Antoni Imiela : M25 rapist guilty of 1987 London rape – BBC News
“A convicted sex attacker has been found guilty of raping a woman in 1987 in south-east London.”
BBC News, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Library Closures and the Public Sector Equality Duty: Libraries – 11 KBW
“I [Elisabeth Laing QC] consider 6 topics in this paper
(1) the legislative framework
(2) the implied duty to assess need
(3) community groups
(4) Equality Impact Assessments (‘EIAs’) and libraries
(5) institutional arrangements
(6) the Localism Act 2011.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
Environmental and planning law newsletter – Thirty Nine Essex Street
Environmental and planning law newsletter (PDF)
Thirty Nine Essex Street, March 2012
Source: www.39essex.com
Going Over The Top – One Inner Temple Lane
“Vincent Kompany, Didier Drogba, Nenad Milijas are members of the growing club of players being sent off for serious foul play in the Premier League. Pundits and commentators seem to like nothing more at the moment than to pore over these decisions, happy to quote anyone that will talk about it with their view or opinion.”
Full story (PDF)
One Inner Temple Lane, 21st March 2012
Source: www.1itl.com
The Public Sector Equality Duty – 11 KBW
“Since the Coalition Government came into power, ‘doing more with less’ has become a typical catchphrase. Cutting public services, charging for services, or finding a more economically attractive way of delivering public services has been a requirement for most, if not all, public authorities.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Shurvinton & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 346 (21 March 2012)
Phethean-Hubble v Coles [2012] EWCA Civ 349 (21 March 2012)
Sheridan & Ors v Basildon Borough Council [2012] EWCA Civ 335 (21 March 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd – WLR Daily
Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd [2012] UKSC 11; [2012] WLR (D) 93
“A publisher was protected from liability for defamation when it published an article containing allegations of corruption against a named police officer, even though the allegations were subsequently held to be unfounded, if it could be shown that the issues raised in the article were matters of public interest and that at the time of publication it appeared to the publishers that there was a strong circumstantial case for believing the allegations to be true.”
WLR Daily, 21st March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Mohamed (Azza) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
Mohamed (Azza) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 331; [2012] WLR (D) 92
“The use of the superlative form in the phrase “the most exceptional compassionate circumstances” in paragraph 317(i)(e) of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (1994) stressed how extreme such circumstances had to be in order for an applicant to be granted indefinite leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom as the parent or grandparent aged under 65 of a person settled in the United Kingdom. The requirement was not met even where the financial dependency which qualified such a relative for entry was the factor which prevented his or her circumstances from being such exceptional circumstances.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Kennedy v Charity Commission (Information Commissioner and another intervening) – WLR Daily
“The right to freedom of expression under article 10 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was not engaged in a case in which the Charity Commission had refused to comply with a journalist’s request that he be supplied with certain information, by applying an absolute exemption which was said to derive from section 32(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Fortune and others v Wiltshire Council and another – WLR Daily
Fortune and others v Wiltshire Council and another [2012] EWCA Civ 334; [2012] WLR (D) 90
“Section 67(2)(b) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, which provided that section 67(1), as to the ending of certain existing unrecorded public rights of way, did not apply where such a right of way was shown in a list of highways maintainable at public expense, as required to be kept by councils under section 36(6) of the Highways Act 1980, did not require that list to be fully complaint with section 36(6), rather the requirement was that such a list should exist.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Scottish and Southern Energy plc – WLR Daily
Regina v Scottish and Southern Energy plc [2012] EWCA Crim 539; [2012] WLR (D) 89
“It was possible to prosecute more than one person or entity for the same alleged offence of engaging in a misleading commercial practice contrary to regulation 9 of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.”
WLR Daily, 16th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (England) Regulations 2012
The Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2012
The Capital Gains Tax (Annual Exempt Amount) Order 2012
The Value Added Tax (Increase of Registration Limits) Order 2012
The Value Added Tax (Consideration for Fuel Provided for Private Use) Order 2012
The Landfill Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Independence Under Threat – Speech by Dame Heather Hallett DBE
Independence Under Threat (PDF)
Speech by Dame Heather Hallett DBE
Bentham Association Presidential Address, 21st March 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Sports law: rules of the game – Law Society’s Gazette
“The complex web of commercial and regulatory issues that surrounds sport is occupying an ever-increasing amount of lawyers’ time. That was evident at the Law Society’s Sports Law Conference, held at Chancery Lane last week. It may be true that, as Charles Russell partner Simon Johnson told the conference, ‘a sports right as such does not exist’. But that has not stopped the rights and laws that affect sport from developing into a unique combination of problems whose resolution requires a growing cast of legal minds.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Bar Council Calls for Action in Wake of MP Report on MoJ Finances – The Bar Council
“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has welcomed the findings of a report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) into the financial management of the Ministry of Justice, which raises serious concerns about a number of areas of saving and expenditure.”
The Bar Council, 20th March 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Killer Kevin Nunn in High Court forensic evidence challenge – BBC News
“A convicted killer has started a new High Court challenge to access forensic evidence that his lawyers claim could clear his name.”
BBC News, 21st March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Justice reforms move to next stage – Ministry of Justice
“Plans for radical reforms to the justice system have moved another step forward in the Houses of Parliament.”
Ministry of Justice, 21st March 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Family Law Week’s Budget Briefing 2012 – Family Law Week
“Steve Crompton & David Kitson, Tax Directors at RSM Tenon, review the Chancellor’s 2012 Budget announcements.”
Family Law Week, 21st March 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
Government to consult further on introducing a general tax avoidance prohibition in 2013 – OUT-LAW.com
“The Government has accepted that the introduction of a general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR) will improve the UK’s tax avoidance strategy whilst maintaining competitiveness, and will consult further with business on introducing a GAAR into the UK tax system, the Chancellor confirmed in today’s Budget.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Outrage at £2.60 wage proposal for trainees – Law Society’s Gazette
“Trainee solicitors could be paid as little as £2.60 an hour in their first year under an amendment to the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s proposals for ending the minimum wage. The Law Society’s Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) today condemned the move as another step towards making the legal profession the ‘preserve of the rich’.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st March 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
