High Court orders Surrey library plans judicial review – BBC News
“A judicial review of Surrey County Council’s plans for some libraries to be run by volunteers has been ordered by the High Court.”
BBC News, 4th February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: libraries
Brent library closures: Supreme Court rejects appeal bid – BBC News
“The Supreme Court has refused to allow campaigners fighting to save six north-west London libraries permission to appeal against a court’s decision.”
BBC News, 3rd February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Council spent £70,000 fighting judicial review of library closures – The Guardian
“A council that had its library restructuring plans quashed in the high court spent more than £70,000 fighting the judicial review.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court halts Surrey library volunteers plan – BBC News
“Campaigners have won a High Court injunction stopping Surrey County Council from replacing paid staff at 10 libraries with volunteers.”
BBC News, 21st January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Brent library closure campaigners lose legal battle – BBC News
“Campaigners have failed in a legal bid to thwart the closure of several libraries in north-west London.”
BBC News, 19th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Successful challenge to library closures: lip service not enough for equality duties – Shaheen Rahman – UK Human Rights Blog
“In the administrative court, the decisions of two local authorities to withdraw funding for library services were held to be unlawful.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th November 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Court allows challenges against library closures – The Guardian
“Campaigners won the latest legal battle over library closures when a judge in London allowed challenges against plans to shut libraries in Gloucestershire and Somerset.”
The Guardian, 16th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
More cuts: Library closure challenge fails – UK Human Rights Blog
“The duty to provide library services for children was one of the key arguments advanced by campaigners in Brent challenging the council’s decision to close 6 of its 12 libraries. Reliance was placed upon section 7 of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964. This requires local authorities to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Go-ahead for Brent library closure appeal – The Independent
“A judge has ordered an urgent hearing of an appeal against a landmark decision giving the go-ahead for the closure of six libraries.”
The Independent, 19th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Brent library campaigners lose court bid against closures – BBC News
“Campaigners have lost their High Court bid to save six libraries in north-west London which were marked for closure to cut council spending.”
BBC News, 13th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Library cuts challenge blocked – The Independent
“Campaigners against library cuts have had their High Court challenge blocked. A judge ruled they had delayed too long in seeking judicial review of Isle of Wight proposals to stop funding five libraries on the island.”
The Independent, 26th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Fight to save local libraries gets its day in court – The Independent
“A landmark hearing on Tuesday will mark the first judicial review into proposed library closures in Britain as disgruntled campaigners prepare to take their case to the courts.”
The Independent, 17th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Boost for library campaign as court orders judicial review – Daily Telegraph
“The campaign to save Britain’s libraries from council cuts has been given a significant boost after a court ordered a judicial review into some of the closures.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Vereniging van Educatieve en Wetenschappelijke Auteurs (VEWA) v Belgische Staat – WLR Daily
“National legislation establishing a system under which the remuneration payable to authors in the event of public lending was calculated exclusively according to the number of borrowers registered with public establishments on the basis of a flat-rate amount fixed per borrower and per year was contrary to article 5(1) of Council Directive 92/100/EEC of 19 November 1992 on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property (OJ 2006 L376, p28).”
WLR Daily, 30th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Libraries should pay copyright owners based on number of works and borrowers, says ECJ – OUT-LAW.com
“The compensation that music artists and film producers are due when their copyrighted material is made temporarily available to the public should not be exclusively based on set fees, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
High Court challenge to library closures in the West – BBC News
“Two county councils which want to close libraries in the west of England are facing a judicial review.”
BBC News, 3rd May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Government needs more costs information for online content storage plans – OUT-LAW.com
“The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) had consulted with publishers and legal deposit libraries (LDLs) over plans for libraries to have access to online, as well as printed, content.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th April 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Government puts legal protection for libraries up for review – The Guardian
“Initiative to scrap ‘burdensome’ duties on local authorities will review requirement to provide ‘comprehensive and efficient’ library service”
The Guardian, 17th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Library campaigners mount legal challenges to closures – The Guardian
“Pressure is building on culture secretary Jeremy Hunt over library closures, with the mounting of two new legal challenges.”
The Guardian, 1st March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Campaigners launch legal challenge to library closures – The Guardian
“Libraries are set to be a legal testing-ground for David Cameron’s vision of the ‘big society’, with lawyers arguing that the prime minister’s ‘vague notions’ are not enough to fulfil councils’ legal obligations to their library services.”
The Guardian, 24th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
