“The Home Office’s backlog of 500,000 unresolved immigration and asylum cases will not be cleared for another 37 years at current rates of progress, according to a parliamentary watchdog.”
The Guardian, 13th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government is ignoring the needs of women offenders with its probation reforms, a group of MPs has warned.”
The Independent, 15th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Seven of the UK’s leading human rights groups and privacy campaigners have demanded an urgent review of the laws being used to authorise the mass collection and analysis of data by Britain’s spy centre, GCHQ.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government’s plan for a new press regulator has been officially put back to the autumn after a privy council meeting on Wednesday referred the matter to a new committee.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ayse Akgun was convicted for trying to make a fraudulent claim on her second husband’s £2.6 million estate when he died.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who stabbed a Manchester teenager to death in a random attack in the street ‘to see what it’s like to kill someone’ has been jailed for murder.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The police watchdog has identified a further 55 police statements that it believes were amended in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, it has emerged.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former police authority boss who persuaded a friend to accept his
speeding points to protect his career has been jailed for eight months.”
BBC News, 12th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Fresh concerns have been raised over the safety of Tasers following the death of an ice cream man who was stunned while being restrained by police.”
The Independent, 11th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Adesina v Nursing and Midwifery Council; Baines v Same: [2013] EWCA Civ 818; [2013] WLR (D) 273
“The time limit of 28 days to lodge an appeal from a decision of the Nursing and Midwifery Council to strike off or discipline a nurse was subject to a discretion which would only arise in exceptional circumstances and where the appellant personally had done all she could to bring the appeal in time.”
WLR Daily, 9th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Sturnham) v Parole Board and another (No 2): [2013] UKSC 47; [2013] WLR (D) 274
“The statutory provisions relating to sentences of imprisonment for public protection involved a higher threshold for the imposition of such sentences than for continued detention after the expiry of a prisoner’s minimum term.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (AA) v Secretary of State for the Home Department: [2013] UKSC 49; [2013] WLR (D) 272
“The Home Secretary did not act unlawfully when she detained a 17-year-old illegal immigrant in the mistaken but reasonable belief that he was aged over 18.”
WLR Daily, 10th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Urban I (Blonk Street) Ltd v Ayres and another: [2013] EWCA Civ 816; [2013] WLR (D) 271
“Where, in the case of a time provision which was an innominate term, a completion notice had not been served on the contract-breaker, the other party only became entitled to terminate the contract thereafter if and when the delay was such as to go to the root of the contract, that was to say it deprived the other party of substantially the whole benefit which it was intended it should have under the contract.”
WLR Daily, 5th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Black and another v Wilkinson: [2013] EWCA Civ 820; [2013] WLR (D) 270
“The defendant, who ran a bed and breakfast business from her home, unlawfully discriminated against the claimant homosexual partners by refusing, on the basis of her religious beliefs, to provide them with the double bedroom one of them had booked, contrary to the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007.”
WLR Daily, 9th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Belgian Electronic Sorting Technology NV v Peelaers and another: (Case C-657/11); [2013] WLR (D) 275
“Article 2(1) of Council Directive 84/450/EEC of 10 September 1984 concerning misleading and comparative advertising, as amended, meant that the term ‘advertising’ covered the use of a domain name and that of metatags in a website’s metadata. By contrast, the registration of a domain name, as such, was not encompassed by that term.”
WLR Daily, 11th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Challengers to planning permissions can substitute entirely new grounds of challenge beyond the end of the strict six week limit for bringing a claim, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
Local Government Lawyer, 10th July 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
High Court (Chancery Division)
In the matter of Property Professionals & Ltd [2013] EWHC 1903 (Ch) (08 July 2013)
Jeffery & Anor v Jeffery [2013] EWHC 1942 (Ch) (10 July 2013)
Evegate Publishing Ltd v Newsquest Media (Southern) Ltd [2013] EWHC 1975 (Ch) (10 July 2013)
Smithton Ltd v Naggar [2013] EWHC 1961 (Ch) (11 July 2013)
Mukerjee (Née Sen) & Anor v Sen & Ors [2013] EWHC 1997 (Ch) (11 July 2013)
Sukhoruchkin & Ors v Van Bekestein & Ors [2013] EWHC 1993 (Ch) (11 July 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench)
Phaestos Ltd v Ho & Ors [2012] EWHC 4063 (QB) (22 November 2012)
Thompson v Starr & Ors [2013] EWHC 1972 (QB) (10 July 2013)
Draycott Place RTM Company Ltd v Bordelais [2013] EWHC 1949 (QB) (10 July 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
McIntyre, R (on the application of) v The Parole Board [2013] EWHC 1969 (Admin) (09 July 2013)
Adler v Crown Prosecution Service [2013] EWHC 1968 (Admin) (09 July 2013)
Alami & Anor v Health and Care Professions Council & Anor [2013] EWHC 1895 (Admin) (10 July 2013)
Government of the United States of America v Wood [2013] EWHC 1971 (Admin) (10 July 2013)
Miller v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 1934 (Admin) (10 July 2013)
High Court (Family Division)
HB v PB [2013] EWHC 1956 (Fam) (09 July 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
NRE Coke Ltd & Anor v Coeclerici Asia (PTE) Ltd [2013] EWHC 1987 (Comm) (10 July 2013)
High Court (Patents Court)
Merck Sharp Dohme Corp & Anor v Teva Pharma BV & Anor [2013] EWHC 1958 (Pat) (09 July 2013)
Magmatic Ltd v PMS International Ltd [2013] EWHC 1925 (Pat) (11 July 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
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