“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.”
The Guardian, 27th April 2012
Source: ww
“A man has been jailed for eight years for raping a McDonald’s worker in Berkshire in 1986.”
BBC News, 27th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“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
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“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“; (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; [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
“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
“The Lord Chief Justice has asked Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Treacy to conduct a review of sanctions for disclosure failures.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 26th april 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“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.”
Attorney-General’s Office, 25th April 2012
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“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.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“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.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“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.”
The Guardian, 26th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“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.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“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.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Three men jailed for life for murdering two friends at a new year party in Birmingham have lost an appeal against their convictions.”
BBC News, 26th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The parents of a six-year-old girl from Wrexham who was left severely brain damaged due to medical negligence have won their claim against a health board.”
BBC News, 26th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Rupert Murdoch’s UK media empire is facing fresh scrutiny after media regulator Ofcom said it would examine evidence of phone hacking as part of its investigation into whether BSkyB is a ‘fit and proper’ owner of a broadcasting licence. Ofcom has stepped up its investigation into News Corporation’s BSkyB stake by requesting private court documents disclosed to lawyers acting for several alleged victims of phone hacking by the News of the World. News Corp is the largest shareholder in Sky, with a 39.1% stake, and is the parent company of News of the World publisher News International.”
The Guardian, 26th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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