” More than 11,000 people were deprived of their liberty last year using controversial new legislation that critics have argued is ‘not fit for purpose’.”
The Independent, 18th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A private healthcare company was ordered to pay out nearly £130,000 after the elderly father of BBC health correspondent Fergus Walsh died due to neglect when he was allowed to fall from a hospital balcony.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The police are to be investigated after a couple’s bodies lay buried beneath a landslide for ten days, it emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Just over a week since far-reaching new immigration rules took effect – which will permanently separate many British citizens or settled residents from their non-European spouses, children and ageing relatives – the home secretary has suffered a severe defeat in the supreme court. In the case of Alvi [2012] UKSC 33, handed down today, the court struck down a previous attempt by the Home Office to introduce substantive immigration requirements through the back door of policy, guidance or instructions, rather than in the body of the immigration rules themselves.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Common law offence of preventing lawful and decent burial was last reported in 1986.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
” A company has been fined more than £10,000 for selling unapproved beds to vulnerable elderly people, a regulator has said.”
The Independent, 18th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“UK Coal has been fined £200,000 after it pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches over the death of a miner at a North Yorkshire pit.”
BBC News, 18th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A community policeman who raped a teenage girl after spiking her drink with a sleeping pill has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“No one wants delay or waste in the criminal justice system, but the plans for virtual and flexible courts don’t look fair or efficient.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Andrew Gilligan has won a high court apology and damages from the publisher of Ken Livingstone’s autobiography over false allegations he was ‘shown the door’ by the London Evening Standard.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two national newspapers have been found guilty of contempt of court over their coverage of Levi Bellfield’s conviction for the murder of Milly Dowler.”
BBC News, 18th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
” Royal wedding protesters have lost their High Court claim that they were the victims of unlawful searches and arrests.”
The Independent, 18th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Swift v Secretary of State for Justice [2012] EWHC 2000 (QB) (18 July 2012)
Vava & Ors v Anglo American South Africa Ltd [2012] EWHC 1969 (QB) (16 July 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The rule against reflective loss and the extent to which a shareholder could sue for loss primarily suffered by and primarily belonging to a company did not extend to loss suffered by holders of a debenture.”
WLR Daily, 16th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A claimant affected by, but not party to, a country guidance determination which was under appeal to the Court of Appeal was not entitled to an automatic stay of removal pending the outcome of the appeal. It was in the court’s discretion to grant a stay, but the court should not stay removal pending the decision of the Court of Appeal unless the claimant had adduced a clear and coherent body of evidence that the findings of the tribunal were in error.”
WLR Daily, 13th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Adedoyin v Secretary of State for the Home Department: [2012] EWCA civ 939; [2012] WLR (D) 206
“Where the Upper Tribunal had properly directed itself as to its approach on an appeal from a determination of the First–tier Tribunal and had arrived at a conclusion which was open to it, the decision of the Upper Tribunal contained no material error of law and so the Court of Appeal should not allow an appeal from that decision, even if the court might have been more (or less) generous in its approach to the determination of the First-tier Tribunal.”
WLR Daily, 13th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Leach v Office of Communications: [2012] EWCA Civ 959; [2012] WLR (D) 205
“The trust placed by an employer in an employee was at the core of their relationship. The employment tribunal had been entitled to find that, where the employer had received an unproved and untested allegation of an overseas child sex offence against the employee, who had not disclosed it to the employer prior to his appointment, the resulting breakdown of trust had constituted ‘some other substantial reason’ within the meaning of section 98(1)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 summarily to dismiss the employee in order to prevent the employer’s reputation being damaged.”
WLR Daily, 13th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2012 published
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“The Defences of Insanity and Automatism – Law Commissioner Professor David Ormerod says, ‘To produce meaningful reform proposals and be confident they will work in practice we need evidence of their current use and any problems they pose. Our scoping paper asks questions to provide that information.’ ”
Law Commission, 18th July 2012
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
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