Supreme Court backs extraditions involving children – BBC News
“Extraditions to the US and Europe should go ahead, even when a suspect has children in the UK, the UK Supreme Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 20th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The quality of advocacy – BBC Law in Action
“As the lines blur between the work of solicitors and barristers , Joshua Rozenberg asks whether a cheaper service provides better value for money or is it leading to poor representation in court and ultimately miscarriages of justice? He discusses the issues with Baroness Deech of the Bar Standards Board, a solicitor advocate Sundeep Bhatia and Elisabeth Davies, Chair of the Consumer panel at the Legal Services Board. He also speaks to senior appeal court judge Lord Justice Moses and asks about the best way to assess quality and what dangers lie ahead if suffers.”
BBC Law in Action, 19th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
XX (Ethiopia) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (JUSTICE intervening) – WLR Daily
“The rule on the exclusion of evidence obtained by torture was exceptional. It was not an abuse of process to admit evidence from security service officers obtained in secret detention facilities.”
WLR Daily, 15th June 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Hutton and others v Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority – WLR Daily
Hutton and others v Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority [2012] EWCA Civ 806; [2012] WLR (D) 176
“‘Particular circumstances’ in para 18 of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2001, which provided that a claims officer could waive the two-year time limit within which claims for compensation in respect of criminal injury should be brought pursuant to the scheme, meant the actual or distinct circumstances of the individual case, not special circumstances in the sense of being unusual or extraordinary circumstances.”
WLR Daily, 14th June 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
SK (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 807 (19 June 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Price & Anor v Nunn [2012] EWHC 1605 (Ch) (13 June 2012)
High Court (Admiralty Court)
Braganza v BP Shipping Ltd & Anor [2012] EWHC 1612 (Admlty) (15 June 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Sustainable Communities Regulations 2012
The Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 2012
The Greater London Authority Act 1999 (Amendment) Order 2012
The Community Drivers’ Hours and Recording Equipment Regulations 2012
The Smoke-free (Signs) Regulations 2012
The Insolvency Act 1986 (Disqualification from Parliament) Order 2012
The Automatic Enrolment (Earnings Trigger and Qualifying Earnings Band) Order 2012
The NHS Bodies (Transfer of Trust Property) Order 2012
The Badger (Control Area) (Wales) (Revocation) Order 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Secret court plans ‘address genuine problem in disproportionate way’ – The Guardian
“Plans to extend secret court hearings address genuine problems of national security but also contain elements of “overkill”, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has warned.”
The Guardian, 19th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Terror watchdog warns of wave of compensation claims over drone strikes – Daily Telegraph
“Britain is facing a wave of compensation claims for allegedly helping the US target drones strikes abroad, the terror watchdog warned yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
London 2012: Protester’s banning order extended – BBC News
“A man barred from protesting at the site of an Olympic basketball training facility has had his banning order extended by two years.”
BBC News, 19th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Legal crisis over Julian Assange’s asylum request – The Guardian
“The decision by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to seek political asylum in the Ecuadorean embassy in London has sparked a fresh legal crisis over his already tortuous extradition case.”
The Guardian, 19th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judge orders that anorexic woman can be force-fed | Analysis – UK Human Rights Blog
“Mr Justice Jackson has ruled that it would be lawful and in the best interests of a 32 year old woman (referred to in the judgment as ‘E’) for her to be fed, using physical force or chemical sedation as necessary, for a period of ‘not less than a year’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th June 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘As hard as it gets’: the case of anorexic E and the right to die – The Guardian
“The judge in this challenging case eventually relied on intuition. In such a dilemma, can law or ethics ever yield a single right answer?”
The Guardian, 19th JUne 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Copyright rulings’ impact on cloud computing investment should act as warning to UK law makers, expert says – OUT-LAW.com
“UK law makers and the judiciary should take note of new research that has claimed that a narrow reading of copyright law exceptions can result in an erosion of investment in new technologies, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Terror watchdog says secret courts plan could work – BBC News
“The terrorism laws watchdog says controversial plans for more secrecy in British courts can be made to work.”
BBC News, 19th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Man with locked-in syndrome calls for change to murder law – The Guardian
“A a 58-year-old victim of locked-in syndrome has told the high court that a decision not to allow him to be helped to die would condemn him “to a ‘life’ of increasing misery”.”
The Guardian, 19th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Carboex SA v Louis Dreyfus Commodities Suisse SA [2012] EWCA Civ 838 (19 June 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Entrust Pension Ltd v Prospect Hospice Ltd & Anor [2012] EWHC 1666 (Ch) (18 June 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Moloobhoy v Moloobhoy [2012] EWHC 1670 (Comm) (19 June 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Ofcom backs regular plurality reviews for powerful media firms – The Guardian
“Potential concentrations of media power should be subject to regular, formal reviews, communications regulator Ofcom concluded on Tuesday in a document compiled for culture secretary Jeremy Hunt.”
The Guardian, 19th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Inside justice: Southwark coroner’s court – The Guardian
“Charlotte Gill reports from an inquest into the controversial death of a man in police custody at Southwark coroner’s court.”
The Guardian, 19th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Interim payments: the Eeles fallout – Cloisters
“The Court of Appeal’s decision in Eeles v Cobham Hire Services Ltd [2010] 1 WLR 409 has profoundly affected the ability of claimants to secure adequate accommodation prior to a quantum trial or settlement. This aim of this talk is to consider how Eeles has been applied in subsequent first instance cases, and the lessons to be learned from them in preparing, evidencing and arguing heavy interim payment applications.”
Cloisters, 13th June 2012
Source: www.cloisters.com
Statutory funding in Catastrophic Injury Cases: Who cares who pays – Byrom Street
“At the heart of this seminar lies an issue that can be stated in relatively simple terms:
‘ … reconciling the principle that a tortfeasor must meet the claimant’s reasonable expenses in coping with the injury he has caused with the ever increasing legislative burden on local authorities to provide care for those who cannot care for themselves and the ability (or otherwise) of local authorities to recoup the costs of so doing.” (per Scott Baker L.J. in Sowden v. Lodge [2004] EWCA Civ 1370 [101])'”
Byrom Street, 15th June 2012
Source: www.byromstreet.com
