“The new general anti-abuse rule (GAAR) is now in force, preventing artificial and abusive tax avoidance schemes that fail to pass a ‘double reasonableness’ test.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The government spent £6m on submitting evidence to the Francis inquiry into Stafford Hospital failings, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed complaints from Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne and his partner Carina Trimingham levelled against five national newspapers over photographs of the pair at Leyhill prison.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The first prosecution for ‘tombstoning’ could be brought against a man accused of jumping from a 30ft bridge.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The new press watchdog proposed by the country’s largest newspaper and magazine publishers has “a profound lack of any functional or meaningful independence from the industry”, a trust associated with Hacked Off claims.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An inquiry has been launched into the contact the authorities had with a vulnerable family after a violent alcoholic man was jailed for at least 30 years for murdering his baby daughter, his girlfriend and her mother.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 22-year-old man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of organist Alan Greaves on Christmas Eve in Sheffield.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Most porn on demand services available to British internet users are operated from outside the UK putting them beyond UK regulation, a regulator has warned.”
The Independent, 19th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Six people have been wrongly detained and falsely accused of crimes in the past year as a result of mistakes made in the official disclosure of confidential data on their internet use to the police and security services.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five supreme court justices have spent a day wrestling with notions of God, nirvana and what constitutes worship in an attempt to decide whether Scientologists may conduct weddings.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A rugby league star sacked by his club after a photo of a team-mate’s bottom was posted on his Twitter account was unlawfully dismissed, a judge ruled.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Supreme Court
Benedetti v Sawiris & Ors [2013] UKSC 50 (17 July 2013)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Trustees of the Coventry School Foundation v Whitehouse & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 885 (18 July 2013)
Padden v Bevan Ashford (A Firm) [2013] EWCA Civ 824 (16 July 2013)
Watson v Sadiq & Anor [2013] EWCA Civ 822 (16 July 2013)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
William & Ors v R. [2013] EWCA Crim 1262 (18 July 2013)
Taylor & Anor v R. [2013] EWCA Crim 1151 (17 July 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Blunt v Jackson & Ors [2013] EWHC 2090 (Ch) (17 July 2013)
Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd & Ors [2013] EWHC 2119 (Ch) (12 July 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Energy Venture Partners Ltd v Malabu Oil and Gas Ltd [2013] EWHC 2118 (Comm) (17 July 2013)
High Court (Family Division)
SB (a child), Re [2013] EWHC 2129 (Fam) (16 July 2013)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Thameside Construction Company Ltd v Stevens & Anor [2013] EWHC 2071 (TCC) (17 July 2013)
Mi-Space (UK) Ltd v Lend Lease Construction (EMEA) Ltd [2013] EWHC 2001 (TCC) (16 July 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
DL v EL (Abduction: Effect of Court Order): [2013] EWCA Civ 865; [2013] WLR (D) 285
“The lawful removal of a child from the United States to the United Kingdom pursuant to the order of a court in Texas did not become unlawful when that order was subsequently reversed by the Texan appellate court.”
WLR Daily, 16th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The presumption of actual influence by a parent entity holding a controlling shareholding in its subsidiary arose even where that entity was constituted in the legal form of an economically inactive foundation for the purposes of imputing liability to the parent for a subsidiary’s infringing behaviour under article 101FEU of the FEU Treaty.”
WLR Daily, 11th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“When considering a claim for an injunction to prevent a threatened infringement of a patent and a supplementary protection, the court had to consider whether, in all the circumstances, there was a sufficiently strong probability that an injunction was required to prevent the harm to the claimant to justify bringing the proceedings.”
WLR Daily, 9th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
The Charities Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2013
The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 (Commencement No. 3 and Savings) Order 2013
The Charities Act 2011 (Principal Regulators of Exempt Charities) Regulations 2013
The Armed Forces (Financial Penalty Enforcement Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“The Gambling Commission has publicly rejected a district judge’s suggestion in the recent Paddy Power case that primary gambling activity is an area solely for the watchdog, not licensing authorities.”
Local Governemtn Lawyer, 17th July 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“This is a consultation produced by the President of the Family Division’s Working Group detailing the proposed amendments to the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 17th July 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, has today published the full report by Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI), undertaken at his request, into disclosure issues that arose in the case of R v Mouncher and others.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 16th July 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
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