Robin Hood Airport tweet bomb threat man wins case – BBC News
“A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet threatening to blow up an airport has won a challenge against his conviction.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: appeals
Johann MK Blumenthal GmbH & Co KG and another v Itochu Corpn – WLR Daily
Johann MK Blumenthal GmbH & Co KG and another v Itochu Corpn [2012] EWCA Civ 996; [2012] WLR (D) 225
“The Court of Appeal did not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from a judge who had made a decision under section 18 of the Arbitration Act 1996 and had refused permission to appeal under section 18(5) of that Act.”
WLR Daily, 24th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Twitter joke case appeal judgment due – The Guardian
“A man found guilty of sending a menacing tweet after making a joke about blowing up an airport is to learn the outcome of his challenge against conviction.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal confirm general damages to increase by 10% from April 2013 – Judiciary of England and Wales
“The Court of Appeal handed down a judgment today which will lead to an increase in general damages in most civil cases from 1st April 2013.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 26th July 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Court of Appeal refuses Secretary of State Sandbach appeal – OUT-LAW.com
“The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court ruling that Secretary of State Eric Pickles must reconsider his refusal of plans for 280 homes on a greenfield site at Sandbach, Cheshire.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Father’s rights breached by mother ‘too upset’ to let him see children – Daily Telegraph
“A father who was denied access to his children for three years because it upset their mother suffered a breach of his parental rights, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Maidment v Attwood and others – WLR Daily
Maidment v Attwood and others: [2012] EWCA Civ 998; [2012] WLR (D) 220
“Where a minority shareholder had brought a petition under section 994 of the Companies Act alleging that remuneration paid to a director of a now insolvent company in liquidation was excessive and therefore unfairly prejudicial, there was no basis in the statutory provisions or in principle or in authority to impose a requirement for diligence on shareholders in regards to the company’s filed accounts.”
WLR Daily, 19th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Judicial robustness and the right to be heard – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“In this age of active case management, judges are rightly expected to take a robust approach to dealing with the cases before them. But sometimes robustness can be taken too far – as illustrated by the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Labrouche v Frey [2012] EWCA Civ 881, [2012] All ER (D) 33 (Jul).”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 23rd July 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
R v Patel: sentencing offences contrary to the Bribery Act 2010 – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“The first prosecution under the Bribery Act 2010 to reach the Court of Appeal has arrived. However, it is perhaps not the high-profile scalp that the proponents of the Act might have wanted. I’m not too sure how much can be taken from the case that is of any wider application but nevertheless, it being ‘a first’, it may be of some interest. In any event the facts of the case are less dry than most.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 23rd July 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Hawksford Trustees Jersey Ltd (as trustee of the Bald Eagle Trust) v Stella Global UK Ltd and another – WLR Daily
“References to ‘proceedings’ in section 29 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 should be interpreted so as to reflect the legislative purpose, namely to improve access to the courts for members of the public with meritorious claims. Where a claimant took out ATE insurance after having succeeded at trial he would be entitled if successful in the appeal to recover in costs that part of the ATE premium relating to the costs of the appeal, but it would be unfair to allow him to recover in costs that part of the premium which related to the costs of the trial.”
WLR Daily, 19th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
BBC lawyers consider formal appeal over court ban on riots drama – The Guardian
“Lawyers for the BBC are considering making a formal appeal against a court order that has banned the corporation from showing a dramatised film about the experiences of rioters who took part in last summer’s disorder.”
The Guardian, 19th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Jeremy Bamber granted appeal in European court – Daily Telegraph
“Jeremy Bamber, who murdered five members of his family, have been granted an appeal by the Grand Chamber of Europe’s human rights court.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Shergill and others v Khaira and others – WLR daily
Shergill and others v Khaira and others: [2012] EWCA Civ 983; [2012] WLR (D) 214
“The courts will abstain from adjudicating on the truth, merits or sincerity of differences in religious doctrine or belief and on the correctness or accuracy of religious practice, custom or tradition.”
WLR daily, 17th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Modhej and another) v Secretary of State for Justice – WLR Daily
“Where the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal against sentence at a time by which, subsequent to the original passing of sentence, the law had changed in relation to release on licence, it was not the case that reliance could be placed on the particularities of such date in order to claim that it was the later provisions which governed matters relating to release.”
WLR Daily, 17th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Man jailed for 16 years could be freed through fresh DNA evidence – The Guardian
“A man who has spent almost 16 years in prison for a crime he always denied committing may soon be freed after DNA traces from another man persuaded investigators to refer his case to the court of appeal.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina (SG ( Iraq)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Regina (OR ( Iraq)) Same – WLR Daily
“A claimant affected by, but not party to, a country guidance determination which was under appeal to the Court of Appeal was not entitled to an automatic stay of removal pending the outcome of the appeal. It was in the court’s discretion to grant a stay, but the court should not stay removal pending the decision of the Court of Appeal unless the claimant had adduced a clear and coherent body of evidence that the findings of the tribunal were in error.”
WLR Daily, 13th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Adedoyin v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
Adedoyin v Secretary of State for the Home Department: [2012] EWCA civ 939; [2012] WLR (D) 206
“Where the Upper Tribunal had properly directed itself as to its approach on an appeal from a determination of the First–tier Tribunal and had arrived at a conclusion which was open to it, the decision of the Upper Tribunal contained no material error of law and so the Court of Appeal should not allow an appeal from that decision, even if the court might have been more (or less) generous in its approach to the determination of the First-tier Tribunal.”
WLR Daily, 13th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Leach v Office of Communications – WLR Daily
Leach v Office of Communications: [2012] EWCA Civ 959; [2012] WLR (D) 205
“The trust placed by an employer in an employee was at the core of their relationship. The employment tribunal had been entitled to find that, where the employer had received an unproved and untested allegation of an overseas child sex offence against the employee, who had not disclosed it to the employer prior to his appointment, the resulting breakdown of trust had constituted ‘some other substantial reason’ within the meaning of section 98(1)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 summarily to dismiss the employee in order to prevent the employer’s reputation being damaged.”
WLR Daily, 13th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
E v English Province of Our Lady of Charity and another – WLR Daily
E v English Province of Our Lady of Charity and another [2012] EWCA Civ 938; [2012] WLR (D) 204
“In a case in which a Roman Catholic parish priest was said to have abused a young girl, and the question arose, as to potential vicarious liability, whether he was an employee, independent contractor, or in some other manner to be considered akin to an employee, the law as to vicarious liability was to be extended such that the question should be approached in a broader way, and also by reference to several tests, looking, inter alia, to whether the applicable status was akin to employment, and whether it would be just and fair to impose vicarious liability.”
WLR Daily, 12th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Keay and another v Morris Homes (West Midlands) Ltd – WLR Daily
Keay and another v Morris Homes (West Midlands) Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 900; [2012] WLR (D) 201
“The proposition that a void contract could, by acts in the nature of part performance, mature into a valid one was contrary to principle and wrong.”
WLR Daily, 11th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
