‘A Middlesbrough fan who made “monkey gestures” towards three black footballers at a Championship match has been fined and given a banning order.’
BBC News, 29th July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Uber, the taxi-app firm, is facing legal action over whether it affords its drivers basic rights and treats them as employees rather than “partners” or “contractors”.’
The Guardian, 29th July 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Littlewood v Powys County Council [2015] EWHC 2125 (Admin); [2015] WLR (D) 336
‘For the purposes of Schedule 2 to the Estate Agents Act 1979, where the making of an order under section 3 of the Act prohibiting an unfit person from acting as an estate agent had been delegated to an adjudicator, it was that adjudicator who personally had to hear oral representations from the person affected. The local authority’s proposed procedure whereby the adjudicator, who was the actual decision-maker, only received an audio recording and verbatim transcript of the proceedings before an investigator did not comply with the requirements of the 1979 Act and was unlawful.’
WLR Daily, 23rd July 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
R v R [2015] EWCA Civ 796; [2015] WLR (D) 337
‘Neither article 9 of Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 nor regulation 10(2)(a) of the Ukraine (European Union Financial Sanctions) (No 2) Regulations 2014 were contravened by an order requiring a husband, who lived in Russia and who was subject to sanctions imposed by the EU Regulation, to pay interim maintenance into his former wife’s Russian bank account.’
WLR Daily, 24th July 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The landmark Court of Appeal ruling has implications for how people should draw up their wills, legal experts say.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘More than 80 per cent of female prisoners have been locked up for non-violent offences such as shoplifting, new figures show, as a drive is launched to clear jails of women who pose no danger to the public.’
The Independent, 29th July 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Just one in six applications to the police under Sarah’s Law is successful according to figures obtained by the NSPCC under the Freedom of Information Act.’
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina v Goldsborough [2015] EWCA Crim 1278; [2015] WLR (D) 324
‘Failure to obtain a firearm certificate for an air pistol which had become prohibited was an offence under section 1 of the Firearms Act 1968 rather than section 5(1)(af).’
WLR Daily, 23rd June 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Changes of substance could be made to a local plan following recommendations by an inspector pursuant to section 20(7)–(7C) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.’
WLR Daily, 20th July 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Hayley Cowan buries Staffordshire bull terrier in shallow grave in case described by RSPCA as ‘one of most harrowing and distressing cases to date’.’
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man convicted of murdering Blackpool teenager Paige Chivers has been jailed for life and will serve at least 33 years.’
BBC News, 28th July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The broadcast regulator Ofcom has issued a £25,000 fine after the star of a television show called Yoga for You told viewers that he could cure cancer using “11 holy basil leaves and three black peppers”.’
The Independent, 29th July 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Flanagan v Liontrust Investment Partners LLP and others [2015] EWHC 2171 (Ch); [2015] WLR (D) 338
‘The doctrine of repudiatory breach was excluded from multi-party agreements falling within the scope of section 5 of Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000.’
WLR Daily, 24th July 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘It was entirely logical for the Secretary of State for Health in the exercise of his duty under section 3 of the National Health Service Act 2006 to provide a range of NHS services including abortion services throughout the United Kingdom on the basis of local residence. The Secretary of State was not obliged to exercise his discretion so as to extend free abortion services to women from Northern Ireland and failure to supply such a service was not a breach of rights under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.’
WLR Daily, 22nd July 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A Liverpool man has been found guilty of ordering a “Breaking Bad-style” delivery of enough ricin to kill 1,400 people from an undercover FBI agent.’
The Guardian, 29th July 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
NRAM plc v McAdam and another [2015] EWCA Civ 751; [2015] WLR (D) 334
‘In a specific loan agreement, which was the template for agreements between a bank and numerous customers, the protections under section 77A of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 had not been incorporated, and no estoppel arose from the existence of the statutory wording in the agreement. Nor was it possible to treat the borrowers “as if” they had been under the protection provided by the 1974 Act. However, there had been a representation (and contractual warranty) arising from the statement that the loan agreement was a regulated agreement, when it was not, which would have entitled the borrowers to sue for misrepresentation or breach of contractual warranty.’
WLR Daily, 23rd July 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The provisions in Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000 conferring powers to stop, question, and detain a person at a port or border for up to nine hours— without any requirement for prior “reasonable suspecion”— for the purpose of determining whether he appeared to be a person concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism were not incompatible with articles 5, 6 or 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.’
WLR Daily, 22nd July 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A drug dealer from the West Midlands has reportedly refused to appear in court in Wales – because he doesn’t understand the Welsh accent.’
The Independent, 28th July 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina (Hunt) v North Somerset Council [2015] UKSC 51; [2015] WLR (D) 331
‘Where a claimant for judicial review had sought a quashing order but not declaratory relief and the court, having found the defendant to have acted unlawfully, refused the quashing order due to the passage of time, it was not obliged of its own initiative to grant a declaration.’
WLR Daily, 22nd July 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Bagum v Hafiz and another [2015] EWCA Civ 801; [2015] WLR (D) 329
‘Sections 14 and 15 of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 conferred on the court a substantially wider discretion, exercised on the basis of wider considerations, than the trustees themselves enjoyed acting without either the beneficiaries’ consent or a court order. The court’s powers were there to enable the property to be dealt with justly when the beneficiaries could not agree and direct the trustees how to deal with the property.’
WLR Daily, 22nd July 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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