Final Legal Education and Training Review report delayed – Legal Futures
“Completion of the much-anticipated Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) has been delayed, it has emerged. The academic team compiling the report after 18 months of research and consultation was meant to have delivered it by the end of 2012.”
Legal Futures, 14th January 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Judiciary publishes guide for self-represented litigants – Judiciary of England and Wales
“A guide for self-represented litigants making applications to the Interim Applications Court of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court has been published by the judiciary today (Friday 11 January).”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 11th January 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Identity of social workers may be published following fostering bungle – UK Human Rights Blog
“Bristol City Council v C and others [2012] EWHC 3748 (Fam). This was an application for a reporting restriction order arising out of care proceedings conducted before the Bristol Family Proceedings Court. The proceedings themselves were relatively straightforward but, in the course of the hearing, information came to light which gave rise to concerns of an ‘unusual nature’, which alerted the interest of the press.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Sunday working case does not establish that all religious discrimination claims will fail – OUT-LAW.com
“A tribunal’s refusal to allow the constructive dismissal claim of a Christian care worker who was required to work on Sundays does not establish that Sunday working will never amount to indirect religious discrimination, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Michael Jackson fans sentenced for Sony Music hacking – BBC News
“Two men who admitted hacking Sony Music stealing thousands of hours of music tracks including unreleased material by Michael Jackson, have been spared jail.”
BBC News, 11th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Jimmy Savile scandal: How will it affect future abuse cases?- BBC News
“Jimmy Savile’s ability to commit hundreds of serious sexual offences inside public institutions, ‘hiding in plain sight’ as Friday’s police and NSPCC report on his crimes puts it, seems almost incredible. And for his victims, it is indeed credibility which is the issue at the heart of this scandal.”
BBC News, 12th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Husband tricked into believing wife’s children were his awarded £25,000 damages – Daily Telegraph
“A husband has won £25,000 in damages for ‘bereavement’ after his wife tricked him into believing children whom he raised until they were teenagers were his rather than the products of affairs.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Man who threw bottle at Usain Bolt at Olympics found guilty – The Guardian
“A man who threw a plastic beer bottle at Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt moments before the Olympic 100m final has been found guilty of public disorder at Stratford magistrates court.”
The Guardian, 11th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
OFT to act on unfair gym membership contracts – The Guardian
“At the end of what is always the busiest month of the year for gyms, the OFT is expected to announce that it will outlaw contracts that last longer than 12 months or do not contain a get-out clause for members who, for example, lose their job or sustain an injury. The move follows a year-long investigation into a number of gym chains, believed to include LA Fitness, Fitness First and Bannatyne’s. The OFT is also understood to be looking at debt collectors that some reports say use aggressive practices in chasing money owed to gym groups.”
The Guardian, 12th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Flat-rate pensions plan revealed – BBC News
“Details of the government’s plans to introduce a flat-rate pension by 2017 – equivalent to £144 per week in today’s money – have emerged ahead of an official announcement next week.”
BBC News, 12th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Barnardo’s concern over child sex trafficking rise – BBC News
“The UK has seen an ‘alarming’ 22% year-on-year rise in children being sexually exploited, the charity Barnardo’s says.”
BBC News, 13th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Daughter who stole £160,000 to impress father ‘blames herself for his death’ – Daily Telegraph
“A company executive who led a Walter Mitty existence by stealing £160,000 to fund a luxury lifestyle and impress her millionaire father escaped jail after a judge heard she blamed herself for her father’s death.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Banning drugs drives a ‘rising tide’ of legal highs, peers warn – Daily Telegraph
“The current classification system simply cannot keep up as a new legal high emerges every six days in the UK and young people share links to where they can be bought online and via their mobile phones, Baroness Meacher, chairwoman of the parliamentary inquiry into legal highs, said.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Probe launched: Did drive to track illegal immigrants breach data laws? – The Independent
“The information watchdog has launched an investigation into a drive to track down people who are in the country illegally, which was contracted out by the UK Border Agency to private company Capita.”
