‘In the context of an extradition appeal the court set out the approach to be taken in applying section 12A of the Extradition Act 2003.’
WLR Daily, 13th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A slaughterhouse boss has become the first person to be sentenced in connection with the horsemeat scandal that rocked British supermarkets in 2013.’
The Guardian, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘In 1980, personal computers were still in their infancy, and the internet did not exist. There were, of course, genuine concerns about threats to our privacy, but, looking back at my book of that year, they mostly revolved around telephone tapping, surveillance, and unwanted press intrusion. Data protection legislation was embryonic, and the concept of privacy as a human right was little more than a chimera.’
OUP Blog, 20th March 2015
Source: http://blog.oup.com
‘A Christian street preacher has been convicted of delivering homophobic sermons in the middle of a high street.’
BBC News, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Family courts should have annual open days for children, a report from the judiciary recommends.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Three airlines are facing legal action over complaints about how they handle passengers hit by flight disruptions.’
BBC News, 21st March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Home Office is drawing up a blacklist of extremist individuals and organisations with whom the government and public sector should not engage, Theresa May has revealed.’
The Guardian, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Avid readers of the legal press may have spotted the eye-catching statistic that in 2014 a meagre 1% of claims for judicial review were successful.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A Canadian woman who was told she could not stay in Britain after ending her relationship with a violent partner has won indefinite leave to remain.’
BBC News, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The question of whether two Parties have entered in to a binding settlement compromising a case is often just as (if not more) acrimonious matter as the substantive case. In particular as the devil is often in the detail of any settlement, the intention is often that even where settlement is agreed in principle, one party does not wish to be bound to the settlement until all the terms are agreed and embodied in a signed document. If this is the intention then it is important that the same is made well known to the other negotiating party, in order to avoid the pitfall of finding oneself having inadvertently entering in to a binding settlement, prior to concluding those subsequent negotiations.’
No. 5 Chambers, 13th January 2015
Source: www.no5.com
‘Time limits on police bail in England and Wales have been announced by Home Secretary Theresa May.’
BBC News, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A new law will allow relatives of missing people to take charge of their family member’s property and financial affairs, such as suspending direct debit payments for mobile phone and utility bills, and making mortgage payments, the Ministry of Justice announced today.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A convicted killer was allowed out on day release, leaving him free to murder a good samaritan in a decision described as a “catastrophic failure” by the chief inspector of prisons.’
The Guardian, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A 75-year-old man who posed as a 16-year-old boy on social media to groom a young girl into have sex with him has been jailed for 10 years.’
BBC News, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Barco De Vapor BV and others v Thanet District Council [2014] EWHC 490 (Ch); [2015] WLR (D) 127
‘Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 harmonised the law on the protection, welfare and health of animals during transport. Accordingly, the imposition of an animal welfare measure not in accordance with the Regulation which had the effect of restricting the free movement of goods was an unjustified breach of article 35FEU of the FEU Treaty.’
WLR Daily, 27th February 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
FAS v Bradford Metropolitan District Council and another [2015] EWHC 622 (Fam); [2015] WLR (D) 128
‘It remained the case that the court would rarely make an adoption order when it would confer no benefits upon the child during its childhood but gave it a right of abode for the rest of its life. The proposition to that effect in In re B (A Minor) (Adoption Order: Nationality) [1999] 2 AC 136, 141–142, decided in the context of section 6 of the Adoption Act 1976 and the need to promote and safeguard the welfare of the child “throughout his childhood”, still applied despite the change in the welfare test effected by the Adoption and Children Act 2002, which now provided that the paramount (as opposed to the first) consideration was the child’s welfare “throughout his life”. Thus, where the court was in effect being asked to use adoption to confer citizenship prospectively upon an adult the courts were reluctant to trespass upon the area of the Home Secretary’s authority entrusted to him by Parliament.’
WLR Daily, 13th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Where a party, which entered an acknowledgment of service to proceedings and made an unsuccessful challenge against the jurisdiction of the English court to hear the proceedings, had entered a further acknowledgment of service in its application for permission to appeal against the court’s decision to refuse its challenge, that party would have submitted to the jurisdiction of the English court, within article 24 of the Lugano Convention on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters (2007), because of the provisions of CPR r 11(8), unless it had first applied to the court for an extension of time to file the further acknowledgment of service sufficient to enable the application for permission to appeal, or the appeal if permission was granted, to be determined.’
WLR Daily, 18th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Chaudhary) v Crown Court at Bristol and another [2015] EWHC 723 (Admin); [2015] WLR (D) 131
‘The legislative changes effected by the introduction of the Criminal Procedure Rules revoked the Crown Court Rules 1982 in so far as they related to an award of costs in criminal cases in the Crown Court. Accordingly, there was no power under rule 12 of the Crown Court Rules enabling the Crown Court to make an order for costs in relation to an application under section 59 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 for the return of items seized pursuant to a search warrant.’
WLR Daily, 18th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Doran and another [2015] EWCA Crim 384; [2015] WLR (D) 129
‘A surveillance operation mounted by Revenue and Customs because they suspected that a consignment of cigarettes were being imported with the purpose of evading the duty payable did not result in a disconnection between the goods and the importers. Revenue and Customs were thereby monitoring the import, not controlling it, so that a judge was entitled to find that the importers were “holding” the goods within the meaning of regulation 13(1) of the Tobacco Products Regulations 2001 and, by that means, were retaining their connection with the goods at the excise duty point.’
WLR Daily, 17th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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