‘Applications for adjournments of costs assessment until the Supreme Court’s decision in Coventry v Lawrence are rightly being given “short shrift”, the Senior Costs Judge has said.’
Litigation Futures, 30th October 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A legal challenge to government plans to privatise some probation services in England and Wales has been launched by the probation officers’ union Napo.’
BBC News, 30th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The number of judicial reviews involving government departments has almost doubled since 2010, the government has revealed.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 29th October 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The amount of enforcement action taken against employers for non-compliance with their automatic enrolment duties rose considerably in September, according to the Pensions Regulator, which has also recently issued its first fines for breaches.’
OUT-LAW.com, 29th October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Philosophically, everything must have an inherent weight. Otherwise it would have no weight at all. But FOIA is not concerned with philosophy; it is much more concerned with who is in charge of the sheep dip, and indeed the levels of public funding for the sheep being dipped. (No points for spotting that reference, Bruce.) As a result, there are often debates in the FOIA case law about whether a particular qualified exemption contains an inherent weight, i.e. is the fact that the exemption is engaged at all sufficient to place some weight in the public interest balance against disclosure? The answer varies according to the particular exemption.’
Panopticon, 29th October 2014
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘Lord Wilson posed the question, answered today by the Supreme Court, with concision. When Parliament requires a local authority to consult interested persons before making a decision which would potentially affect all of its inhabitants, what are the ingredients of the requisite consultation?’
UK Human Rights Blog, 29th October 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘In June the government put into force plans to change the way the probation service runs, and forged ahead with proposals to privatise parts of it. But why are some people unhappy about this?’
BBC News, 29th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Court of Appeal judges dismiss campaigners’ claim Government acting unlawfully by allowing latest badger culls to go ahead without monitoring by independent expert panel.’
Daily Telegraph, 29th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘There is no evidence that tough enforcement of the drug laws on personal possession leads to lower levels of drug use, according to the government’s first evidence-based study.’
The Guardian, 30th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Care and Support (Continuity of Care) Regulations 2014
The Local Audit (Auditor Panel Independence) Regulations 2014
Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure 2014
The Enterprise Act 2002 (Part 9 Restrictions on Disclosure of Information) (Amendment) Order 2014
The Immigration (Removal of Family Members) Regulations 2014
The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2014
The Care and Support (Provision of Health Services) Regulations 2014
The Care and Support (Market Oversight Information) Regulations 2014
The Care and Support (Discharge of Hospital Patients) Regulations 2014
The Care and Support (Ordinary Residence) (Specified Accommodation) Regulations 2014
The Care and Support (Disputes Between Local Authorities) Regulations 2014
The Insurance Premium Tax (Non-taxable Insurance Contracts) Order 2014
The Care and Support (Independent Advocacy Support) Regulations 2014
The Care and Support (Assessment) Regulations 2014
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014
The Immigration Services Commissioner (Application Fee) (Amendment) Order 2014
Source: www.bailii.org
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Halawi v WDFG UK Ltd (t/a World Duty Free) [2014] EWCA Civ 1387 (28 October 2014)
Chalfont St Peter Parish Council v Chiltern District Council [2014] EWCA Civ 1393 (28 October 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Mensah v Salford City Council [2014] EWHC 3537 (Admin) (28 October 2014)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Reachlocal UK Ltd & Anor v Bennett & Ors [2014] EWHC 3405 (QB) (21 October 2014)
Kelly v Ministry Of Justice [2014] EWHC 3440 (QB) (20 October 2014)
Coulson & Ors v Wilby [2014] EWHC 3404 (QB) (21 October 2014)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Emerald Supplies Ltd & Ors v British Airways Plc & Ors [2014] EWHC 3513 (Ch) (28 October 2014)
The Co-Operative Bank Plc v Phillips [2014] EWHC 3545 (Ch) (28 October 2014)
Emerald Supplies Ltd & Ors v British Airways Plc & Ors [2014] EWHC 3514 (Ch) (28 October 2014)
High Court (Family Division)
A And B (Children: Brussels II Revised: Article 15) V [2014] EWHC 3516 (Fam) (23 October 2014)
London Borough of Croydon v S & Anor [2014] EWHC 3550 (Fam) (09 October 2014)
Quan v Bray & Ors [2014] EWHC 3340 (Fam) (27 October 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘A Cardiff deputy head teacher who secretly filmed pupils going to the toilet has had his “manifestly excessive” five-year jail term cut to four by the Court of Appeal.’
BBC News, 28th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Academics from Durham University will teach criminology to prisoners and students inside Category ‘A’ jail.’
Daily Telegraph, 29th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A single mother-of-five who was made homeless after resisting Westminster Council’s attempt to move the family 50 miles from the capital is applying to the Supreme Court to review her case.’
The Independent, 29th October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The government is to undertake a public consultation into whether the reporting of child abuse by regulated bodies should be made mandatory.’
BBC News, 29th October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne has lost a challenge against an order that he must pay £77,750 costs from his prosecution for passing speeding points to his ex-wife.’
The Guardian, 28th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man known as the Naked Rambler has lost his case at the European court of human rights where, he claimed he had a right to bare all in public.’
The Guardian, 28th October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The phrase “any other harm” in paragraph 88 of the National Planning Policy Framework did not mean only harm to the Green Belt, but included any other harm that was relevant for planning purposes. If a planning proposal was not in accordance with the policies in the development plan for the protection of the countryside, the planning permission should be refused having regard to the planning policy framework as a whole.’
WLR Daily, 24th October 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The rules which applied to the construction of contracts generally were applicable to the construction of a bill of lading and required the words of the bill to be looked at as a whole in their context. Applying that approach, a clause in the printed conditions of carriage in a bill of lading which expressly incorporated “all terms and conditions, liberties and exceptions of the charterparty … including the law and arbitration clause” had the effect of incorporating into the bill an English law and exclusive jurisdiction clause in the charterparty.’
WLR Daily, 21st October 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A purchaser of a property could not grant equitable rights of a proprietary character prior to acquisition of the legal estate.’
WLR Daily, 22nd October 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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