‘Entertainer Rolf Harris has applied for permission to appeal against his conviction for indecent assaults, a spokesman for the Judicial Office says.’
BBC News, 1st August 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
MB v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2014] EWCA Civ 1112; [2014] WLR (D) 355
‘The effect of section 4 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004, which required that a subsisting marriage be annulled prior to the issue of a full gender recognition certificate, and thus to being treated as a woman for pension purposes, did not contravene the principle of equal treatment and was accordingly not discriminatory.’
WLR Daily, 31st July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A planning inspector has dismissed a developer’s appeal to have the affordable housing requirement removed from a planning obligation, under a procedure introduced by the Growth and Infrastructure Act.’
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OUT-LAW.com, 31st July 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A transgender person’s claim to be entitled to receive the female state pension at the age of 60 has been rejected by the appeal court.’
The Guardian, 31st July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court has sided with the makers of Total yoghurt, Fage, in refusing US rival Chobani permission to appeal the definition of Greek yoghurt.’
The Lawyer, 30th July 2014
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Kanu v Southwark London Borough Council [2014] EWCA Civ 1085; [2014] WLR (D) 344
‘Where an applicant with a disability sought housing assistance as homeless, section 149(1) of the Equality Act 2010 did not require a housing authority to do any more than was required by the Housing Act 1996. The public sector equality duty in section 149 of the 2010 Act could not extend to requiring a housing authority to secure accommodation for a disabled person in circumstances where his disability did not render him vulnerable.’
WLR Daily, 29th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Browning v Information Commissioner and Another [2014] EWCA Civ 1050; [2014] WLR (D) 346
‘The First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) Rules 2009 permitted the tribunal when hearing an appeal against a decision of the Information Commissioner to adopt a closed material procedure in which a party and his legal representatives were excluded from the hearing or part of it.’
WLR Daily, 30th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
MacLeod and others v Gold Harp Properties Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 1084; [2014] WLR (D) 345
‘Paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to the Land Registration Act 2002 permitted the rectification of the land register where there were two competing derivative interests, the first of which had been mistakenly omitted or removed from the register, the second of which had been created during the period of mistaken deregistration and before the rectification of the register by the restoration of the first interest, so that the priority of the interests was changed in order that the first interest upon restoration was given the priority it would have had but for the mistake.’
WLR Daily, 29th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
In re H (Children) (Custody Rights: Jurisdiction) [2014] EWCA Civ 1101; [2014] WLR (D) 343
‘There was no longer a “rule” that where two parents had parental responsibility for a child neither could unilaterally change the child’s habitual residence. The correct approach was a factual inquiry tailored to the circumstances of an individual case. Where the issue related to removal of children to a country outside the EU, jurisdiction to determine an application for their return remained with the courts of England and Wales.’
WLR Daily, 29th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Martin (Dwain) and Another [2014] WLR (D) 341
‘To establish an offence of being concerned in supplying controlled drugs, it was necessary to prove that the defendant had participated in the enterprise of supplying controlled drugs to another and that he had knowledge of that enterprise. An arrangement to collect and transport drugs plainly came within the meaning of the word “supply” which was a broad term.’
WLR Daily, 25th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Rolf Harris’s sex offences sentence will not be referred to the Court of Appeal, despite 150 complaints over its “leniency”, the attorney general’s office has said.’
BBC News, 30th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Patel v Mirza [2014] EWCA Civ 1047 ; [2014] WLR (D) 337
‘The claimant who had paid money to the defendant under an agreement to carry out an illegal scheme was not prevented from recovering the money by considerations of public policy if the scheme had not been implemented even if the claimant pleaded and relied on the illegality to recover the money.’
WLR Daily, 29th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Lim (An infant) v Walia [2014] EWCA Civ 1076; [2014] WLR (D) 339
‘Where the deceased had a contingent right, immediately before her death subject to proof, to have the benefit under a joint life policy brought forward because of a terminal illness, but her death brought that right to an end, there was no interest of any value to be treated as part of her estate under section 9(1) of the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.’
WLR Daily, 29th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Michael Adebolajo has lost the first stage of an appeal against his conviction and sentence over the 2013 murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in London.’
BBC News, 29th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Coventry and others (Respondents) v Lawrence and another (Appellants) [2014] UKSC 46 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 23rd July 2014
‘The family of a mother-of-two stabbed to death will take its negligence claim against two police forces to the Supreme Court.’
BBC News, 28th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The UK’s highest court will rule on a landmark decision of whether illegal immigrants should be deprived of fundamental workers’ rights, following the appeal of a Nigerian national who was trafficked into the UK. Judges from the Supreme Court, including Britain’s most senior female judge Lady Hale, will deliver the verdict on Wednesday in a case which could set an important precedent for the rights of workers found to be treated as modern-day slaves.’
The Independent, 27th July 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An unprecedented court hearing to decide on the right of a child whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy to receive compensation could pave the way to the criminalisation of pregnant women’s behaviour, according to legal papers lodged with the judge.
The Guardian, 26th July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Lawrence and another v Fen Tigers Ltd and others (No 2) [2014] UKSC 46; [2014] WLR (D) 332
‘In order for the landlord to be liable for nuisance caused by the tenant of a property the circumstances had to be such that the landlord either (i) could be said to have authorised the nuisance by letting the property in question or (ii) had participated directly in the commission of the nuisance, and it was not enough that the landlord was aware of the nuisance but took no steps to prevent it.’
WLR Daily, 23rd July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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