Pair jailed for 114 burglaries and £300,000 haul – BBC News

Posted April 27th, 2012 in burglary, news, sentencing by tracey

“Two men have been jailed for seven years each for a total of 114 burglaries across Wales and England over a 14 month period.”

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BBC News, 27th April 2012

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Ex-UDM leader Neil Greatrex jailed for charity theft – The Independent

Posted April 27th, 2012 in news, sentencing, theft by tracey

” A former leader of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers has been jailed for four years for stealing almost £150,000 from a charity which cared for elderly miners.”

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The Independent, 27th April 2012

Source: www.indepndent.co.uk

Phone hacking: Thurlbeck will not be prosecuted over intimidation claims – The Guardian

Posted April 27th, 2012 in intimidation, prosecutions, witnesses by tracey

“The former News of the World chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, will not be prosecuted over claims of witness intimidation relating to the phone-hacking scandal, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.”

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The Guardian, 27th April 2012

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Man jailed for 1986 Windsor McDonald’s rape – BBC News

Posted April 27th, 2012 in DNA, news, rape, sentencing by tracey

“A man has been jailed for eight years for raping a McDonald’s worker in Berkshire in 1986.”

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BBC News, 27th April 2012

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Parliament protest rules upheld – BBC News

Posted April 27th, 2012 in demonstrations, news, parliament by tracey

“New rules designed to stop protesters sleeping near Parliament have been upheld in a High Court ruling.”

BBC News, 27th April 2012

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted April 27th, 2012 in law reports by tracey

High Court (Administrative Court)

Dulai & Ors, R (on the application of) v Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court & Anor [2012] EWHC 1055 (Admin) (26 April 2012)

Source: www.bailii.org

Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes (Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and another intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted April 27th, 2012 in age discrimination, law reports, partnerships, retirement by tracey

Seldon v Clarkson Wright & Jakes (Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and another intervening); [2012] UKSC 16;  [2012] WLR (D)  124

“A rule providing for the compulsory retirement at 65 of partners in a firm of solicitors could be justified as a means of achieving legitimate aims relating to recruitment and promotions within the firm.”

WLR Daily, 25th April 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

F-Tex SIA v Lietuvos-Anglijos UAB „Jadecloud-Vilma“ – WLR Daily

F-Tex SIA v Lietuvos-Anglijos UAB „Jadecloud-Vilma“; (Case C-213/10);  [2012] WLR (D)  123

“Where a liquidator assigned a claim to have a transaction set aside derived from the national law applicable to the insolvency proceedings, the claim subsequently made by the assignee against a third party to have the transaction set aside came within the concept of ‘civil and commercial matters’ within the meaning of article 1(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (OJ 2001 L12, p1) and was no longer covered by the exception in article 2(b) for insolvency proceedings.”

WLR Daily, 19th April 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police and another v Homer – WLR Daily

Posted April 27th, 2012 in age discrimination, law reports, retirement by tracey

Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police and another v Homer; [2012] UKSC 15;  [2012] WLR (D)  122

“An employment requirement which worked to the comparative disadvantage of a person approaching compulsory retirement age was indirectly discriminatory on grounds of age and had to be justified.”

WLR Daily, 25th April 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Regina (Rudewicz) v Secretary of State for Justice (Save Fawley Court Committee and others, interested parties – WLR Daily

Regina (Rudewicz) v Secretary of State for Justice (Save Fawley Court Committee and others, interested parties) [2012] EWCA Civ 499;  [2012] WLR (D)  121

“It was for the Secretary of State of Justice, as the licensing authority for the exhumation of human remains (other than the power of a consistory court to grant a faculty to exhume human remains interred in consecrated ground of the Anglican Church), to determine on what grounds and in what circumstances to grant a licence to remove human remains. Apart from an obligation to act rationally and otherwise in accordance with the general law, there should be no fetter on his jurisdiction, nor any justification to import a presumption of permanence.”

