Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Mankowski, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1109 (01 May 2008)
Lockwood, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1099 (01 May 2008)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Scammell & Anor v Farmer [2008] EWHC 1100 (Ch) (22 May 2008)
High Court (Family Division)
BT v JRT [2008] EWHC 1169 (Fam) (22 May 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
Regina (Smith) v Assistant Deputy Coroner for Oxfordshire; Secretary of State for Defence v Same
Queen’s Bench Division
“The right to life, protected by article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, could extend to members of the Armed Forces, wherever they might be; whether it did so would depend on the circumstances of the particular case.”
The Times, 30th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Adorian v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2008] EWHC 1081 (QB) (19 May 2008)
P & Ors v Quigley [2008] EWHC 1051 (QB) (16 May 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Focus (DIY) Ltd v London Borough of Hillingdon [2008] EWHC 1152 (Admin) (09 May 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
Court of Appeal
“In contentious adoption cases, where the court was dispensing with parental consent, the question of any contact between the children and their family members was for the court and not the local authority to resolve.”
The Times, 29th May 2008
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Regina (HSMP Forum Ltd) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Queen’s Bench Division
“The introduction of a new and more restrictive regime for highly skilled immigrants was unlawful because it prejudiced people already admitted to the UK under an earlier regime by reducing their opportunity to gain permanent rights of residency.”
The Times, 29th May 2008
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High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Norbrook Laboratories (Gb) Ltd v Adair & Anor [2008] EWHC 978 (QB) (06 May 2008)
Crowley v Surrey County Council & Ors [2008] EWHC 1102 (QB) (20 May 2008)
WRN Ltd. v Ayris [2008] EWHC 1080 (QB) (21 May 2008)
Sandford & Anor v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2008] EWHC 1106 (QB) (21 May 2008)
BRB (Residuary) Ltd. v Connex South Eastern Ltd [2008] EWHC 1172 (QB) (23 May 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Bristol Magistrates Court [2008] EWHC 1153 (Admin) (07 May 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“Preventing detained mental patients from smoking was not a breach of article 8, right to respect for private and family life, or article 14, prohibiting discrimination, of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 28th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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S-H v Kingston upon Hull City Council and Another
Court of Appeal
“In order to decide whether to grant leave to a parent to apply for revocation of an order placing a child for adoption, the correct test to be applied by the court was whether, in all the circumstances, including the parents’ prospects of securing revocation and the child’s interests, leave should be given.”
The Times, 28th May 2008
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Corby Group Litigation v Corby Borough Council
Court of Appeal
“The House of Lords had neither expressly nor impliedly reversed the long-standing principle that damages for personal injury could be claimed in the tort of public nuisance.”
The Times, 28th May 2008
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Satyam Computer Services Ltd v Upaid Systems Ltd
Court of Appeal
“It would only be through the use of the clearest possible specific language that parties to a settlement would be taken to have excluded fraud-based claims.”
The Times, 27th May 2008
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Ramblers’ Association v Coventry City Council
Queen’s Bench Division
“A council could order the closure of a footpath under section 129A to G of the Highways Act 1980, as inserted by section 2 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, only if satisfied that the footpath had facilitated prolonged criminal or antisocial behaviour at the date of the order.”
The Times, 27th May 2008
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SK (Sri Lanka) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“While the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal had power to pronounce an oral decision at the conclusion of a hearing, it was the written determination which constituted the decision. If an oral pronouncement was inconsistent with a subsequent written determination, there should be another hearing.”
The Times, 27th May 2008
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House of Lords
“The humanitarian aims of the UN Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) (Cmd 9171) and (1967) (Cmnd 3906) were to be achieved by construing its words purposively.”
The Times, 26th May 2008
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R v Porter; [2008] WLR (D) 167
“There was no obligation upon an employer in the conduct of his undertaking to guard against those risks which were merely fanciful. The fact that risk was part of everyday life went to the issue whether an injured person had been exposed to real risk by the conduct of the operation in question. There was no objective standard which applied in every case but there would be important factors which would indicate one way or the other whether there was such a risk.”
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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In re Federal-Mogul Aftermarket UK Ltd and others [2008] EWHC 1099 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 166
“There was nothing in the rationale underlying the general application of the hindsight principle to contingent debts which should restrict its application to whether there had been an initial triggering event.”
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2008
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“A refugee, who arrived in the United Kingdom directly from the country of persecution in transit to a country of preferred refuge, was entitled to the protection from prosecution provided by art 31(1) of the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees when, in attempting to leave the United Kingdom after a short stop-over she presented false documentation to the airline for onward travel to her intended sanctuary.”
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2008
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European Court of Human Rights
“A local authority which bypassed the statutory scheme for evicting a tenant, had violated his right to respect for the home, as guaranteed by article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, when the summary procedure used had not provided appropriate procedural safeguards.”
The Times, 23rd May 2008
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Wood v Director of Public Prosecutions
Queen’s Bench Division
“Where a police officer restrained a person, but did not at that time intend or purport to arrest him, he was committing an assault, even if an arrest would have been justified.”
The Times, 23rd May 2008
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