‘The proposed statutory instrument, the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2014, amending Schedule 1 to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 by introducing a residence test, was unlawful as it was ultra vires and discriminatory.’
WLR Daily, 15th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
FHR European Ventures LLP and others v Cedar Capital Partners LLC; [2014] UKSC ; [2014] WLR (D) 317
‘Where an agent obtained a benefit, including a bribe or a secret commission, which was, or resulted from, a breach of his fiduciary duty to his principal, he held the benefit on trust for his principal.’
WLR Daily, 16th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Yiacoub v The Queen; [2014] UKPC 22; [2014] WLR (D) 314
‘Justice was not seen to be done when a judge who had sat on the original trial was responsible for overseeing the constitution of the panel of judges which formed the court which heard the appeal.’
WLR Daily, 10th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Premier Telecom Communications Group Ltd & Anor v Webb [2014] EWCA Civ 994 (16 July 2014)
Ahmad v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 988 (16 July 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Lilley v Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc & Anor [2014] EWHC 2364 (Ch) (16 July 2014)
High Court (Patents Court)
Rovi Solutions Corporation & Anor v Virgin Media Ltd & Ors [2014] EWHC 2301 (Pat) (14 July 2014)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Yates v Revenue and Customs & Anor [2014] EWHC 2311 (QB) (17 July 2014)
Kadir & Anor v Channel S Television Ltd [2014] EWHC 2305 (QB) (15 July 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘A man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death at the hairdressers where she worked has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 16th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘An engineer who lost an arm and a leg when a tyre on an aircraft exploded at Manchester Airport has been awarded about £600,000 in damages.’
BBC News, 16th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘ When Harry Moore was taken to court over spiralling credit card debts, he faced losing both his home and business. Mr Moore, 43, had built up a balance of more than £13,000 on an MBNA credit card, and had failed to meet repayments. His debts were passed from MBNA to a debt recovery agency, Hillesden Securities, which in November 2013 took him to court. But the case was thrown out – because the orginal agreement was “impossible to read”.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘More than 19,000 more parents appeared in civil courts with no lawyer in cases about children, in the year after legal aid cuts, it has emerged.’
BBC News, 16th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Britain’s senior police officers said they were at risk of being overwhelmed by an unprecedented number of child abuse investigations after the arrest of 660 suspected paedophiles.’
The Guardian, 16th July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The government has come under fire in the Lords over emergency legislation giving the security services access to people’s phone and internet records.’
BBC News, 16th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The UK Supreme Court has called on the British government to review the case of a grandmother facing execution in Indonesia on drug charges.’
BBC News, 16th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Public Law Project v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] EWHC 2365. Angela Patrick of JUSTICE has provided an excellent summary of this important ruling, which declared a proposed statutory instrument to be ultra vires the LASPO Act under which it was to have been made. The judgment is an interesting one, not least for some judicial fireworks in response to the Lord Chancellor’s recourse to the Daily Telegraph after the hearing, but before judgment was delivered.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th July 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘House of Lords is scheduled to vote on the Government’s proposals for a residence test for access to legal aid, Angela Patrick, Director of Human Rights Policy at JUSTICE considers today’s judgment of the Divisional Court in PLP v Secretary of State for Justice.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th July 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The “Criminal justice system 2014 to 2015: strategy and action plan” is an update on the version published last year.’
Ministry of Justice, 15th July 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
The Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) (Recruitment and Placement) Regulations 2014
The Terrorism Act 2000 (Code of Practice for Examining Officers and Review Officers) Order 2014
The European Parliamentary Elections (Anonymous Registration) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2014
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
‘The Detained Fast Track policy, operated by the Secretary of State, for the detention of some asylum seekers while their asylum claims were being determined was not unlawful in its terms.’
WLR Daily, 9th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The function of the minister following a referral by a community health council under regulation 27(9) of the Community Health Councils (Constitution, Membership and Procedures) (Wales) Regulations 2010 was to reach a final decision on a proposal put forward by a local health board. That function was directed at the outcome, there was no requirement for the minister to review the process, including any consultation, leading to the proposal, although the minister had a discretion to consider the circumstances of the process in reaching a decision on the proposal overall.’
WLR Daily, 10th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
KS v Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 941 (15 July 2014)
M & Ors v Suffolk County Council [2014] EWCA Civ 942 (15 July 2014)
K, Re [2014] EWCA Civ 905 (15 July 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Konkola Copper Mines v U&M Mining Zambia Ltd [2014] EWHC 2374 (Comm) (15 July 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
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