‘The defence of marital coercion, unsuccessfully used by Chris Huhne’s former wife Vicky Pryce at her trial last year, is to be abolished.’
The Guardian, 17th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Local Government Ombudsman and a local authority are at loggerheads over a recommendation that the council pay out more than £60,000 to a man forced to become a full-time carer for his wife.’
Local Government Lawyer, 16th January 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Couple, who have three children, showed a united front in court and claim they still love each other and want to put the crash behind them.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th December 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Leicester CC v Shearer is a rare example of a successful public law defence to a claim for possession.”
NearlyLegal, 24th November 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
“A judge has refused to allow husband and wife to rekindle their marriage despite them both pleading for a restraining order to be lifted, saying they must first prove they can get on over the phone.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“UK family immigration rules are not discriminatory and do not infringe human
rights, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 5th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
RM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: [2013] EWCA Civ 775; [2013] WLR (D) 259
“On a true construction of article 17(3) of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/38/EC, the Zimbabwean widow of a Spanish national had acquired the right of permanent residence in the United Kingdom on the ground that her late husband had, before the date of their marriage, ‘acquired himself the right of permanent residence … on the basis of paragraph 1’ of article 17, viz having retired from work due to permanent incapacity. It was not a requirement that a family member seeking to rely on such a right had to be a family member prior to, or as at the date of, the European Union member’s own acquisition of permanent residence on which reliance was now placed.”
WLR Daily, 28th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The introduction of same-sex marriage could finally open the way for carers and relatives such as unmarried sisters who live together to be given the same legal status as married couples, the House of Lords has been told.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, is considering abolishing the legal defence of ‘marital coercion’ that was unsuccessfully used by Vicky Pryce in her trial for taking speeding points on behalf of her husband.”
The Guardian, 31st March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce are due to be sentenced for perverting the course of justice.”
BBC News, 11th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The woman who plotted Chris Huhne’s downfall was herself facing jail today after a jury found that she was an accomplice in the scam to take her former husband’s speeding points for a driving offence ten years ago.”
The Independent, 7th March 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The retrial of Vicky Pryce, the former wife of the disgraced cabinet minister Chris Huhne, has begun, with the new jury being warned to ignore anything they already knew about the case.”
The Guardian, 25th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s jury system should not be judged by the outcome of a single, complex and highly unusual case, senior lawyers have warned following the collapse of the Vicky Pryce trial.”
The Guardian, 21st February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who acted as full-time carer to his wife for the five years of their marriage has been jailed for administering an overdose of prescription drugs to her to give himself a day of respite.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Even since McCann v. UK (2008) 47 EHRR 40, a lot of people (around these parts) have been waiting for a case on Article 8 and the rule in Hammersmith v Monk (Hammersmith and Fulham LBC v. Monk [1992] AC 478) to reach the higher Courts. Is the rule that notice by one joint tenant determines the tenancy for both/all compatible with Article 8 (or Protocol 1 Article 1)? Now one case has got to a higher stage. In a somewhat eccentric fashion, the Court of Appeal has given a distinctly forthright view, even if what the Court could actually do with the appeal was, more or less, nothing at all.”
NearlyLegal, 25th January, 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
“A ‘completely unacceptable’ UK Border Agency backlog of more than 16,000 applications from migrants for permission to stay in Britain, some of them dating back almost a decade, has been uncovered by the chief inspector of borders and immigration.”
The Guardian, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britons on low incomes are being forced to live apart from their families because of new immigration rules that rate their marriages as ‘second class’, campaigners say.”
The Independent, 17th November 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Dülger v Wetteraukreis (Case C-451/11); [2012] WLR (D) 249
“The first paragraph of article 7 of Decision No 1/80 of the EEC-Turkey Association Council meant that a member of the family of a Turkish worker, who was a national of a third country other than Turkey, could invoke, in the host member state, the rights arising from that provision, where all the other conditions laid down by the provision had been fulfilled.”
WLR Daily, 19th August 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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