“Does accommodation available for occupation by a person and those reasonably expected to reside with them have to be in one unit of accommodation?”
NearlyLegal, 24th February 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The country’s most senior immigration judge has openly defied the Home Secretary by insisting that Parliament’s attempt to get tough on human rights abuses by foreign criminals is outweighed by the European Court.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A child protection charity says it is impossible to catch every person who looks at indecent images and more needs to be done to stop people from looking at them.”
BBC News, 23rd February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“VAT incurred by a holding company on a takeover was not recoverable, according to a recent Court of Appeal decision in a case concerning UK airport operator BAA.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Foreign doctors wanting to treat NHS patients in England will have to prove they have the necessary English skills, the government has confirmed.”
BBC News, 24th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Thousands of parents are still being forced to undergo ‘suspicious and hostile’ criminal record checks to volunteer in schools despite Coalition reforms designed to introduce common sense into the child protection system, according to research.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The man accused of the abduction and murder of missing five-year-old April Jones is due to stand trial.”
BBC News, 25th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A ‘physical and mental bully’ has been jailed for six years and three months for trafficking four men to the UK and exploiting them to work as slaves.”
The Independent, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The judge in the Vicky Pryce trial last week dismissed the jury for ‘fundamental deficits in understanding’. Should jurors have to sit a test?”
The Guardian, 23rd February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hooper and another v Oates [2013] EWCA Civ 91; [2013] WLR (D) 72
“The date for assessment of damages for breach of a contract for the sale of land where the purchaser had failed or refused to complete the purchase was not the date of the breach but the date when the vendors brought to an end their reasonable attempts to resell the property and took the property back for their own use.”
WLR Daily, 20th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A creditor was entitled to invoke the equitable doctrine of marshalling to claim the benefit of securities held by a doubly-secured creditor even if the two securities did not both come from a debtor if one of the securities derived from a principal for whom the debtor stood surety.”
WLR Daily, 14th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Lessons from Legal Regulation for Leveson (PDF)
The Chief Executive speaks at the Regulatory Policy Institutes Hertford Seminar in media regulation post-Leveson.
Legal Services Board, 12th February 2013
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
“Martha Gray, Pupil at 1 Garden Court, considers whether and in what circumstances a judge who has announced her decision is entitled to change her mind, particularly in the context of fact-finding hearings in care proceedings, in the light of the Supreme Court’s recent judgment.”
Family Law Week, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Equality in the Judiciary (PDF)
Speech by Lady Hale
Kuttan Menon Memorial Lecture, 21st February 2013
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
“Cases before the Chancery Division, Technology and Construction Court (TCC), and Mercantile Courts that are worth less than £2m will be subject to costs management, it was confirmed yesterday.”
Litigation Futures, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Shillam v R [2013] EWCA Crim 160 (22 February 2013)
Asmelash v R [2013] EWCA Crim 157 (22 February 2013)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
BAA Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2013] EWCA Civ 112 (21 February 2013)
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc v Genentech Inc [2013] EWCA Civ 93 (21 February 2013)
Dear & Anor v Jackson [2013] EWCA Civ 89 (22 February 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Marconi Corporation Plc (now Telent Limited), Re [2013] EWHC 324 (Ch) (21 February 2013)
Interflora Inc & Anor v Marks and Spencer Plc & Anor [2013] EWHC 273 (Ch) (21 February 2013)
Davis & Anor v Price & Anor [2013] EWHC 323 (Ch) (21 February 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
McCann & Anor v Bennett [2013] EWHC 283 (QB) (21 February 2013)
McCann & Anor v Bennett (Sentencing Remarks) [2013] EWHC 332 (QB) (21 February 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Ahzaz v The United States of America [2013] EWHC 216 (Admin) (21 February 2013)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Zennstrom & Anor v Fagot & Ors [2013] EWHC 288 (TCC) (21 February 2013)
Mueller Europe Ltd v Central Roofing (South Wales) Ltd [2013] EWHC 237 (TCC) (22 February 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
Separating couples are being urged to use mediation instead of ending up in courtroom battles after a list of England and Wales divorce hot spots was revealed.
Ministry of Justice, 20th February 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The High Court will hear a legal challenge to the practice of treating 17-year-olds detained in police custody as adults, in a judicial review being brought by Just For Kids Law next week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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