“Nearly £2 billion in court fines and confiscation orders remain unpaid, official figures show, as the Government admitted it needed to do more to tackle the debt.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An Oxford college is being sued for discriminating against poorer students applying to study for postgraduate courses. St Hugh’s, which was founded in 1886, is being taken to court for choosing applicants not just on academic merit, but also on their ability to prove they can pay tens of thousands of pounds for tuition fees and living expenses.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Every now and again, there is a Local Government Ombudsman report that seems to go beyond individual instances of maladministration and instead capture something of the zeitgeist. The LGO decision summarised here may well be one of the latter (certainly the Guardian thinks so), as arguably what it shows is a Local Authority prioritising its own administrative concerns over its legal duties in both its policy and the operation of policy. There is also a routine failure to ask the kind of questions that might have meant it had to do more. This on top of a series of administrative failures.”
NearlyLegal, 20th January 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“If you pay Amazon and it passes the money on to the retailer, a loophole could leave you without redress.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Murderers, rapists and kidnappers have received compensation totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the Government after complaining that delays in their parole hearings breached their human rights.”
The Independent, 20th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Stephen Hester lays groundwork for penalties expected to be £500m or more.”
The Guardian, 20th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Much has been written about this subject but for the uninitiated this taking of oral evidence (usually from experts) ‘hot tub’ style, means having expert witnesses being questioned and cross-examined together – firstly by the judge or arbitrators and then by the parties’ representatives themselves – and indeed even by each other! Known in polite circles as concurrent evidence, hot tubbing can be used to great effect in construction related disputes, such as those involving design and build issues, measurement disputes, delays, and financial loss.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 7th January 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Linuzs & Ors v Latmar Holdings Corporation [2013] EWCA Civ 4 (17 January 2013)
Kennaugh v Jones (t/a Cheshire Tree Surgeons) [2013] EWCA Civ 1 (16 January 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Cummings & Ors v The Ministry of Justice [2013] EWHC 33 (QB) (17 January 2013)
AKJ & Ors v Commissioner of Police for the Metroplis & Ors [2013] EWHC 32 (QB) (17 January 2013)
One World (GB) Ltd v Elite Mobile Ltd. [2012] EWHC 3706 (QB) (19 December 2012)
Gatt v Barclays Bank Plc & Anor [2013] EWHC 2 (QB) (14 January 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Sarjeant & Ors v Rigid Group Ltd [2012] EWHC 3757 (Ch) (20 December 2012)
Paynter & Anor v Hinch [2013] EWHC 13 (Ch) (17 January 2013)
Rocknroll v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2013] EWHC 24 (Ch) (17 January 2013)
Sycamore Bidco Ltd v Breslin & Anor [2013] EWHC 38 (Ch) (17 January 2013)
National Union of Mineworkers v Scargill [2012] EWHC 3750 (Ch) (21 December 2012)
HFI Farnborough LLP & Ors v Park Garage Group Plc [2013] EWHC 6 (Ch) (11 January 2013)
Ellison v Cleghorn [2013] EWHC 5 (Ch) (14 January 2013)
High Court (Family Division)
Young v Young [2013] EWHC 34 (Fam) (16 January 2013)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Mears Ltd v Shoreline Housing Partnership Ltd [2013] EWHC 27 (TCC) (17 January 2013)
Sear v Kingfisher Builders (a firm) (No 3) [2013] EWHC 21 (TCC) (15 January 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Listing hearings can be tricky. You need to find a time the Court can fit you in. You need to squeeze it into your hectic diaries without upsetting other clients who firmly believe that theirs is the only case you have on right now. It needs to be a time that your busy barrister and the other side’s busy barrister can make.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 7th January 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“A firm has been ordered to pay £81,600 after a worker was injured when her hair and scarf became tangled in machinery.”
BBC News, 17th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An investigation into whether millions of members of workplace pensions are getting good value for money has been launched by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).”
The Guardian, 17th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Adjudicators are increasingly called upon to adjudicate upon complex, multi-faceted disputes. It is now well established that ‘a dispute’ can encompass several discrete issues and the TCC has striven to avoid an overly legalistic approach and to apply common sense when deciding whether a claim encompasses ‘a dispute’ or not.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 7th January 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“A woman who cried rape to cover up cheating on her partner with a taxi driver has been jailed for two years after the infidelity was exposed.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A topical debate is the extent to which solicitors acting for mortgage lenders (or more precisely, their professional indemnity insurers) should bear the consequences of mortgage fraud.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 10th January 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“The LVT has no general power to award costs other than when an application is dismissed as frivolous or vexatious, or otherwise an abuse of process or a party has acted frivolously, vexatiously, abusively, disruptively or otherwise unreasonably in connection with the proceedings. In such circumstances the costs are capped at £500: para 10 of Sch 12 to the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act (‘CLRA’) 2002.”
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Tanfield Chambers, 8th January 2013
Source: www.tanfieldchambers.co.uk
“A high court judge is due to announce on Thursday morning whether police chiefs have won a controversial case involving undercover spies they infiltrated into political campaigns.”
The Guardian, 17th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina v Nelson (Gary) [2013] WLR (D) 10
“An allegation of assault by beating did not amount to or include, whether expressly or by implication, an allegation of common assault. It would not, therefore, be open to a jury to acquit a defendant of assault by beating but to convict him of common assault, unless the offence of common assault was charged as a separate count in the indictment.”
WLR Daily, 15th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“It’s good that the ECHR clarified issues about freedom of religion in the UK. But they got it wrong in the case of Ladele.”
The Guardian, 17th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A number of major media organisations have threatened to launch a legal challenge to proposed new laws affecting the UK’s copyright framework.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
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