Balgobin v South West Regional Health Authority [2012] UKPC 11; [2012] WLR (D) 143
“The entry of a default judgment against one of two defendants to a personal injury claim did not operate as a bar to a subsequent finding of liability against the other defendant when the claimant had not made an unequivocal election to only pursue her claim against one defendant.”
WLR Daily, 10th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The practice of huge hourly rates charged by solicitors should end because they reward inefficiency, the country’s second most senior judge said.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Taxpayers are entitled to rely on a concession made by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in a formal publication unless and until the concession is publicly withdrawn, according to the High Court.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Next month Ben Emmerson QC, who is short-listed as a candidate to represent the UK at the ECHR, will address the UN to argue that more attention should be paid to the human rights of victims of terrorism. Peter Stanford meets him.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“There is a risk of jail disturbances and compensation claims due to delays in assessing inmates for release in England and Wales, an ex-official says.”
BBC News, 14th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Treasury failed to consider how crucial policies would affect women, disabled people and ethnic minorities before the 2010 spending review, according to a report by the equality watchdog.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of Stockton Council to allow it to proceed with the demolition of Billington House, the former headquarters of chemical company ICI, and now a derelict office block.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
High Court (Chancery Division)
Price & Anor v Nunn [2012] EWHC 1251 (Ch) (11 May 2012)
Paton & Anor v Todd [2012] EWHC 1248 (Ch) (11 May 2012)
Hughmans Solicitors v Central Stream Services Ltd & Anor [2012] EWHC 1222 (Ch) (11 May 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Deutsche Bank Ag v Total Global Steel Ltd [2012] EWHC 1201 (Comm) (11 May 2012)
European Group Ltd & Ors v Chartis Insurance UK Ltd. [2012] EWHC 1245 (Comm) (11 May 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The UK Border Agency is detaining children in ‘degrading and disgraceful’ conditions at Heathrow, according to an official watchdog.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who was acquitted of murdering a vicar who he claimed abused him has been found guilty of killing a supermarket worker who he had sex with.”
BBC News, 11th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Scotland Yard has called in the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to review fresh allegations of corruption in the Stephen Lawrence murder inquiry.”
BBC News, 11th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Stay focused, appear reasonable and craft an anecdote. And try to be likable.”
The Guardian, 8th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A ‘domineering’ man is to spend the rest of life in prison for murdering his ex-partner and their daughter.”
BBC News, 11th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A perfume salesman who painted burqas on scantily clad women on advertising posters and stuck ‘gay-free zone’ posters on London’s Brick Lane was today jailed for 14 months for possessing terrorist literature.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man who blinded his girlfriend by gouging her eyes has been jailed indefinitely.”
BBC News, 11th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The adversarial criminal justice system will survive only if practitioners embrace modernisation, the attorney general warned solicitors last week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th May 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Competition reform, secret courts and changes to defamation pricked the ears of lawyers during the Queen’s Speech yesterday.”
The Lawyer, 10th May 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Matthew Wright’s Channel 5 daytime show is being investigated by Ofcom over a survey that used the words ‘mong’, ‘spaz’ and ‘retard’.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Yorkshire landowner Edward Barker has lost his challenge against Hambleton District Council’s decision not to allocate his land for housing development, because his claim was too late.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
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