“A watchdog is to investigate whether the firing of a Taser by a police officer
at a man doused in flammable liquid caused fatal burns.”
The Independent, 27th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“England’s 800-year-old tradition of fair and open access to justice for all will
be destroyed by sweeping Government plans to reform criminal legal aid, senior
judges and magistrates warn today.”
The Independent, 28th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A judge has refused to allow social workers to take three children with serious
and apparently unexplained injuries into care after seeing that their parents
were ‘simply dotty about them’.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A judge’s decision to allow a convicted drug dealer who abandoned his children
the right to stay in Britain over his ‘human rights’ is at the centre of
mounting political protest.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two men who published photographs on Twitter and Facebook said to show the
killers of James Bulger have been jailed for being in contempt of court.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three men from east London who abducted a 13-year-old girl from the streets of
the city and forced her to become their sex slave have been jailed.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“BT has won the right to take a competition regulator ruling that stopped BSkyB being forced to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 to rival TV services at a discount of up to 23% to the court of appeal.”
The Guardian, 26th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The ringleader of a Birmingham terror cell who plotted for the worst attack on
UK soil was today given five life sentences.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Vestergaard Frandsen A/S & Ors v Bestnet Europe Ltd & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 428 (25 April 2013)
McGuire v Rose & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 429 (25 April 2013)
Walsh v Shanahan & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 411 (25 April 2013)
Johnson & Ors v Old [2013] EWCA Civ 415 (23 April 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Arbuthnot Latham & Co Ltd v M3 Marine Ltd & Anor [2013] EWHC 1019 (Comm) (25 April 2013)
Deutsche Bank (Suisse) SA v Khan & Ors [2013] EWHC 1020 (Comm) (25 April 2013)
High Court (Family Division)
Y and Z (Children), Re [2013] EWHC 953 (Fam) (25 April 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Ontulmus & Ors v Collett & Ors [2013] EWHC 980 (QB) (25 April 2013)
McAlpine v Bercow [2013] EWHC 981 (QB) (25 April 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org.uk
Regina v JFJ: [2013] EWCA Crim 569; [2013] WLR (D) 149
“A plea of autrefois acquit or convict was to be narrowly confined to cases where the offences were the same in fact or law. In any case where the narrow application of that principle would result in unfairness or injustice to a defendant, amounting to oppression, the remedy lay in the power of the court to stay the proceedings.”
WLR Daily, 24th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Dowland v Architects Registration Board: [2013] EWHC 893 (Admin); [2013] WLR (D) 148
“The Architects Registration Board was not limited to questions of competence when considering whether to reinstate a person to the Register of Architects.”
WLR Daily, 19th April 29013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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