“When imagined post-Nuremberg, the human rights convention and Strasbourg court was never supposed to be a substitute for national protection of human rights.”
The Guardian, 19th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading has more than halved a £121.5m fine levied against British Airways for colluding with Virgin Atlantic in a fuel surcharge scam. The consumer watchdog reduced the fine to £58.5m to reflect new guidelines for financial sanctions and BA’s co-operation with the inquiry. Virgin Atlantic escaped any penalty because it blew the whistle on the collusion over setting fuel surcharges between 2004 and 2006.”
The Guardian, 19th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer says each of the four files presented to the CPS on phone hacking will be considered as an individual case.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The deportation of Abu Qatada descended into farce after a potential blunder by the Home Office allowed his lawyers to lodge a last-minute appeal which could extend his stay in Britain and derail attempts to remove him from the country.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Newspaper proprietors and editors hoping to stop David Cameron introducing statutory regulation of the press won support today from the broadcasting regulator Ofcom.”
The Guardian, 18th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“To nobody’s surprise, the government last night rejected arguments on behalf of mesothelioma sufferers and overturned a Lords amendment that would have exempted them from the effects of Part 2 of the legal aid bill (known as the Jackson reforms).”
The Guardian, 18th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Stapylton v R [2012] EWCA Crim 728 (18 April 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Ford v Financial Services Authority & Anor [2012] EWHC 997 (Admin) (18 April 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Finmoon Ltd & Anor v Baltic Reefers Management Ltd & Ors [2012] EWHC 920 (Comm) (17 April 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), has today published interim guidelines on the approach prosecutors should take when assessing the public interest in cases affecting the media.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 18th April 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Mullen & Ors, R. v (Rev 1) [2012] EWCA Crim 606 (01 March 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Adams v The Law Society of England and Wales & Ors [2012] EWHC 980 (QB) (17 April 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“An individual’s employment cannot be automatically transferred to another employer without following the proper procedures under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) Regulations, a tribunal has confirmed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A former Libyan dissident who was abducted and flown to one of Muammar Gaddafi’s prisons in a so-called rendition operation mounted with the help of MI6 has started legal proceedings against Jack Straw, who was British foreign secretary at the time.”
The Guardian, 18th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Raithatha v Williamson (a bankrupt) [2012] EWHC 909 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 115
“A trustee in bankruptcy was entitled to obtain an income payments order under section 310 of the Insolvency Act 1986 where a bankrupt had an entitlement to a payment under his pension scheme not merely where the scheme was in payment of benefit but also where, under the rules of the scheme, the bankrupt would be entitled to payment merely by asking for payment.”
WLR Daily, 4th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The names of three junior members of staff who had handled complaints made to the financial services regulator should have been disclosed as part of a freedom of information request as disclosure ‘did not adversely affect their privacy’, a tribunal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Victims of domestic violence will be given greater access to legal aid to fund civil cases against abusive partners, Kenneth Clarke announced on Tuesday as the government made a U-turn on some of its controversial reforms. The justice secretary described the amendments to the legal aid, sentencing and punishment of offenders bill as ‘fairly formidable’.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“More than 150 criminals, potentially including terrorists, have been secretly given immunity from prosecution or discounted sentences for becoming supergrasses.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will be forced to defend itself in court against allegations that it gave one of the world’s most profitable banks a sweetheart deal on the repayment of unpaid taxes worth up to £20m.”
The Guardian, 18th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government is being urged to prevent universities being bought by private equity firms after the College of Law, a charity that provides teaches law courses in London and six other cities across England, was sold to a private equity firm for £200m.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A caretaker who systematically abused numerous young boys over a 30-year period has been branded a ‘depraved, predatory’ paedophile and jailed for 13-and-a-half years.”
The Independent, 17th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Hard on the heels of MP comes another case on the unlawful restriction of discretion with regard to prison rules (see my post on that decision). This case concerned national policy relating to prison incentives and the earned privileges scheme (IEP). The scheme gave enhanced status to convicted sex offenders who had been assessed as unready for a sexual offences training programme.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A rail company is to be prosecuted after one of its trains overshot a station by nearly two-and-a-half miles.”
The Independent, 17th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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