European Court of Human Rights
“The taking of blood samples and of intimate photographs of a girl aged nine, without her parents’ consent, violated article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, guaranteeing the right to respect for private and family life. The absence of a common law duty of care owed to parents, violated article 13, providing for the right to an effective remedy.”
The Times, 19th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
CJ v Flintshire Borough Council [2010] EWCA Civ 393 (15 April 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Yuanda (UK) Co Ltd v WW Gear Construction Ltd [2010] EWHC 720 (TCC) (13 April 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Abbs v Somerfield Plc [2010] EWHC 735 (QB) (13 April 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Yukos Capital S.a.r.l v OJSC Rosneft Oil Company & Ors [2010] EWHC 784 (Comm) (16 April 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Waya, R v (Rev 1) [2010] EWCA Crim 412 (25 March 2010)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
SS (India) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 388 (15 April 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Jones v Environcom Ltd & Anor [2010] EWHC 759 (Comm) (15 April 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Measures rushed through parliament at the ‘eleventh hour’ to allow greater media reporting of the family courts will put vulnerable children at risk, lawyers have warned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 15th April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Conan v Williams [2010] EWHC 758 (QB) (13 April 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Shepherd Construction Ltd v Berners (BVI) Ltd & Anor [2010] EWHC 763 (TCC) (25 March 2010)
Clancy Consulting Ltd v Derwent Holdings Ltd & Ors [2010] EWHC 762 (TCC) (29 March 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
EH v London Borough of Greenwich & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 344 (09 April 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Nursing & Midwifery Council v Gerrard [2010] EWHC 710 (Admin) (15 March 2010)
HR, R (on the application of) v Medway Council [2010] EWHC 731 (Admin) (01 April 2010)
High Court (Patents Court)
Betson Medical (Ireland) Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents [2010] EWHC 687 (Pat) (31 March 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
British Chiropractic Association v Singh [2010] EWCA Civ 350; [2010] WLR (D) 96
“A statement, made by a scientific journalist in a newspaper article, that there was ‘not a jot of evidence’ to support a professional body’s claims of certain medical benefits resulting from its members’ treatment of patients was not an assertion of fact but a statement of opinion.”
WLR Daily, 12th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Vaughan v Vaughan [2010] EWCA Civ 349; [2010] WLR (D) 95
“When a judge was determining (i) a husband’s application to terminate a financial obligation to his former wife and (ii) the former wife’s application to capitalise the obligation, and he was comparing the financial needs of the former wife and a present wife, there remained a presumption that on marriage each spouse took the other subject to all existing encumbrances, whether known or not.”
WLR Daily, 12th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Independent News & Media Ltd and others v A [2010] EWCA Civ 343; [2010] WLR (D) 94
“Hearings held in the Court of Protection would normally be held in private but in certain circumstances the media could be authorised to attend and report proceedings.”
WLR Daily, 12th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Attorney-General’s Reference (No 96 of 2009) Regina v F (Sentencing reasons)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“If a judge decided to reduce his sentencing reasons into writing, he should read them out in open court so that all he had to say was available to the defendant, the complainant, the jury and the public at large.”
The Times, 13th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) v Charity Commission for England and Wales
Chancery Division
“A Roman Catholic adoption agency was entitled to take advantage of an exception to sexual orientation discrimination in favour of charities generally so that was not unlawful for it to refuse to provide its services to same-sex couples.”
The Times, 13th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Chancery Division
“The function of the adjudicator to the Land Registry in relation to the entry of a restriction was not limited to determining whether the applicant had demonstrated an arguable claim within the meaning of section 42(1)(c) of the Land Registration Act 2002.”
The Times, 9th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“Where a consent order provided for costs to be assessed on the standard basis, the costs judge was not entitled to vary that order or tie himself to assessing by reference to the small claims track.”
The Times, 9th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina v T (N) [2010] EWCA Crim 711; [2010] WLR (D) 93
“The prosecution were not entitled to apply for leave to appeal against a terminating ruling made by a judge in a Crown Court on a trial on indictment, unless it had complied with the mandatory requirements of s 58(4) and (8) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, following the making of the ruling, of informing the court that it intended to appeal or requesting an adjournment to consider such an appeal and, before or at that time, informing the court that it agreed that the defendant should be acquitted if leave to appeal was not obtained or the appeal was abandoned before being determined.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“There was a public interest in issues such as the status, relevance and application of policy documents of general application emerging from the Revenue and Customs Commissioners, or any government department, being resolved in the Administrative Court, since it was the court with expertise in that area.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Guidance for county courts hearing applications for possession orders by local authority landlords of non-secure tenancies where the occupier, being an introductory tenant or a homeless person housed by the local authority, sought to challenge the local authority’s decision to recover possession as an improper exercise of its powers at common law on the ground that it was a decision that no reasonable person would consider justifiable.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 2010
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Hilmi and Associates Ltd v 20 Pembridge Villas Freehold Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 314; [2010] WLR (D) 90
“Where, before the coming into force of the Companies Act 2006, a corporate tenant served notice, pursuant to s 13 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, seeking to exercise a statutory right to acquire the applicable freehold, it was required, for the notice to be valid, to affix its corporate seal, or to supply the signature of two directors or a director and the company secretary.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 2010
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Queen’s Bench Division
“The psychological effect of such works as gate piers set across a public footpath, so as to denote private property, was relevant when deciding whether those works amounted to a significant obstruction of the highway so that an order might be required for their removal by the local highway authority.”
The Times, 8th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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