“The Appeal Court has criticised the lawyers of five refugees who were wrongly jailed for carrying false documents after fleeing their countries under the threat of persecution.”
The Independent, 30th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The family of late locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson and paralysed road accident victim Paul Lamb have lost their right-to-die challenges.”
BBC News, 31st July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A German woman who was jailed for locking up her three children in squalid conditions has won a legal challenge against the Home Office’s bid to deport her, The Telegraph can disclose.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal is due to rule on the case of a paralysed man who wants to be helped to die.”
BBC News, 31st July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (Modaresi) v Secretary of State for Health and others [2013] UKSC 53; [2013] WLR (D) 309
“The Secretary of State for Health had not acted unlawfully in refusing to exercise his statutory discretion to refer the case of a detained patient to a mental health review tribunal for review in circumstances where the patient had a right to make an application to the tribunal herself.”
WLR Daily, 24th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
South Lanarkshire Council v Scottish Information Commissioner [2013] UKSC 55; [2013] WLR (D) 307
“Whether processing personal data was ‘necessary’ within the meaning of condition 6 in Schedule 2 to the Data Protection Act 1998 was to be determined as part of the proportionality test established in European Union law so that a measure which interfered with a right protected by such law had to be the least restrictive for the achievement of a legitimate aim.”
WLR Daily, 29th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court, 29th July 2013
“There are those who say that service charges are a dry subject. To them I say, welcome to Wallace-Jarvis v (1) Optima (Cambridge) Ltd (2) Khazai [2013] UKUT 328 (LC).”
NearlyLegal, 29th July 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“This time of year, high court and appellate judges will have been trying to clear their desks – to stop the complex half-finished judgment from skulking around in their minds and spoiling their holidays.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“In Fairstar Heavy Transport NV v (1) Philip Jeffrey Adkins (2) Claranet Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 886 the Court of Appeal has considered what right a company has to obtain work-related emails held by its former CEO on his personal computer.”
Panopticon, 26th July 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
Singh v Reading Borough Council [2013] EWCA Civ 909; [2013] WLR (D) 306
“An employer’s improper activities in gathering evidence for the purpose of defending a claim of discrimination brought by an employee were not covered by judicial proceedings immunity.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall’s prison sentence for indecently assaulting 13 girls was doubled to 30 months today after the Appeal Court ruled that the punishment was inadequate for the crimes that he had committed.”
The Independent, 26th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government will attempt to overturn the judgment of a multimillion-pound case affecting almost a quarter of a million unemployed people on Monday.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“HS2 is the proposed high speed rail link to Birmingham and beyond. Its opponents sought to challenge the decision to promote it by way of a hybrid Bill in Parliament, saying that the process as a whole breached the various EU rules, including the need for Strategic Environmental Assessment under the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive 2001/42/EC and the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2011/92/EU.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th July 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall’s 15-month prison sentence for indecently assaulting 13 girls was unduly lenient and he should serve longer in jail, the Attorney General told the Court of Appeal today.”
The Independent, 26th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Three of Britain’s most senior judges are considering whether the 15-month sentence handed to Stuart Hall for a string of sex offences was unduly lenient.”
The Guardian, 26th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“High court judges give the Guardian right to challenge cabinet move to keep secret so-called ‘black spider memos.’ ”
The Guardian, 25th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Where solicitors had acted for a company in connection with its opposition to a winding up petition but had ceased to act for the company by the time the company went into out of court administration, the court had no power under the Insolvency Rules 1986 or under the inherent jurisdiction of the court to direct that fees which the company owed to the solicitors were an expense of the administration.”
WLR Daily, 24th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A London borough has failed in a Court of Appeal bid to overturn a ruling that its policy of differential treatment of family foster carers and unrelated foster carers was unlawful.”
Local Government Lawyer, 25th July 2013
Spurce: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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