‘A “monster” sergeant major has been jailed for two-and-a-half years for sexually assaulting a lesbian soldier following a drink-fuelled party, in an attack which left her considering suicide.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th June 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A father who killed his ex-girlfriend while their young daughter slept upstairs has had his minimum jail term increased at the Court of Appeal to 23 years.’
BBC News, 12th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The case of AB and CD has been widely described as “Britain’s first secret trial”. It would be more accurately described as the latest of a number of creeping moves towards secret justice.’
The Guardian, 12th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
W (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 772 (11 June 2014)
Jet2.com Ltd v Huzar [2014] EWCA Civ 791 (11 June 2014)
F (A Child), Re [2014] EWCA Civ 789 (12 June 2014)
Sub One Ltd (t/a Subway) v HM Revenue and Customs [2014] EWCA Civ 773 (10 June 2014)
Scotland & Anor v British Credit Trust Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 790 (10 June 2014)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Mitchell v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2014] EWHC 1885 (QB) (11 June 2014)
AB v Ministry of Justice [2014] EWHC 1847 (QB) (11 June 2014)
Ministry of Defence v Blythe [2013] EWHC 1422 (QB) (02 May 2013)
Aziz v Ali & Ors [2014] EWHC 1846 (QB) (09 June 2014)
Dalton v Gough Cooper & Company Ltd [2014] EWHC 1556 (QB) (16 May 2014)
Page v Champion Financial Managementltd & Ors [2014] EWHC 1778 (QB) (06 June 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Sanger & Anor v London Borough of Newham [2014] EWHC 1922 (Admin) (12 June 2014)
Clark v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor [2014] EWHC 1879 (Admin) (10 June 2014)
Gu v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWHC 1634 (Admin) (20 May 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘The Supreme Court has just reversed a decision of the Court of Appeal (see my previous post here) that a dispute about the trust deeds of two Sikh religious charities was non-justiciable and so could not and should not be decided by the Courts. By contrast, the SC said that two initial issues concerning the meaning of trust deeds were justiciable, and, because of this, further issues which did raise religious issues had to be determined by the courts.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th June 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘One of the three Mitchell cases to be heard by the Master of the Rolls next week centres on whether a solicitor should have put a cheque in the post shortly before Christmas to pay for the hearing fee.’
Litigation Futures, 12th June 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Since Tuesday, running a personal website has become a privacy minefield for people using .uk domain names. A recent rule change by Nominet, the company which manages the .uk registry, means that domain name owners whose home addresses were previously kept private may now be publicly visible in online searches. People setting up domain names through Nominet must now also show their full legal personal or business name on the public registration database.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A father-in-law has been jailed after inflicting appalling and severe injuries on a family member, almost blinding her, after flying into a crazed revenge attack over adultery that he believed that she had committed.’
The Independent, 11th June 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Health and social care officials have been criticised for letting a severely mentally ill patient live in “squalor”.’
BBC News, 12th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘They are the two words the jury in the phone hacking trial may have waited months to hear. At 3.15pm in court 12 of the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Saunders said: “And finally.”’
The Independent, 12th June 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal is to rule on whether a trial of two terrorist suspects can be heard in secret.’
BBC News, 12th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Rigging the foreign exchange, bond and commodity markets could become a criminal offence, the government will warn the City on Thursday as part of its latest effort to clean up the financial markets after a wave of scandals and allegations relating to key benchmarks.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The concept of “the member state in which the act of infringement has been committed” in article 93(5) of Council Regulation (EC) No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark meant that, in the event of a sale and delivery of a counterfeit product in one member state, followed by a resale by the purchaser in another member state, that provision did not allow jurisdiction to be established to hear an infringement action against the original seller who did not himself act in the member state where the court seised was situated.’
WLR Daily, 5th June 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Article 5 of Parliament and Council Directive 2001/29/EC of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society meant that the copies on a user’s computer screen and the copies in the Internet “cache” of that computer’s hard disk, made by an end-user in the course of viewing a website, satisfied the conditions that those copies had to be temporary, that they had to be transient or incidental in nature and that they had to constitute an integral and essential part of a technological process, as well as the conditions laid down in article 5(5) of that Directive, and that they could therefore be made without the authorisation of the copyright holders.’
WLR Daily, 5th June 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The mere imposition of the death penalty in a requesting state, coupled with an acceptable assurance that it would not be carried out, was no bar to extradition.’
WLR Daily, 16th May 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
In re DE (A Child) (Care Order: Change of Care Plan) [2014] EWFC 6 ; [2014] WLR (D) 246
‘Any local authority and court making decisions about the long term future of children had to address all the options which were realistically possible before coming to a decision and, where a care order had been granted on the basis of a care plan providing that the child should remain at home, a local authority considering changing the plan and removing the child permanently from the family was obliged in law to follow the same approach and had to have regard to the fact that permanent placement outside the family was to be preferred only as a last resort where nothing else would do. While that process was being carried out, the child should remain at home under the care order unless his safety and welfare required that he be removed immediately.’
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Whilst there was no specific test for granting permission to make an application for committal for breach of a solicitor’s undertaking, where there was no reasonable prospect of the applicant proving that the relevant solicitor had breached an undertaking, and there was no other good reason to allow the application to proceed, permission should not be granted.’
WLR Daily, 3rd June 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Natasha Phillips underlines the importance of mortgage capacity assessments in divorce proceedings.’
New Law Journal, 6th June 2014
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘How do we determine whether someone accused of a crime is physically and mentally fit to participate in a criminal trial? And what do we do if they are not? These are the questions being examined today as the Law Commission brings together leading experts in criminal law and mental health to exchange views at a consultation event at Leeds University.’
Law Commission, 11th June 2014
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
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