“Bindu Bansal, Solicitor with Paris Smith LLP, considers the advantages and disadvantages of establishing a presumption of shared parenting.”
Family Law Week, 29th April 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
“We need greater clarity on when the use of ‘kettling’ is permitted before people’s freedom to protest is severely curtailed.”
The Guardian, 1st May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Parent companies have a responsibility for the health and safety of their subsidiaries’ employees, the Court of Appeal has ruled in a groundbreaking case.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 30th April 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has launched the Human Rights and Democracy- The 2011 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report, which aims to provide ‘a comprehensive look at the human rights work of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) around the world in 2011’. The report makes for essential reading for anyone with an interest in human rights at the global level.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Secret justice proposals may be needed in an ‘important’ case about the Government’s intelligence-sharing agreements with the US, a senior judge has suggested for the first time.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Organisations that believe anti-corruption laws introduced in the UK last year are not being enforced are too blasé and risk falling foul of the rules, an expert has said. Meanwhile, managers have claimed that the laws put UK firms at a disadvantage.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The home secretary is under fire for failing to comply with a high court order to bring an asylum seeker who is in hiding in Azerbaijan back to Britain.”
The Guardian, 30th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Not one US citizen has been extradited to Britain as a result of crimes said to have been committed in America since a controversial transatlantic treaty came into force, it has been disclosed.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The NHS has agreed to pay £10.8m in compensation after a hospital’s failure to monitor a woman during labour led to her daughter suffering catastrophic injuries when she was born.”
The Guardian, 30th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 30th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An Army veteran who crashed a tanker laden with 2,000 litres of fuel into his estranged wife’s home in an attempt to destroy it has been jailed for seven years.”
The Independent, 30th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A Welsh health board has become the first NHS body to be fined for breaching the Data Protection Act after it released sensitive data about a patient to the wrong person.”
BBC News, 30th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Clark, R v [2012] EWCA Crim 696 (8 March 2012)
Ibrahim, R v [2012] EWCA Crim 837 (27 April 2012)
King & Ors v R [2012] EWCA Crim 805 (27 April 2012)
Flisher & Ors v R [2012] EWCA Crim 794 (27 April 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Barbudev v Eurocom Cable Management Bulgaria Eood & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 548 (27 April 2012)
AE, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Croydon [2012] EWCA Civ 547 (27 April 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
WXY v Gewanter & Ors [2012] EWHC 1071 (QB) (27 April 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Iles v Iles [2012] EWHC 919 (Ch) (27 April 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
ACG Acquisition XX LLC v Olympic Airlines [2012] EWHC 1070 (Comm) (30 April 2012)
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Adams and others v Ford and others [2012] EWCA Civ 544; [2012] WLR (D) 125
“It was not right to lay down a categorical rule that the issue of proceedings without valid authority from a claimant ought necessarily to amount to an abuse of the process of the court. The principle in Presentaciones Musicales SA v Secunda [1994] Ch 271, that a claimant could ratify and adopt proceedings started in his name by a solicitor without authority, remained binding on the court.”
WLR Daily, 26th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The UK’s data protection watchdog has defended its policy of issuing fines after newly released figures suggested private sector organisations are issued with disproportionately fewer fines than local Government ones.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“More football clubs in England may go into administration in the next few years if football authorities elect to fine clubs for spending beyond their means, a sports law expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Britain risks losing influence in the European Court of Human Rights law following the departure of a leading judge, an expert has warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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