‘A 101-year-old man – thought to be the oldest defendant convicted in England and Wales – has been found guilty of a string of historical child sex offences.’
BBC News, 16th December 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The cost budgeting rules are to be amended to make it clear that the case management hearing is not the forum to debate incurred costs.’
Litigation Futures, 16th December 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Corporations are now widely seen as having responsibilities in regard to human rights abuses. This was thrown starkly onto the front pages recently when a number of high profile UK companies, including M&S and Asos, were caught up in allegations of child refugees from Syria working in very poor conditions for clothing suppliers based in Turkey. They are just one of many instances around the world where corporations have been shown to be involved in human rights abuses.’
OUP Blog, 19th December 2016
Source: www.blog.oup.com
‘In Aviva Insurance Ltd v Randive [2016] EWHC 3152 (QB). Slade J dealt with the Applicant’s application for permission to bring contempt proceedings against the Respondent. No new points of principle arise, but Slade J’s recitation of the existing principles and treatment of the issues in the case is a useful indication of how common RTA issues are treated in contempt proceedings.’
Zenith PI Blog, 15th December 2016
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘Babies made from two women and one man have been approved by the UK’s fertility regulator.’
BBC News, 15th December 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Modelling agencies who have represented clients including Cara Delevingne and Kate Moss have been fined a total of £1.5 million for price-fixing, the competition watchdog said today.’
The Independent, 16th December 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Law reformers have called for fresh sanctions against divorcees who try to wriggle out of paying their ex-spouses.’
BBC News, 16th December 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The current attitude towards victim support reveals much about societal attitudes towards domestic abuse, which does not see dignity as something abuse survivors are entitled to as a fundamental and inalienable human right, but rather as an additional extra for which they must work, opt in to, convince society that they have earned.’
The Independent, 16th December 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A transgender teenager who used human rights law to cut his parents out of his life has won thousands of pounds in compensation after a council official let slip his new identity.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘When Seeta Kaur arrived in India with her children for a three-week visit to her husband’s relatives she was determined that when she returned to Britain it would be with both the sons who had accompanied her.’
The Guardian, 17th December 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The British Transport Police have released the moment a thug armed with an axe was stopped in his tracks after being chased through a busy city centre and tasered by police.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A mother and her ex-partner have been found guilty of child cruelty after feeding drugs to her four-year-old daughter.’
BBC News, 16th December 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Thousands of people are being made homeless every year because they cannot find lawyers to help them resist eviction, charities are warning.’
The Guardian, 18th December 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘This is the Law Commission’s report on the Enforcement of Family Financial Orders.’
Official Publications, 15th December 2016
‘The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) report on legal services yesterday provoked a predictably mixed response that pitted the Law Society against the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and found support from the body representing paid McKenzie Friends.’
Legal Futures, 16th May 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A former City trader who knocked his wife unconscious, set her body on fire and then took his dog for a walk has been jailed for life today.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 15th December 2016
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
The Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Turkmenistan) Order 2016
The Student Fees (Inflation Index) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2016
The Higher Education (Basic Amount) (England) Regulations 2016
The Higher Education (Higher Amount) (England) Regulations 2016
The Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2016
Source: www.bailii.org
Supreme Court
Docherty, R v [2016] UKSC 62 (14 December 2016)
Guraj, R v [2016] UKSC 65 (14 December 2016)
Khan v General Pharmaceutical Council (Scotland) [2016] UKSC 64 (14 December 2016)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Wiltonpark Ltd & Ors v Revenue & Customs [2016] EWCA Civ 1294 (15 December 2016)
Magiera v Magiera [2016] EWCA Civ 1292 (15 December 2016)
Chief Constable of Merseyside Police v McCarthy [2016] EWCA Civ 1257 (13 December 2016)
Baynham v Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust [2016] EWCA Civ 1249 (13 December 2016)
Blue Tropic Ltd & Anor v Chkhartishvili [2016] EWCA Civ 1259 (09 December 2016)
Barney-Smith & Anor v Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council [2016] EWCA Civ 1264 (09 December 2016)
Watts v Stewart & Ors [2016] EWCA Civ 1247 (08 December 2016)
Gibson v Douglas & Anor [2016] EWCA Civ 1266 (08 December 2016)
Agarwala v Agarwala [2016] EWCA Civ 1252 (08 December 2016)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Neuberg, R v [2016] EWCA Crim 1927 (15 December 2016)
Browne-Morgan, R v [2016] EWCA Crim 1903 (15 December 2016)
Fuller v R [2016] EWCA Crim 1867 (14 December 2016)
Ehi-Palmer, R v [2016] EWCA Crim 1844 (09 December 2016)
Abdallah & Ors, R v (Rev 1) [2016] EWCA Crim 1868 (08 December 2016)
Bawa-Garba v R [2016] EWCA Crim 1841 (08 December 2016)
Carling & Ors, R v [2016] EWCA Crim B1 (7 December 2016)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Parlinska v District Court In Bydgoszcz (Poland) [2016] EWHC 3251 (Admin) (15 December 2016)
DP v General Dental Council [2016] EWHC 3181 (Admin) (14 December 2016)
MS v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWHC 3162 (Admin) (09 December 2016)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Baker & Anor v Craggs [2016] EWHC 3250 (Ch) (15 December 2016)
Gillan v HEC Enterprises Ltd & Ors [2016] EWHC 3179 (Ch) (09 December 2016)
The RBS Rights Issue Litigation, Re [2016] EWHC 3161 (Ch) (08 December 2016)
High Court (Commercial Court)
JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov & Anor [2016] EWHC 3071 (Comm) (09 December 2016)
Ramilos Trading Ltd v Buyanovsky [2016] EWHC 3175 (Comm) (09 December 2016)
Cepia HK Ltd v The Character Group Plc [2016] EWHC 3133 (Comm) (08 December 2016)
High Court (Family Division)
C (A Child), Re [2016] EWHC 3171 (Fam) (08 December 2016)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Flymenow Ltd v Quick Air Jet Charter GmbH [2016] EWHC 3197 (QB) (15 December 2016)
Harris v Johnston [2016] EWHC 3193 (QB) (14 December 2016)
Kennedy v London Ambulance Service NHS Trust [2016] EWHC 3145 (QB) (08 December 2016)
OH v Craven [2016] EWHC 3146 (QB) (07 December 2016)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Octoesse LLP v Trak Special Projects Ltd [2016] EWHC 3180 (TCC) (15 December 2016)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘Britain’s most senior police officer gave a misleading account about the evidence he provided following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, but he remains innocent of any misconduct, the Independent Police Complaints Commission has found.’
The Guardian, 15th December 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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