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Revenue and Customs Commissioners v GKN Group – WLR Daily

Posted February 2nd, 2012 in appeals, civil procedure rules, corporation tax, law reports by sally

Revenue and Customs Commissioners v GKN Group [2012] EWCA Civ 57; [2012] WLR (D) 15

“On an application for an interim payment under CPR r 25.7(1)(c) a claimant had to satisfy the court on a balance of probabilities that, on the material available to the court, he would succeed at trial in obtaining judgment from the defendant for a substantial amount of money. It was not sufficient to show that it was likely that he would succeed.”

WLR Daily, 31st January 2012

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted February 1st, 2012 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Hutchings-Whelan v Hutchings [2012] EWCA Civ 38 (26 January 2012)

D v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 39 (31 January 2012)

Annison v Nolan [2012] EWCA Civ 54 (31 January 2012)

Revenue and Customs v The GKN Group [2012] EWCA Civ 57 (31 January 2012)

Specsavers International Healthcare Ltd & Ors v Asda Stores Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 24 (31 January 2012)

Barrett v Bem & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 52 (31 January 2012)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Deputy Chief Ombudsman, R (on the application of) v French [2012] EWHC 113 (Admin) (18 January 2012)

High Court (Commercial Court)

Integrated Power Technologies -Powertech SAL v Hits Telecom Holding Co KSC [2012] EWHC 97 (Comm) (31 January 2012)

Source: www.bailii.org

Regina (Elam) v Secretary of State for Justice – WLR Daily

Posted February 1st, 2012 in law reports, legislation, release on licence, sentencing by sally

Regina (Elam) v Secretary of State for Justice [2012] EWCA Civ 29; [2012] WLR (D) 14

“The licence expiry date applicable to a prisoner serving consecutive terms of imprisonment including at least one term of 12 months or more was to be determined by the provisions of section 264(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 unless all the offences for which the sentences were imposed had been committed before section 264 came into force on 4 April 2005; in such a case, section 37(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 continued to govern the licence expiry date by virtue of the saving provision in paragraph 19 of Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No 8 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2005.”

WLR Daily, 27th January 2012

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Wokuri v Kassam – WLR Daily

Posted February 1st, 2012 in conflict of laws, diplomats, employment, immunity, law reports, news by sally

Wokuri v Kassam [2012] EWHC 105 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 13

“A diplomatic agent who had left a mission continued to enjoy immunity in respect of acts performed by him or her in the exercise of his or her functions as a member of that mission within the meaning of article 39(2) of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) as scheduled to the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964. The residual immunity under article 39(2) was, however, less extensive than that enjoyed by a serving diplomat. The former diplomat would not necessarily have immunity in relation to claims by employees carrying out domestic duties.”

WLR Daily, 30th January 2012

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted January 31st, 2012 in law reports by sally

High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)

Hunt v Times Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 110 (QB) (30 January 2012)

Wiemer v Zone & Ors [2012] EWHC 107 (QB) (30 January 2012)

High Court (Chancery Division)

Wokuri v Kassam [2012] EWHC 105 (Ch) (30 January 2012)

Wharton v Bancroft & Ors [2012] EWHC 91 (Ch) (30 January 2012)

Source: www.bailii.org

Regina v H (J); Same v Ferris; Same v W (A); Same v Walker; Same v Dan; Same v S (C); Same v Robertson; Same v P (M) – WLR Daily

Posted January 31st, 2012 in appeals, law reports, sentencing, sexual offences by sally

Regina v H (J); Same v Ferris; Same v W (A); Same v Walker; Same v Dan; Same v S (C); Same v Robertson; Same v P (M) [2011] EWCA Crim 2753; [2012] WLR (D) 12

“In principle, in historic or cold cases, a defendant had to be sentenced in accordance with the sentencing regime applicable at the date of sentence. Nevertheless, as the offence which he had committed years earlier contravened the criminal law in force at the date when it was committed a defendant was liable to be convicted of that offence and no other and therefore the sentence was limited to the maximum sentence then available for the offence of which he had been convicted.”

WLR Daily, 24th November 2011

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted January 30th, 2012 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

PD, R. v [2012] EWCA Crim 19 (26 January 2012)

High Court (Queen’s Bench)

QBE Management Services (UK) Ltd v Dymoke & Ors [2012] EWHC 80 (QB) (27 January 2012)

High Court (Chancery Division)

Concept Elite Inc v (Thames Enterprises Ltd & Ors [2012] EWHC 94 (Ch) (27 January 2012)

High Court (Technology and Construction Court)

ACD (Landscape Architects) Ltd v Overall & Anor [2012] EWHC 100 (TCC) (27 January 2012)

Source: www.bailii.org

Kücük v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen – WLR Daily

Posted January 30th, 2012 in contract of employment, EC law, fixed-term contracts, law reports by sally

Kücük v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen Case C-586/10; [2012] WLR (D) 11

“Clause 5(1)(a) of the framework agreement on fixed-term work, in the Annex to Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP, meant that a temporary need for replacement staff, provided for by national legislation could, in principle, constitute an objective reason under that clause for the renewal of successive fixed-term contracts. The mere fact that an employer had to employ temporary replacements on a recurring, or even permanent, basis and that those replacements might also be covered by the hiring of employees under employment contracts of indefinite duration did not mean that there was no objective reason under clause 5(1)(a) or that there was abuse within the meaning of that clause.”

