Rail damage graffiti group jailed – BBC News
“Four graffiti vandals have been jailed after admitting causing an estimated £50,000 of damage to trains and chaos to services in the South East.”
BBC News, 10th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Day: 10 October 2008
Care worker jailed for two rapes – BBC News
“A care worker who admitted raping two women, one of them a psychiatric hospital patient, has been sentenced to an indeterminate jail term.”
BBC News, 10th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Devoted husband who suffocated wife is spared jail – Daily Telegraph
“A retired civil servant who suffocated his seriously ill wife with a plastic bag as she lay in her hospital bed has been spared jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Alleged Holocaust denier fights extradition to Germany – The Guardian
“An Australian revisionist historian wanted in Germany for alleged Holocaust denial was today greeted in court with a Nazi salute from the public gallery.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Police inquiry into barrister shooting is lawful, says judge – The Guardian
“A high court judge today dismissed a claim by the family of the barrister Mark Saunders that the investigation into his shooting by police was unlawful.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Gardener arrested and taken to court for carrying work scythe in van – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has ordered the Crown Prosecution Service to make a public apology to a gardener who was arrested and taken to court for carrying a scythe which he said he needed for his work.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Firearms officers to be banned from collaborating on shooting statements – Daily Telegraph
“The Daily Telegraph understands that draft rules for the official police manual are expected to stop marksmen from writing their statements together after critical incidents – changing a practice accepted through case law for more than 50 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Labour peers urge Brown to back down in detention fight – The Guardian
“The new leader of the House of Lords is to ask Gordon Brown to drop plans to force through the detention of terror suspects for up to 42 days.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina v Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust – Times Law Reports
Regina v Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust
Court of Appeal
“It was against the public interest to punish by a large fine a not-for-profit organisation, carrying out work for the public benefit, where a failing occurred without fault on the part of that body, but through an act or default of an employee, to whom the task was properly delegated and who was properly trained.”
The Times, 10th October 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.
Cantrell v Wycombe District Council – Times Law Reports
Cantrell v Wycombe District Council
Court of Appeal
“An agreement by a housing association with a local authority to house council-nominated tenants in its property was a positive obligation which could not be enforced against a subsequent buyer of the property.”
The Times, 10th October 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.
BAILII – Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
S & Anor, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 2177 (09 October 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Family Division)
M & Anor (Children) [2008] EWHC 2281 (Fam) (06 October 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents – WLR Daily
Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents [2008] EWCA Civ 1066; [2008] WLR (D) 310
“A patent application concerning a method of accessing data in a dynamic link library in a computing device was not excluded from registration under s 1(2)(c) of the Patents Act 1977 on the ground that it related to a computer program ‘as such’, since it involved a technical contribution to the prior art which would enable computers and related devices to work faster and more reliably.”
WLR Daily, 9th October 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.
St George v Home Office – WLR Daily
St George v Home Office [2008] EWCA Civ 1068; [2008] WLR (D) 309
“When a person who was an addict suffered a seizure while he was in custody as a result of withdrawal from addiction, and then fell and suffered injury, regard was to be had, when considering the claimant’s possible contributory negligence and whether the resulting damage was the result ‘partly of his own fault’, to the question whether the addiction was a ‘potent cause’ of the damage.”
WLR Daily, 9th October 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.
Online complaints plan on hold – Law Society’s Gazette
“Controversial plans to publish complaints against solicitors online have been shelved. In a long-awaited decision, the Legal Complaints Service (LCS) this week said it still favours the idea – but passed responsibility for any scheme to its successor body, which comes into being in 2010.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th October 2008
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Public Guardian Board open meeting – Ministry of Justice
“Justice Minister Bridget Prentice has given a speech at the first open meeting of the Public Guardian Board, a body set up under the Mental Capacity Act to scrutinise and review the work of the Office of the Public Guardian.”
Ministry of Justice, 8th October 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Reducing reoffending in London – Ministry of Justice
“A consultation setting out proposed priorities for the delivery of prison and probation services in the capital and the joint work between agencies to reduce reoffending.”
Ministry of Justice, 8th October 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Attorney General welcomes independent report on Fraud Prosecutions Service – Attorney General’s Office
“Attorney General welcomes independent report on Fraud Prosecutions Service.”
Attorney General’s Office, 9th October 2008
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
MPs’ smacking ban attempt fails – BBC News
“A cross-party group of MPs has failed to force through a ban on smacking children in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 8th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Council fined over theatre safety – BBC News
“A council has been fined a maximum £45,000 after a teacher fell down a lift shaft backstage at a theatre while preparing for the Urdd eisteddfod.”
BBC News, 9th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Half of state schools are breaking admissions rules, inquiry finds – The Guardian
“Half of state schools in England are in breach of new rules on admissions, according to the chief adjudicator, Sir Philip Hunter.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
