“A right of appeal against the Home Office’s refusal to revoke a deportation order was exercisable from within the United Kingdom.”
WLR Daily, 3rd March 2009
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Ruttle Plant Hire Ltd v Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (No 3)
Court of Appeal
“Mistakes in a supplier’s invoice did not enable the paying party to avoid late payment interest penalties.”
The Times, 4th March 2009
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Court of Appeal
“A passenger slipping on a plastic strip embedded in the floor of an aircraft was not an accident since there was no distinct event which was not part of the usual, normal and expected operation of the aircraft and which had happened independently of anything done or omitted by the passenger.”
The Times, 4th March 2009
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Court of Appeal
“Where an application for leave to appeal against conviction or sentence was wholly without merit, the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, would exercise its power to order that part of the time spent in custody pending appeal should not count towards sentence so that applications by those who had some proper basis for making them were dealt with fully and promptly.”
The Times, 4th March 2009
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Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Peters v East Midlands Strategic Health Authority & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 145 (03 March 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Easyair Ltd (t/a Openair) v Opal Telecom Ltd [2009] EWHC 339 (Ch) (02 March 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
Waterman and another v Boyle and another [2009] EWCA Civ 115; [2009] WLR (D) 76
“Where there was an express right to park attaching to a property it was most unlikely that a further right to park would arise by implication.”
WLR Daily, 2nd March 2009
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“A ‘notice of an amount of the debt’ within the meaning of s4(5) of the Late Payment of Commercial Debt (Interest) Act 1998 did not have to be correct before the court could award interest for late payment of an invoice.”
WLR Daily, 2nd March 2009
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Serious Organised Crime Agency v Szepietowski and others [2009] EWHC 344 (Ch); [2009] WLR(D) 74
“The statutory exclusion regime concerning restrictions on dealing with property set out in s 252 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 was intended to be self-contained and exhaustive. There was no scope for reading into the scheme an exception for trustees, which would confine attention to assets which were vested in them in a fiduciary capacity and would leave out of account their personal assets.”
WLR Daily, 2nd March 2009
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In re B (Minors) (Contact Order: Enforcement); [2009] WLR (D) 73
“A contact order made under s 34 of the Children Act 1989 in the county court was enforceable by committal for contempt of court, and the court had jurisdiction to attach to a penal notice directed to the local authority in whose care the relevant child was.”
WLR Daily, 2nd March 2009
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Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc and Others
Court of Appeal
“The Office of Fair Trading was entitled to assess the fairness of charges levied on customers by banks because the terms in standard form contracts between banks and their customers concerning specific charges when customers were overdrawn were not part of the core bargain between the customer and the bank.”
The Times, 3rd March 2009
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Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Penny & Anor v Digital Structures Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 144 (02 March 2009)
Morgan & Anor v Hinton Organics (Wessex) Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 107 (02 March 2009)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Williams, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 107 (27 February 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Serious Organised Crime Agency v Szepietowski & Ors [2009] EWHC 344 (Ch) (27 February 2009)
Bailey v Wood & Ors [2009] EWHC 363 (Ch) (27 February 2009)
High Court (Administrative Court)
LG, R (on the application of) v Tom Hood School [2009] EWHC 369 (Admin) (02 March 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Plumbly v Beatthatquote.Com Ltd. [2009] EWHC 321 (QB) (27 February 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org.uk
Landlord Protect Ltd v St Anselm Development Co Ltd; [2009] WLR (D) 72
“Where the landlord’s consent was required to an assignment of a lease, the landlord could not reasonably impose a condition which was designed to increase the rights he enjoyed under the headlease.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 2009
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Office of Communications v Information Comr; [2009] WLR (D) 71
“When balancing the public interest in maintaining an exception to disclosure of environmental information against the public interest in its disclosure the correct test was to consider whether the aggregate public interest in maintaining the exception outweighed the public interest in disclosure. A benefit arising from unlawful use of disclosed information could be taken into account as an aspect of the public interest in disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 2009
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Dobson v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 28; [2009] WLR (D) 70
“Where a court was considering an award of damages to an occupier of land for loss of amenity following transitory nuisance the actual impact on the occupier was relevant. An award would normally constitute just satisfaction to the occupier and no further compensation was due under s 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 2009
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Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc and others [2009] EWCA Civ 116; [2009] WLR (D) 69
“Terms in standard form contracts between bank and customer providing for relevant charges when a customer gave instructions for payment but had insufficient funds in his current account were not exempt from assessment as to fairness under reg 6(2) of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 2009
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G and S Brough Ltd v Salvage Wharf Ltd and Another
Court of Appeal
“A property owner who made an agreement with a developer as to his prescriptive rights to light in respect of a development which would have had a minimal impact on the light to that property, did not lose those rights to light, so that a developer whose later redevelopment would extinguish those rights to light could not rely on the earlier agreement to defeat the owner’s rights.”
The Times, 2nd March 2009
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Landlord Protect Ltd v St Anselm Development Co Ltd
Court of Appeal
“Where the head landlord’s consent was required to an assignment of a lease, he could not reasonably impose a condition which was designed to increase the rights he enjoyed under the headlease.”
The Times, 2nd March 2009
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Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Abbey National Plc & Ors v The Office of Fair Trading [2009] EWCA Civ 116 (26 February 2009)
Brunel Motor Company Ltd v Revenue and Customs & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 118 (26 February 2009)
Lexi Holdings Plc v Luqman & Ors [2009] EWCA Civ 117 (26 February 2009)
A Local Authority v HP & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 143 (27 February 2009)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Trafalgar Leisure Ltd v R [2009] EWCA Crim 217 (20 February 2009)
Cotilla, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 216 (20 February 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Nolan v Wright [2009] EWHC 305 (Ch) (26 February 2009)
Brighton & Hove City Council v Audus [2009] EWHC 340 (Ch) (26 February 2009)
High Court (Patents Court)
ratiopharm (UK) Ltd v Alza Corp [2009] EWHC 213 (Pat) (12 February 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Plumbly v Beatthatquote.Com Ltd. [2009] EWHC 321 (QB) (27 February 2009)
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Craner v Dorset County Council
Court of Appeal
“It was no defence for a county council which left paving slabs uneven, causing injuries to a school caretaker, to say that what had occurred was a freak accident which could not have been prevented or guarded against.”
The Times, 27th February 2009
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Court of Appeal
“Beneficial consequences flowing from the unlawful use of disclosed information could be taken into account when balancing the public interest in disclosure of environmental information against the statutory exemption from disclosure.”
The Times, 27th February 2009
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