“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“The Earl of Cardigan, whose family name is famed for its link to the Charge of the Light Brigade, was also found not guilty of a charge of criminal damage. Salisbury Magistrates’ Court heard the earl, 60, was accused of assaulting John Moore by beating on April 29 last year – just over a week after he lost a legal row with Mr Moore over ancestral portraits at the 4,500-acre Savernake Estate, near Marlborough, Wiltshire.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Reports that some companies involved in solar energy are pursuing claims for damages against the Government are the ‘inevitable consequence of its hitherto confused’ approach to subsidies, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“An MP’s son who joined an online ‘club’ of perverts who shared sickening images of child abuse has been handed a suspended jail term.”
The Independent, 24th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two men who carried out cyber attacks for the Anonymous hacking group have been jailed.”
BBC News, 24th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Google, Facebook and Twitter’s decision to establish their European bases in Dublin has opened the internet giants up to EU defamation and privacy laws like never before, a libel lawyer has warned.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Supreme Court has ruled that legal advice privilege should only apply to advice given by a member of the legal profession; that this is what the common law has always meant, and that any wider interpretation would lead to uncertainty. Two strong dissents do not find any principled underpinning for the restriction of the privilege to advice from solicitors or barristers.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The government is considering how to curb repetitive and overly expensive Freedom of Information requests, a justice minister has said.”
BBC News, 24th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Extending secret courts to ordinary civil justice cases would see the UK ‘stoop to the level of repressive regimes’, the Law Society warns today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“From libel reform to ambush marketing, our experts highlight the key media law trends in 2013.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man has been found guilty of possessing £90m of cocaine found hidden on a yacht off the Isle of Wight.”
BBC News, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The publication of three draft statutory instruments (SIs) that will implement part of the ‘Jackson’ reforms to civil court costs and procedures shows that the Government remains intent on a 1 April start date, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Supreme Court
Zakrzewski v The Regional Court in Lodz, Poland [2013] UKSC 2 (23 January 2013)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Omnipharm Ltd v Merial [2013] EWCA Civ 2 (23 January 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Eckerle & Ors v Wickeder Westfalenstahl GmbH & Anor [2013] EWHC 68 (Ch) (23 January 2013)
Gorbunova v Berezovsky (aka Platon Elenin) & Ors [2013] EWHC 76 (Ch) (18 January 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Family Division)
S (findings of fact), Re [2013] EWHC 15 (Fam) (14 January 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Five police forces are to be taken to an employment tribunal accused of age discrimination.”
BBC News, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Property laws for cohabiting couples are ‘unfair’ on women who are often left with nothing after separating from their partners, an appeal court judge said on Wednesday.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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