgibbon email@example.com James Clayton email@example.com 11 Hill Dickinson runs free half-day practical seminars considering these issues, at each of our Liverpool, Manchester, London and Sheffield offices. If you haven't been in touch with us already please email martyn. firstname.lastname@example.com to book your place. keeping it local summer 2015 Hill Dickinson at local government lawyers' annual weekend school. At the start of April Bill Chandler spoke again at the LGG weekend school, held this year at the University of Exeter. Bill's session, 'Community Right to Bid - power to the people?' considered the impact of the Community Right to Bid since it took effect in England in September 2012. Hill Dickinson regularly presents at this prestigious annual event. Last year, delegates at the event held in York heard Katie Mickleburgh and Angela Brumpton discuss social media abuses, while this will be the fourth year that Bill has spoken. 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Terri Osburn
Her Hopes and Dreams (Ardent Springs #4)
Montlake / November 15, 2016 / $12.95 print, $4.99 digital
A love for strong heroines is a frequent refrain in discussions of romance fiction, but strength can be measured in many ways. In Terri Osburn's Her Hopes and Dreams, Carrie Farmer, who has been a cheating wife with husband #1 and a battered wife with husband #2, defies the odds to become an admirable heroine, one who can stand up for herself, fight for those she loves, and reach out to help those who are where she has been find a place of sanctuary.
Carrie has been a widow for a year when the story opens. She has a job she likes, a young daughter she adores, friends who care about her, and real purpose in her commitment to seeing a women's shelter in Ardent Springs, Tennessee. She takes pride in her home, a single-wide trailer on a patch of land she bought with the life insurance of Patch Farmer, the husband who could have killed her. Carrie is not unaware of the irony of that purchase nor of the irony that she escaped from her abuser through the help extended by the woman now married to Spencer Boyd, Carrie's ex-husband (Her First and Last, Ardent Springs #1). Despite all the good things in Carrie's life, she is not free of her past. She says to her friend Lorelei Boyd, "Even after a year, Patch is like this specter that hovers in the shadows, waiting to pounce. I know he's gone, but the fear was so real for so long."
Carrie and Noah Winchester are neighbors who meet in a storm of complaints and insults. Noah's late night sessions restoring a motorcycle are keeping Carrie's baby awake, and Noah just resents having a neighbor. After four tours of duty in Afghanistan in five years, he craves solitude: "Noah had moved out here for peace and quiet. Something he desperately needed after how he's spent the last few years. War zones were never quiet. And neither were his thoughts."
He makes no effort to be tactful, especially when he realizes Carrie is the "married chick" who hooked up with his friend Patch. Within a few minutes of their first neighborly meeting, Noah expresses surprise that Patch married her, questions the paternity of her daughter, and suggests that she was unfaithful to Patch.
Carrie is angered by Noah's comments, but she reminds herself that she will no longer be bullied. She remembers the bad times and the feeling that enduring Patch's abuse was "penance for her sins or karma serving up justice for all her mistakes," and she remembers her dreams of running away from him. But she is no longer a passive figure, wishing for salvation. Now she is actively involved in saving other women who need to escape their abusers.
But there had been no salvation waiting on the horizon, and though Carrie no longer had to fear a wayward backhand, other women were still suffering. Women who had no one to count on and nowhere to run. That's why she couldn't wait for the Safe Haven Women's Shelter to open its doors.
It is that gift for empathy that Noah awakens when he has a PTSD episode in front of Carrie. It causes her to see him differently. She sees him as a "kindred spirit." Noah is not initially receptive to her attempts to help him, but when the attraction that simmered underneath the hostilities ignites, he sees Carrie as his "magic pill" who has dispelled the nightmares. However, neither lust nor love proves powerful enough to cure Noah of his PTSD. In fact, his love for Carrie is a prime factor in his most terrifying episode. But when Noah pulls away, convinced Carrie is better off without him, she refuses to give up.
That's what the old Carrie would have done. . . . To hell with that. This man was the love of her life, and if they were going to spend the rest of their lives together, then she'd have to learn how to fight. Learn how to work things through and come out the other side stronger than before.
