Beth Warren waits on sperm legal fight result – BBC News
‘The High Court will rule later on a widow’s attempt to prevent her dead husband’s sperm from being destroyed.’
BBC News, 6th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: news
Sharing Risk in Collective Actions – Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘Readers of this blog will be familiar with the Government’s announcement, following the conclusion last year of its consultation on private actions in competition law, that it intends to introduce an “opt out” regime for collective competition law actions. In brief, unless they specifically choose to opt out, UK-domiciled consumers and businesses will automatically be included as claimants in collective actions, provided they satisfy the criteria for membership set by the Competition Appeal Tribunal when it certifies the class. One of the particular policy objectives behind this proposal is to empower small businesses and consumers to seek redress in respect of anti-competitive behaviour. The combination of the complexity and cost of seeking such redress is seen currently to form an almost insurmountable hurdle to all but the largest claims.’
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers,
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
Anthony White Estates Ltd v National Grid Electricity Transmission plc – WLR Daily
‘Fair compensation payable to a landowner in respect of the grant of statutory wayleave for an electricity power line, pursuant to paragraphs 6 and 7 of Schedule 4 to the Electricity Act 1989, was to be calculated by reference to the loss in value of the land and the principle of equivalence. Where a landowner had entered into a contract for the sale of land, which was conditional on the termination of an existing contractual wayleave for a power line and the removal of the line, and the Secretary of State had granted a statutory wayleave on the termination of the contractual one, the compensation to which the landowner was entitled was the difference between the contract price for the land in question at the valuation date and the open market value of the land once the statutory wayleave had been granted.’
WLR Daily, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
The Termination of Parental Responsibility: Awaiting the Court of Appeal’s Judgment in the Appeal of CW v SG [2013] EWHC 854 (Fam) – Family Law Week
‘Esther Lieu, barrister of Queen Square Chambers in Bristol, explores the circumstances in which parental responsibility may be terminated and considers the effect of s.4(2A) in anticipation of the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the appeal from CW v SG.’
Family Law Week, 4th March 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Statutory guidance on legal education and training – Legal Services Board
‘The Legal Services Board (LSB) consulted in September 2013 on proposed statutory guidance for
education and training, in advance of regulators proceeding with detailed plans for implementation
of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) which itself was initiated following the LSB
Chairman’s Upjohn Lecture of October 2010.’
Legal Services Board, 4th March 2014
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
Reporting Restrictions and the New Transparency – Part 2 – Family Law Week
‘In the second part of her article reviewing reporting restriction orders and the new transparency Mary Lazarus, barrister of 42 Bedford Row, considers those cases involving aggrieved parties and cases with international implications.’
Family Law Week, 4th March 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Basically, we are all… – NearlyLegal
‘Associated Electrical Industries Ltd v Alstom UK [2014] EWHC 430 is the latest case to be handed down in the post Jackson/Mitchell dystopian legal world.’
NearlyLegal, 4th March 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
Registered Community Designs: Magmatic Ltd v PMS International Ltd – NIPC Law
‘In Magmatic Ltd v PMS International Ltd [2013] EWHC 1925 (Pat) (11 July 2013) Mr Justice Arnold held that PMS International Ltd (“PMS”) had infringed registered Community design number 43427-0001 (“the RCD”), some of Magmatic Ltd (“Magmatic”)’s design rights and Magmatic’s literary copyright in its safety notice. Magmatic appealed to the Court of Appeal on the grounds that the judge fell into error in finding infringement of the RCD in that he had wrongly interpreted the RCD and improperly excluded from his consideration various aspects of the design of Magimax’s product. In Magmatic Ltd v PMS International Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 181 (28 Feb 2014) the Court of Appeal (Lords Justices Moses and Kitchin and Lady Justice Black) allowed the appeal.’
NIPC Law, 4th March 2014
Source: www.nicplaw.blogspot.co.uk
Psychological abuse ‘should be a made crime’ – BBC News
‘Psychological abuse should be made a crime in England and Wales in order to save more victims of domestic violence, campaigners have said.’
BBC News, 5th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of appeal to decide whether heavy drinking while pregnant is a crime – The Guardian
‘A pioneering compensation claim on behalf of a child who was severely damaged by her mother’s heavy drinking during pregnancy is to go before the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 4th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Northampton man has sentence increased to life for brutal rape – Attorney General’s Office
‘Gintas Burinskas’ sentence becomes one of life imprisonment with a minimum term of 6 years.’
Attorney General’s Office, 4th March 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
Outcry after judge imprisons child sex victim for 20 hours – Daily Telegraph
‘A teenage victim of sexual abuse was locked up in police cells overnight after she refused to give evidence in court against her attacker’
Daily Telegraph, 5th March 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Bringing bankers to book – BBC Law in Action
‘Why have no senior bankers been prosecuted for their role in the financial crisis? And should companies be able to avoid criminal prosecution by making a deal with a judge about how they work in future? The man who runs the Serious Fraud Office will be in the Law In Action studio to answer those questions and more as the programme returns for a new series.’
BBC Law in Action, 4th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court fee plans herald justice for those who can pay – senior judges – Law Society’s Gazette
‘Senior judges have savaged government proposals for reforming court fees, warning that they are based on ‘inadequate’ and compromised research, and basic misconceptions about the way the courts operate.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th March 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Vitalija Baliutaviciene could have been ‘greater protected’ – BBC News
‘A woman who was kidnapped and killed by her ex-husband “could have been afforded greater protection”, a report is expected to say.’
BBC News, 5th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Development bill to tackle gender inequality poised to become law – The Guardian
‘A private member’s bill to force the UK government to consider the impact of its overseas aid spending on reducing gender inequality is poised to become law after passing its third reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday.’
The Guardian, 4th March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Teacher paid £230,000 compensation after slipping in ketchup – Daily Telegraph
‘The claim is one of £1 million worth of compensation payments made to injured teachers by Essex County Council.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th March 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
IPCC investigates contact between Hollie Gazzard and Gloucester police – The Guardian
‘The police watchdog has launched an investigation into the contact that officers had with hairdresser Hollie Gazzard before she was fatally stabbed.’
The Guardian, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
