Teenager jailed for knife murder – BBC News
“A teenager who stabbed a 15-year-old boy to death outside a church hall in east London has been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 16th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenager who stabbed a 15-year-old boy to death outside a church hall in east London has been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 16th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A mother who abandoned her four young children to go on a 24-hour drink and drug binge has been given a suspended prison sentence.”
BBC News, 16th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Case is among the one in five referred each year to the court of appeal over sentencing, but with little media interest.”
The Guardian, 16th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An investigation is to be held into why police left a ‘vulnerable’ man, who was later found dead, at his home in Plymouth despite fears for his welfare.”
BBC News, 16th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A rapist jailed 19 years after his crime might never have been caught if time limits on DNA retention had been in place, it is claimed.”
BBC News, 16th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor who attempted to poison his lover in a bid to induce a miscarriage has been jailed for six years.”
BBC News, 16th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
St Albans Girls School & Anor v Neary [2009] EWCA Civ 1190 (12 November 2009)
Southern Pacific Personal Loans Ltd v Walker & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 1176 (12 November 2009)
Patel & Anor v Keles & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 1187 (12 November 2009)
Twizell & Anor v Entrust & Ors [2009] EWCA Civ 1192 (12 November 2009)
Axa Insurance Ltd v Akther & Darby Solicitors & Ors [2009] EWCA Civ 1166 (12 November 2009)
Chagger v Abbey National Plc & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 1202 (13 November 2009)
Farraj & Anorj v King’s Healthcare NHS Trust (KCH) & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 1203 (13 November 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Kohli v Lit & Ors [2009] EWHC 2893 (Ch) (13 November 2009)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Cobelfret Bulk Carriers NV v Swissmarine Services SA [2009] EWHC 2883 (Comm) (13 November 2009)
Claramoda Ltd v Zoomphase Ltd (t/a Jenny Packham) [2009] EWHC 2857 (Comm) (13 November 2009)
Republic of Serbia v Imagesat International NV [2009] EWHC 2853 (Comm) (16 November 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Imerman v Tchenguiz & Ors [2009] EWHC 2902 (QB) (16 November 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2009
The Legislative and Regulatory Reform (Regulatory Functions) (Amendment) Order 2009
The Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business Names (Public Authorities) Regulations 2009
The Saving Gateway Accounts (No. 2) Regulations 2009
The Banking Act 2009 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2009
The Hazardous Waste (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Food Labelling (Declaration of Allergens) (Wales) Regulations 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Jack Straw has given a speech at the Magistrates’ Association AGM on out of court disposals, court workloads, enforcing fines, and court closures.”
Ministry of Justice, 14th November 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Earlier this year we ran a consultation asking for your views on DNA retention. We received more than 500 responses and we have now published our response.”
Home Office, 11th November 2009
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, has set out the case for the United Kingdom’s tough but fair immigration system in a speech in west London.”
UK Border Agency, 12th November 2009
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Every migrant who enters the United Kingdom will require ‘permission’ to stay under new draft proposals published in Parliament today.”
UK Border Agency, 12th November 2009
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The Attorneys General of Australia, Canada, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, New Zealand and the USA met in London this week to discuss how they could better tackle the challenges of cross-jurisdictional crime and other areas of mutual concern more productively, together.”
Attorney General’s Office, 12th November 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“The Bar Standards Board, which regulates 14,000 barristers in England and Wales, will next week consider a raft of changes to the rules governing how barristers work.”
Bar Standards Board, 13th November 2009
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
“A rush to slash legal aid fees will cause damage to the quality of justice, barristers have warned Ministers.”
The Bar Council, 12th November 2009
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The Bar Council and the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) have today welcomed the final approval by Parliament of many of the changes for which they had been calling to the Coroners and Justice Bill which received Royal Assent yesterday.”
The Bar Council, 13th November 2009
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The line of Employment Appeal Tribunal authority requiring an employment judge, who was considering an application for relief from sanctions, to consider all the factors identified in CPR r 3.9 was overruled. The factors therein might provide a helpful checklist but the judge was not under a duty expressly to set out his views on every one of the listed factors.”
WLR Daily, 13th November 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.
Regina v Patel; Regina v Hussain [2009] EWCA Crim 2311; [2009] WLR (D) 327
“The Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc) Regulations 1994 were not to be construed as prohibiting transactions which were not intended to have the effect, nor had the effect, of releasing a medical product into a distribution scheme which would lead to its sale to end users within the European Community.”
WLR Daily, 13th November 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.
Court of Appeal
“Complex contractual provisions granting investors rights over assets derived from their own moneys, rights which were modified when a default event triggering insolvency occurred, were not caught by the antideprivation rule, which prevented parties from contracting out of the insolvency legislation by removing assets which would otherwise be available for creditors.”
The Times, 16th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The group of senior MPs and peers responsible for scrutinising the activities of the intelligence agencies has sharply criticised the government for failing to hand over the guidelines provided to MI5 and MI6 officers for interrogating terror suspects.”
The Observer, 15th November 2009
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/