Theresa May: Derbyshire police chief to head undercover police probe – BBC News
“An investigation into undercover policing at the Metropolitan Police is to be
overseen by another force.”
BBC News, 11th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
James Bulger killing: 20 years on – The Guardian
“Society’s view of young people still as venomous as 1993 says the lawyer who represented one of the two-year-old’s killers.”
The Guardian, 1th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judgment expected on government’s unpaid work schemes – The Guardian
“The court of appeal will on Tuesday judge whether government employment schemes constitute forced labour and if tens of thousands of unemployed people will still be entitled to compensation after being wrongly sanctioned by the Department of Work and Pensions.”
The Guardian, 12th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judge condemns Salford University for failed libel case against ex-lecturer – Daily Telegraph
“Salford University, which charges students up to £9,000 a year in tuition fees
and axed 60 posts last year, was accused by a judge of abusing the High Court’s
processes in its actions against Dr Gary Duke.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Divorcees to plunder partners’ pensions – Daily Telegraph
“Divorcees who separated in the past 12 years could have to hand over more of their pension income to their former spouse. Pension funds are often the main asset of a marriage and are frequently more valuable than the home, but according to a report from Divorce LifeLine in as many as half of the 1.5 million divorce settlements in the UK since December 2000, the divorce pensions may have been undervalued.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Chimney sweep Philip Jones fined £5,000 over Derwyn Rees’s death – BBC News
“A sweep who did not remove a bird’s nest blocking a chimney flue has been fined £5,000 over the death of an ex-miner from carbon monoxide poisoning.”
BBC News, 11th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
National Audit Office warns UK needs more cyber skills – BBC News
“A lack of skilled workers is hampering the UK’s fight against cyber crime, the
National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.”
BBC News, 12th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Video journalist fights court application over EDL footage – The Guardian
“A video journalist is fighting a court application by police to force him to hand over footage he shot of the English Defence League.”
The Guardian, 11th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
In the public interest – Speech by Mr Justice Foskett
In the public interest (PDF)
Speech by Mr Justice Foskett
The ‘Disciplinary Conference’, 8th February 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky v Slovenská sporiteľňa a.s. – WLR Daily
“When assessing whether an agreement between several undertakings had the object of restricting competition within the meaning of article 101FEU of the FEU treaty, the fact that an institution, adversely affected by the agreement, had allegedly been operating illegally on the relevant market was of no relevance to that assessment.”
WLR Daily, 7th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Foulser v Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs – WLR Daily
Foulser v Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2013] UKUT 038 (TCC); [2013] WLR (D) 51
“The First-tier Tribunal had jurisdiction to deal with an allegation that a fair hearing of a tax appeal before it had been made impossible, but any contention that a party had acted unlawfully in public law had to be put forward by way of an application for judicial review in the High Court or the Upper Tribunal. In a case where the FTT considered that a debarring order was justified and no lesser order would meet the justice of the case but yet, the facts of the case did not come within Rules 7 and 8 of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Tax Chamber) Rules 2009, the FTT could produce the desired just result by using its power under Rule 5 to ‘regulate its procedure’, particularly to deal with the case fairly and justly.”
WLR Daily, 25th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
The Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd and another v United Utilities Water plc – WLR daily
“The implied power of sewerage undertakers to discharge the contents of sewers via their outfalls onto third party property without the owner’s consent had not passed to their successor companies under the transfer scheme entered into as part of the privatisation process implemented under the Water Act 1989.”
WLR Daily, 7th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
AKJ and others v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and another; AJA and others v Same and others – WLR Daily
“An intimate sexual relationship instigated by an undercover police officer with a member of the public for the purposes of obtaining information fell within the scope of ‘personal or other relationship with a person’ for the purposes of section 26(8) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 so that, by section 65, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal had exclusive jurisdiction to hear a claim brought against the police under the Human Rights Act 1998.”
WLR Daily, 18th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Football Dataco Ltd and others v Sportradar GmbH and others; Same v Stan James plc and others – WLR Daily
“Pursuant to article 7 of Parliament and Council Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases, a sui generis database right subsisted in a database consisting of information gathered live at football matches as those matches proceeded. It was not the case that there could be no article 7 right unless there was investment in collecting together materials which had already been recorded.”
WLR Daily, 6th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Ministry of Justice (formerly Department of Constitutional Affairs) v O’Brien – WLR Daily
“A part-time fee-paid judge was a worker under European Union law and had a right not to be treated in a less favourable manner than comparable full-time workers. The denial of retirement pensions to part-judges when full-time judges were granted pensions was less favourable treatment for which there was no objective justification. Accordingly, on the basic principle of remunerating part-time workers pro rata temporis, a recorder was entitled to a pension on terms equivalent to those applicable to a circuit judge.”
WLR Daily, 6th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
In re Coniston Hotel (Kent) LLP (in liquidation) Bernsten and another v Tait and another – WLR Daily
“Points of claim in insolvency proceedings should concisely set out every fact necessary to establish the legal basis for the relief sought but with a degree of particularity to enable those responding to understand the nature of the case.”
WLR Daily, 1st February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
The IPCC should be scrapped, says former Met Police Commissioner Lord Stevens – Daily Telegraph
“The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) should be replaced with a new body that can hold the police to account when something goes wrong, says the former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Lord Stevens.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Room without review: Thoughts on tackling the bedroom tax – NearlyLegal
“With the beginning of the bedroom tax looming up for April and upwards of 700,000 households affected, I’ve been thinking about the position when the inevitable rent arrears possessions start to appear – probably by about October – and also whether the statute itself is open to challenge.”
NearlyLegal, 10th February 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
Does the state owe a duty to inform the wronged? And Ullah revisited – UK Human Rights Blog
“The Court of Appeal dismissed this claim by a children’s NGO for an order that the Secretary of State provide information to certain children to the effect that the SoS and his contractors had unlawfully used bodily restraint upon them whilst they were ‘trainees’ in Secure Training Centres.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