Even then, when Noah remains stubborn, Carrie does not give up. With a little encouragement from the woman who wants to be her mother-in-law and a little help from almost-one-year-old Molly, Carrie earns her HEA—and she sees the Safe Haven Women's Shelter open its doors too.
She is one strong woman and a redeemed heroine who wins the reader's respect.
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Janga spent decades teaching literature and writing to groups ranging from twelve-year-olds to college students. She is currently a freelance writer, who sometimes writes about romance fiction, and an aspiring writer of contemporary romance, who sometimes thinks of writing an American historical romance. She can be found at her blog Just Janga and tweeting obscure bits about writers as @Janga724.


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Hair Transplants: Follicles vs Hairs
When researching or obtaining quotes for your Hair Transplant Surgery, it is important to understand the difference between "Follicles" and "Hairs".
Hair Follicles are a cavity within the skin containing the root of anywhere between 1-4 hairs, and are associated with small muscles and sebaceous (oil) glands.
On average one follicle (or "Follicular Unit") contains 2 hairs, however, the number of hairs within any one follicle varies across the individual's scalp and and also between ethnic groups, eg Asian, African, Causcasian, etc.
A hair is a single keratinous threadlike strand or shaft, that grows from a follicle within the skin (epidermis) and consists of a root that originates from the bulb of the follicle.
Hair Transplant Quotes: Follicles vs Hairs
At Newin Institute you can be assured that when we quote the number of grafts to be transplanted, we are quoting single "Follicles" or "Follicular Units", regardless of the number of hairs they contain.
For example, if we quote that we will transplant 3000 "Follicles", you, the patient, are in reality guaranteed that a minimum of 6000 hairs will be transplanted (as the average follicle contains 2 hairs).
Why is it important to distinguish how transplant numbers are quoted?
Hair Transplant candidates should be clear about whether their quoted numbers are "hairs" or "follicles" because this makes it easier to compare quotes between Hair Transplant Surgeons, when seeking more than one opinion. Otherwise, you could be disappointed with your final result…
It should be noted that most Australian Hair Transplant Surgeons quote "follicles", however, it is common overseas to be quoted "hairs". For example, a quote for 5000 "hairs" will produce a result that is more like that of only 2500 "follicles".
This means the onus is on you to do your research to ensure you end up with results you expect.
For more information about Hair Transplant Quotes or to obtain a quote from Dr Rhett Bosnich for your Hair Transplant Surgery, call 1300 360 764 or ENQUIRE NOW via the online enquiry button.


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If you want to mark happy days on your calendar,
Then just go to your Master and surrender!
Surrender is a conscious state of mind,
Open your eyes, which are so long kept blind.
Surrendering doesn't mean giving up on your ways,
It's the process of entering in area of graceful rays.
It means accepting the will of master,
Nevertheless he is known as Direct Happiness caster.
Surrender and you surpass JOY and sorrow,
Then you don't have happiness to borrow.
When you surrender, you are pressure free,
It feels like you are sitting on a tip of tree.
But you need someone to make you realize this,
Once you realize, you will be addicted to utter Bliss!
Highest state of mind is surrender,
Akin to feeing of vegetables garnished with coriander.
Trust your Master,
Go Surrender!! :-)


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SCRANTON — To some, it was known as a second home. Others nicknamed it "The Beautiful City." And many knew it simply by its title: Camp Saint Andrew.
But the future of the 387-acre site in Tunkhannock is now in the hands of the Scranton Diocese and Bishop Joseph C. Bambera, who announced the camp's permanent closing following the completion of the 2015 summer camp season.
"Camp St. Andrew has served our area youth well throughout the course of its 75-year history and I know many area residents have fond memories of spending the summer at Camp St. Andrew," Bambera said in a statement on the diocese website. "Times have changed, however, and the interest in participating in summer camp programs has appreciably declined in recent years."
"I am grateful to the many Diocesan priests, seminarians and staff who have served at Camp St. Andrew over the years and especially to Monsignor Joseph Kelly, who has directed the summer camp program at Camp St. Andrew for the past 40 years," he added.
