“Workers blacklisted by the construction industry over more than three decades have launched a high court claim against industry giant Sir Robert McAlpine, the Tory donor and builder of the Olympic Stadium, for conspiring with other firms to keep them out of work.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The famous ‘Twitter joke’ conviction of Paul Chambers has been overturned on appeal, bringing welcome clarity to what is and what is not an offence of this type. On discovering a week before he was due to take a flight that the airport was closed due to adverse weather conditions, he tweeted that ‘I am blowing the airport sky high!!’ unless the situation was resolved by the time of his flight. He was convicted of sending a message of a ‘menacing character’, but has had the conviction quashed on appeal, on the basis that, as it was a joke, it was not of a menacing character.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A teenage boy who throttled a 10-year-old girl as she played in a street and repeatedly beat her around the head so viciously he could have killed her has been locked up indefinitely.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A ban on the referral fees blamed for creating a ‘compensation culture’ will be difficult to police and may not even be effective, regulators have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The director of public prosecutions (DPP) stopped his staff dropping the case against Paul Chambers, author of the ‘Twitter joke’ about blowing up Robin Hood airport in South Yorkshire, it has been claimed.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Killers and rapists serving long jail terms could be released earlier following a High Court ruling that their strict parole terms may breach their human rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Motorists using prescribed painkillers such as morphine and codeine could be charged with ‘drug driving’ under a new law designed to keep dangerous hard drug users off British roads, doctors and campaigners have warned.”
The Independent, 29th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain has quietly agreed to measures that could increase the ability of the security services to intercept online communications, experts say.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ofcom will set out a formal timetable for completing investigations into alleged breaches of competition law in the communications sector and will publish an explanation on its website if it fails to comply with its specified deadline, the regulator has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A campaign group has won a High Court battle over the agricultural use of Green Belt land formerly owned by broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby for intensive poultry farming.”
The Independent, 27th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Supreme Court has today delivered its Judgment in the case of T (children) [2012] UKSC 36 concerning the liability of a local authority to pay the costs of a party to care proceedings.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 25th July 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Two ‘notorious’ brothers from Wolverhampton have been jailed for their part in a £34m tax fraud.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 52-year-old man has been jailed for 18 months for offences relating to indecent images of children.”
BBC News, 26th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Unused holiday entitlement by workers on long-term sick leave should be automatically transferred into the next leave year if a worker is unable to take that holiday due to his or her sickness, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A teenager who throttled, punched and kicked a 10-year-old Teesside girl might never be released back into the community, a judge has said.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Kiaran Stapleton, the killer of Indian student Anuj Bidve, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 30 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A girl has been convicted of murdering a teenager who died five months after she was attacked with an Afro comb.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Paul Chambers’s conviction shows the law’s difficulties in discriminating between tones of voice in emails, tweets and texts.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The law of property, as it applies to cohabiting couples in England and Wales, continues to produce outcomes which many commentators regard as unfair. In the Scottish case of Gow v. Grant, a recent appeal under the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 Lady Hale calls for similar legislation to be introduced in England and Wales.”
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Zenith Chambers, 17th July 2012
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
“In Sulamerica Cia Nacional De Seguros S.A. v Enesa Engenharia S.A. [2012] EWCA Civ 638 the Court of Appeal explored (amongst other things) the question of how the law governing an arbitration agreement in the absence of express choice is to be determined.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 18th July 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
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