Crohn’s patient Lizzie Rose loses egg-freezing case – BBC News
‘A woman with Crohn’s disease has lost a legal challenge against a decision to refuse NHS funding to freeze her eggs.’
BBC News, 15th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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War Horse musicians lose court bid for reinstatement – The Guardian
‘Five musicians who performed as a live band for four years in the West End production of the National Theatre’s hugely successful War Horse, but were then replaced by a recorded soundtrack, have lost their bid to be reinstated. But Mr Justice Cranston told Neyire Ashworth, Andrew Callard, Jonathan Eddie, David Holt and Colin Rae that their prospects at trial for a breach of contract by the National Theatre were “strong”.’
The Guardian, 15th April 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Woman woke up on operating table as surgeons prepared to remove appendix – Daily Telegraph
‘A woman who woke up on the operating table as surgeons prepared to remove her appendix but was unable to scream out, has won damages from the hospital responsible for the anaesthetic error.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Fraudster jailed for £4m boiler room scam – Daily Telegraph
‘John Curtin, one of five conspirators convicted for their roles in a £4 million boiler room scam, was jailed for three years yesterday. The 38 year old was the last of the five conspirators to be jailed. Brian James O’Brien, Lynne Jane D’Albertson, James Py and Damien Rodney Smith were sentenced in 2012.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Supreme Court to hear case on EU migrants and temporary inability to work – Local Government Lawyer
‘The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an EU national’s appeal over a ruling that he was not eligible for housing assistance from a local authority as his inability to work was not temporary.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th April 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Rule committee allays concern over unintended consequences of costs budgeting extension – Litigation Futures
‘The Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) has reassured litigators that the new version of the costs management rule coming into force on 22 April will not accidentally catch Commercial Court and other Rolls Building cases being brought into the regime retrospectively.’
Litigation Futures, 14th April 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Expert questions UK chancellor’s proposed ‘strict liability’ criminal offence for taxable funds held offshore – OUT-LAW.com
‘It would be disproportionate to introduce automatic unlimited fines and prison sentences for UK taxpayers with offshore assets on which they have not paid the correct taxes, as trailed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the weekend, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th April 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
No implied copyright licence following takeover, rules Court of Appeal – OUT-LAW.com
‘A businessman who forged a document and lied about its authenticity has won a legal battle against a major financial institution over copyright.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th April 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Passive smoking in prison not a breach of human rights – Court of Appeal – UK Human Rights Blog
‘Smith, R (on the application of v Secretary of State for Justice and G4S UK Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 380. This case raises the question of whether it is a breach of a non-smoking prisoner’s Convention right to respect for his private life and to equality of access to such rights (ECHR Articles 8 and 14) to compel him to share a cell with a smoker.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th April 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
First hearing not a case management conference, says High Court – Law Society’s Gazette
‘A claimant has failed in a High Court Mitchell bid to argue that an initial hearing amounted to a case management conference (CMC) and should be subject to budgeting rules.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th April 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Police officer sacked over Twitter account which called force bosses ‘scum’ – Daily Telegraph
‘A police officer who allegedly sent more than 800 tweets criticising his force and called bosses “lower than slime” has been sacked. Tony Ryan, 33, was found to be the face behind @TheBritishCop – a Twitter account which claimed senior figures within Avon and Somerset Police treated “hard-working staff like garbage”.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Lancashire Police cleared over strip-search Taser use – BBC News
‘Police were justified in Tasering two men who refused to take off their boxer shorts while being strip-searched, the police watchdog has said.’
BBC News, 14th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Man jailed for life for partner’s murder in Walworth – BBC News
‘A man who attacked the mother of his four children with a hammer and then set her on fire has been jailed for life by a judge at the Old Bailey.’
BBC News, 14th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Don’t email in capital letters, court tells ‘insensitive’ father in custody dispute – Daily Telegraph
‘An “insensitive” father banned by the courts from seeing his children has been warned by a judge not to type his emails to them in capitals – because it looks like he is shouting.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Chicken breeder faces court over noisy cockerel – Daily Telegraph
‘A chicken breeder is being prosecuted after villagers complained her crowing cockerel keeps them awake at night.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Intellectual Property in the UK and Europe – Speech by Lord Neuberger
Intellectual Property in the UK and Europe (PDF)
Speech by Lord Neuberger
Burrell Lecture for the Competition Law, 1st April 2014
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
Four jailed after innocent man shot in Turkish gang feud – BBC News
‘Four people have been jailed for the murder of an innocent man caught up in a gang feud in east London.’
BBC News, 11th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Eve’s Law: addresses of domestic violence victims must be kept secret – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
‘In busy working environments it is easy to make mistakes but some mistakes are more costly than others. An inadvertent disclosure of a domestic violence victim’s safe address to their abuser, for instance, could cost someone their life. Now signed by 87 MPs, Early Day Motion 900 so called “Eve’s Law” is calling for the greater protection of safe addresses.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 14th April 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
