“The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has held that confidentiality under litigation privilege applies to Competition Act investigations, in a key ruling in the Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT’s) long-running investigation into dairy retail pricing.”
Legal Week, 26th March 2012
Source: www.legalweek.com
“New arrangements for appointing senior judges are needed to ensure a more diverse judiciary, according to a report published on Monday. It calls for the concept of ‘merit’ to be redefined and raises concerns that one branch of government risks becoming a self-perpetuating oligarchy.”
The Guardian, 26th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Twice as many judges are needed to handle the high volume of appeals under the Government’s controversial new welfare regime, at a cost of at least £1million a year.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“High court privacy injunctions have been given a clean bill of health by a special committee of MPs and peers which were set up in the fallout of the Ryan Giggs gagging order.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Thousands of families whose relatives were killed by asbestos cancers will win a landmark compensation victory this week, sources have told The Independent on Sunday. The Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday that insurers who offered cover at the time victims inhaled the deadly fibres will have to pay compensation.”
The Independent, 25th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Ex-members of a child reggae band that hit the heights with a song about a stewing pot 30 years ago have lost a legal battle with their former lawyers.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“MPs’ expenses receipts should not be shown to the public, Westminster’s new standards watchdog has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two financial advisers who conned investors out of £3m in a property scam which they lost gambling have been ordered to pay back just £1 each.”
BBC News, 24th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A philosophy student who claimed he suffered head injuries from a police baton during the anti-fees protest in London faces trial on Monday for violent disorder at the demonstration.”
The Guardian, 25th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Charlie Cooper discovers what we’ll lose when the law enters the digital age.”
The Independent, 24th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An Oxford law graduate accused of throwing bricks at police during last summer’s riots walked free from court on Friday after a jury took just half an hour to find him not guilty.”
The Guardian, 25th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A solicitor was today jailed for 26 months after stealing more than £51,000 from an elderly dementia sufferer who treated him like a son.”
The Independent, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two men from Merseyside have been jailed for handling stolen paintings by the artist LS Lowry worth £1.7m.”
BBC News, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who ran an international prostitution ring will have to hand over £1.9m of his criminal profits after losing a court appeal.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A British rapist who carried out a horrific sex attack likened to The Silence of the Lambs has been deported from Australia to the UK.”
The Independent, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Employment lawyers have given a mixed response to an eagerly anticipated Court of Appeal (CoA) ruling on whether discrimination can be justified by saving costs.”
The Lawyer, 23rd March 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust [2012] EWCA Civ 330 (22 March 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Loveluck-Edwards & Anor v Ideal Developments Ltd. & Anor [2012] EWHC 716 (Ch) (22 March 2012)
Rohl v Bickland Ltd [2012] EWHC 706 (Ch) (22 March 2012)
High Court (Patents Court)
Teva UK Ltd & Ors v Astrazeneca AB [2012] EWHC 655 (Pat) (22 March 2012)
Regeneron Pharmacueticals Inc v Genentech Inc [2012] EWHC 657 (Pat) (22 March 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions was entitled to use the Consumer Price Index, rather than the Retail Price Index, as the measure of consumer price inflation for the purpose of annually uprating public service pensions under section 150 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The words used by Parliament to define ‘town and village green’ in section 15 of the Commons Act 2006 were sufficiently broad to permit the registration of a tidal beach, comprising part of operational port land owned by a landowner, as a town or village green provided that the nature, quality and duration of the recreational user satisfied the statutory test: there was no requirement that land in respect of which registration was sought had to be either ‘grassy’ or consistent with traditional notions of what constituted a village green. That was so even if the land in issue was wholly covered in water for part of the day.”
WLR Daily, 21st March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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