Rail damage graffiti group jailed – BBC News
“Four graffiti vandals have been jailed after admitting causing an estimated £50,000 of damage to trains and chaos to services in the South East.”
BBC News, 10th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: railways
Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and Another – Times Law Reports
Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and Another
Court of Appeal
“A claimant, who, as a result of the defendant’s negligence, suffered depression which led him to kill someone, could recover damages for loss of earnings after he committed manslaughter so long as his claim was not inextricably linked to his criminal actions.”
The Times, 9th July 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.
Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and another – WLR Daily
Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and another [2008] EWCA Civ 713; [2008] WLR (D) 210
“A claim in negligence was not defeated by public policy unless the claim or a head of claim was inextricably bound up with or linked to the claimant’s criminal conduct. Where the depression the claimant suffered as a result of the defendant’s negligence led him to kill, he could recover damages for loss of earnings after he committed manslaughter if his claim was not inextricably connected with his criminal activity.”
WLR Daily, 26th June 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Train crash killer wins compensation case – The Times
“A Paddington train crash survivor who claimed he was turned into a killer by post-traumatic stress disorder stands to receive thousands in compensation after a landmark Appeal Court ruling today.”
The Times, 25th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Act 2008
Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Supplementary Provisions) Act 2008 published
Full text of Act (PDF)
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Network Rail must pay record fine – BBC News
“Network Rail must pay a record £14m fine for overrunning engineering work, despite a plea to have it set aside.”
BBC News, 9th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Boyfriend of Ugg boot train death woman charged – The Times
“The boyfriend of a woman killed by a 50mph train after her Ugg Boot caught in a level crossing was charged with manslaughter today.”
The Times, 4th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Rail firm fined £14m for holiday shambles – but chiefs get bumper bonus – The Times
“Network Rail’s directors will receive bonuses likely to be more than £100,000 each despite the £14 million fine imposed on the company yesterday for causing severe disruption to Britain’s busiest railway line.”
The Times, 29th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Magistrates discharge student who rested feet on train seat – The Guardian
“A railway company was rebuked by magistrates yesterday as they gave a student an absolute discharge for resting her feet on a train seat.”
The Guardian, 5th September 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Student who put feet on train seat faces court – Daily Telegraph
“A student is being hauled before the courts for putting her feet up on a train seat ‘for 10 seconds’.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Train ticket increases could breach law – The Guardian
“Rail fare increases could breach competition law if passengers are left carrying an excessive share of the cost of running the railways, the industry regulator warned yesterday.”
The Guardian, 30th August 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal quiz on £5.5m rail platform – BBC News
“Wales’s disability rights commissioner is taking legal advice on whether the absence of a lift at a rail station’s £5.5m new platform breaks the law.”
BBC News, 19th August 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Rail firm’s legal threat to silence passenger watchdog – The Times
“Britain’s worst-performing train company tried to silence the official passenger watchdog by threatening to sue it for libel for making a complaint about its poor performance.”
The Times, 13th August 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
£2.4m punishment for massive signal failure – The Times
“Network Rail is to be fined £2.4 million for failing to complete a massive resignalling scheme on time, which resulted in long delays and severe overcrowding for thousands of passengers over several months.”
The Times, 31st July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Metronet may face administration – Financial Times
“Metronet Rail, the main private contractor on the London Underground, could face administration after an arbiter on Monday awarded it only a small proportion of the emergency funding it had sought for the next year.”
Financial Times, 16th July 2007
Source: www.ft.com
