Landmark ruling in drugs case – UK Border Agency
“A Spanish woman has been sentenced to nine years in prison in a landmark drug smuggling prosecution by the UK Border Agency.”
UK Border Agency, 6th July 2010
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
Month: July 2010
Test of endurance for CPS employee in race case – The Guardian
“Halima Aziz is approaching her tenth stressful year of litigation against her former employer, the Crown Prosecution Service. As an ex-CPS prosecutor in Yorkshire, her case for racial discrimination has so far been through four major court hearings, cost the state more than £1m, including a record £600,000 damages, and looks like becoming the longest-running discrimination case in history.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Data protection laws: chance to have your say – Ministry of Justice
“Plans were outlined today to seek views on the European Data Protection Directive and the Data Protection Act to ensure that current laws continue to safeguard people’s personal data in the 21st Century.”
Ministry of Justice, 6th July 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Munby calls for more openness in family courts – Law Society’s Gazette
“Legislation intended to open up the family courts is a ‘lost opportunity’ that will fail to bring about the openness needed to improve confidence in family proceedings, a leading judge has said.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th July 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Thakrar & Anor v R. [2010] EWCA Crim 1505 (05 July 2010)
Alagaratnam v R. [2010] EWCA Crim 1506 (05 July 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench)
Henderson v London Borough of Hackney & Anor [2010] EWHC 1651 (QB) (05 July 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Agrimarche Ltd, Re [2010] EWHC 1655 (Ch) (05 July 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Tile Wise Ltd v South Somerset District Council [2010] EWHC 1618 (Admin) (17 June 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Britain’s top law firms lose their magic touch in the downturn – Daily Telegraph
Britain’s top law firms are losing their magic touch in the downturn with Linklaters the latest to be hit by the dearth of mergers and acquisitions activity.
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The General Pharmaceutical Council (Appeals Committee Rules) Order of Council 2010
The General Pharmaceutical Council (Registration Rules) Order of Council 2010
The Pharmacy Order 2010 (Registration – Transitional Provisions) Order of Council 2010
The Pharmacy Order 2010 (Approved European Pharmacy Qualifications) Order 2010
The Pharmacy Order 2010 (Commencement No. 2) Order of Council 2010
The Competition Act 1998 (Land Agreements Exclusion Revocation) Order 2010
The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) (Amendment) Order 2010
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Government accused of declaring war on unions over strike law and redundancy plans – The Guardian
“The government was today (5 July) accused of declaring war on trade unions as ministers moved to cut the redundancy terms of public sector workers and reports emerged of plans to tighten up the law on strike ballots.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man jailed indefinitely for ‘lolly stick’ row stabbings – The Independent
“A 23-year-old man who stabbed a City banker and a diplomat in a ‘shocking and violent’ attack after one of their friends accidentally threw a lollipop stick at a BMW was jailed indefinitely for public protection today.”
The Independent, 5th July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
What isn’t wrong with Sharia law? – The Guardian
“To safeguard our rights there must be one law for all and no religious courts.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hospital trust pay-out for brain-damaged taxi driver – BBC News
“A taxi driver who suffered brain damage after a hospital scan was not properly interpreted has been awarded a multimillion-pound pay-out.”
BBC News, 5th July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Ex-teaching assistant jailed for child porn – The Independent
“A former teaching assistant caught with more than 21,000 indecent images of children was jailed for nearly eight years today.”
The Independent, 5th July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Ravichandran and another v Lewisham London Borough Council – WLR Daily
Ravichandran and another v Lewisham London Borough Council [2010] EWCA Civ 755; [2010] WLR (D) 170
“An offer of accommodation made by a local authority in discharge of its housing duty under s 193(7) of the Housing Act 1996 had two requirements: the accommodation had to be suitable and the offer reasonable for the applicant to accept. It was desirable that a review of the suitability requirement and of the reasonableness requirement took place at the same time as any review of the decision of the authority as to the discharge of its duty. In that case there would be no right of further review. If reviews occurred at different times any relevant matters which existed before an offer of accommodation had been refused but which had not been taken into account then had to be taken into account when the local authority came to review its decision that it no longer owed a duty.”
WLR Daily, 5th July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Home Office advice to gay asylum seekers criticised – BBC News
“The Home Office has been accused of telling gay and lesbian asylum seekers to avoid persecution back home by keeping their sexuality secret.”
BBC News, 6th July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Courts owed £1.3bn in unpaid fines, audit reveals – BBC News
“Courts in England and Wales are owed £1.3bn in unpaid fines, confiscation and compensation orders.”
BBC News, 5th July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Tortured terror suspects to get official inquiry at last – The Guardian
“David Cameron is tomorrow expected to announce the terms of a long-promised, judge-led inquiry into allegations of MI5’s complicity in the torture of terror suspects and into how British citizens and residents are to be compensated for being detained at Guantánamo Bay.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man jailed for Reading court petrol attack on defendant – BBC News
“A man who was repeatedly raped at a Berkshire children’s home in the 1960s has been jailed after throwing petrol over a man he claimed abused him.”
BBC News, 5th July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Fox and others v North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust – WLR Daily
“In order for there to be a stable employment relationship it was not necessary for there to be a succession of short term or intermittent contracts.”
WLR Daily, 2nd July 2010
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.
Day and another v Hosebay Ltd; Howard de Walden Estates Ltd v Lexgorge Ltd – WLR Daily
“A ‘building designed or adapted for living in’ was a ‘house … reasonably so called’ within s 2(1) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 if it was constructed as a house for single occupation and the result of the most recent works which altered the building, assessed objectively, was that the property had been adapted for living in, the emphasis being on the physical appearance and character of the property rather than the user.”
WLR Daily, 2nd July 2010
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.
Metropolitan Housing Trust v Hadjazi – WLR Daily
Metropolitan Housing Trust v Hadjazi [2010] EWCA Civ 750; [2010] WLR (D) 167
“The jurisdiction of the court to grant a social landlord a possession order against an assured tenant, the husband, under ground 14A in Pt II of Sch 2 to the Housing Act 1988 on the basis of the husband’s domestic violence or threat of violence against the wife, extended to violence and threats proved to have taken place after the husband had left the dwelling house to live temporarily elsewhere.”
WLR Daily, 2nd July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
