“A global coalition of law firms representing victims of Bernard Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme will today meet to plot their case against the fund manager.”
The Times, 9th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Expert family barristers are being driven away from their work to represent the interests of vulnerable women and children as a result of repeated cuts in legal aid pay, a new report says.”
The Bar Council, 9th March 2009
Source: www.barcouncil.org
“The largest ever cross-government public consultation to tackle violence against women and girls was launched today by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.”
Home Office, 9th March 2009
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“This report provides evidence from six court centres over eight months in 2006 on the use of applications to admit bad character evidence in criminal cases. This provision was introduced as part of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and was designed to allow evidence of a defendant’s bad character to play a greater part in the prosecution of cases.”
Ministry of Justice, 9th March 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Man Financial, the City brokerage, deliberately overstated the value of a customer trading account by millions of pounds in a systematic ‘fraud’, the High Court will hear today. ”
The Times, 9th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
JD Wetherspoon plc v Revenue and Customs Commissioners (Case C-302/07); [2009] WLR(D) 84
“Traders who priced individual goods on a VAT-inclusive basis were not entitled to claim the same right to round down VAT for each transaction that was granted to traders who priced goods exclusive of VAT and added VAT at the moment of invoicing.”
WLR Daily, 6th March 2009
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.
“There was no conflict between the propositions (1) that there was no formula setting out the factors which could be relied upon by a licensee in support of an argument that the decision of a local authority, operating a site under the provision of the Caravan Sites Act 1968, to serve a notice to quit was one which no reasonable council would have taken, and (2) that the question whether the council’s decision was one which no reasonable person would have made was to be decided by applying public law principles as they would have been developed at common law, and not through the lens of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
WLR Daily, 6th March 2009
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.
“National rules allowing compulsory dismissal at retirement age and non-recruitment of persons of retirement age were not contrary to Community law provided that they were justified by legitimate social policy objectives and were appropriate and necessary for achieving such objectives.”
WLR Daily, 6th March 2009
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.
“Life has stood still for Stephen Miller since he was arrested more than 20 years ago and charged with the murder of a young woman in Cardiff. ‘Not one day goes past without me thinking about the case,’ he said. ‘My life is stuck in 1988.’”
The Guardian, 9th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Justice of the European Communities
“European member states could lawfully provide in their employment legislation for certain kinds of differences in treatment on the ground of age if those differences were objectively and reasonably justified by a legitimate aim such as employment policy, but the member states had the burden of establishing, to a high standard of proof, the legitimacy of the aim relied on as a justification.”
The Times, 9th March 2009
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.
“Hundreds of thousands of extra crimes could be committed because of plans to cut the number of officers monitoring dangerous offenders, probation staff have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The UK government’s treatment of the children of asylum seekers in detention is ‘abusive’ and ‘dehumanising’, it has been claimed.”
BBC News, 8th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police are not investigating the deaths of the husband and wife who became the first terminally ill British couple to be helped to die together in Switzerland, it emerged yesterday.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Teenage criminals who commit repeated crimes because of a drug habit could get only a single caution to cover all their offences under new Government rules.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An independent inquiry into the treatment of a man with paranoid schizophrenia who randomly stabbed six people, killing one, has condemned the care he had before the attacks and found that a nurse had altered notes relating to his case.”
The Guardian, 9th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A register of people who have attacked their partners could help prevent other potential victims of domestic abuse, the government has said.”
BBC News, 8th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A graphic account by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed of his alleged torture during interrogation sessions has been passed to the high court.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Speed limits on most single-carriageway roads in rural areas could be cut from 60mph to 50mph under a Government plan to cut the number of deaths in car accidents.”
The Independent, 9th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government’s human rights watchdog will take on the MoD in a test case later which could extend human rights law to soldiers on battlefields abroad.”
BBC News, 9th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to examine events leading up to the 24-year-old’s death at the hands of Brian Taylor in October amid claims that officers could have been prevented it.”
The Telegraph, 9th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
