Gay marriages: Government publishes legislation – BBC News
“Legislation to enable same-sex marriages to take place in England and Wales has been published.”
BBC News, 25th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Judge denies Barclays staff anonymity in Libor case – The Guardian
“Barclays has been forced to reveal the identities of more than 100 employees who had been attempting to keep their names out of the public domain ahead of a case involving the alleged manipulation of the Libor rate.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Nulty & Ors v Milton Keynes Borough Council [2013] EWCA Civ 15 (24 January 2013)
Sims v Dacorum Borough Council [2013] EWCA Civ 12 (24 January 2013)
Hamilton v Hamilton [2013] EWCA Civ 13 (24 January 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Snelling & Anor v Burstow Parish Council [2013] EWHC 46 (Ch) (24 January 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Family Division)
Young v Young [2013] EWHC 34 (Fam) (16
January 2013)
High Court (Patents Court)
IPCom GmbH & Co Kg v HTC
Europe Co Ltd & Ors [2013] EWHC 52 (Pat) (24 January 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org.uk
Eckerle and others v Wickeder Westfalenstahl GmbH and another – WLR Daily
“The holders of dematerialised shares in a public company were not entitled to the same protection under section 98 of the Companies Act 2006 as registered minority shareholders.”
WLR Daily, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Kenya Aid Programme v Sheffield City Council – WLR Daily
Kenya Aid Programme v Sheffield City Council: [2013] EWHC 54 (Admin); [2013] WLR (D) 23
“In determining whether a charity was entitled to mandatory charitable relief from non-domestic rates because the premises were ‘wholly or mainly used for charitable purposes’, the question was whether the use which the charity made of the premises was directly to facilitate the carrying out of its main charitable purposes.”
WLR Daily, 22nd January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Evans (Fabian) – WLR Daily
Regina v Evans (Fabian): [2013] WLR (D) 22
“Migrants of Jamaican origin who had returned to Jamaica after having been resident in the USA, Canada or the United Kingdom, or persons who had been removed or deported back to Jamaica from those countries, did not constitute a ‘particular social group’ for the purposes of article 1A(2) of the Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees.”
WLR Daily, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Prudential plc and another) v Special Comr of Income Tax and another (Institute of Chartered Accountants and others intervening) – WLR Daily
“Legal advice privilege would not be extended to communications in connection with advice given by professional people other than members of the legal profession, even where that advice was legal advice which the professional person was qualified to give.”
WLR Daily, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Financial Services Act 2012 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2013
The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2013
The Non-Domestic Rating (Renewable Energy Projects) Regulations 2013
The Non-Domestic Rating (Designated Areas) Regulations 2013
The Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments) Regulations 2013
The Political Parties and Elections Act 2009 (Commencement No.6) Order 2013
The Passenger Car (Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Railway Heritage Committee) Order 2013
The Offers to Settle in Civil Proceedings Order 2013
The Driving Licences (Exchangeable Licences) (Amendment) Order 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Strict new code to prevent powers of entry being abused – Home Office
“Strict new guidelines are to be established to prevent public bodies abusing powers to enter homes and businesses.”
Home Office, 22nd January 2013
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
A balanced approach to the challenges of economic crime – Attorney General’s Office
“Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP outlined steps taken to prosecute economic crime at the Cityforum round table. Originally given at City of London Guildhall. This is the text of the speech as drafted, which may differ slightly from the delivered version.”
Attorney General’s Office, 21st January 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
Monkey on my back – NearlyLegal
“Even since McCann v. UK (2008) 47 EHRR 40, a lot of people (around these parts) have been waiting for a case on Article 8 and the rule in Hammersmith v Monk (Hammersmith and Fulham LBC v. Monk [1992] AC 478) to reach the higher Courts. Is the rule that notice by one joint tenant determines the tenancy for both/all compatible with Article 8 (or Protocol 1 Article 1)? Now one case has got to a higher stage. In a somewhat eccentric fashion, the Court of Appeal has given a distinctly forthright view, even if what the Court could actually do with the appeal was, more or less, nothing at all.”
NearlyLegal, 25th January, 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
Silk cut: are QCs a luxury we can’t afford? – LegalVoice
“Criminal defence silk’s earnings from legal aid came into focus this week after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling gave strong indications he is considering targeting QCs, writes Elizabeth Davidson.”
LegalVoice, 25th January 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
Plebgate: Met police calls in external force to review Scotland Yard inquiry – The Guardian
“The Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has called in an external force to review Scotland Yard’s criminal investigation into the plebgate saga.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
OFT warns significant change needed in current account market – The Guardian
“More competition is needed among providers of current accounts, the Office of Fair Trading said on Friday after finding the major banks had increased their dominance in the £9bn market. The OFT said ‘significant further’ changes were required as it warned that the market was not ‘working well for consumers or the wider economy’but decided against a full referral to the Competition Commission. It will conduct another review in 2015.”
The Guardian, 25th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Mother of wandering Flintshire street boy, 5, is warned – BBC News
“The mother of a five-year-old boy found wandering a Flintshire street at night
has been given an eight week suspended prison sentence.”
BBC News, 24th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Briton who took on Sergei Magnitsky network faces libel case in UK – The Independent
“A former Moscow police officer is suing a British businessman who exposed how a network of corrupt officials and shadowy criminal underworld figures were behind the largest tax fraud in Russian history. Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Karpov has launched libel and defamation proceedings in the High Court against William Browder, a millionaire hedge-fund magnate who has campaigned against corruption within the Russian government after his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was tortured and died in police custody.”
The Independent, 24th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
New rules for bailiffs industry – The Independent
“Bailiffs will be regulated under new laws to ‘clean up’ the industry and protect vulnerable debtors, the Government has announced.”
The Independent, 25th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Police exaggerating fall in crime rate – Daily Telegraph
“Police have exaggerated the fall in crime by downgrading hundreds of thousands of offences to meet targets, the Office for National Statistics has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
