Category: law reports
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Nolan & Anor v R [2012] EWCA Crim 671 (04 April 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Solicitors Regulation Authority v Lawrence & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 421 (03 April 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
McGrath & Anor v Dawkins & Ors [2012] EWHC B3 (QB) (30 March 2012)
Aziz v Lim [2012] EWHC 915 (QB) (05 April 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Weszka, R (on the application of) v The Parole Board [2012] EWHC 827 (Admin) (05 April 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Regina (McGetrick) v Parole Board and another – WLR Daily
Regina (McGetrick) v Parole Board and another [2012] EWHC 882 (Admin); [2012] WLR (D) 114
“When considering and making its substantive recommendation on the question of the early release or recall of prisoners on licence following a reference to it by the Secretary of State for Justice, the Parole Board was ‘dealing with the case’ within the meaning of section 239(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 and was therefore required to consider all the documents given to it by the Secretary of State.”
WLR Daily, 4th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Sunderland City Council v Brennan and others – WLR Daily
Sunderland City Council v Brennan and others [2012] EWCA Civ 413; [2012] WLR (D) 113
“An employer had no defence to an equal pay claim where its reason for a differential in payment between female and male employees was that the male employees had attracted a bonus for productivity when at the material time the link between productivity and bonus had been broken.”
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Secretary of State for the Home Department v CB and another – WLR Daily
Secretary of State for the Home Department v CB and another [2012] EWCA Civ 418; [2012] WLR (D) 112
“Where a court made a non-derogating control order in proceedings against a person under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, it had no jurisdiction to order a permanent stay of such proceedings under the Act nor under its case management powers in the Civil Procedure Rules, unless the controlled person requested such a course of action.”
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
In re J (Children) (Care Proceedings: Standard of Proof) – WLR Daily
In re J (Children) (Care Proceedings: Standard of Proof) [2012] EWCA Civ 380; [2012] WLR (D) 111
In looking to the threshold criteria identified within section 31 of the Children Act 1989, and addressing the problem of the unidentified perpetrator of violence to a child or children where the pool of perpetrators was limited, the courts had to apply, with great care, the authorities in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, where it was mooted that such authority was not compatible with certain decisions of the House of Lords.
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Guardian News and Media Ltd) v City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court and another (Article 19 intervening) – WLR Daily
“Where documents had been placed before a judge and referred to in the course of court proceedings, access should generally be permitted on the open justice principle. Where access was sought for a proper journalistic principle the case for allowing it would be particularly strong. The court would undertake a fact-specific proportionality exercise where there were grounds of opposition to the application for disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
DKH Retail Ltd v Republic (Retail) Ltd – WLR Daily
DKH Retail Ltd v Republic (Retail) Ltd [2012] EWHC 877 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 109
“The current practice, in which applications to transfer cases to and from the Patents County Court were handled by judges of the court from which the case was to be transferred, was correct and in accordance with the Civil Procedure Rules.”
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012
Soure: www.iclr.co.uk
Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria – WLR Daily
Williams v Central Bank of Nigeria [2012] EWCA Civ 415; [2012] WLR (D) 108
“An action by a beneficiary under a trust might be brought in respect of any fraud or fraudulent breach of trust to which the trustee was party or privy against both that trustee and any other person who dishonestly assisted him in such fraud or fraudulent breach of trust, in either case, after the expiration of the six-year limitation period for which section 21(3) of the Limitation Act 1980 provided.”
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Innovia Films Ltd v Frito-Lay North America Inc – WLR Daily
Innovia Films Ltd v Frito-Lay North America Inc [2012] EWHC 790 (Pat); [2012] WLR (D) 107
“Where a court had jurisdiction under section 82(4)(b) of the Patents Act 1977 to determine a question to which section 82 applied, the court’s jurisdiction was exclusive of all other possible jurisdictions.”
