Day: 14 July 2008
Information Commissioner calls for new powers and ban on electoral roll sale – OUT-LAW.com
“The Information Commissioner has repeated his call for more powers to protect personal data and has said that local authorities should not be selling the electoral roll to marketers.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th July 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Actor loses court battle over £2.3m estate of mother’s lesbian lover – The Guardian
“An actor today lost a high court challenge over the £2.3m estate of a distinguished sculptor who had a 50-year lesbian relationship with her mother.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Top 30 firms record 93 per cent PEP rise since turn of century – The Lawyer
“The average profit per equity partner (PEP) of the UK’s top 30 law firms has grown by 92.7 per cent to £764,900 since the turn of the century.”
The Lawyer, 14th July 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Magdalene Bayim-Adomako: ‘There are not many black lawyers in the City’ – The Times
“The co-head of White & Case’s banking practice says that, for her, becoming a solicitor felt ‘normal'”
The Times, 14th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
The Serious Fraud Office v Lexi Holdings Plc [2008] EWCA Crim 1443 (10 July 2008)
Rahman & Anor v R [2008] EWCA Crim 1465 (08 July 2008)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Faarah, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Southwark [2008] EWCA Civ 807 (11 July 2008)
McGuane v Welch [2008] EWCA Civ 785 (11 July 2008)
HB v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 806 (11 July 2008)
Roberts v Gill & Co & Anor [2008] EWCA Civ 803 (11 July 2008)
ING Lease (UK) Ltd v Harwood [2008] EWCA Civ 786 (09 July 2008)
Zambia v Meer Care & Desai (a firm) & Ors [2008] EWCA Civ 754 (09 July 2008)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Croftcall Ltd v Morgan & Anor [2008] EWHC 1622 (Ch) (11 July 2008)
Bank of New York v Montana Board of Investments & Anor [2008] EWHC 1594 (Ch) (10 July 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Greene Wood & McLean v Templeton Insurance Ltd [2008] EWHC 1593 (Comm) (10 July 2008)
High Court (Admiralty Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
Serious Fraud Office v Lexi Holdings plc (in Administration) and M – WLR Daily
Serious Fraud Office v Lexi Holdings plc (in Administration) and M [2008] EWCA Crim 1443; [2008] WLR (D) 235
“A restraint order should not be varied so as to allow for the payment of a debt to an unsecured creditor unless there was no conflict with the object of satisfying any confiscation order that had been or might be made.”
WLR Daily, 11th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Centrum voor gelijkheid van kansen en voor racismbestrijding v Firma Feryn NV (Case C-54/07) – WLR Daily
“Public statements that persons of particular racial origins were not acceptable as candidates for an employment post prima facie constituted direct discrimination for the purposes of Directive 2000/43 on equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, even if no particular complainant could be identified, but it was open to the employer to establish that no infringement of the principle of equal treatment was involved.”
WLR Daily, 11th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
R (Bhatt Murphy (a firm) and others) v Independent Assessor; R (Niazi and others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
“The mere existence of a discretionary scheme for compensation to the victims of miscarriages of justice did not create the conditions necessary to establish a legitimate expectation that the scheme would be continued, so that the Secretary of State was entitled to withdraw it without notice or consultation.”
WLR Daily, 11th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Gibson v Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office – Times Law Reports
Gibson v Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office
Court of Appeal
“When a confiscation order was made against a convicted drug dealer, his wife was entitled to keep her 50 per cent interest in the matrimonial home, despite a finding in the confiscation proceedings that she had guilty knowledge of the source of her husband’s wealth. The court had no power to supplement the provisions of the Drug Trafficking Act 1994 so as to bring her share of the equity in the matrimonial home within the order.”
The Times, 14th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner – Times Law Reports
Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner
House of Lords
“Information concerning the incidence of childhood leukaemia in a particular postal area should not be disclosed unless either it could be anonymised so that it was not personal data or could be released in a form which did not contravene one of the data protection principles under the Data Protection Act 1998.”
The Times, 14th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Terror convicts to be released fom prison early – Daily Telegraph
“Dozens of inmates convicted of terrorism offences will be released after serving half their sentences under rules introduced by the Government.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Appeal court quashes hydroponic cannabis convictions – The Guardian
“A court of appeal decision has shone a light on the homegrown cannabis industry. The quashing of the convictions of three men involved in hydroponics comes at a time when cultivation of cannabis in the UK is at record levels.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Landowners and hunt join forces in legal battle to ban saboteurs – The Times
“A group of 84 landowners is backing a hunt’s attempt to ban saboteurs from almost every piece of open land and countryside in West Sussex.”
The Times, 14th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Youth violence: Tactics against gangs fatally flawed – report – The Guardian
“The government’s drive to curb street gangs and knife crime is challenged today by research suggesting official tactics are fundamentally misinformed, frequently failing, and sometimes actively strengthen the gangs they target.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Magistrates should be banned from handing out custodial sentences – Daily Telegraph
“Magistrates should be banned from handing out custodial sentences to help ease overcrowding in prisons, an influential report says.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
How mother’s stand after job humiliation won her £120,000 – The Times
“Sarah Vince-Cain describes herself as a child of the Eighties, brought up in the age of ‘hard work, power suits and Margaret Thatcher’, and felt guilty about taking time off to start a family.”
The Times, 14th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Community punishments can be pointless, says judge – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has said there was no ‘point’ in community punishments if offenders were given nothing to do and were ‘sitting around’.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Knife offenders to meet victims’ families as police take tougher line – The Independent
“Police are to be ordered to mount a new offensive against knife crime, with more young people searched for weapons in the eight parts of the country worst affected by stabbings.”
The Independent, 14th July 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
MoD faces legal action after teenage Iraqi claims sexual humiliation by soldiers – The Guardian
“The Ministry of Defence is facing fresh court action over as many as 11 cases of alleged abuse of Iraqis, including the alleged sexual humiliation of a teenage boy by British soldiers at a base near Basra in 2003, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
