“A police car mechanic has been awarded more than £16,000 in damages after testing emergency sirens made him deaf.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government is facing a High Court challenge by councils aiming to cut the number of aircraft arriving at Heathrow airport early each morning.”
BBC News, 20th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A police force has admitted it is powerless to break up illegal raves – because it is too dark when they are in full swing.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A chicken owner has been given an asbo after his cockerels kept neighbours awake by crowing 400 times an hour. Peter Stoodley, 64, has been ordered to evict 80 birds living at the back of his shop in Yeovil after the council received a ‘sustained period’ of complaints about the noise.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three local authorities are to take the government to the high court in an attempt to stop night flights which they claim break noise regulations. Richmond, Wandsworth, and Windsor and Maidenhead councils have campaigned against night flights at Heathrow for several years and claim that the transport secretary, Ruth Kelly, is ‘failing in her duty to protect residents from excessive night noise’.”
The Guardian, 12th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hiscox Syndicates Ltd and Another v The Pinnacle Ltd
Chancery Division
“An obligation to use all reasonable endeavours was equated with an obligation to use best endeavours which was more onerous than an obligation to use reasonable endeavours. ”
The Times, 6th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Orchestras may be asked to rehearse and even to perform more quietly under new health and safety regulations.”
The Times, 1st June 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
O’Connor and others v. Wiltshire County Council [2007] EWCA Civ 426
“A public highway was not necessarily constructed “on behalf of” a person who made some contribution towards the cost of its construction and the fact that someone had contributed towards the costs of construction did not prevent the highway being maintainable “at the public expense” for the purposes of s 36(2) of the Highways Act 1980 and s 19(3) of the Land Compensation Act 1973.”
WLR Daily, 9th May 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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