Zoumbas (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] UKSC 74 | UKSC 2013/0100 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 27th November 2013
Bull and another (Appellants) v Hall and another (Respondents) [2013] UKSC 73 | UKSC 2012/0065 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 27th November 2013
“A woman jailed for 17 years for killing her six children in a house fire is to launch another attempt to challenge the length of her sentence.”
The Guardian, 29th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Advocacy is a skill that exposes truth or lies in the court process. It is a forensic challenge that doesn’t depend on the colour of the advocate’s lipstick or the lining of Queen’s Counsel’s suit, but on ability.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 28th November 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“This is a brief note on an important Court of Appeal judgement. Mitchell v News Group Newspapers Ltd is actually a defamation case but it is an essential point of reference for anybody involved in civil litigation.”
NearlyLegal, 28th November 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“A woman who wrote to a man who abused her as a child called in the police when his reply showed no remorse.”
BBC News, 28th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former Gloucestershire coroner has been jailed for eight years for stealing £2m from clients, some of whom had died, at his solicitors practice.”
BBC News, 28th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“One of Britain’s most senior judges said the rapid rise in the number of laws in recent years had been necessary as other modes of social control such as religion and old fashioned morality declined.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The trial of two men for allegedly threatening to blow up a Pakistani plane in mid-air has been abandoned after the court heard they were ‘idiots’, not terrorists.”
The Guardian, 28th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“People who look after young relatives or friends’ children are being treated unfairly by some councils, a local government watchdog says.”
BBC News, 29th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Peaches Geldof could face a criminal investigation after she named two women claimed to be the mothers who allowed their babies to be abused by disgraced rock singer Ian Watkins.”
The Independent, 28th November 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Jurors in the trial of two men accused of murdering the soldier Lee Rigby have been instructed not to research the case or view it with ‘any preconceived beliefs or ideas’.”
The Guardian, 28th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A conman has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 27 years after stabbing to death a wealthy woman in her flat, hiding her body in the boot of a car and spending her money.”
The Guardian, 28th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Men are too often mocked in the work place for wanting to go part time or leaving early to pick up their children, the Liberal Democrat equalities minister has said, as she announced detailed plans for new mums and dads to share a year of parental leave after the birth of a child.”
The Guardian, 29th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Student Andrew Risk, who was paralysed after diving into 2ft of water, sues Rose Bruford drama school for ‘failing to control high jinx at summer ball’.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Supreme Court
Bucnys v Ministry of Justice [2013] UKSC 71 (20 November 2013)
Patel & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] UKSC 72 (20 November 2013)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Fields & Ors v R. [2013] EWCA Crim 2042 (14 November 2013)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Lanfear v Chandler [2013] EWCA Civ 1497 (20 November 2013)
Salat v Barutis [2013] EWCA Civ 1499 (20 November 2013)
Deutsche Bahn AG & Ors v Morgan Advanced Materials Plc & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 1484 (20 November 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
GH Cornish LLP & Ors v Smith [2013] EWHC 3563 (QB) (20 November 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Obi v The Solicitors Regulation Authority [2013] EWHC 3578 (Admin) (20 November 2013)
Arshad v Court of Magistrates Malta [2013] EWHC 3619 (Admin) (20 November 2013)
High Court (Family Division)
G v B (Rev 1) [2013] EWHC 3414 (Fam) (07 November 2013)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Westshield Ltd v Whitehoue & Anor [2013] 3576 EWHC (TCC) (18 November 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Kazakhstan Kagazy Plc & Ors v Zhunus & Ors [2013] EWHC 3618 (Comm) (20 November 2013)
Transition Feeds LLP v Itochu Europe Plc [2013] EWHC 3629 (Comm) (15 November 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
“International arbitration has something of a reputation as the ‘Wild West’ of the law; a land where personalities are at least as important (or perhaps more so) than procedural rules, and legal representatives can be viewed by their clients as hired guns.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 21st November 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Maletic and another v lastminute.com and another (Case C-478/12); [2013] WLR (D) 444
“The concept of ‘other party to the contract’ laid down in article 16(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, p 1)also covered the contracting partner of the operator with which the consumer concluded that contract and which had its registered office in the member state in which the consumer was domiciled.”
WLR Daily, 14th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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