In his published statement, the bishop cited declining numbers as the reason for the closure.
For many who hold the camp dear to their hearts, however, these words do little to soften the sudden blow.
Megan Wood, of White Haven, a camper for the past six years, completed her counselor in training (CIT) this past summer and was ready to apply to be a counselor next summer.
"Camp gives that feeling of maturity and gives you a sense of independence, regardless of the countless staff members," she wrote in an email expressing what the camp meant to her. "This program really helped me discover myself and gave me the social skills I'll need for the rest of my life. Camp is more than just a place, it's home, to more people than just me. I wish I could've continued my camp experiences and helped other girls experience what I did my first year at camp. It's a magical thing to be a part of, and will be deeply missed."
Camp coach
Shelly Kostoff, of Moosic also mourns the loss of the camp. Although she never attended as a camper, she was first hired as a basketball coach in 1990, the summer before her senior year in high school.
"I immediately fell in love with the place," she said. "I stayed for another week and became a resident camp counselor as well. I came back for several years to coach basketball camp. The people I have met through the years have left a lasting impression on me. The camp is nicknamed 'The Beautiful City,' and that is just what it is. An absolutely beautiful landscape with beautiful people who are passionate about camp working there."
Kostoff has a 10-year-old daughter who was twice a camper there and was looking forward to attending again for basketball camp.
"I am so disappointed that she will not be able to go back and my eight-year-old son will never have the opportunity to experience Camp St. Andrew," she said.
Formed in 1940
The camp, according to the diocese statement, was formed in 1940 as a boys and Boy Scout camp staffed by seminarians and priests. Over the next 20 years, it grew to include a schedule of eight weeks of boys camp, eight weeks of basketball camp and six weeks of boy scout camp, attendance totaling more than 1,600.
When in 1971 Monsignor Joseph Kelly was appointed to serve as director o the camp, he established it as the site for Project Hope, a summer camp for low-income families in Lackawanna County. Project Hope began the previous year at St. Pius X Seminary in Dalton by Kelly and Sister Adrian Barrett, I.H.M, who died earlier this week. About 300 Project Hope day campers attended that first year at Camp Saint Andrew, and in the '70s and '80s that number grew to 500.
During this past summer, 250 children participated in the four-week Project Hope day camp, which is now operated by United Neighborhood Centers (UNC) of NEPA.
According to the statement, diocese representatives met with the staff at UNC to offer assistance in determining an alternative option to continue the Project Hope day camp.
Patricia Wood, Megan's mother, said she hopes if there is truly nothing that can be done to save Camp Saint Andrew, the diocese will at least consider reopening the camp for a closing ceremony to give the staff and campers a chance to bid a final farewell.


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Pope Benedictus XVI has named the bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden archbishop of Utrecht.
11 December 2007
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedictus XVI has named the bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden, Wim Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht. He succeeds Cardinal Ad Simonis, who stepped down on Saturday.
Willem Jacobus Eijk (54) is a doctor and theologist. He was named bishop of the Netherlands' most northerly diocese in 1999. As archbishop of Utrecht he is the 70th successor to Saint Willibrord (circa 658-739), who brought Christianity to the Netherlands. He is the tenth archbishop of Utrecht since 1853, when the Dutch government allowed the Vatican to once again appoint bishops in the Netherlands.
Eijk's predecessor Simonis was also president of the conference of bishops. The bishops must decide whether Eijk is to take on this function as well.
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ANTHRAX ISLAND: Inside UK's doomsday no man's land where apocalyptic bio bombs were tested
GOOGLE has blurred this secret British island – but anyone wanting to visit this diseased no man's land does so at their own risk.
Welcome to Gruinard Island where the biological doomsday weapons once wiped out all mammal life.
Just off the British mainland, in Gruinard Bay, half way between Ullapool and Gairloch in the Scottish Highlands, this has to be one of the most chilling places you can set foot on in the UK.
For five decades the place was out of bounds because it was sealed off – because if you stepped ashore you would die a very nasty death.
You can visit now but many choose not to for a very good reason.
