PCs sacked over Taser misuse on man in Liverpool – BBC News
“Two police officers have been sacked after a man was wrongly arrested and shot five times with a stun gun in Liverpool.”
BBC News, 22nd October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mittal v. Mittal: English Family Courts Still Open for Business in the Wider World – Family Law Week
“Tim Amos QC and Duncan Brooks of Queen Elizabeth Building, counsel for the respondent, consider the issues and implications of the Court of Appeal’s important judgment in Mittal v Mittal.”
Family Law Week, 20th October 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Last gasp of the super-injunction – RPC Privacy Law
“Super-injunctions are almost an extinct species. ‘Non-super’ privacy injunctions however remain alive and kicking with according to recent figures a 100% success rate on interim applications.”
RPC Privacy Law, 21st October 2013
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
Performing Right Society Ltd v B4U Network (Europe) Ltd – WLR Daily
Performing Right Society Ltd v B4U Network (Europe) Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 1236; [2013] WLR (D) 385
“Where a composition fell within the terms of an agreement assigning copyright to the Performing Right Society the effect of section 2(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 was to vest copyright in the society as soon as the work was created, notwithstanding an agreement with those commissioning the work which purported to assign to them all rights in future works.”
WLR Daily, 16th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
In re W (A Child); In re H (Children) – WLR Daily
In re W (A Child); In re H (Children) [2013] EWCA Civ 1177; [2013] WLR (D) 384
“Guidance on how the Court of Appeal should approach applications for permission to appeal and appeals arising from decisions of family judges refusing parents leave in accordance with section 47(5) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 to oppose the making of adoption orders in relation to their children where such decisions were delivered before the decision in In re B-S (Children) [2013] EWCA Civ 1146; [2013] WLR (D) 348.”
WLR Daily, 16th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Drug baron told to pay £185m – or face a further 10 years in jail – The Guardian
“One of Britain’s most notorious drug smugglers has been told to pay £185m – or face another 10 years in jail. Curtis Warren, the only drug dealer to make it on to the Sunday Times Rich List, faces trial this week in Jersey where he was jailed in 2007 over a £1m cannabis-smuggling plot.”
The Guardian, 20th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The latest prisoner votes judgment may be our Marbury v Madison – UK Human Rights Blog
“At first glance, prisoner voting proponents may interpret the Supreme Court’s R (Chester) v Justice Secretary decision (see Adam Wagner’s previous post) as a defeat for advancing prisoner voting rights in the UK. This blog post offers a different perspective. By comparing Chester to the seminal US Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, we summarise that such proponents should take a step back and see the wood, rather than merely the trees. This is because Lord Mance’s Chester judgment offers human rights advocates, and therefore supporters of prisoner voting rights, an unequivocal foundation from which to defend future human rights claims.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Balance of Competences Fundamental Rights Review – Ministry of Justice
“The Balance of Competences Review was announced by the Foreign Secretary William Hague in July 2012 to examine the balance of competences between the UK and the European Union.”
Ministry of Justice, 21st October 2013
Source: www.consult.justice.gov.uk
High Court dismisses challenge to PCO in Richard III burial case – Litigation Futures
“The High Court has comprehensively rejected the government’s bid to overturn the grant of a protective costs order (PCO) in favour of campaigners for the reburial of King Richard III in York.”
Litigation Futures, 18th October 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Schools’ duty to safeguard children who lark around – Education Law Blog
“If you are sitting comfortably, I’ll tell you the story of the boy who tried to punch his younger brother but instead hit a water fountain and then sued his school for damages. Or rather I’ll tell you how the Court of Appeal told it in West Sussex County Council v Lewis Pierce [2013] EWCA Civ 1230.”
Education Law Blog, 18th October 2013
Source: www.education11kbw.com
Should we have an enforceable right to food? – Professor Geraldine van Bueren Q.C. – UK Human Rights Blog
“Nearly eight hundred years ago, in 1216 English law first recognized a right to food. Yet between April and September this year over 350,000 people received three days’ emergency food from the Trussell Trust food banks, triple the numbers helped in the same period last year.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Gas company vicariously liable for database rights infringement by staff – OUT-LAW.com
“The market leader in the sale of liquid propane gas (LPG) in the UK has been found vicariously liable for the infringement of database rights belonging to a rival.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th October 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Andrew Jaipaul murder: Allan Kalema sentenced to 14 years in prison – BBC News
“A gang member has been jailed for life after a painter and decorator was stabbed 25 times in a London estate.”
BBC News, 18th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court orders MMR vaccine for children – UK Human Rights Blog
“The High Court has ruled that two sisters must receive the MMR vaccine against their wishes and the wishes of their mother. This was an application by the father for a declaration and a specific issue order concerning his daughters both receive the MMR vaccination. This was opposed by their mother.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Ofsted fairness standards graded inadequate – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“The Care Quality Commission has made headlines recently with the focus on inadequacies in its processes as a regulator and its failure to spot sub-standard and even dangerous levels of care. Its fellow regulator Ofsted, however, is more likely to be accused of being over – rather than under – zealous, but its approach has been subject to far less scrutiny.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 18th October 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Fraud cases up 60 per cent as criminals head online – Daily Telegrah
“The number of frauds recorded by police has risen by nearly 60 per cent in five years, according to newly released official crime figures.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Ruvi Ziegler: The missing right to vote: The UK Supreme Court’s judgment in Chester and McGeoch – UK Constitutional Law Group
“On 16 October 2013, a seven-judge panel of the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) unanimously rejected two challenges (R (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice and McGeoch v The Lord President of the Council & Anor and the judgment summary) brought by prisoners serving terms of life imprisonment against their disenfranchisement in UK national elections pursuant to section 3(1) of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (RPA) and in EU Parliamentary elections and UK local elections pursuant to section 8(2) of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 21st October 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
Prisoner becomes first inmate to be given a CRASBO – Daily Telegraph
“A convicted prisoner, with a history of violence against women, has become the first person to be issued with a CRASBO while still in jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
