“The family of a nine-year-old girl has won a multi-million pound compensation package for devastating injuries suffered at birth.”
BBC News, 25th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The body that regulates both NHS and private health and social care services in England is the Care Quality Commission.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There has been some discussion on the UK Human Rights Blog about the judgments in the Hirst v UK/Scoppula v Italy cases, the latest of which was given this week. Simply put, the judgments held (taken together) that the UK’s blanket ban on prisoner voting infringed a prisoner’s voting rights; to comply with the Convention, a ban on prisoner voting would have to involve an exercise of discretion. The growing legal discussion has been learned and has dissected the reasons expressed by the ECtHR. However, from the perspective of a non-specialist human rights lawyer, the discussion seems curiously inverted. It is suggested that the non-lawyer would naturally start an analysis of the competing views not by analysing the caselaw of the ECtHR and asking what room to manoeuvre the latest judgment gives the UK government, but by asking what the court had to say about the recent expression of the will of the people, expressed in the vote in Parliament, which supported the continuation of the ban. It is important for lawyers to address these more general issues for the public to maintain confidence in the system of European human rights law.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A millionaire’s daughter was jailed for two years yesterday after she acted as the driver for a group of armed looters who pillaged shops and robbed people at knifepoint during last summer’s riots.”
The Independent, 26th May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Neglect by immigration detention centre staff contributed to the death of a Pakistani asylum seeker after he suffered a heart attack, an inquest jury has found.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Employers are entitled to offer pay increases on the condition that all or part of that increase does not count towards an employee’s future pension entitlement, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Fruit pickers, shellfish gatherers and farm labourers could be at greater risk of exploitation under plans to reduce regulation of gangmasters, unions say.”
BBC News, 25th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Champerty used to be a crime. Now it is known as third-party litigation funding and has developed into an investment industry backed by up to £500m of investor cash looking for lucrative courtroom opportunities.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The ‘fire at will’ employment proposals may have been doused, but that doesn’t mean employees are safe. They still have to fight their corner when it comes to dismissals.”
The Guardian, 24th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The police failed to satisfy the court that their need for footage taken by TV organisations was likely to be of substantial value to criminal investigations and therefore would be a justified interference with the rights of a free press under Article 10 of the Human Rights Convention.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Two convicted criminals who attacked prison officers and held a mutiny inside their jail have been handed longer sentences.”
The Independent, 24th May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“RPC has successfully defended Associated Newspapers in the first media harassment case to go to trial, after the newspaper group was sued by the partner of MP Chris Huhne, Carina Trimingham.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th May 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A court clerk who made legal history when he became the first person to be jailed under new bribery legislation has had his sentence reduced by two years.”
The Guardian, 24th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Alex Verdan QC of 4 Paper Buildings considers several recent important judgments covering a range of private law issues concerning children.”
Family Law Week, 23rd May 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Bank of Ireland & Anor v Jaffery & Anor [2012] EWHC 1377 (Ch) (23 May 2012)
Aspden v Elvy [2012] EWHC 1387 (Ch) (23 May 2012)
High Court (Patents Court)
Fabio Perini SPA v LPC Group Plc & Ors [2012] EWHC 1393 (Pat) (04 April 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A record number of offenders sentenced for serious crimes had committed previous offences, according to figures for 2011.”
BBC News, 24th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The protection against costs provided to HM Revenue and Customs by section 144(2) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, in respect of proceedings brought against them on account of the seizure or detention of any thing on reasonable grounds, applied to claims for judicial review.”
WLR Daily, 22nd May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“When a notice of appeal against an extradition decision had an irregularity which could be cured by amendment and the circumstances merited that, the court had jurisdiction to permit the amendment and hear the appeal. A British citizen against whom an extradition order was made was entitled to a fair determination of his common law right to remain within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. A statutory provision which impaired his right of appeal against an extradition decision had to be read with the qualification that the court had a discretion in exceptional circumstances to extend the time for the filing of a notice of appeal.”
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
I v Oberbürgermeisterin der Stadt Remscheid (Case C-348/09); [2012] WLR (D) 157
“An individual who had committed an offence, including those referred to in article 83(1)FEU of the FEU Treaty, such as the sexual exploitation of children, could be regarded as constituting a particularly serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society and therefore could be excluded from a host member state on ‘imperative ground[s] of public security’ pursuant to article 28(3)(a) of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC.”
WLR Daily, 22nd May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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