‘The deaths of two children from carbon monoxide poisoning while on holiday in Corfu will be debated in parliament next week.’
The Guardian, 12th July 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘You buy a CD and makes a copy for use on a portable device, or for storage in a cloud service. That’s allowed isn’t it? Well, it wasn’t strictly legal in the UK until October 2014. That was when the UK introduced a new exception from copyright infringement for personal copies for an individual’s private use. Now the new exception has been found illegal in court and hangs in the balance while the courts and the UK government decide what happens next.’
Technology Law Update, 26th June 2015
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘Sir Thomas Winsor, the official police watchdog, says senior officers share the blame for failures to properly investigate paedophile abuse, opening door to legal action.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The UK’s private copying regime is “unlawful”, the High Court has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 19th June 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘R (Victor Nealon) v Secretary of State for Justice : R (Sam Hallam) v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWHC 1565 (Admin), 8 June 2015. As Michael Gove contemplates the future of the Human Rights Act 1998, the High Court has considered how far the presumption of innocence in Article 6(2) ECHR spreads into decisions on payment of compensation for a miscarriage of justice. In doing so, Burnett LJ also managed to find some less than complimentary sentiments about the Strasbourg court’s decision-making.’
UK HUamn Rights Blog, 19th June 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Universities in England and Wales paid £400,000 in compensation to students last year, following complaints.’
Full story
BBC News, 18th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Two men who served long sentences before their convictions were overturned have lost High Court actions in their fight for compensation.’
BBC News, 8th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A delay in paying welfare benefits to two disabled people was “unlawful”, the High Court has ruled.’
BBC News, 5th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Lloyds Banking Group has docked £350,000 from the bonus of its boss António Horta-Osório after being hit with a £117m fine for unacceptable handling of compensation claims for payment protection insurance.’
The Guardian, 5th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘At common law, an employer who had compensated an employee for exposing him to mesothelioma was only entitled to an indemnity under his liability insurance to the extent of the proportion which the policy period bore to the whole period of the employee’s exposure by the employer but could recover 100% per cent of the defence costs incurred in defending the employee’s claim.
WLR Daily, 20th May 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Gulati v MGN Ltd [2015] EWHC 1482 (Ch); [2015] WLR (D) 232
‘Damages for infringement of privacy rights should compensate not merely for distress but also, if appropriate, for a loss of privacy or autonomy arising out of the infringement as such, which might include, if appropriate, a sum to compensate for damage to dignity or standing so far as that was meaningful and not already compensated under the distress element.’
WLR Daily, 21st May 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A woman who sold her ex-husband’s graveyard plot after forging his signature has been ordered to pay him more than £4,000.’
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 2nd June 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Welsh people left disabled by the thalidomide drug scandal are being backed in their fight for compensation by Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans.’
BBC News, 31st May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman who was left housebound following the amputation of both legs has received £27,000 in compensation after watchdogs found financial support was withheld due to an administrative battle between a council and the NHS.’
The Independent, 28th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Comments made by some of the UK’s top judges during a recent ruling appear to signal their reluctance to extend the so-called ‘Fairchild’ exception to the normal rules of causation to cover any more types of damage or injury, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th May 2015
Source: www.out-law.co.com
‘For some years in the early and mid 2000s, a routine form of news-gathering in the Mirror Group was phone hacking – listening to voicemails left for celebrities by their friends, and then dishing up revelations in their papers. And this judgment amounts to a comprehensive pay-back time for the years of distress and upset sustained by those celebrities, as the ins and outs of their private lives were played out for the Mirror Group’s profit. The damages awarded well exceeded those previously payable, as justified in the tour de force of a judgment by Mann J.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd May 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Banks could face a bigger bill for mis-selling payment protection insurance after the City regulator said it was considering new rules on how customers should be compensated.’
The Guardian, 27th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A “vindictive and spiteful” woman who filled in false paperwork to stop her ex-husband attending their son’s cremation has been jailed for four months.’
The Guardian, 22nd May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Phone hacking at the tabloid publisher Trinity Mirror was “widespread and frequent” for a decade, a high court judge has ruled as he ordered the company to pay a record £1.2m in privacy damages to eight victims, including the actor Sadie Frost and ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne.’
The Guardian, 21st May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Tobacco companies are preparing to launch what could be one of the biggest ever legal claims against the British Government for losses as a result of the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes.’
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 21st May 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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