Abu Qatada deportation decision due – BBC News
“Home Secretary Theresa May is due to learn whether she has won an appeal to
overturn a decision to allow radical cleric Abu Qatada to stay in the UK.”
BBC News, 27th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Kevin Lane could face full appeal hearing – The Guardian
“Kevin Lane was jailed for life for the 1994 murder of Robert Magill, and given a tariff of eighteen years. As his daily updated website indicates, he has now completed that tariff plus 46 days. However, he has not yet been released because he continues to protest his innocence.”
The Guardian, 26th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Chetham’s music teacher Michael Brewer jailed for sexually abusing pupil – The Guardian
“A music teacher at one of the UK’s most prestigious music schools has been jailed for six years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a pupil.”
The Guardian, 26th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Government’s response to Lord Carlile’s report on the Edlington case – Department for Education
“In March 2012 the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education, asked Lord Carlile to conduct an independent review of the case of the ‘J’ children in Edlington. The ‘J’ children had committed a very serious assault on two young victims in April 2009, having assaulted another young victim the previous weekend.”
Department for Education, March 2013
Source: www.education.gov.uk
The Legal Ombudsman Scheme: how it works and how firms can challenge it – 4 New Square
“The Legal Ombudsman (‘LeO’) publishes brief summaries of its decisions on its website. Where awards have been made against lawyers to date the amounts have usually been very modest: hundreds rather than thousands of pounds. There has not been much for lawyers or their insurers to worry about. But things could be about to change.”
Full story (PDF)
4 New Square, 21st March 2013
Source: www.4newsquare.com
Assessment Notices under the Data Protection Act 1998 – Extension of the Information Commissioner’s Powers – Ministry of Justice
“This consultation paper sets out our proposal to extend the powers of the Information Commissioner to carry out compulsory assessments of NHS bodies’ compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and its data protection principles. It seeks views from NHS data controllers across the United Kingdom. The proposals are informed by the Information Commissioner’s experience working with NHS bodies to improve their compliance with data protection law.”
Ministry of Justice, 25th March 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Regional Strategy for the North East (Revocation) Order 2013
The Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order 2013
The Free School Lunches and Milk (Universal Credit) (England) Order 2013
The Housing (Right to Buy) (Limit on Discount) (England) Order 2013
The Children, Schools and Families Act 2010 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2013
The Trusts (Capital and Income) Act 2013 (Commencement No.1) Order 2013
The National Health Service Trusts (Trust Funds: Appointment of Trustees) (Amendment) Order 2013
The Local Transport Act 2008 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2013
The Rookery South (Resource Recovery Facility) Order 2011
The Public Bodies (Abolition of British Shipbuilders) Order 2013
The Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Cold-calling prosecutions planned – Law Society’s Gazette
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is ready to prosecute up to a dozen more companies who carry out cold-calling and send spam text messages.