WLR Daily, 24th April 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Command Papers – official-documents.gov.uk

Posted April 27th, 2012 in parliamentary papers by tracey

Memorandum to the Home Affairs Committee: post-legislative assessment of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006, Cm 8327(pdf)

Parliamentary privilege, Cm 8318 (pdf)

Source: www.official-documents.gov.uk

Review of sanctions for disclosure failures in criminal trials – Judiciary of England and Wales

Posted April 27th, 2012 in criminal procedure, disclosure, penalties, press releases by tracey

“The Lord Chief Justice has asked Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Treacy to conduct a review of sanctions for disclosure failures.”

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Judiciary of England and Wales, 26th april 2012

Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

Attorney General and CPS Chief Crown Prosecutor welcome sentence increase for London rioter – Attorney General’s Office

“Today the Court of Appeal increased the sentence of Adam Khan Ahmadzai, who, in the summer of last year led a gang of looters along a street in Croydon during the London riots.”

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Attorney-General’s Office, 25th April 2012

Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk

Code consultation: queries about insurance requirements – Bar Standards Board

Posted April 27th, 2012 in barristers, insurance, press releases, professional conduct by tracey

“Since issuing the consultation on the new Code (Handbook), we have received some queries about the insurance requirements in the new Code.”

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Bar Standards Board, 26th April 2012

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

Hate speech and the meaning of “unacceptable behaviour” – UK Human Rights Blog

“Late last year I posted about the case of Mr Mahajna, a national of Israel (but of Palestinian origin), who appealed against a deportation order issued by the Home Secretary under section 3(5) of the Immigration Act 1971 on the basis that his presence in the United Kingdom was not conducive to public good.

And so to the Upper Tribunal (UT), which has now issued its decision on Mr Mahajna’s appeal against the FTT’s decision.”

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UK Human Rights Blog, 26th April 2012

Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com

Forest of Dean faces Judicial Review of its Core Strategy – OUT-LAW.com

Posted April 27th, 2012 in environmental protection, judicial review, news, planning by tracey

“Campaign group Friends of the Earth (FoE) has applied to the High Court to launch a legal challenge against the Forest of Dean District Council’s Core Strategy (CS) and Cinderford area action plan (AAP), which was adopted by the Council in February.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 26th April 2012

Source: www.out-law.com

Slowly and unsurely, the courts are opening up – The Guardian

Posted April 27th, 2012 in criminal procedure, disclosure, media, news by tracey

“A radical change may be underway in the way journalists cover court cases, thanks to a court of appeal ruling earlier this month. The latest version of the Criminal Procedure Rules, which came into force last October, entitles any member of the public to apply to read or copy documents referred to in court cases. Following the appeal, in which the Guardian sought access to documents referred to in the Tesler extradition case hearing, the presumption will now be that such requests should be approved unless there is a good reason not to.”

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The Guardian, 26th April 2012

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Taxi firm Addison Lee banned from telling drivers to use bus lanes – Daily Telegraph

Posted April 27th, 2012 in news, taxis, transport by tracey

“Addison Lee had instructed employees that they could make use of bus lanes marked for black taxis during the hours when restrictions apply. But following an application by Transport for London (TfL), the High Court banned the private hire company from repeating its offer to pay its drivers’ fines or other penalties.”

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Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2012

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Mother found negligent for child’s injuries after using wrong car seat – Daily Telegraph

Posted April 27th, 2012 in accidents, damages, negligence, news, personal injuries, road safety by tracey

“A mother who put her three-year-old daughter in a car booster seat has been found partly responsible for her crippling car crash injuries by the High Court because it was the wrong seat for her age.”

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Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2012

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Birmingham new year party shooting killers lose appeal – BBC News

Posted April 27th, 2012 in appeals, murder, news by tracey

“Three men jailed for life for murdering two friends at a new year party in Birmingham have lost an appeal against their convictions.”

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BBC News, 26th April 2012

Source: www.bbc.co.uk