Regina (Condliff) v North Staffordshire Primary Care Trust [2011] EWCA Civ 910; [2011] WLR (D) 256
“It was not unlawful for a primary care trust to adopt a policy by which all individual funding requests were to be considered and determined exclusively by reference to clinical factors.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher and others [2011] UKSC 41; [2011] WLR (D) 255
“In the employment context, the courts should focus on the reality of the relationship between the parties, which might not be accurately reflected by the written documentation. In deciding whether the terms of any written agreement in truth represented what was agreed, the relative bargaining power of the parties had to be taken into account.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source; www.iclr.co.uk
Thomas and others v Bridgend County Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 862; [2011] WLR (D) 254
“For article 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms to be engaged, it was enough to show interference with peaceful enjoyment possessions combined with evidence of loss of value.”
WLR Daily, 26th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Supreme Court has ruled that arbitrators are not employees for the purposes of employment equality legislation.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 27th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A solicitor who was paid through a profit share rather than receiving a salary should not be classified as a partner for employment law purposes, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 28th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Lord McNally said restorative justice was ‘not a soft option’, after visiting a probation trust and a prison in Norwich to see how offenders there are being made to face up to their crimes.”
Ministry of Justice, 27th July 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Consumer rights journalist Martin Lewis has won a High Court case protecting his ‘Money Saving Expert’ trade mark.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK supreme court announced this week that it was looking to recruit a couple of new judges (at salaries of £206,857). There is one immediate vacancy following the death of Lord Rodger last month, and there will be a further vacancy next April when Lord Brown retires. Who will get the jobs?”
The Guardian, 27th July 2011
Soruce: www.guardian.co.uk
“Retailers will no longer have to hand over addresses of TV buyers to TV licensing authorities due to a red-tape overhaul. Nearly two-thirds of regulations specifically aimed at shop owners will be scrapped or reformed, as part of a bureaucratic tidying-up exercise by ministers.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Veterans involved in Britain’s nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s are taking their case for compensation to the Supreme Court.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Joshua Davies, 16, can be named for the first time today after being found guilty of murder by a jury at Swansea Crown Court. He lured Rebecca Aylward, 15, to a secluded wood and then used a rock the size of a rugby ball to smash her skull with at least six brutal blows to the back of the head.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Social networking websites such as Facebook could threaten the existence of jury trials in the UK, the attorney general has warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An appeal judge has said a leading Israeli Arab activist, who was detained in London on the home secretary’s orders, should remain on bail pending the outcome of legal proceedings.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former nursery worker has been sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison for raping a toddler and inciting the sexual abuse of 22 girls.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A policewoman who was forced out of her job after going on the TV show Total Wipeout while she was off sick, is now suing force chiefs.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A 22-stone, ‘morbidly obese’ ex-policeman has lost his latest attempt to force the NHS to pay for stomach surgery, despite his lawyers saying he might have less than a year to live.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Powys toddler was left bitten and bruised after her parents gave their German Shepherd dog “greater priority”, a court heard.”
BBC News, 26th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who was jailed for possessing child abuse images has been freed by a judge who said he was at risk of becoming ‘another inmate’s bitch’.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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