“A new code of practice on public surveillance using CCTV systems and automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology will be introduced by new laws recently enacted.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A man barred from protesting at the site of an Olympic basketball training facility has been ordered by a court to stay away from all Games venues.”
BBC News, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Judgment in MS v UK from European court leaves publicly funded authorities threatened with litigation from all sides.”
The Guardian, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A violent mentally ill man who was kept in a police cell for more than three days without medical treatment suffered ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’, European human rights judges have ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two interesting articles on the UK Human Rights Blog recently raised once again the question of the legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“The High Court has lifted an injunction preventing the removal of the last anti-war protest tent near the Houses of Parliament.”
The Independent, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Now the legal aid bill is law, how do we preserve access to justice?”
The Guardian, 3rd May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court
Petroleo Brasileiro SA v ENE Kos 1 Ltd [2012] UKSC 17 (2 May 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
OB v The Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2012] EWCA Civ 501 (02 May 2012)
ConvaTec Ltd & Ors v Smith & Nephew Healthcare Ltd & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 520 (02 May 2012)
Kizhakudan v Secretary of State for Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 566 (02 May 2012)
Birmingham City Council v Akhtar & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 585 (02 May 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Qema v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 1146 (QB) (02 May 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Philippe & Ors v Cameron & Ors [2012] EWHC 1040 (Ch) (02 May 2012)
High Court (Family Division)
WF v HF [2012] EWHC 438 (Fam) (05 March 2012)
London Borough of Islington v Al- Alas & Anor [2012] EWHC 865 (Fam) (19 April 2012)
SJ v JJ & Anor [2012] EWHC 931 (Fam) (02 March 2012)
LSdC (A Child) , Re [2012] EWHC 983 (Fam) (24 April 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Kingspan Environmental Ltd & Ors v Borealis A/s & Anor [2012] EWHC 1147 (Comm) (01 May 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 published
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Act 2012 published
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Sunday Trading (London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games) Act 2012 published
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“Solicitors are entitled to suspend work for clients who have not paid their bill in accordance with the contractual term of business agreed, the Court of Appeal has ruled in a key case on retainers.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 2nd May 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Leveson Inquiry has invited evidence and submissions from the public as well as from the core participants. Although not reported widely in the media, last October the recently retired Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir Stephen Sedley, made his own submission to the Leveson Inquiry. In this submission, Sir Stephen proposes his own model of statutory regulation of the media.”
Legal Week, 2nd May 2012
Source: www.legalweek.com
Philippe and others v Cameron and others [2012] EWHC 1040 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 130
“The purpose of section 2(2) of the Charitable Trusts (Validation) Act 1954 was to prevent the Act being applied where an imperfect trust provision had already been recognised to be invalid and the invalidity acted upon.”
WLR Daily, 2nd May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Mian [2012] EWCA Crim 792; [2012] WLR (D) 129
“In the context of a prosecutor’s appeal against a ‘terminating ruling’, the statutory requirement that either an adjournment had to be sought immediately, or the decision to appeal and the acquittal agreement had to be notified to the court immediately, meant that it should be done then and there.”
WLR Daily, 26th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Berky) v Newport City Council [2012] EWCA Civ 378; [2012] WLR (D) 128
“Section 31(6) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 did not give the High Court power to prevent a valid claim for judicial review based on European Union law and brought within the three-month time limit provided by CPR r 54.5(1).”
WLR Daily, 29th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
DR v NCB – Nordisk Copyright Bureau (Case C-510/10); [2012] WLR (D) 127
“The exception in article 5(2)(d) of and Preamble 41 to Directive 2001/29 which permitted a broadcaster to use their own facilities or ‘those of a person acting on behalf of and under the responsibility of the broadcasting organisation’ to reproduce works by way of ephemeral recordings without the author’s consent, entitled a broadcaster to use a third party to reproduce the works either if that third party acted on their behalf or if they were under the responsibility of the broadcaster.”
WLR Daily, 26th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“In law, time can be everything. Every lawyer will have experienced waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat at the realisation that a time limit has been missed. Courts often have the discretion to extend litigation time limits, such as under rule 3.1 of the Civil Procedure Rules, but simple mistakes by lawyers rarely generate sympathy from judges. Even scarier, judges sometimes do not even have the power to extend time at all, however unfair the circumstances. The idea is to encourage certainty and predictability in the legal system.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 2nd May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