Fearing animation from the Nazis and then the Soviet Union, the British Government secretly developed weaponised anthrax here, according to declassfied government documents.
Scientists wearing chemical warfare suits tested the weapons on animals.
And they concluded that by spraying spores it could be possible to killing millions.
Anthrax can be contracted by touching a contaminated surface or by eating food with just a few spores in it.
But it is by breathing, but it is through inhalation that it is at its most deadly and proves to be fatal in about 95% of cases, even with medical treatment.
An early sign you have got Anthrax is a small black blister.
Within hours you fall ill with a fever and you start bleeding to death inside, with blood gushing out of your ears, noise and mouth.
In 1990, Following decontimation efforts – where top soil was removed – the then junior Defence Minister, Michael Neubert declared the island safe and removed a warning sign.
But some at the time were not convinced.
"I would not go walking on Gruinard"Scientist Dr Brian Moffat
Dr Brian Moffat, archaeological director of an excavation of a medieval hospital near Edinburgh, said his team had found buried anthrax spores which had survived for hundreds of years.
He told the Glasgow Herald: "I would not go walking on Gruinard.
"If anthrax is still active at Soutra, there is no reason to suppose it has not survived on more recent sites.
"It is a very resilient and deadly bacterium."
More recently, it was discovered Google Earth obscured the island, but not the neighbouring British mainland which is directly next door.
The island is among a host of places the spy-tool blurs out. Others include Roswell in New Mexico and Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls where France tested out its nuclear weapons.


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Lifetime Fitness to pay back minimum wages to 15,000 employees
MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) - Life Time Fitness has agreed to pay more than $976,000 in back minimum wages and damages to more than 15,000 employees in 26 states. A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the Chanhassen, Minnesota-based health club operator violated federal minimum wage requirements at its clubs in 26 states, including the Fridley, Lakeville and Roseville clubs in Minnesota.
The Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division found Life Time Fitness took deductions for uniform costs, which resulted in workers making less than the required federal minimum wage per hour, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. While employers are allowed to take deductions for the cost of uniforms, those deductions cannot drop an employee's earnings below the federal minimum wage, under federal law.
Back wages due to Life Time Fitness employees
Fridley, Minnesota: Back wages of $2,757 due to 87 employees.
Lakeville, Minnesota: Back wages of $7,895 due to 240 employees.
Roseville, Minnesota: Back wages of $1,247 due to 36 employees.
Corporate-wide: Back wages of $476,329 due to 15,546 employees at locations in 26 states.
"This agreement will put thousands of dollars where they belong – in the pockets of hardworking people and their families," said Karen Chaikin, regional administrator for the Wage and Hour Division in Chicago.
The FLSA requires that covered, non-exempt employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for all hours worked, plus time and one-half their regular rates, including commissions, bonuses and incentive pay, for hours worked beyond 40 per week.


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I was just sitting here before the computer, minding my own business, when this bunny jumped out of nowhere and told me to write the following story in the Mirai Dragon Ball Z timeline and, being as nice as I am, I complied with its wishes. I offer you the product of the bunny's insistence and it goes by the title:
The First to Fall
He wasn't one to waste his time—really. There was probably something in his genetic structure that couldn't tolerate indolence, at all. He was physically incapable of just lying on some tiny island ogling at some big chested bimbo all day long—not that big chested earthlings interested him in the first place—or roaming pointlessly around busy human cities with all those weaklings fussing over their petty little problems, or—Hell forbid!—enjoying a lazy day lying on his back in the vast expanses of the Capsule Corporation gardens.
And, thus, he was once again doing what he did best—training. There was nothing to really train for, really, as Frieza had been long since exterminated—and not by him, too, but that was a bitter topic so let's not venture into it any further—and so the Universe was now a raving madman-free place. That is, if you exclude him from that category. Even he himself wasn't certain why he still hadn't done anything—anything at all—since this earthling woman—was her name Bulma?—had invited him to stay at her place for a while until he could stand on his own two feet again.
