“Three balaclava-clad raiders who shot dead a postmaster’s son as he tried to defend his parents in the village store are facing life sentences after their conviction for his murder.”
The Times, 16th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The attorney general will be asked to approve warrants before suspected war criminals can be arrested in future under a plan being negotiated by the Foreign Office in response to the row over attempts to arrest Israel’s former foreign minister.”
The Guardian, 16th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Lucasfilm Ltd and others v Ainsworth and another [2009] EWCA Civ 1328; [2009] WLR (D) 367
“A maker of plastic ‘Star Wars’ helmets was not producing a work of sculpture for the purposes of s 4 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1986 and was entitled to a defence under s 51 permitting production of a three-dimensional object in accordance with a design which was itself copyright. A claim against the helmet-maker for breach of United States copyrights was not justiciable in England because the infringement was essentially a local matter involving local policies and local public interest and was a matter for local judges. There was no international jurisdiction over copyright infringement claims and if one were to be created it should be done by international treaty rather than by the courts themselves.”
WLR Daily, 16th December 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.
“A propmaker has won a multi-million pound Appeal Court battle with the makers of Star Wars over the rights to manufacture Stormtrooper helmets.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The judiciary must ‘come off the bench’ and speak out about the ‘parlous state of family law in 2009’, lord justice Wall has said.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A resolution is expected in the high court today of the libel action brought against the BBC by British-based oil traders Trafigura. A hearing is scheduled before Mr Justice Eady this morning.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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