WLR Daily, 26th January 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Regina v D (P) – WLR Daily

Posted January 30th, 2012 in domestic violence, good character, jury directions, law reports, rape by sally

Regina v D (P) [2012] EWCA Crim 19; [2012] WLR (D) 10

“The fact that the effect of a good character direction might be undermined by the facts of a particular case provided no justification for a judge to decline to give any such direction.”

WLR Daily, 26th January 2012

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West Tankers Inc v Allianz SpA and another – WLR Daily

Posted January 27th, 2012 in law reports by sally

West Tankers Inc v Allianz SpA and another: [2012] EWCA Civ 27; [2012] WLR (D) 9

“In an appropriate case, the court had jurisdiction under section 66 of the Arbitration Act 1996 to order judgment to be entered in the terms of an arbitral award where the award was declaratory in form and, more particularly, where it took the form of a negative declaration.”

WLR Daily, 24th January 2012

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted January 26th, 2012 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Kuehne & Ors v Revenue and Customs [2012] EWCA Civ 34 (26 January 2012)

Mugweni v NHS London [2011] EWCA Civ 20 (26 January 2012)

AA (Iraq), R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 23 (24 January 2012)

High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)

Rehman v Brady, The Estate of & Anor [2012] EWHC 78 (QB) (25 January 2012)

Bennett v Stephens & Anor [2012] EWHC 58 (QB) (25 January 2012)

Patel v UNITE the Union [2012] EWHC 92 (QB) (27 January 2012)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Roberts, R (on the application of) v Welsh Ministers [2011] EWHC 3571 (Admin) (21 December 2011)

High Court (Technology and Construction Court)

Herbosh -Kiere Marine Contractors Ltd v Dover Harbour Board [2012] EWHC 84 (TCC) (26 January 2012)

Source: www.bailii.org

Attorney General v Dallas – WLR Daily

Posted January 26th, 2012 in contempt of court, juries, law reports, sentencing by sally

Attorney General v Dallas [2012] WLR (D) 7

“In the context of alleged contempt of court by or affecting a juror or jury in the Crown Court, neither the Attorney General nor the alleged contemnor had any right to seek a trial by jury on indictment. The correct procedure, unless it was appropriate for the Crown Court to deal immediately with the contempt of its own motion (which would itself be an exceptional course of action), was for such cases to be left to the Attorney General to commence proceedings under CPR Sch 1, RSC Ord 52.”

WLR Daily, 23rd January 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted January 26th, 2012 in law reports by sally

High Court (Chancery Division)

Ross River Ltd & Anor v Waveley Commercial Ltd & Ors [2012] EWHC 81 (Ch) (25 January 2012)

High Court (Commercial Court)

Pacific Basin IHX Ltd v Bulkhandling Handymax AS [2012] EWHC 70 (Comm) (25 January 2012)

Source: www.bailii.org

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted January 25th, 2012 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

C v R. [2012] EWCA Crim 6 (19 January 2012)

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change v Friends of the Earth & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 28 (25 January 2012)

Source: www.bailii.org

Schmitt v Deichmann and others – WLR Daily

Posted January 25th, 2012 in administrators, foreign companies, fraud, insolvency, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

Schmitt v Deichmann and others [2012] EWHC 62 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 8

“The court had an inherent jurisdiction under the common law to permit the statutory power under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986, preventing transactions defrauding creditors, to be applied to a foreign administrator not falling within the express scope of the 1986 Act.”

WLR Daily, 23rd January 2012

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Regina (Eastenders Cash & Carry plc and another) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners – WLR Daily

Posted January 25th, 2012 in appeals, customs and excise, forfeiture, law reports by sally

Regina (Eastenders Cash & Carry plc and another) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2012] EWCA Civ 15; [2012] WLR (D) 6

“Section 139(1) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 gave customs officers power to detain goods only where they were ‘liable to forfeiture’ in the sense that the relevant facts empowering the court to order forfeiture actually existed; it was not enough that the relevant officer reasonably suspected that such facts might exist in respect of goods which were under investigation.”

WLR Daily, 20th January 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Regina v C(S) – WLR Daily

Posted January 25th, 2012 in conspiracy, law reports, locus standi, retrials by sally

Regina v C(S) [2012] EWCA Crim 6; [2012] WLR (D) 5

“At a retrial of a conspirator about whom the jury at the first trial had been unable to reach a verdict, the Crown would be entitled to tell the jury that it was the prosecution’s case that those who had been acquitted at the first trial were probably involved in the conspiracy and that the jury would be entitled to take into account the acquitted conspirators’ probable role in the importation when deciding whether they were sure that the defendant had conspired with a conspirator who had pleaded guilty.”

WLR Daily, 19th January 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk

Alstom Transport v Eurostar International Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted January 25th, 2012 in contracts, EC law, law reports, public procurement, state aids, transport by sally

Alstom Transport v Eurostar International Ltd [2012] EWHC 28 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 4

“Regulation 3(2) of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2006 (‘UCR’) should be construed as if it said that network ‘includes a system operated in accordance’ instead of ‘means a system operated in accordance’. The term ‘contracting authority’ in regulation 2(1) of the UCR and regulation 3(1) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (‘the PCR’) was restricted to domestic bodies only. The fact that an undertaking was able to continue trading only as a result of very substantial state aid did not preclude it from being of an industrial or commercial character within the terms of article 2(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/17/EC.”

WLR Daily, 20th January 2012

Source: www.iclr.co.uk