“A McDonald’s waitress won £3,000 compensation today for being fired after sprinkling too much chocolate on an ice-cream.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The Legal Services Act 2007 (Legal Complaints) (Parties) Order 2012
The Legal Services Act 2007 (Alteration of Limit) Order 2012
The Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2012
The Caversfield Service Family Accommodation Byelaws 2012
The Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Singapore) Order 2012
The Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Switzerland) Order 2012
The Cowes Harbour Revision Order 2012
The Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Liechtenstein) Order 2012
The Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Barbados) Order 2012
The Visiting Forces and International Military Headquarters (EU SOFA) (Tax Designation) Order 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“The Commission on a Bill of Rights, established in March 2011 to investigate the creation of a UK Bill of Rights, has today delivered its report – A UK Bill of Rights? – The Choice Before Us – to the Government.”
Ministry of Justice, 18th December 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Related links: The Commission on a Bill of Rights’ report– A UK Bill of Rights? – The Choice Before Us – Volume 1 (PDF)
The Commission on a Bill of Rights’ report– A UK Bill of Rights? – The Choice Before Us – Volume 2 (PDF)
“Businesses will be able to obtain patent protection for their inventions within 90 days of applying for it under plans to change the way the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) works.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th December 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Conservative peer Lord McAlpine has formally settled his libel actions against the BBC and ITV at London’s High Court.”
BBC News, 18th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The period of notice which employers have to give before making large-scale redundancies is to be cut from 90 to 45 days.”
BBC News, 18th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Olympic Airlines SA v ACG Acquisition XX LLC [2012] EWCA Civ 1659 (17 December 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Entrust Pension Ltd v Prospect Hospice Ltd [2012] EWHC 3640 (Ch) (17 December 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Threlfall v ECD Insight Ltd & Anor [2012] EWHC 3543 (QB) (17 December 2012)
Dar v Vonsak & Anor [2012] EWHC 3632 (QB) (17 December 2012)
Horner v Allison & Anor [2012] EWHC 3626 (QB) (17 December 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Prosecutors will be told to exercise ‘real caution’ before deciding to prosecute children and young people over abusive comments made on Twitter and Facebook under guidelines to be issued today, it was reported.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Women who take out car or life insurance could find themselves paying as much as £500 more when an EU ruling on gender comes into force on Friday.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“OPINION: A seemingly attractive plan to make judges responsible for predicting the cost of court action is not the best way to encourage the accurate prediction of costs, but it is better than nothing.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th December 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The coalition’s decision to break the link between the cost of renting and housing benefit payments is being challenged in the high court.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A motorist who killed a pedestrian after sending a text on her mobile phone has escaped jail after a judge accepted there would be no one to care for her elderly mother and 12-year-old daughter if she went to prison.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Unfaithful husbands could attempt to stop their wives divorcing them for adultery if gay marriage is legalised, according to senior lawyers.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Hospitals will be required to publish survival rates for operations by individual surgeons under plans to help patients to more effectively choose where they have their care.”
The Independent, 18th December 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The family of a young woman is suing the country’s biggest out-of-hours GP provider and one of its nurses, whose failures meant her fatal condition was not diagnosed, because neither will accept liability in a test case over legal responsibility in a privatised NHS.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The coalition government will come under fresh strain on Tuesday when the commission on a bill of rights publishes its long-awaited report, reopening the question of the UK’s legal relationship with Europe.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Children in care in England and Wales who have been in trouble with the law are being failed by youth offending teams, says an inspection report.”
BBC News, 18th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“It was left to a medical body to censure Derek Keilloh. That no one else has been brought to book over the killing is shameful”
The Guardian, 17th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The former president of the Supreme Court, Lord Phillips, will challenge the right of the government to appoint the court’s chief executive in a proposed amendment to the Crime and Courts Bill this week.”
The Lawyer, 17th December 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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