She had been the first to treat him like an equal. It had shocked him at first, the familiarity that she tried to exhibit to him, the destroyer of worlds, the incarnation of all her worst nightmares, the prince of the greatest race of biologically programmed killers, then it had angered him and finally he had forced himself to come to terms with it. He still had a long way to go down that road, but at least he could let off some steam by having rows with her virtually every time he met her somewhere around the house. It didn't matter what she did—he always criticized her, always made fun of her, always acted detached and emotionless, instinctively afraid—a Saiya-jin prince was never afraid! He was just put off by it!—of being regarded with the same disconcerting familiarity on her part as all those months ago.
He was in the process punching an imaginary opponent in the sweat-suffused air of the gravity chamber when all lights suddenly went out and—with the pressure of the artificially generated gravity gone—he soared across the room, slamming forcefully into the closest wall thanks to the momentum of his punch. He pulled himself as gracefully as he could away from the wall, glaring daggers in the utter darkness at nothing in particular—if only because of his limited vision at the point in time—and then carrying himself in the direction where he knew the door to the premise was—he absolutely refused to fumble around in the darkness! Saiya-jin Princes do not fumble!—with the full intention of storming the accursed woman's quarters if he had to in order to demand what was the meaning of this power outrage.
He nearly unhinged the door when he entered the house which was unnaturally eerie and quiet—and equally as unlit as the gravity machine was, he noted in the back of his mind—for the time of the day. It had been a few hours after nightfall and he was certain she wasn't asleep at this early an hour. She liked to work herself well into the early hours of morning, keeping herself busy while that abomination of a human mate of hers or whatever was away. And since that was almost all the time, she rarely went to bed before three am. He tried not to make a big deal of the fact he knew her habits so well and focused more on finding her to yell her ears off her pretty little blue head.
Instantly, he was thankful for his superior Saiya-jin sight as his eyes grew accustomed to the lack of light and he scanned the dark living-room for her. He found her very soon, sitting as still as the stupid statue that her idiotic ditzy mother had bought and put in the middle of the garden last week, and her eyes fixed very closely on a point on the faraway wall. Had his excellent hearing not assured him that it's not true, he would have guessed she wasn't breathing at all.
Suddenly he felt guarded. It was unusual for her to be so calm, so resigned, so perfectly… still. The odd haired woman was an active human, always making the lives of all those around her much more colourful with her quick wit, brainy conversation or idiotically silly inventions. Her eyes always sparked with determination, with decisiveness, with character, with life. He had grown so used to her spunk over the evanescent year or so he had spent in her company that her sudden sullenness startled him—and a Saiya-jin prince is never startled.
She turned her head slowly to him, as if afraid that if she did it any faster it might disconnect from her neck and shatter like a glass on the floor, and in the scant light from the other parts of the house which still held some signs of people living in it, he could see the hollowness of her eyes and the traces of weakness down her cheeks. They were traces of an activity he had never seen her indulge in, an activity that he had considered her incapable of indulging in, just like he had thought he was before his shameful death at Frieza's filthy paws.
She had been crying before his arrival and—judging from the vacancy of her expression, something that he had thought impossible to bear witness to before—she had been doing it for a while.
All fight drained from him in a heartbeat. All thoughts flitted away from his garbled mind, all intention of yelling at her dissipating as if it had never even been conceived in the first place. He had been in the living-room a thousand times, he had encountered her a million and he had seen her mood swing in the most bizarre of directions but this was uncharted territory that was lying in front of him now. He didn't know how to handle it—the realization that she was just as weak as she was physically, that she was just as flawed as any other pathetic creature on that mud-ball planet. He didn't know what to say, how to react, what to do or what to think anymore. He had been at her mercy all along and doing anything that might make her have a change of heart about her hospitality to him he considered a very bad idea.
So, he did what he usually did when he was encountered with a problem that couldn't be solved just by beating the stuffing out of someone—he waited for it to solve itself.
And it did so quite soon, in the form of a feeble, barely forced to calmness woman breaking the absolute silence of the room.
"He's…" He could tell by the pause that she was fighting a fresh batch of tears from spilling down her cheeks. She could barely keep her voice steady as a simple sentence—though hitched—exited her mouth. "He's… dead, Vegeta." She swallowed almost audibly before she continued, in a hoarse whisper. "I just thought that… you'd want to know."
