Frederick Gilliard jailed for killing wife with statue – BBC News
“A 76-year-old man who bludgeoned his wife with a garden statue has been jailed
for four years.”
BBC news, 1st February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Police spies stole identities of dead children – The Guardian
“Undercover officers created aliases based on details found in birth and death records, Guardian investigation reveals.”
The Guardian, 3rd February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Pro bono and access to justice: mind the gap – The Guardian
“Should the UK follow New York’s lead and create a compulsory pro bono scheme to fill the legal aid gap?”
The Guardian, 4th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Twitter cases ‘threat to freedom of speech’ – Daily Telegraph
“Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said too many investigations
into comments on networks such as Twitter would have a ‘chilling effect’ on free
speech. He issued his warning as he signalled that anyone who posted an
offensive message but then quickly removed it could escape prosecution.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Mental health ‘excuse’ to sign off abortions – Daily Telegraph
“Doctors are routinely bending the law to allow women to have abortions on questionable mental-health grounds, the head of Britain’s biggest abortion provider has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
UK military interrogation method lawful, High Court says – BBC News
“The use of a ‘verbal short sharp shock’ on prisoners interrogated by British troops is lawful, judges have decided.”
BBC News, 1st February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Fraud reporting change criticised – BBC News
“Victims of fraud across the UK will be told to contact the Home Office agency Action Fraud rather than their local force from 1 April. The government says this will create a central record which can then be used to combat the most serious criminals.The police will only respond to fraud directly if an immediate response is needed via a 999 call.Critics of the new system say this means only major fraud cases will now be investigated.”
BBC News, 2nd February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Anonymous teenage hacker spared jail over cyber attacks – The Guardian
“A ‘profoundly isolated’ teenage hacker has been given a youth rehabilitation order for his role in planning cyber attacks with the hacking group Anonymous.”
The Guardian, 1st February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
April Casburn jailed for News of the World leak offer – BBC News
“The first person to be prosecuted as part of the investigation into payments by journalists to officials has been sentenced to 15 months in prison.”
BBC News, 1st February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Druce v R. [2013] EWCA Crim 40 (31 January 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Lissack v Manhattan Loft Corporation Ltd [2013] EWHC 128 (Ch) (31 January 2013)
GKN Holdings Plc & Ors v Inland Revenue & Anor [2013] EWHC 108 (Ch) (31 January 2013)
Pavledes & Anor v Hadjisavva & Anor [2013] EWHC 124 (Ch) (31 January 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Bunge SA v Nidera BV [2013] EWHC 84 (Comm) (29 January 2013)
High Court (Family Division)
S v D & E [2013] EWHC 134 (Fam) (31 January 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org.uk
Hackney London Borough Council v Sivanandan and others – WLR Daily
Hackney London Borough Council v Sivanandan and others: [2013] EWCA Civ 22; [2013] WLR (D) 34
“The employment tribunal had not erred in law when, on a complaint of victimisation, it made an award of compensation against an employer which was much larger than an award it had already made against the employer’s employee at an earlier remedy hearing in which the employer had not taken part.”
WLR Daily, 29th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Ali and others) v Secretary of State for Justice – WLR Daily
Regina (Ali and others) v Secretary of State for Justice: [2013] EWHC 72 (Admin); [2013] WLR (D) 35
“A useful test to determine whether an individual, whose conviction had been quashed on the basis of new evidence, qualified for compensation under section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 on the ground of miscarriage of justice, was whether he had established, beyond reasonable doubt, that no reasonable jury (or magistrates) properly directed as to the law, could convict on the evidence now to be considered.”
WLR Daily, 25th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Wolkowicz and others v Polish Judicial Authority and another – WLR Daily
“Although section 25 of the Extradition Act 2003 should be interpreted, wherever possible, to achieve the results sought by article 23(4) of Council Framework Decision 2002/584/JHA of 13 June 2002 on the European arrest warrant, it nevertheless gave express power to discharge and was not limited to a temporary postponement save in exceptional cases.”
WLR Daily, 30th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Kenny – WLR Daily
Regina v Kenny: [2013] EWCA Crim 1; [2013] WLR (D) 37
“Neither authority nor principle required that the offence of perverting the course of justice was confined to acts which gave rise to some other independent criminal wrong-doing.”
WLR Daily, 30th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Ibrahim v Wandsworth London Borough Council – WLR Daily
Ibrahim v Wandsworth London Borough Council: [2013] EWCA Civ 20; [2013] WLR (D) 38
“A local authority reviewer’s duty under regulation 8(2) of the Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Review Procedures) Regulations 1999, to invite representations from the applicant where the reviewer was minded to make a decision against the interests of the applicant despite there being a deficiency in the local authority’s original decision, was not engaged where the deficiency was not the subject of any complaint by the applicant on the review and had been neither upheld nor decided upon by the reviewer.”
WLR Daily, 30th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (Alteration of Timetables for Accounts) Order 2013
The Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2013
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Prescribed Financial Institutions) Order 2013
The Belarus (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2013
The Iran (European Union Financial Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Financial Restrictions (Iran) (Revocation) Order 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Henry solicitor: CA ruling does not undermine Jackson’s costs management reforms – Litigation Futures
“The Court of Appeal’s ruling on costs budgets earlier this week has not undermined the Jackson reforms, the claimant solicitor from the case has argued.”
Litigation Futures, 1st February 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
