Theresa May pushes for greater surveillance powers – BBC News
‘Theresa May is continuing to push for a change in the law to give police and security services the power to access email and social media.’
BBC News, 25th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Loose v Lynn Shellfish Ltd & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 846 (19 June 2014)
Dawson v Thomson Airways Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 845 (19 June 2014)
Beech & Anor v Birmingham City Council [2014] EWCA Civ 830 (17 June 2014)
Monfared v Chartered Society of Physiotherapy [2014] EWCA Civ 828 (19 June 2014)
B (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 843 (20 June 2014)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Durrheim & Ors v Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 1960 (QB) (13 June 2014)
Wamala v The Home Office & Anor [2014] EWHC 2039 (QB) (20 June 2014)
Family Court Decisions (other Judges)
P (A Child: Assessment of Kinship Carers) [2014] EWFC B73 (16 June 2014)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd v Condek Holdings Ltd & Ors [2014] EWHC 2016 (TCC) (24 June 2014)
High Court (Commercial Court)
JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov & 16 Ors [2014] EWHC 2019 (Comm) (24 June 2014)
A Ltd v B Ltd [2014] EWHC 1870 (Comm) (11 June 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
Campaigners lose ‘right to die’ case – BBC News
‘Campaigners have lost their appeal at the UK’s highest court over the right to die.’
BBC News, 25th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Solicitors Regulation Authority names first non-lawyer chair – Legal Futures
‘Enid Rowlands, an existing member of the board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), has been named as its first non-lawyer chair.’
Legal Futures, 24th June 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
At £100m, phone hacking trial makes history for expense – Daily Telegraph
‘The phone-hacking trial has been one of the most expensive cases in British criminal history, with News International bearing more than half of the expense.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Wonga chased debt with fake lawyers, says FCA – BBC News
‘Payday lender Wonga must pay £2.6m in compensation after sending letters from non-existent law firms to customers in arrears.’
BBC News, 25th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Right-to-die: For and against assisted suicide – BBC News
‘On Wednesday, the family of the late Tony Nicklinson who had locked-in syndrome and Paul Lamb who was paralysed in a road crash will find out whether or not their campaign for the right to die with the help of a doctor has been successful.’
BBC News, 25th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Teacher’s sexual relationship with boy, 15 – BBC News
‘A former deputy headmaster is given a lifetime teaching ban for an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with a 15-year-old boy.’
BBC News, 24th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Neuberger backs single regulator but criticises LSB for adding “cost and confusion” – Legal Futures
‘The president of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, has backed calls for single legal regulator, while accusing the Legal Services Board (LSB) of adding to cost and confusion.’
Legal Futures, 25th June 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Police officer jailed over relationships with vulnerable women – The Guardian
‘A police officer who seduced and slept with vulnerable women while on duty has been jailed for 18 months.’
The Guardian, 24th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Do not comment on hacking trial until all verdicts are in, judge tells MPs – Daily Telegraph
‘Politicians are warned by judge not to comment upon the outcome of the hacking trial until the jury has returned all its verdicts.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
High Court to decide the fate of the Warburg Institute’s historic library – The Independent
‘The fate of one of the “most important libraries in the world” which houses thousands of historic volumes saved from the Nazis, is to be decided in the High Court.’
The Independent, 24th June 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Right-to-die Supreme Court judgement due – BBC News
‘The UK’s highest court will give its judgement later on the cases of two severely disabled men who want others to be able to help them die.’
BBC News, 25th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Man who died in custody should have been in hospital, says Birmingham jury – The Guardian
‘A police force has apologised to the family of a man who died of a heart attack after being taken into custody amid concerns for his welfare.’
The Guardian, 24th June 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hacking trial: Brooks cleared of charges, Coulson guilty – BBC News
‘Ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been cleared of all charges in the phone-hacking trial.’
BBC News, 24th June 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal EPE and another v Eurest (Portugal)—Sociedade Europeia de Restaurantes Lda – WLR Daily
‘Where a contractor under a public contract was a non-profit association which, at the time of the award of the contract, had as partners not only public sector entities but also private social solidarity institutions carrying out non-profit activities, the requirement for “similar control”, established by the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in order that the award of a public contract could be regarded as an in-house operation, was not met, so that Parliament and Council Directive 2004/18/EC of 31 March 2004 on the co-ordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts applied.’
WLR Daily, 19th June 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
St Prix v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (AIRE Centre intervening) – WLR Daily
‘A woman who gave up work, or looking for work, because of the physical constraints of the late stages of pregnancy and the aftermath of childbirth retained the status of “worker”, within the meaning of article 45FEU of the FEU Treaty, provided she returned to work or found another job within a reasonable period after the birth of her child.’
WLR Daily, 19th June 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Karen Millen Fashions Ltd v Dunnes Stores and others – WLR Daily
‘Article 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on Community designs meant that, in order for a design to be considered to have individual character, the overall impression which that design produced on the informed user had to be different from that produced on such a user, not by a combination of features taken in isolation and drawn from a number of earlier designs, but by one or more earlier designs, taken individually. Article 85(2) meant that, in order for a Community design court to treat an unregistered Community design as valid, the right holder of that design was not required to prove that it had individual character within the meaning of article 6, but need only indicate what constituted the individual character of that design, ie, indicated what, in his view, were the element or elements of the design concerned which gave it its individual character.’
WLR Daily, 19th June 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Sanger and another v Newham London Borough Council – WLR Daily
Sanger and another v Newham London Borough Council [2014] EWHC 1922 (Admin); [2014] WLR (D) 269
‘Criminal liability for an offence of failing to comply with an enforcement notice, contrary to section 179(2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, only crystallised once the period for compliance set out in the notice had expired whereupon it became a continuing offence.’
WLR Daily, 12th June 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
