Lawyer loses retirement age appeal – The Independent
“A lawyer forced to retire at 65 lost a Supreme Court Appeal on age discrimination today.”
The Independent, 25th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina v Burke (Michael) – WLR Daily
Regina v Burke (Michael) [2012] EWCA Crim 770; [2012] WLR (D) 119
“Where a defendant had been charged with an offence of voyeurism but had been found to be under a disability so that he was unfit to plead or to stand trial, the ingredients of ‘the act…charged against him as the offence’, for the purposes of section 4A(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964, included a requirement to prove that his act had been for the purpose of sexual gratification.”
WLR Daily, 20th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Raeside) v Luton Crown Court – WLR Daily
Regina (Raeside) v Luton Crown Court [2012] WLR (D) 120
“The purpose of a custody time limit would be undermined if the court granted an extension under section 22(3) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 in anything other than exceptional circumstances, and in the absence of the express consent of the defendant to the extension of that limit, the court must direct that an immediate application is made by the Crown and rigorously scrutinise the evidence to see if it is satisfied that there is good and sufficient cause.”
WLR Daily, 23rd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Bagnall; Regina v Sharma – WLR Daily
Regina v Bagnall; Regina v Sharma [2012] EWCA Crim 677; [2012] WLR (D) 118
“Where, in confiscation proceedings, the Crown accused an offender of an additional specific offence for which he had not been prosecuted and adduced evidence to make that accusation good, that did not amount to the bringing of a new charge. Since the defendant was not at risk of any further conviction and there was no finding of guilt, the findings reached by the judge, applying the statutory assumptions, merely went to the amount of the order the court was obliged to make. There was no unfairness in requiring a defendant to show that the source of his assets was legitimate.”
WLR Daily, 18th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Wintersteiger AG v Products 4U Sondermaschinenbau GmbH – WLR Daily
Wintersteiger AG v Products 4U Sondermaschinenbau GmbH (Case C-523/10); [2012] WLR (D) 117
“Article 5(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 of 22 December 2000 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters meant that an action relating to infringement of a trade mark registered in a member state because of the use, by an advertiser, of a keyword identical to that trade mark on a search engine website operating under a country-specific top-level domain of another member state could be brought before either the courts of the member state in which the trade mark was registered or the courts of the member state of the place of establishment of the advertiser.”
WLR Daily, 19th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Meister v Speech Design Carrier Systems GmbH – WLR Daily
Meister v Speech Design Carrier Systems GmbH (Case C-415/10); [2012] WLR (D) 116
“European Union law did not entitle a worker who plausibly claimed to meet the requirements listed in a job advertisement and whose application was rejected to have access to information indicating whether the employer engaged another applicant at the end of the recruitment process. Nevertheless, it could not be ruled out that a refusal to grant any access to information might be one of the factors to take into account in the context of establishing facts from which it might be presumed that there had been direct or indirect discrimination.”
WLR Daily, 19th April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
LW (China) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 519 (24 April 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Hallam Estates Ltd & Anor v Baker [2012] EWHC 1046 (QB) (24 April 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Is climate change a human rights issue? – UK Human Rights Blog
“In his thought-provoking Guardian post Climate change is a human rights issue – and that’s how we can solve it, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, makes a case for human rights playing a radical new part in our response to climate change.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Six fines issued for data breaches – The Independent
“Six public bodies were fined over personal data security breaches in the last year despite hundreds of reported cases, a report said today.”
The Independent, 25th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Jeremy Hunt emails: a legal view – The Guardian
“The emails revealed between the minister and News Corporation lobbyists suggest a risk of bias, says legal commentator.”
The Guardian, 24th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Asbestos exemption to ‘no-win, no-fee’ changes
“Sufferers of asbestos-related cancer will initially be exempt from government changes to ‘no-win, no-fee’ rules, a justice minister has said.”
BBC News, 24th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Twitter users to be arrested over naming of Ched Evans rape victim – The Guardian
“Police are planning to arrest a number of Twitter users who are alleged to have named the 19-year-old rape victim of Sheffield United footballer Ched Evans, and have launched an investigation into Sky News after it broadcast her name in a report.”
The Guardian, 24th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Ban on Christian advertising was lawful, says court – UK Human Rights Blog
“The High Court has upheld the refusal of the broadcasting regulator to clear an advertisement for transmission on the grounds that it offended the prohibition on political advertising.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Ex-soldier found guilty of rapes – The Independent
“A former soldier was today convicted of a string of sex attacks during which he told one victim: ‘I don’t believe this, I’m a good-looking bloke’ when she rejected his advances.”
The Independent, 24th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Sex attack victims sue cabbie John Worboys and his insurers – BBC News
“Women who were sexually assaulted by cabbie John Worboys are suing him and his vehicle insurers, arguing he used his taxi to attack them.”
BBC News, 24th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
We need a ‘beyond bars’ approach to jailing women – The Guardian
“When women with children are sent to prison, who is being punished?”
The Guardian, 24th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Two guilty of £2.3m Olympic authority fraud – BBC News
“Two men have been found guilty of money-laundering charges following a £2.3m fraud against the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), the Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed.”
BBC News, 24th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Naked men started flat fire in Wiccan ritual to get rid of negative vibes – Daily Telegraph
“Two naked men started fires in a flat as part of a pagan ritual to get rid of ‘negative vibes’, a court heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
