Dappy loses appeal against conviction – The Guardian
“N-Dubz rapper Dappy, who was found guilty of assault and affray, has lost a challenge against his conviction.”
The Guardian, 30th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Michelle Mills jailed for Edward Miller’s murder in Scalford – BBC News
“A mother-of-two who portrayed herself as a ‘fearful victim’ of domestic violence has been given a life sentence for stabbing her boyfriend to death.”
BBC News, 30th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mediation and alternative dispute resolution – OUP Blog
“Why compromise? Increasingly in civil litigation there are no winners — not even the lawyers, following the review and implementation of Sir Rupert Jackson’s report into costs. The question is rapidly being re-phrased as ‘Why litigate?'”
OUP Blog, 27th April 2013
Source: www.blog.oup.com
Court agrees Facebook and Twitter users breached injunction – Attorney General’s Office
“Two men who published photographs on Twitter and Facebook said to show the killers of James Bulger have admitted being in contempt of court.”
Attorney General’s Office,
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
Defamation Act becomes law, establishes new statutory defences against libel – OUT-LAW.com
“Changes to libel laws in England and Wales have been implemented after the Defamation Bill received Royal Assent late last week.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Fortress Value Recovery Fund I LLC and others v Blue Skye Special Opportunities Fund LP and others – WLR Daily
“Section 8(1) of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 allowed for a promisor to give a third party an enforceable substantive right subject to a procedural condition on which the promisor might but need not insist. Section 8(2) of the Act allowed for a promisor to give a third party an enforceable procedural right which the third party might but need not exercise, since the right was unilateral.”
WLR Daily, 17th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Asociaţia ACCEPT v Consiliul Naţional pentru Combaterea Discriminǎrii – WLR Daily
“Homophobic statements made by a person perceived as playing a leading role in a football club but who did not have legal capacity to bind it in recruitment matters were capable of constituting ‘facts from which it may be presumed that there has been … discrimination’ pursuant to articles 2(2) and 10(1) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (OJ 2000 L303, p16).”
WLR Daily, 25th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Verma v Barts and The London NHS Trust (NHS Employers intervening) – WLR Daily
“Where a part-time locum doctor, as a step towards achieving a consultant’s post, took a one-year full time training post at a lower rate of pay but under the relevant NHS terms and conditions was entitled to pay protection, that entitlement was not limited to preserving her previous annual earnings but required her employer to pay all her new full-time hours at an hourly-rate equivalent to her previous part-time work.”
WLR Daily, 24th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
In re C (A Child) (Adoption: Placement order) – WLR Daily
In re C (A Child) (Adoption: Placement order) [2013] EWCA Civ 431; [2013] WLR (D) 151
“Guidance as to the steps to be followed where an application to the Court of Appeal was made for permission to appeal against the making of a placement order, or of any order consequent upon the making of a placement order, in adoption proceedings.”
WLR Daily, 25th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Copyright law reforms in pipeline after Royal Assent given to Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill – OUT-LAW.com
“New legislation that will impact on the UK’s intellectual property (IP) law framework has received Royal Assent.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
A brighter future? – New Law Journal
“As of 1 April 2013, standard disclosure is no longer the default provision in most multi-track cases. With disclosure often being the most expensive and time consuming part of the litigation process, this should be welcome news to litigants and solicitors alike. The recent decision in West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited v Willbros Global Holdings Inc. [2012] EWHC 396 (TCC) highlighted the significant issues encountered in the disclosure process, especially in high value claims involving e-disclosure. The new rules aim to tackle these problems by introducing stricter case management in the disclosure process.”
New Law Journal, 26th April 2013
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
Deferred prosecution agreements for England and Wales “on track for 2014” as legislation approved – OUT-LAW.com
“US-style ‘plea bargains’ will be introduced in England and Wales from 2014, following Parliamentary approval of the relevant laws.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Eoin Carolan: An oligarchy of the self-interest or enthusiastic?: Open Public Services in the Big Society – UK Constitutional Law Group
“The coalition government’s programme of public service reform continues apace. The coming into effect of parts of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 on April 1st was the latest in a series of changes to the structure and delivery of public services through measures like the Localism Act 2011 or the Free Schools programme. As the White Paper on Open Public Services indicates, these individual changes form part of a broader plan to fundamental re-model how Britain’s government operates. The White Paper is clear that this reform programme is wide-ranging and ambitious. What is less clear from government pronouncements, however, is whether or how it is intended to ensure the democratic legitimacy and character of the proposed reforms.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 29th April 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
Caldicott review: unlawful personal data processing and sharing should be reported as ‘data breach’ – OUT-LAW.com
“Health and social care bodies should be required to publish details of cases where they have processed or shared patients’ personal data without having a legal basis to do so, Dame Fiona Caldicott has recommended.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Tenants! Be the best that you can be! – NearlyLegal
“At the very beginning of social housing, with the Peabody Estates in the 1860s, prospective tenants faced imposed requirements that we would now consider to be extraneous to the tenancy: Mandatory smallpox vaccinations; curfews; and cleaning rotas before 10 am for communal areas, sinks and WCs. But even the Victorian paternalists didn’t lower themselves to the patronising, small minded and teeth-grindingly passive-aggressive approach apparently in vogue for 21st century social landlords.”
NearlyLegal, 29th April 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
DJ cleared of manslaughter of man who had penis drawn on face – The Guardian
“A DJ has been cleared of the manslaughter of a man who died after waking up at a party and finding a penis drawn on his face.”
The Guardian, 29th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Barclays Libor court case delayed until April 2014 – The Guardian
“The first UK trial concerning the alleged fraudulent manipulation of Libor rates has been delayed until next year after Barclays won the right to challenge aspects of the high court case.”
The Guardian, 29th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
MPs’ expenses: copies of receipts are subject to FOIA – Panopticon
“Following the MPs’ expenses scandal, the then newly-founded Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) decided that it would not routinely publish images of the receipts submitted to IPSA by MPs in support of their expenses claims. Rather, only text transcribed from the submitted receipts was to be published.”
Panopticon, 29th April 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
Woman fined for ‘racist’ English insult
“A Welsh woman has been made to pay compensation for using a racist slur against an English woman after calling her ‘an English cow’.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Men guilty of raping boy, 14, in Manchester Debenhams – BBC News
“Two men have been found guilty of raping a 14-year-old boy in a city centre department store’s toilets.”
BBC News, 29th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