Vegeta only nodded, though he wasn't sure whether or not she could see him doing so but venturing to guess she couldn't care less if he did. He didn't need to ask her to know whom she spoke of and didn't need to say anything more to her statement before turning around to stroll for the door without complaint, without demanding the power be restored for him to go back to his excessive training.
Having the large dome of Capsule Corporation plunged in encompassing darkness was the least way Bulma Briefs could honour the loss of Goku Son, hero, now former bane of Vegeta's existence and closest friend on the entire planet for the woman which now sat stiffly on the couch of her living-room.
Bulma always knew better than to disrupt her alien guest's lengthy training sessions. She had made the mistake once and hadn't repeated it since. He had thrown a major tantrum and she hadn't been too happy about it. But she knew that he would want to know that Goku—or Kakarott, as he liked to call him for reasons unknown to her—had passed away after weeks upon weeks of excruciating suffering.
Somehow, Goku had caught some heart disease while in space which could take down even a powerful Saiya-jin like him and, no matter how much she brainstormed over trying to create a cure for the illness, it had eluded her. In the end, she had been too late. Her time to save the person who had so selflessly saved thousands, millions, billions of lives so many times with such ease that he made it look ridiculously easy to cheat death, had run out before she had the chance to let the thought she he was slipping from her hit home with her. He had passed on, leaving her, a doting wife and devoted son behind in such a cruel manner that was so atypical of him, a complete contradiction to his actual character.
Bulma knew Vegeta would want to know because she knew of the prince's complicated feelings towards her best friend. Her late best friend, she shuddered at the mere thought. She knew because the flame-haired Saiya-jin had to be the proudest individual she had come across in her entire thirty years of lifespan. She knew because she was familiar with failure like he was; she knew because she felt that force that drew people to Goku too; she knew because she kept up a façade too.
In the days following what Bulma dubbed in her mind as the Earth's most tragic loss, the young genius had become increasingly irritable, edgy, stand-offish and scathing in her remarks. It didn't help that her supposed boyfriend was nowhere in sight, dealing and thinking firstly of his own pain rather than caring for her first, for considering it a good idea to share the burden of the news with someone that had been just as close with the deceased hero. In those days, she had had more fights over the tellyphone or whatever that moronic contraption was called with the Scarface than she had probably in her entire life prior to the event.
For some unfathomable reason, her parents were also nowhere to be found, off on business trips, or some other excuse they might come up with. She figured that maybe they thought they should give her some personal space, a bit of time to come to terms with her loss or some other idiotic reason that their deranged minds might conjure. What she wanted wasn't space, or alone time, or solitude, or the damn loneliness that seized her entire being and shook her to her core every morning she woke and was overwhelmed by the knowledge that there was no longer the reassuring presence of her lunkheaded best friend somewhere along the wilderness, always ready to pounce on any and all threat that might rise. It was silly, really, to feel secure just by the idea that somebody was out there, way too far to be able to come to her aid if something were to happen to her, but she had felt like that her entire life, unaware of the peace that her acquaintance with Goku provided her with.
And now he was gone. Forever. He wasn't coming back. He had deserted her, he had deserted them all. He had left and he wasn't coming back. She repeated it to herself over and over in her mind in hopes that she'd finally be able to grasp the concept. She thought it several million times a day, just to let the notion sink in. She tried to ward off the paranoia, the anger, the utter helplessness that overcame her every single time she thought it and failed miserably. Slowly but certainly, she was becoming just a shadow of the person she was.
Little she knew that this was just the prelude to The End of her relatively peaceful days.
Vegeta was definitely the farthest thing from a specialist in the emotional turmoil department, especially when it came to creatures as horrendously odd as human women, but you didn't need to be one to see that Bulma was withering.
Slowly, but surely, she was letting her grief consume her, strip her of all the qualities that made her uniquely her.
And for some inscrutable reason, her behaviour enraged him. It infuriated him beyond belief.