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Mahmood v R [2013] EWCA Crim 325 (22 March 2013)
Love & Anor, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 257 (13 February 2013)
Jackson v R. [2013] EWCA Crim 163 (28 February 2013)
Applied Language Solutions Ltd, R v [2013] EWCA Crim 326 (25 March 2013)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Braganza v BP Shipping Ltd & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 230 (22 March 2013)
ACE European Group Ltd & Ors v Chartis Insurance UK Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 224 (22 March 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Cockbill v Riley [2013] EWHC 656 (QB) (22 March 2013)
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust v Acres [2013] EWHC 652 (QB) (22 March 2013)
Gaskin v Norwich City Council & Ors [2013] EWHC 623 (QB) (22 March 2013)
Norbrook Laboratories Ltd & Anor v Carr [2013] EWHC 476 (QB) (22 March 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Turner v Phythian & Anor [2013] EWHC 499 (Ch) (15 March 2013)
Magical Marking Ltd & Anor v Ware & Kay LLP & Anor [2013] EWHC 636 (Ch) (20 March 2013)
High Court (Family Division)
S (A Child), Re [2013] EWHC 647 (Fam) (25 March 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Core Issues Trust v Transport for London [2013] EWHC 651 (Admin) (22 March 2013)
Bauer & Ors v The Director of Public Prosecutions [2013] EWHC 634 (Admin) (22 March 2013)
London Borough of Islington v The Unite Group Plc [2013] EWHC 508 (Admin) (22 March 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
Interpreter company wins costs order appeal – Law Society’s Gazette
“The company contracted by the Ministry of Justice to provide court interpreters has won an appeal against a decision to award a third-party costs order after a sentencing hearing was adjourned due an interpreter’s non-appearance.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 26th March 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Charges under Reg 8 EIR: a Power Cut for Public Authorities – Panopticon
“In Kirklees Council v IC & Pali Ltd [2011] UKUT 104 (AAC) the Upper Tribunal held, in the context of property search information, that reg 8(2) EIR precluded an authority from charging for allowing applicants to inspect information in situ and that a charge was only permissible if copy documents were provided to the applicant or the information was accessed other than by means of in situ inspection. The First-tier Tribunal has revisited the application of the charging rule in reg 8 EIR, again in the context of property search information, in Leeds City Council v IC & APPS Claimants (EA/2012/0020-21) (judgment of 22 March 2013).”
Panopticon, 23rd March 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
Reforming Civil Litigation: Bar Council Working Group publishes recommendations – The Bar Council
“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has today published a discussion document on ‘Reforming civil litigation’, which reflects the recommendations of a Working Group including the chairs of the Chancery Bar Association, Commercial Bar Association and the Technology and Construction Bar Association.”
The Bar Council, 25th March 2013
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Exclusion of Iranian dissident lawful, says Court of Appeal – UK Human Rights Blog
“Last year the Divisional Court upheld the Home Secretary’s decision to prevent a dissident Iranian politician coming to the United Kingdom to address the Palace of Westminster: see that decision here and my post discussing the ‘Politics of Fear’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Jackson reforms: trials and tribulation – Law Society’s Gazette
“One could be forgiven for thinking the campaign to halt or defer the main planks of the civil justice reforms devised by Sir Rupert Jackson is still in full swing. To be fair to the refusniks, the impression that all was not settled has been given in part by the last-minute approach the Ministry of Justice has taken to issuing details on implementation. If the government and the senior judiciary had yet to say what was to come on, respectively, damages-based agreements and big-ticket costs budgeting, perhaps they were still open to persuasion?”
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th March 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Ban on ‘ex-gay, post-gay and proud’ bus advert criticised but lawful – UK Human Rights Blog
“In a judgment which is sure to provoke heated debate, the High Court has today ruled that the banning of an advert which read ‘NOT GAY! EX-GAY, POST-GAY AND PROUD. GET OVER IT!’ from appearing on London buses was handled very badly by Transport for London (‘TfL’) but was not unlawful or in breach of the human rights of the group behind the advert.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd March 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Bar Council working party calls for end to witness statements in Rolls Building litigation – Litigation Futures
“The involvement of solicitors and barristers in crafting witness statements in big-ticket litigation has neutered the current regime and it should be replaced by a system of witness summaries and live evidence-in-chief, a Bar Council working party has recommended.”
Litigation Futures, 26th March 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.co.uk
Vicky Pryce prison photographs may have breached PCC code of conduct – The Guardian
“The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has begun an investigation into whether newspaper photographs showing Vicky Pryce serving her prison sentence might have breached its code of conduct.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Post-Leveson press regulation clauses in the crime and courts bill – The Guardian
“The Guardian analyses the controversial clauses that have sparked a heated debate over the cross-party plan for a new press regulation regime.”
The Guardian, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Tell me a storey – NearlyLegal
“This is an interesting appeal in relation to the counting of storeys for HMO licensing purposes. It actually repeats an argument dealt with in an appeal in a criminal prosecution of a Mr Williams by Cotswold District Council from way back in 2008 although the result here was different (see ‘Recount Your Storeys’ (2009) 12 JHL 1).”
NearlyLegal, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
