“Major Robert Armstrong, who was awarded the MC for gallantry three years ago, faced a court martial for separate charges, including the possession of secret documents which the judge said could have undermined national security.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The High Court has ruled that legal claims can be served through Facebook after uncertainty was expressed about the postal address of one of defendants, according to a newspaper report.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Tomorrow, 1st February, is the start date for new contracts for family and housing with family practitioners.”
Legal Aid Handbook, 31st January 2012
Source: www.legalaidhandbook.com
“The decision of the Court of Appeal in Hilmi & Associates Ltd v 20 Pembridge Villas Freehold Ltd [2010] 1 WLR 2750 (CA) highlighted the strict requirements of s 36A of the Companies Act 1985 (and hence the similarly-worded ss 43-47 of the Companies Act 2006 now in force) about companies signing and executing documents. The decision concerns a claim for leasehold enfranchisement, but is of wider importance and is a reminder, assuming that any is required, that statutory notices are very much all or nothing.”
Full story (PDF) see p. 4
New Square Chambers, January 2012
Source: www.newsquarechambers.co.uk
“Ratcliffe-on-Soar report finds that CPS did not delibrately withold information in prosecution case.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 6th December 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Blogger could have challenged the request to remove a draft of Alastair Campbell’s evidence for the inquiry from his website.”
The Guardian, 29th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady today succeeded in the latest stage of an attempt to discover how details of her telephone records found their way into the hands of a firm of accountants while rival clubs were bidding to use the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 London games.”
The Independent, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Iraq Inquiry has put back its report by at least six months due to a wrangle with the Government over the release of secret documents.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Oliver Letwin committed a series of data protection breaches by dumping correspondence from constituents in a park bin close to Downing Street, according to the information commissioner.”
The Guardian, 15th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal had jurisdiction to hear a proposed appeal from a decision of a court conducting extradition proceedings (which were criminal in nature), where that decision related to a matter which was wholly collateral to the extradition proceedings themselves, which was instigated by someone not a party to the proceedings and did not involve the lower court invoking its criminal jurisdiction or making an order which had any bearing on those proceedings.”
WLR Daily, 25th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Three senior judges have granted permission to the Guardian to challenge a court’s decision to keep secret a set of documents.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Guarantees and warranties given by the directors of a company did not take effect despite the signing, witnessing and handing over of documents, the High Court has ruled. The documents in question were deeds and the Court said that they had not been ‘delivered.’ ”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The government has promised to release all cabinet papers relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster to the public once they have been shared with families of the deceased, after being forced to clarify its position by an e-petition that has reached more than 125,000 signatures.”
The Guardian, 24th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government is to appeal against a ruling that Margaret Thatcher’s discussions about the Hillsborough tragedy should be made public.”
The Guardian, 17th August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner ruled that they were in the public interest, amid claims by some victims’ families that the former Conservative prime minister tried to protect the police’s reputation.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lawyers of celebrities who suspect that phone messages were intercepted by News of the World journalists can be given material from ‘surveillance’ notes seized by police, a High Court judge said today (27 June).”
Daily Telegraph, 27th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A murdered three-year-old West Midlands boy was not protected despite his killers being known to child protection agencies, a report has found.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Taylor (George Charles) [2011] EWCA Crim 728; [2011] WLR (D) 108
“Records kept on computer that affected or related to a company’s property or affairs were within the composite expression ‘book or paper affecting or relating to the company’s property or affairs’ within section 206(1)(c) of the Insolvency Act 1986.”
WLR Daily, 25th March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Scotland Yard is to contest a lawsuit that could establish the true number of victims in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Tony Blair was alerted to allegations of torture involving UK nationals held in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay within months of the ‘War on Terror’ beginning, lawyers claimed yesterday.”
The Independent, 29th September 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
