“Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area.”
The Guardian, 30th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ofgem has handed npower a £2 million penalty for breaching regulations in handling customer complaints.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The media won an important victory for press freedom following an attempt to block the publication of Vincent Tabak’s sordid sex life and interest in violent pornography, it can be disclosed today (28 October).”
The Independent, 28th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Lovat v Hertsmere Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 1185; [2011] WLR (D) 306
“In the definition of ‘an excluded tenancy’ for the purposes of the additional right to enfranchisement applicable to tenancies not at a low rent under section 1AA of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967, the phrase ‘the house which the tenant occupies under the tenancy’ in section 1AA(3)(a) was to be construed as referring solely to the ‘house’ as defined in section 2(1) of the 1967 Act (that is, excluding any grounds); and the term ‘adjoining land’ in section 1AA(3)(b) meant neighbouring land that might, but did not necessarily, touch or physically adjoin the house.”
WLR Daily, 27th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Brüstle v Greenpeace eV (Case C-34/10); [2011] WLR (D) 305
“Any human ovum after fertilisation, any non-fertilised human ovum into which the cell nucleus from a mature human cell had been transplanted, and any non-fertilised human ovum whose division and further development had been stimulated by parthenogenesis constituted a ‘human embryo’ within the meaning of article 6(2)(c) of Parliament and Council Directive 98/44/EC of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (OJ 1998 L 213, p 13) and could not therefore be patented.”
WLR Daily, 18th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“‘Good regulation is a good thing’ is the trite introduction to the government’s red tape challenge, before saying we have too much of the other sort. The proposition is that reducing the quantity of regulation is the answer. This is myopic because if quantity is one possible burden on business, so is poor quality law. Poor quality is not about political or policy disagreements, but simply the production of badly-drafted law that is difficult to understand, because it is too complex or simply unclear.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 28th October 2011
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Ministers are drawing up plans to rein in ‘outrageous’ human rights rulings by judges, it can be disclosed.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is taking steps to close down a company which claims to process thousands of loan applications a week.”
BBC News, 29th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“People on benefits who are fined in court could face a fivefold increase in the amount docked from their weekly payments to cover the penalty, David Cameron will announce on Saturday as the government response to the riots is intensified.”
The Guardian, 29th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers are being urged not to restrict legal aid for disabled people wanting to challenge benefit decisions.”
BBC News, 31st October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“More women living in abusive relationships will be killed or driven to suicide if the government pushes through cuts to legal aid, a leading national charity has warned.”
The Guardian, 31st October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Rheines v R. [2011] EWCA Crim 2397 (26 October 2011)
R. v E [2011] EWCA Crim 2393 (06 October 2011)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Morrissey v McNicholas & Anor [2011] EWHC 2738 (QB) (26 October 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Glencore Energy (UK) Ltd v Sonol Israel Ltd [2011] EWHC 2756 (Comm) (26 October 2011)
High Court (Admiralty Division)
MIOM 1 Ltd & Anor v Sea Echo ENE (No 2) [2011] EWHC 2715 (Admlty) (26 October 2011)
High Court (Patents Court)
Nokia OYJ (Nokia Corporation) v IPCom GmbH & Co Kg [2011] EWHC 2719 (Pat) (26 October 2011)
Protecting Kids the World Over (PKTWO) Ltd, Re [2011] EWHC 2720 (Pat) (26 October 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The first psychiatric patient to have an appeal against detention heard in public lost his legal battle to be freed from Broadmoor hospital on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Litigators may face a tough new rule on the ‘proportionality’ of their costs that could fuel satellite litigation and uncertainty, experts warned last week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 27th October 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police and the Crown Prosecution Service fear suspects in the phone-hacking criminal investigation could try to sabotage prosecutions, it has emerged.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK’s supreme court is not always ‘supreme’ because it has to follow the lead of the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, whose rulings are sometimes too narrow in scope, according to the country’s most senior judge, Lord Phillips.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two brothers jailed after being accused of conning thousands of customers into visiting what they claimed was a Lapland-style theme park had their convictions overturned by appeal judges today.”
The Independent, 26th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“People who feel threatened in their own homes will no longer have to flee and can stay to defend both themselves and their property under Government plans.”
The Independent, 27th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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