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
Phillips and another v Francis and another – WLR Daily
Phillips and another v Francis and another: [2012] EWHC 3650 (Ch); [2013] WLR (D) 7
“On the true construction of the meaning and effect of the scheme relating to service charges imposed by sections 20 and 20ZA of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, as amended by the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, section 151 identification of one or more sets of qualifying works was not required. The emphasis in the current legislation had shifted from identifying and costing the works before they started to notifying an intention to carry out the works and limiting the amount of the individual contributions sought to pay for them after their completion.”
WLR Daily 21st December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Industry-Wide Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme Co-ordinator Ltd v Industry-Wide Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme Trustees Ltd – WLR Daily
“For the purposes of paragraph 3(7)(c) of schedule 5 to the Coal Industry Act 1994 the requirement that the rules of a new pension scheme be ‘no less advantageous’ than the previous scheme was not the same as a requirement that the rules of the new scheme be the same as the rules of the pre-existing scheme. The omission of a pro-rating provision from draft rule 33 of the Schedule to the Industry-Wide Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme Regulations 1994 (SI 1994/2973) was not a mistake in drafting and the rule fell to be construed in accordance with its express terms.”
WLR Daily, 20th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
WH Newson Holding Ltd and others v IMI plc and others – WLR Daily
WH Newson Holding Ltd and others v IMI plc and others: [2012] EWHC 3680 (Ch); [2013] WLR (D) 5
“There was nothing to suggest that section 47A of the Competition Act 1998 was limited to the particular cause of action of a claim for breach of statutory duty. A claim brought under section 47A had to be in respect of the loss or damage suffered as a result of the infringement of competition law. The section would not generally permit claims to be brought in the Competition Appeal Tribunal for conduct that was distinct from the infringement, even when the infringement was an element that had to be established to complete the cause of action. The determining criterion was the factual nature of the claim, not the cause of action with which it was clothed.”
WLR Daily, 19th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Competition round-up: January 2013 – Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
“As today is the first day of the new court term, I thought it would be a good moment for a round-up of last term’s competition cases.”
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 11th January 2013
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
Savile: the full shocking truth revealed in official report – The Independent
“Police have recorded 34 rapes against Jimmy Savile and 126 indecent assaults with the vast majority of them against children, the youngest of whom was aged eight, a report into the activities of the former DJ revealed today.”
The Independent, 11th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
DPP statement on Savile cases – Crown Prosecution service
“In October 2012, in light of the more recent allegations of sexual offending by Jimmy Savile, I asked my Principal Legal Advisor, Alison Levitt QC, to examine the decisions taken by the CPS in relation to the four allegations made in 2007 and 2008 and advise me whether they were correct or not.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 11th January 2013
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
Christian who refused Sunday work was not constructively dismissed – Richard Wayman – UK Human Rights Blog
“Mba v London Borough Of Merton (Religion or Belief Discrimination) [2012] UKEAT 0332/12/1312 (13 December 2012). The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has dismissed the appeal of a Christian care worker against the decision of an Employment Tribunal that she was not constructively dismissed as a result of her refusal to work on Sundays.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Proposed new teaching exception to copyright will be welcomed by universities, says sector body – OUT-LAW.com
“Universities will welcome Government plans to reform laws governing the copying of works for educational purposes, a representative body for the sector has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Nicklinson posthumous right-to-die appeal – Law Society’s Gazette
“A widow has been granted leave to continue her late husband’s challenge to the existing law on murder and assisted suicide.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
IPCC to supervise Stuart Lawrence race case investigation – BBC News
“The police watchdog will supervise an investigation into a complaint by Stephen Lawrence’s brother that officers stopped and searched him because he was black.”
BBC News, 10th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
