“The UK Border Agency required colleges seeking highly trusted sponsor status to report all students who failed to enrol including those refused entry clearance or leave to remain. A refusal rate of 20% made proper allowance for unsuitable applicants who could not reasonably be weeded out by a college’s admissions staff.”
WLR Daily, 8th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A ‘professional criminal’ given a life sentence for a road rage murder on an M25 slip road today (12 March) failed in a bid to get his 16-year minimum jail term cut by the Court of Appeal.”
The Independent, 12th March 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two of Baby P’s social workers have lost their appeal against a tribunal ruling that found they were fairly sacked by Haringey Council.”
BBC News, 12th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The provision of public order policing and crowd control, both before and after football matches, on land not owned, possessed or controlled by a football club did not constitute ‘special police services’ within the meaning of section 25(1) of the Police Act 1996, and therefore the police were not entitled to charge the football club for the cost of doing so.”
WLR Daily, 7th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Daejan Investments Ltd v Benson and others [2013] UKSC 14; [2013] WLR (D) 94
“Where a landlord’s failure to consult fully with tenants before carrying out major repairs to a block of flats would preclude recovery from the tenants of the full cost of the works unless a leasehold valuation tribunal granted a dispensation under section 20ZA(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 from the relevant consultation requirement, dispensation was not to be refused as a punitive measure solely because a landlord had breached the consultation requirements in the Service Charges (Consultation Requirements) (England) Regulations (SI 2003/1987)) but rather the tribunal could grant the dispensation on terms which reflected the actual prejudice which the tenants had suffered.”
WLR Daily, 6th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Government’s seemingly endless battle to deport the radical cleric Abu Qatada went back before the courts today.”
The Independent, 11th March 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Supreme Court, 6th March 2013
“In his recent blog ‘Down the rabbit hole,’ Tom Richards described the ‘quasi judicial review within an appeal’ contained in s.193(7) Communications Act 2003 as something of a Wonderland.”
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 11th March 2013
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
“An SAS sniper jailed for possessing a war trophy given to him by the Iraqi army will learn this week whether his conviction will be quashed.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“West Yorkshire Police has lost its appeal case over the costs of policing matches at Leeds United’s Elland Road stadium.”
BBC News, 7th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“On the eve of costs budgeting becoming an integral aspect of multi-track case management, the Court of Appeal has caused controversy by reversing Senior Costs Judge Hirst’s tough decision in Henry v News Group Newspapers (SCCO) 28th May 2012).”
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Zenith Chambers, 12th February 2013
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has refused an appeal against the strike out of a libel claim against the BBC in relation to a review of an electric sports car by the ‘Top Gear’ programme. The judge below had been correct in concluding that there was no sufficient prospect of the manufacturer recovering a substantial sum of damages such as to justify continuing the case to trial.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Perry v Nursing and Midwifery Council [2013] EWCA Civ 145; [2013] WLR (D) 88
“Fairness did not require that a respondent to an allegation of unfitness to practise his profession had to be given an opportunity to give evidence as to the substance of that allegation before a tribunal considering whether to make an interim suspension order or other interim order under a legislative scheme, such as that contained in the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, since that was not what the statutory scheme envisaged or what fairness required at the interim stage. Guidance was given as to the procedure to be followed by a committee, considering whether to make an interim order pending the substantive hearing of a complaint against a member of the profession, in order to satisfy the fairness requirement.”
WLR Daily, 28th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The decision of a court in another member state of the European Economic Area in relation to the insolvency of a credit institution in that state had effect in the United Kingdom in relation to any of that institution’s branches in the United Kingdom as if it were part of the general insolvency law of the United Kingdom. However the decision of that court did not have any effect on proceedings in an United Kingdom court dealing with the insolvency of an United Kingdom credit institution so that all the defences available under United Kingdom insolvency law could be invoked.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The court had no power to make an order requiring the disclosure of evidence to be used in overseas criminal proceedings except pursuant to the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court, 27th February 2013
Supreme Court, 27th February 2013
“A dinner lady told a child’s parents that their daughter had been tied to a fence and whipped with a skipping rope by some other pupils, repeated the same to the press and then was dismissed for breach of confidentiality and acting in a manner likely to bring the school into disrepute. An employment tribunal found the dismissal procedurally unfair but dismissed her whistleblowing claim and reduced her compensation for unfair dismissal on the grounds of Polkey and for contributory fault. The tribunal did not, however, determine the question of whether the claimant could lawfully be disciplined for ‘telling tales out of school’ (as it put it).”
Employment Law Blog, 27th February 2013
Source: www.employment11kbw.com
“A London silk sentenced today to three and a half years in prison after being convicted of a £600,000 VAT fraud says he will fight to clear his name.”
Law Society’s Gazette,
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Regina v Asmelash [2013] EWCA Crim 157; [2013] WLR (D) 79
“There was nothing in the new statutory provisions relating to the partial defence to murder of loss of self control to suggest that Parliament intended that the normal rules which applied to voluntary intoxication should not apply. That did not mean that a defendant who had been drinking was deprived of the loss of control defence, it just meant that the defence had to be approached without reference to the defendant’s voluntary intoxication.”
WLR Daily, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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