WLR Daily, 30th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Stangroom & Anor v Brown [2012] EWCA Civ 424 (04 April 2012)
Foley Independent News & Media Ltd & Ors v Lord Ashcroft KCMG [2012] EWCA Civ 423 (04 April 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Jeeg Global Ltd v Hare [2012] EWHC 871 (QB) (04 April 2012)
Burn & Ors v The Ministry of Justice [2012] EWHC 876 (QB) (04 April 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
PCE Investors Ltd. v Cancer Research UK [2012] EWHC 884 (Ch) (04 April 2012)
Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd & Anor v Apple Inc [2012] EWHC 889 (Ch) (04 April 2012)
Fabio Perini SPA v LPC Group Plc & Ors [2012] EWHC 911 (Ch) (04 April 2012)
National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc v ABB Ltd & Ors [2012] EWHC 869 (Ch) (04 April 2012)
Hughes v Woolworths Group Pension Trustee Ltd [2012] EWHC 905 (Ch) (04 April 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Family Division)
KK v MA & Ors [2012] EWHC 788 (Fam) (29 March 2012)
S v Z [2012] EWHC 846 (Fam) (09 March 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Metall Market OOO v Vitorio Shipping Company Ltd [2012] EWHC 844 (Comm) (04 April 2012)
West Tankers Inc v Allianz SpA & Anor [2012] EWHC 854 (Comm) (04 April 2012)
Templeton Insurance Ltd v Motorcare Warranties Ltd & Ors [2012] EWHC 795 (Comm) (28 March 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
How will we even know a closed judgment exists? – The Guardian
“What proposals for closed hearings would mean for press freedom.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
High Court (Chancery Division)
Public Trustee v Butler & Anor [2012] EWHC 858 (Ch) (03 April 2012)
DKH Retail Ltd v Republic (Retail) Ltd [2012] EWHC 877 (Ch) (03 April 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
J Preston & Sons Ltd [2012] EWHC 870 (QB) (03 April 2012)
Letts v Royal Sun Alliance Plc [2012] EWHC 875 (QB) (03 April 2012)
The Serious Organised Crime Agency v Robb [2012] EWHC 803 (QB) (30 March 2012)
Sharif, R. v [2012] EWHC 868 (QB) (03 April 2012)
Dr A v HTX [2012] EWHC 857 (QB) (03 April 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Ghanem Al -Thani Holdings WLL v Jaguar Cars Exports Ltd [2012] EWHC 856 (Comm) (03 April 2012)
Ferrexpo AG v Gilson Investments Ltd & Ors [2012] EWHC 721 (Comm) (03 April 2012)
High Court (Patents Court)
Innovia Films Ltd v Frito -Lay North America, Inc [2012] EWHC 790 (Pat) (30 March 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
AH (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
AH (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 395; [2012] WLR (D) 106
“In looking to the question whether an asylum seeker, who had been a member of a terrorist organisation and convicted of a crime outside the country of refuge, fell to be excluded from the Refugee Convention pursuant to article 1F(b) and (c) thereof, one had to avoid applying a presumption of individual liability; and in asking whether the crime in question was sufficiently ‘serious’ one also had to set the applicable threshold with care.”
WLR Daily, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Faniyan v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2012] EWCA Civ 411 (03 April 2012)
Central Bank of Nigeria v Williams [2012] EWCA Civ 415 (03 April 2012)
CB & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 418 (03 April 2012)
Council of the City of Sunderland v Brennan & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 413 (03 April 2012)
Turnbull v Warrener [2012] EWCA Civ 412 (03 April 2012)
J (Children), Re [2012] EWCA Civ 380 (03 April 2012)
Lomas & Ors v JFB Firth Rixson Inc & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 419 (03 April 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
R & R Plant (Peterborough) Ltd v Bailey [2012] EWCA Civ 410 (02 April 2012)
AH (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 395 (02 April 2012)
Du Plessis v Fontgary Leisure Parks Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 409 (02 April 2012)
Kazeminy v Siddiqi & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 416 (02 April 2012)
Jet2.com Ltd v Blackpool Airport Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 417 (02 April 2012)
Mitchell & Ors v United Co-Operatives Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 348 (22 March 2012)
Lawrence v Gallagher [2012] EWCA Civ 394 (29 March 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
R (SDR) v Bristol City Council [2012] EWHC 859 (Admin) (02 April 2012)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Regina v Newell – WLR Daily
Regina v Newell [2012] EWCA Crim 650; [2012] WLR (D) 105
“A statement made on a plea and case management hearing form by the defendant’s counsel, although admissible in principle as a matter of law, should not, in the exercise of the court’s discretion under section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (‘PACE’), be admitted in evidence against the defendant at trial, provided that the case had been conducted in accordance with the letter and the spirit of the Criminal Procedure Rules 2011.”
WLR Daily, 30th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Newell, R v [2012] EWCA Crim 650 (30 March 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Contostavlos v Mendahun [2012] EWHC 850 (QB) (29 March 2012)
High Court (Family Division)
AJ v SJ [2012] EWHC B2 (Fam) (02 March 2012)
A v T [2011] EWHC B28 (Fam) (09 December 2011)
Tower Hamlets v MK & Ors [2012] EWHC 426 (Fam) (02 March 2012)
X v X [2012] EWHC 538 (Fam) (16 March 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Republic of South Africa v Dewani [2012] EWHC 842 (Admin) (30 March 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Gregg and another v Pigott and others – WLR Daily
Gregg and another v Pigott and others [2012] EWHC 732 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 104
“The phrase ‘statutory next of kin’ in an English settlement made in 1948 should be construed in such a way as to eliminate discrimination against adopted children by virtue of articles 8 and 14 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 29th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
SAG ELV Slovensko as and others v Úrad pre verejné obstarávanie, (Národná dial’ničná spoločnost’ as intervening) – WLR Daily
“A member state was required to make legislative provision that, where a tenderer offered an abnormally low price in the course of a public procurement process pursuant to Directive 2004/18/EC, the contracting authority was obliged, pursuant to article 55 of the Directive, to ask the tenderer in writing to clarify its price proposal.”
WLR Daily, 29th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