By the second week, he had had quite enough of her moping around, sniffing loudly during meals, lying in bed for hours on end and just generally acting out of character. It pissed him off how meek she had become, how her arguments were no longer as solid as they were before, how her voice wouldn't rise in volume anymore, no matter what he said, and—this had to be the prize winner—how he couldn't get a reaction—a normal reaction—out of her, regardless of what he did or said to her. It maddened him; it made his blood boil, his insides churn and his teeth grit to a breaking point. He couldn't bear the pitiful sight of her for even a second longer.
And so, he did the one thing he knew well how to do—he confronted her about his thoughts on the matter.
She had just had another fight with her imbecilic boyfriend over the phone and she swore to all the deities they were that this time they were over for good. She couldn't stand him and his excuses any longer. He was never there for her when she most needed him, being the coward that he was. She would have felt her temper rise at the thought if she wasn't so overcome with numbness. Over the last two weeks, she had become so horribly used to the pain that she no longer remembered what it felt not to be in pain. She could no longer remember the time when she had somebody to lean on, somebody to rely on, someone to comfort her and tell her that things would be alright, even if it was clear that they wouldn't be. She wanted to feel again but seemed to have forgotten how to, seemed to have lost the ability to.
"There's nothing for dinner," a cold voice from behind her informed her, making her slowly turn her head to the source. Her eyes didn't narrow, her brow didn't furrow—she just stared vacantly at him. It pissed him off, though he tried not to let it show on his face. "Your moronic mother's weeds are dying off and I swear that if I hear that damn cat mewl once more I'll blast it to the next dimension."
She listened half-heartedly to all of his complaints, not doing much other than blinking as he did so. This pushed him further towards the precipice. But it was her comment that actually did it for him and his flammable temper.
"I'll do it all later."
"Look, woman, if you want to wallow in your self-pity for the rest of your life, fine! Be as pathetic as you want to be, it's your choice after all." Here her eye brows narrowed slightly. "But no matter how much you wish it was different, no matter how much wail and scream, it won't bring him back and it won't make your coward of a mate more of a man or your so-called friends any more reliable! This is reality and real life is a bitch, if you still hadn't figured that out with that puny head of yours. Instead of clinging to your childish infatuation with Kakarott, you could make yourself useful and aid this mud-ball of a planet to become a better place or whatever you do with your free time."
It had happened before she had time to consider it. Her hand had flown up and had slapped him—really, really hard—across the cheek. The action caught him off-guard. So much so, in fact, that his head whipped to the side by the force of the impact.
Once it registered with him what had just transpired, his eyes had widened and his nostrils had flared with anger and disbelief. She had actually hit him! The weakling earthling woman actually had the nerve to slap him! Him! The Saiya-jin prince, the destroyer of worlds, the genetically defined killer! He couldn't even wrap his mind around it. They had had many quarrels before, most of them bordering on vicious but never before had either of them resolved to physical violence.
As if just realizing what she had done, Bulma's hands flew to her mouth as she sucked on a breath, her eyes almost bugging out of their sockets while she watched him, slowly turning his stormy onyx eyes to her again, tentatively reaching a hand for his molested cheek. It was that action, that simple, understandable reaction to her act that brought to light the fact that he was strong, powerful, and proud and all that stuff he flounced with every goddamn day but he wasn't invincible.
She also knew that she had released all her pent up frustrations with her traitorous parents and friends and her disloyal boyfriend on him, the only person who actually cared enough—for reasons beyond her—to tell her to get a grip, the only person who stuck around with her—even though strictly speaking he didn't really have much of a choice—in her time of need. And what did she do when he tried to make her understand how stupid it was of her to act as if the end of the world was coming just because one individual—regardless how important he was—had died? She slapped him in the face.
She figured that he was probably terribly awkward to live there with her in the first place. She figured that it probably went against everything he had ever been taught to be dependant on a weak female, to be completely at her mercy. She realized that he was probably uncomfortable with the change in her as he was as inadaptable to changes as ever. He probably had a hard time coping with Goku's death as well, what with his matters of pride and honour dying along with the odd-haired man.