The Independent, 11th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
OFT bars RBS debt collecting that puts homes at risk – Daily Telegaph
“Regulator imposes requirements on Royal Bank of Scotland’s use of charging orders – a way of collecting unsecured debts that could see borrowers lose their homes.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
B ( A Child), Re [2012] EWCA Civ 1742 (21 December 2012)
Ryder Plc v Beever [2012] EWCA Civ 1737 (21st December 2012)
Daniel v Revenue and Customs [2012] EWCA Civ 1741 (21 December 2012)
Stringfellow Restaurants Ltd v Quashie [2012] EWCA Civ 1735 (21 December 2012)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Mehta v R. [2012] EWCA Crim 2824 (31 December 2012)
Faraz v R. [2012] EWCA Crim 2820 (21 December 2012)
Griffiths & Ors v R. [2012] EWCA Crim 2822 (21 December 2012)
Murray & Ors, R v [2012] EWCA Crim 2823 (21 December 2012)
Caley & Ors (Guilty Pleas) v R. [2012] EWCA Crim 2821 (21 December 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Van Der Pijl & Anor v The Crown Court At Kingston [2012] EWHC 3745 (Admin) (21 December 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) v Applegate & Ors [2012] EWHC 3741 (Ch) (21 December 2012)
Thursfield v Thursfield [2012] EWHC 3742 (Ch) (21 December 2012)
Phillips & Ors v Francis & Anor [2012] EWHC 3650 (Ch) (21 December 2012)
Ardagh Group SA v Pillar Property Group Ltd [2012] EWHC 3649 (Ch) (21 December 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Barclays Bank Plc v Unicredit Bank AG & Anor [2012] EWHC 3655 (Comm) (21 December 2012)
Falkonera Shipping Co v Arcadia Energy Pte Ltd [2012] EWHC 3678 (Comm) (20 December 2012)
High Court (Family Division)
Bhura v Bhura [2012] EWHC 3633 (Fam)
(17 December 2012)
High Court (Patents Court)
Microsoft Corp v Motorola Mobility LLC [2012] EWHC 3677 (Pat) (21 December 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Miller v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 3721 (QB) (21 December 2012)
FCL (London) Ltd v Voice [2012] EWHC 3684 (QB) (21 December 2012)
Raggett v The Governors of Preston Catholic College [2012] EWHC 3641 (QB) (21 December 2012)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Webb Resolutions Ltd v E.Surv Ltd [2012] EWHC 3653 (TCC) (20 December 2012)
Blemain Finance Ltd v E.Surv Ltd [2012] EWHC 3654 (TCC) (20 December 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd v Applegate – WLR Daily
Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd v Applegate: [2012] EWHC 3741 (Ch); [2013] WLR (D) 9
“When applying uniform accrual to ‘so much of any benefit’ by virtue of section 74(3) of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 one was being directed not merely to what one might call the top slice, the benefit which actually accrued at the higher rate, but that element of a benefit package which was the subject of the higher rate. In section 74(3) the ‘benefit’ referred to was the composite of the various benefits which made up long service benefit and if the exception applied it did with regard to the entirety of such a component.”
WLR Daily, 21st December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (UK) Ltd v Warner-Lambert Company LLC – WLR Daily
“Article 16(1) of Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 gave a discretion to the national body (in the United Kingdom, the court) to revoke an extension to a supplementary protection certificate on the basis set out therein, but not an obligation to do so. The fact that the results of a particular study would not be available by the completion date of a paediatric investigation plan made pursuant to Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006 did not render the plan unlawful and did not deprive the applicant of its right to the ‘reward’ of a paediatric extension under article 36 of that Regulation. article 45(3) of Regulation (EC) 1901/2006 was not of general application and did not apply when all the studies included in a paediatric investigation plan were initiated after that Regulation came into force.”
WLR Daily, 20th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
