Wales child abuse: Judge appeal to Waterhouse witnesses – BBC News
“The judge leading a review of an inquiry into sexual abuse at care homes in north Wales has appealed for witnesses to come forward.”
BBC News, 8th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Month: January 2013
Ned Rocknroll wins Sun photo ban – The Guardian
“Kate Winslet’s husband, Ned Rocknroll, has won his high court bid to prevent the Sun from publishing ’embarrassing’ pictures of him partly naked at a fancy dress party.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal challenge to put an end to court papers – Daily Telegraph
“Saying you’re going to end the legal world’s reliance on paper sounds almost as audacious a claim as announcing you’re going to stop banks paying bonuses. Graham Smith, however, believes his small London-based business is set to revolutionise the way trials and other hearings are managed all over the world by doing exactly that.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The price of equality? Gender and the assessment of risk – Cloisters
“The financial sector will no longer be allowed to use gender as a determining factor in the assessment of risk and therefore the price of premiums and benefits from Friday 21 December 2012.”
Full story (PDF)
Cloisters, 19th December 2012
Source: www.cloisters.com
Equalities: Two Years after the Equality Act 2010 – 11 KBW
“The introduction of the Equality Act 2010 was a landmark in non-discrimination law, bringing together (and making some amendments to) a myriad of different statutory regimes covering various types of protected characteristics. However, such is the nature of litigation, that very little appellate case law has, as yet, had cause to consider the provisions of the Equality Act in any detail. As a result, the very substantial developments which have taken or are taking place recently in the equalities field have tended to arise out of the previous legal regimes, or related regimes such as the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 20th December 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
Regina v Sadighpour – WLR Daily
Regina v Sadighpour [2012] EWCA Crim 2669; [2013] WLR (D) 4
“Section 31(7) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 did not reiterate a requirement to satisfy an evidential burden, initially imposed by section 31(1) on a defendant in relation to refugee status, even when the Secretary of State had refused an asylum claim, and was apt to cover a situation where there had already been due consideration of the defendant’s claim to refugee status on the merits.”
WLR Daily, 11th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Unreliable Evidence – BBC Radio 4
“Clive Anderson and top lawyers and judges reveal why the wheels of our legal system turn so slowly and discuss concerns that Government proposals to speed up proceedings in our criminal courts could lead to injustices.”
BBC Radio 4, 2nd January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Landlord John Tatton forced girl to ‘pay’ for rent in sexual favours – BBC News
“A landlord who forced a teenage girl to ‘pay’ for her rent with sexual favours has been jailed for four years.”
BBC News, 7th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court custody suites criticised by prisons watchdog – BBC News
“Women and children awaiting trial are being kept too close to men in court custody suites, a watchdog has found.”
BBC News, 8th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Army accused of ‘wrongly punishing’ 1,400 soldiers – BBC News
“Some 1,400 soldiers who were cautioned by the police may have been unfairly penalised after an error by the Army led to them being wrongly disciplined.”
BBC News, 7th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mother jailed for life for beating son to death for not learning Qur’an – The Guardian
“A mother who beat her seven-year-old son to death for failing to learn the Qur’an by heart and then burned his body in an attempt to hide her crime has been jailed for life.”
The Guardian, 7th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (Hodkin and another) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages – WLR Daily
“A Scientologist chapel was not a place of meeting for religious worship for the purposes of section 2 of the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855.”
WLR Daily, 19th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Hackney Empire Ltd v Aviva Insurance Ltd – WLR Daily
Hackney Empire Ltd v Aviva Insurance Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1716; [2013] WLR (D) 2
“The rule in Holme v Brunskill (1878) 3 QBD 495, permitting the discharge of a surety’s liability under a guarantee, only applied where the parties to the principal contract guaranteed had varied the terms of that contract without the surety’s consent.”
WLR Daily, 19th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Faraz – WLR Daily
Regina v Faraz [2012] EWCA Crim 2820; [2013] WLR (D) 1
“Where a defendant was charged with disseminating terrorist publications via a bookshop and associated website which he managed, evidence that named terrorist offenders had possessed similar material was only admissible, if at all, for the very limited purpose of demonstrating that among the readership of the bookshop and website’s publications were people who were prepared to commit terrorist acts. But if the evidence was admitted for that purpose, it was relevant only to the question whether such people were likely to regard the contents of the publication as encouragement to commit terrorist acts. It was not admissible in proof of the fact that people had been so encouraged. It was essential that the judge direct the jury as to the limitations and pitfalls of such evidence.”
WLR Daily, 21st December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Golden Eye (International) Ltd and others v Telefόnica UK Ltd (Open Rights Group, intervening) – WLR Daily
“Where a court had found that arrangements entered into by copyright owners with a claimant copyright owner to sue intended defendants in its own name and on behalf of the other owners for alleged breach of copyright were not champertous and that it was proportionate to make an order for disclosure to enable the other owners to have their infringement claims brought, since their interests in enforcing their copyrights outweighed the interests of intended defendants in protecting their privacy and data protection rights, there was no justification for the court to grant relief to the claimant alone and not the other owners without identifying some factor as affecting the balance of the competing interests identified.”
WLR Daily, 21st December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Royds LLP v Pine – WLR Daily
Royds LLP v Pine [2012] EWCA Civ 1734; [2012] WLR (D) 395
“Where a litigant was entitled to a hearing of a renewed application for permission to appeal to the High Court but for good reason was unable to attend court, listing the application for consideration on the papers before another judge was a proper course to take. In an appropriate case the court had power to dispense with an oral hearing and to determine the matter on the papers, or to proceed with an oral hearing and give judgment in the applicant’s absence.”
WLR Daily, 19th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Geys v Société Générale, London Branch – WLR Daily
Geys v Société Générale, London Branch [2012] UKSC 63; [2012] WLR (D) 394
“An immediate and express repudiation of a contract of employment only terminated the contract if and when the other party elected to accept the repudiation.”
WLR Daily, 19th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