Overcome by her desperation, her need for physical comfort and God only knew what temporary insanity that might have seized her, she embraced him and started murmuring excuses in his chest, her voice muffled by the fabric of his shirt as she did so.
Her mood swing was so sudden and drastic that Vegeta had a hard time understanding all of it. He didn't know what to do or how to comfort her. He felt suffocated by her closeness and her bold invasion of his personal space.
She soon drew back only to have her hand that had assaulted his side so ruthlessly now caress the slapped cheek with a tenderness that floored him. He stared directly into her clear sapphire eyes where there was so much pain, so much regret and frustration built over the past couple of weeks. The closeness of her naked creamy skin drew him to her with a force that nearly rivaled gravity. He could read all the bitter emotions in her eyes because they had been a permanent part of his world since he was born. And somehow, it perturbed him to see them in her eyes, it angered him even more than her bouts of self-pity to see her so distraught. He wanted to have her back to her usual spunky self that anchored him in a world so foreign and unsettling.
And so in his selfish search for the woman he had grown accustomed to dealing with the last year, he didn't feel when he had leant towards her and captured her mouth in the briefest, most innocent of lip locks.
Unbeknownst to them, it was just the beginning of so much more than just a mere physical contact.
It was a beginning of a search for oneself and for hope in a hopeless world. It was a beginning of a search for something much more significant than just physical comfort in time of need. It was a beginning that would lead to the saving of some lives and the loss of others. It was a beginning that would make a tear in the time-dimensional matter and an irrevocable distortion. But it was a beginning no less.
Goku's death had shaken everyone, but it was just the beginning of the end. He was just the first to fall.


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Dubai, Uae (PressExposure) July 23, 2011 -- Precor, the star under-16 football team, gave their opponents a decisive drubbing to be placed second in the qualifying rounds at the World Cup for youth football, the Gothia Cup 2011.
On Monday, Precor played against formidable Swedish opponents, Melleruds IF. It was a tough game, but the Precor players played tenaciously, whittling the team down to only 10 players in the last twenty minutes. UAE Precor eventually scored twice to lead the team to victory at 2-1.
On Tuesday, UAE Precor faced German team TSV Buchholz 08. UAE Precor scored a decisive victory at 4-0.
On Wednesday, UAE Precor gave 2010 Gothia Cup finalist Floro SK a run for their money but lost 2-0. However, regardless of the results of this match, the team entered the knock-out round with 64 other teams. When their opponents, Liria KF from Kosovo, Serbia, did not turn up to the match, UAE Precor won a 3-0 victory by default, entering the knock-out-32 round.
"The boys are in top form and their morale is running high. One of our greatest strengths is our team spirit - the players have always played aggressively as a unit. We welcome the challenges that lie ahead in this tournament and we know that we are more than up to it," said Derek Burke, the team's coach.
The next match is against Ecuadorian team Academia Alfaro Moreno to enter the knock-out-16 round.
UAE Precor are the only under-16 team representing the UAE. Around 50,000 fans and 800 teams from 70 different countries attended the opening ceremony at the Ullevi stadium, the biggest stadium in Scandinavia.


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Limp Chastity Deepener
Submitted by Elena on Thu, 06/23/2016 - 11:11
- Works well with any chastity file that also discusses limpness.
- Loopable, put it on repeat if you want.
- Catchy mantras that stress deepness as well as chaste limp conditioning.
- Enjoy one's limp-cocked state of arousal.
Playlist order:
- Any induction
- This file
- Any body file


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Which model iPad Air did you buy today? [POLL]
We're now well in to the afternoon of November 1st, and if you were planning on picking up an iPad Air today, you've probably already done it. Available in two colors, iPad Air went on sale at 8am local time, kicking off in the Pacific almost 24 hours ago, it was launched in a huge number of countries. In fact, the most that's ever been done on launch day.
I personally picked up a 32GB white model. It's just enough storage for me to survive with, and having owned three iPads, I've never had a white one. So, I went with a different color this time around. And – since I live in my office with Wi-Fi – I didn't go for cellular.
Which did you go with? Let us know in the poll below: