“Personal injury lawyers have applauded former justice secretary Jack Straw’s calls to ban referral fees, saying the practice does not benefit law firms or their clients.”
The Lawyer, 28th June 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A man must pay over £800 after ignoring a fine for throwing rubbish at a McDonald’s car park in Carmarthenshire.”
BBC News, 28th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Justice Minister Jonathan Djanogly has today been explaining reforms to tackle the problem of ‘no win, no fee’ legal schemes and fears of a compensation culture.”
Ministry of Justice, 28th June 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Nail bomber David Copeland has failed in his bid to reduce his minimum jail term of 50 years.”
BBC News, 28th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Undesirable or dangerous immigrants who may face ill-treatment at home cannot be deported, no matter how bad their crimes in Britain, human rights judges have ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Today I am talking to Professor Gary Slapper, Director of the Law School at The Open University. We look at the relentless march towards privatisation in legal education, the Legal Aid reforms and briefly examine the criticism of Jeffrey Samuels QC in the Dowler case.”
Charon QC, 28th June 2011
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“The only female justice on the supreme court, Lady Hale, has highlighted the impact of the proposed cuts in legal aid, declaring that they would have a ‘disproportionate effect upon the poorest and most vulnerable in society’.”
The Guardian, 28th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Joujou & Ors v Masri [2011] EWCA Civ 746 (28 June 2011)
MG & Anor v A Local Authority & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 745 (28 June 2011)
White v Davenham Trust Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 747 (28 June 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Broxbourne Borough Council v Robb & Ors [2011] EWHC 1626 (QB) (27 June 2011)
AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd v Birdi & Ors [2011] EWHC 1625 (QB) (20 June 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“New laws to help make it easier for children and vulnerable victims and witnesses to give evidence in court come into force today.”
Ministry of Justice, 27th June 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The bill all but removes sweeteners introduced in the 1990s when legal aid was abolished in most personal injury claims.”
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The Guardian, 28th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The first sub-paragraph of article 6(1) of the EEC-Turkey Association Council Decision 3/80 of 19 September 1980 on the application of the social security schemes of the member states of the European Communities to Turkish workers and members of their families (OJ 1983 C 110, p 60), which provided for the export of certain specified benefits, was directly effective. That provision precluded national legislation which withdrew the award of a benefit, such as the supplement to invalidity benefit, from former Turkish migrant workers when they had returned to Turkey after losing their right to remain in the host member state after becoming incapacitated in the that member state.”
WLR Daily, 26th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“New laws designed to make it easier for children and vulnerable people to give evidence in court came into force today (27 June).”
Law Society’s Gazette, 27th June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Lawyers of celebrities who suspect that phone messages were intercepted by News of the World journalists can be given material from ‘surveillance’ notes seized by police, a High Court judge said today (27 June).”
Daily Telegraph, 27th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The family of one of Levi Bellfield’s murder victims has hit out at the way his defence was handled during his trial for the killing of Milly Dowler.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two nursing home workers who were found guilty of wilfully neglecting a man who broke his hip have been sentenced to community service.”
BBC News, 27th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“UK businesses should identify and change behaviour that may be deemed to be anti-competitive, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th June 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The judge in Levi Bellfield’s trial could not spare Milly Dowler’s parents the trauma of giving evidence.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Bank of Scotland plc v Zinda [2011 EWCA Civ 706; [2011] WLR (D) 208
“An agreement between the mortgagor and mortgagee consolidating the unpaid instalments leading up to a suspended possession order and the future mortgage instalments thereby enlarging the total amount of loan did not have the effect of creating a new contract of loan displacing the original contract of loan. Nor did the agreement affect the survival of the suspended possession order entitling the mortgagee to take immediate possession of the mortgaged property without any further order based on the new contract.”
WLR Daily, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v McKenzie [2011] EWCA Crim 1550; [2011] WLR (D) 207
“Where the counts in an indictment referred to offences contrary to a specific statutory provision but the particulars referred to acts which would be contrary to a different statutory provision, findings of a jury could not be upheld on the basis that the requirements of section 4A(2)(b) of the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 were met, or that the defects could be cured by application of section 3 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968.”
WLR Daily, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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