“The High Court has ruled that legal claims can be served through Facebook after uncertainty was expressed about the postal address of one of defendants, according to a newspaper report.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The detention of victims of torture and trafficking by the UK Border Agency pending their ‘fast-track’ deportation from Britain has been strongly criticised by the UN.”
The Guardian, 23rd February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government has asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether it acted lawfully when it announced plans to scale back its subsidy plans for solar projects in December.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“This was the first occasion when the Court of Appeal has considered the problem of child trafficking for labour exploitation. It has not previously been subject to any close analysis following the coming into force in 2005 of the European Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Attorney General’s Office is reviewing the sentences of two child rapists who were jailed for just 40 months for attacking an 11-year-old girl.”
The Independent, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
The Double Taxation Relief (Bank Levy) (Federal Republic of Germany) Order 2012
The Bank Levy (Double Taxation Arrangements) (Federal Republic of Germany) Regulations 2012
The Personal Injuries (NHS Charges) (Amounts) Amendment Regulations 2012
The Bank Levy (Double Taxation Relief) Regulations 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“An Australian man has been ordered to transfer his ownership of the richardbranson.xxx domain name to UK entrepreneur Richard Branson.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A former nightclub bouncer has been convicted of murdering a heavily pregnant teenager two weeks before she was due to give birth.”
BBC News, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Anti-capitalist protesters camping outside St Paul’s Cathedral were today refused permission by the Court of Appeal to challenge orders evicting them.”
The Independent, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina v N(A); Regina v Le [2012] EWCA Crim 189; [2012] WLR (D) 38
“The implementation of the United Kingdom’s obligation to comply with article 26 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings 2005 would normally be achieved by the proper exercise of the long established prosecutorial discretion which enabled the Crown Prosecution Service, however strong the evidence might be, to decide that it would be inappropriate to proceed with the prosecution of a defendant suspected of being involved in unlawful activities if he/she might have been the victim of trafficking for labour exploitation and might be unable to advance duress as a defence but who fell within the protective ambit of article 26.”
WLR Daily, 20th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Torfaen County Borough Council v Douglas Willis Ltd [2012] EWHC 296 (Admin); [2012] WLR (D) 37
“In order to found a conviction for an offence under regulation 44(1)(d) of the Food Labelling Regulations 1996, a prosecuting authority was required to prove, to the criminal standard: (i) that the food, at the point that it was ready for delivery to the ultimate consumer or caterer, was ‘highly perishable’ and so required then and thereafter to be labelled with a ‘use by’ date; (ii) that the defendant was, at the time of the alleged offence, selling the food within the extended definition contained within regulation 2; and (iii) that, at the time of the alleged offence, the date on the ‘use by’ label had passed. The subsequent freezing of food requiring and given a ‘use by’ label would not cause that label to cease to have effect.”
WLR Daily, 20th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Sir Andrew McFarlane was promoted to the Court of Appeal in July 2011, the most recent appointment in a meteoric career that began in the drama department of Durham University. As he explains in conversation with Family Affairs, his preferred activities at University involved drama, student politics and the church. Law seems to have been an after-thought and he is (probably) the only member of the current Court of Appeal able to boast of a third class degree. Beware the temptation, however, to assume that Andrew has a third class mind; his progress from provincial practice in the West Midlands to a glittering leading career at 1KBW, authorship of the leading text book on Child Law, a raft of committee appointments including Chairmanship of the FLBA, the High Court bench at 51 and the Court of Appeal at 57 bear testament to a distinctly first class brain with application to match.”
Family Law Bar Association, 20th February 2012
Source: www.flba.co.uk
Supreme Court
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Cameron v Boggiano & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 157 (21 February 2012)
SS (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 155 (21 February 2012)
Caterpillar Logistics Services (UK) Ltd v de Crean [2012] EWCA Civ 156 (21 February 2012)
Hobson v Magee (t/a Team Magee) [2012] EWCA Civ 116 (21 February 2012)
Kennerley v Beech & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 158 (21 February 2012)
Newman v Framewood Manor Management Co Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 159 (21 February 2012)
Polestar Maritime Ltd v YHM Shipping Co Ltd & Anor (Rev 1) [2012] EWCA Civ 153 (17 February 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Moore v British Waterways Board [2012] EWHC 182 (Ch) (10 February 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Woolley, R (on the application of) v Ministry of Justice [2012] EWHC 295 (Admin) (21 February 2012)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Berry Piling Systems Ltd v Sheer Projects Ltd [2012] EWHC 241 (TCC) (21 February 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“An investigation into a Dorset hunt has been abandoned amid a row between animal welfare monitors and the Crown Prosecution Service over the text of a letter explaining why no arrests should be made.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ryan Giggs has finally given up his anonymity over his alleged affair with model Imogen Thomas. He is not the first celebrity to see a superinjunction fail.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“‘Byzantine’ laws in England and Wales determining the affairs of those who go missing are so bewildering that they should be replaced with a simplified presumption of death act, a report by MPs proposes.”
The Guardian, 22nd February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Whiplash can be a pain in the neck for insurers – and it’s they who are driving the debate over the scale of personal injury claims.”
The Guardian, 20th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former Norwich City striker Leon McKenzie has been jailed for sending bogus letters to the police in a bid to avoid a driving ban.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five members of a car clamping operation that used motorists ‘as a licence to print money’ have been jailed for a total of almost eight years.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Former miners’ leader Arthur Scargill has been awarded £13,000 in damages after he sued a trust fund of the union he led for 20 years. Mr Scargill, 74, sued the National Union of Mineworkers Yorkshire Area Trust Fund (YATF) over a range of expenses he claimed he was owed when he worked for them in a £26,000-a-year role after he retired as NUM national president.”
The Independent, 21st February 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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