“On Tuesday 19 September 2006, BBC’s Panorama made a number of allegations about corruption in football. The most serious allegations concern the alleged widespread bribery of football club directors, managers and scouts by agents seeking to place the players for whom they act.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 19th February 2013
Source: www.11kbw.com
“The parents of a teenager who killed himself after being arrested have pleaded for police to treat all 17-year-olds in custody as children.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“When a litigator enters into settlement discussions, the general rule is that the content of those communications are protected by the Without Prejudice Rule and cannot be relied upon as evidence in court if the case doesn’t settle. This rule, however, does not constitute a blanket ban. In this note James Barnard reminds us of the Without Prejudice Rule framework, its recognised exceptions and how the Supreme Court case of Oceanbulk Shipping & Trading SA v TMT Asia Ltd [2010] UKSA 44 created another wide-ranging exception.”
Full story (PDF)
11 Stone Buildings, February 2013
Source: www.11sb.com
“The number of barristers being awarded Queen’s Counsel status is on a downward trajectory with just 84 taking silk in the latest round, the lowest number since the system was reviewed in 2006.”
The Lawyer, 27th February 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“An Iraqi doctor has been accused of committing crimes against humanity as part of Saddam Hussein’s regime, a medical tribunal has heard.”
BBC News, 26th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A London silk sentenced today to three and a half years in prison after being convicted of a £600,000 VAT fraud says he will fight to clear his name.”
Law Society’s Gazette,
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A former boyfriend of the socialite Tamara Ecclestone has been jailed for four years for plotting to blackmail her for £200,000. Derek Rose, 33, who dated the daughter of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone in 2002 when she was 17, was implicated in a plot which saw an email sent to Ecclestone’s manager after the model starred in Billion Dollar Girl, a reality TV programme exploring her life as a rich young person.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The police watchdog has written to a chief constable expressing concern over comments in an email about the Hillsborough disaster that were ‘at best ill-judged and at worst offensive and upsetting’.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Google, Facebook and Twitter have been ordered by the police to remove photographs purporting to show one of James Bulger’s killers.”
The Guardian, 26th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Queen has approved the latest appointment to the Supreme Court bench with Lord Justices Toulson and Hughes and Lord Hodge being promoted.”
The Lawyer, 26th February 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Three teenage boys who kicked and punched a homeless man to death have been convicted of murder at Liverpool Crown Court.”
BBC News, 26th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A compulsive liar made almost a dozen false claims that she was raped in nearly a decade after making her first complaint at the age of 13, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A police officer at a sex crime unit encouraged a woman to drop a rape claim against a man who went on to murder his two children, a report has said.”
BBC News, 26th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
KL, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 98 (22 January 2013)
Ahmed, R. v [2012] EWCA Crim 99 (24 January 2013)
Rabheru, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 137 (25 January 2013)
Evans, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 125 (23 January 2013)
Pouladian-Kari v R [2013] EWCA Crim 158 (22 February 2013)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
IG Index Ltd v Ehrentreu [2013] EWCA Civ 95 (22 February 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Chemistree Homecare Ltd v Abbvie Ltd [2013] EWHC 264 (Ch) (11 February 2013)
Hunt v Hosking & Ors [2013] EWHC 311 (Ch) (22 February 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
New Forest District Council v Owen & Ors [2013] EWHC 265 (QB) (22 February 2013)
High Court (Family Division)
TC and JC (Children: Relocation) [2013] EWHC 292 (Fam) (21 February 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Navig8 PTE Ltd v Al-Riyadh Co for Vegetable Oil Industry [2013] EWHC 328 (Comm) (22 February 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Article 48FEU of the FEU Treaty and articles 3, 46(2)(a) and 47(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 of 14 June 1971 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community (as amended), precluded legislation of a member state under which the theoretical amount of the retirement pension of a self-employed worker, migrant or non-migrant, was invariably calculated on contribution bases paid by that worker over a fixed reference period preceding the payment of his last contribution in that member state, to which a fixed divisor was applied, when it was impossible for either the duration of that period or the divisor to be adapted so as to take account of the fact that the worker concerned had exercised his right to freedom of movement.”
WLR Daily, 21st February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Asmelash [2013] EWCA Crim 157; [2013] WLR (D) 79
“There was nothing in the new statutory provisions relating to the partial defence to murder of loss of self control to suggest that Parliament intended that the normal rules which applied to voluntary intoxication should not apply. That did not mean that a defendant who had been drinking was deprived of the loss of control defence, it just meant that the defence had to be approached without reference to the defendant’s voluntary intoxication.”
WLR Daily, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Davis and another v Price and another [2013] EWHC 323 (Ch); [2013] WLR (D) 78
“Statutory demands served in respect of the liability for a debt created by an order for costs were subject to the terms of individual voluntary arrangements (‘IVAs’) proposed by the debtors and approved by creditors and therefore they should be set aside.”
WLR Daily, 21st February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
N v Styrelsen for Videregående Uddannelser og Uddannelsesstøtt (Case C-46/12); [2013] WLR (D) 77
“On the proper interpretation of articles 7(1) and 24(2) of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38, a European Union citizen who pursued a course of study in a host member state whilst at the same time engaging in effective and genuine employment activities such as to confer on him the status of ‘worker’ within the meaning of article 45FEU of the FEU Treaty could not be refused maintenance aid for studies which was granted to the nationals of that member state.”
WLR Daily, 21st February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Banif Plus Bank Zrt v Csipai and another (Case C-472/11); [2013] WLR (D) 76
“A national court, in order to fulfil its obligation pursuant to articles 6(1) and 7(1) of Council Directive 93/13/EEC, to assess of its own motion whether a contractual term in a consumer contract was unfair and to establish all the consequences arising under national law of such a finding, was not obliged before giving its ruling to wait for a consumer, who had been fully informed of his rights, to submit a statement requesting that that term be declared invalid.”
WLR Daily, 21st February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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