Beaches ‘can be village greens’ – The Independent
“Beaches are capable of being registered as “village greens”, a High Court judge declared today.”
The Independent, 21st March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Occupy Cardiff protesters claim victory after CPS drops case – The Guardian
“Two Occupy protesters who were arrested and charged when they attempted to set up camp in Cardiff are claiming victory after a case against them was unexpectedly dropped.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Attend our handbook and entity regulation roadshows – Bar Standards Board
“We have launched a consultation on a new Code of Conduct for barristers, which includes our proposals for regulating new types of business structure.”
Bar Standards Board, 20th March 2012
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
Porsche ‘joyrider’ who killed boy, 8, jailed for six years – The Guardian
“A former Kwik Fit mechanic who killed an eight-year-old boy while driving a customer’s Porsche 911 has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Advertising watchdog clears NSPCC publicity – BBC News
“The advertising watchdog has cleared publicity material for the NSPCC after complaints that its reference to child abuse was ‘disturbing and offensive’.”
BBC News, 21st March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The right to receive information; journalists and inquiries – UK Human Rights Blog
“Tangled web, this one, but an important one. Many will remember George Galloway’s Mariam Appeal launched in response to sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1998, and the famous picture of GG with Saddam Hussein. Well, the Appeal was then inquired into by the Charity Commission, and this case concerns an attempt by a journalist, unsuccessful so far, to get hold of the documents which the Inquiry saw. But the Commission took the 5th amendment – or rather, in UK terms, a provision in the Freedom of Information Act (s.32(2))which exempted from disclosure any document placed in the custody of or created by an inquiry. Cue Article 10 ECHR, and in particular the bits which include the freedom to receive information.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Should the veil always be allowed in court?- The Guardian
“The curious episode of the juror asked to withdraw from a crown court case because she was wearing a niqab, or full veil, raises a number of questions.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Eco-friendly’ fur ad banned – The Guardian
“An ad campaign claiming that it is ‘eco-friendly to wear fur’ has been banned, after the advertising watchdog dismissed assertions that choosing fur is good because it ‘lasts a lifetime’ and ‘helps conservation’.”
The Guardian, 21st March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Females make up just 20 per cent of honorary silk nominations – The Lawyer
“Just 20 per cent of the people nominated for the honorary QC title in the past three years were women, The Lawyer can reveal.”
The Lawyer, 20th March 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Work and Pensions and Health prosecutors to join Crown Prosecution Service – Attorney General’s Office
“The Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP has agreed to transfer the conduct of prosecutions from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department of Health (DH) to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).”
Attorney General’s Office, 20th March 2012
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Free speech on Facebook: unless you offend! – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“No sooner had HLE published a post on the joke (in every sense) trial of Paul Chambers than another story appears which leaves one wondering how many in officialdom have even heard of free speech, let alone understood it.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 20th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Pregnant Briton wins appeal against extradition to Argentina – The Guardian
“A pregnant British woman who was arrested on suspicion of smuggling cocaine through a South American airport has won her high court battle against extradition to Argentina on human rights grounds.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
High Court (Administrative Court)
Long v Rodman & Ors [2012] EWHC 347 (Ch) (23 February 2012)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Phaestos Ltd & Anor v Ho [2012] EWHC 668 (TCC) (16 March 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
JD (Congo) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Public Law Project intervening); WN (The Gambia) v Same; ES (Iran) v Same; MR (Bangladesh) v Same – WLR Daily
“Where a claimant who had succeeded before the First-tier Tribunal but failed in the Upper Tribunal sought permission to appeal from the Upper Tribunal, not on the ground of an important point of principle or practice, but for some other compelling reason within section 13(6)(b) of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, the test to be applied was stringent but flexible, taking into account the particular circumstances of the case. The procedural history and extreme consequences for the claimant if he were refused permission to appeal were relevant factors to be taken into account by the court in deciding whether the threshold for a second-tier appeal had been reached.”
WLR Daily, 16th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
BESTrustees plc v Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Ltd – WLR Daily
BESTrustees plc v Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Ltd [2012] EWHC 629 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 84
“Where an insolvency event had occurred in relation to an employer, thereby triggering a calculation of the deficiencies in the assets of a pension fund under section 75 of the Pensions Act 1995, the time at which both the value of the pension scheme assets and the cost of the notional acquisition of annuities in the market to match its liabilities should be assessed was the ‘applicable time’ within the meaning of regulation 5 of the Occupational Pension Schemes (Employer Debt) Regulations 2005, which, in the form which the regulation 5 had taken as at 8 October 2008, was the date of the insolvency event.”
WLR Daily, 16th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Forget Tesco law, this legal education review will transform the legal market – The Guardian
“The problems of the legal education and training system have been well documented on this website over recent months, dominated in particular by too many law students chasing too few jobs, the debt they accumulate in the process and the impact on diversity.”
The Guardian, 19th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The evolved mind: rising to the environmental challenge – UK Human Rights Blog
“In my 2011 post Why be nice? Human rights under pressure I explored the extent to which our limited tendencies to altruism, insofar as they have survived natural selection, could be institutionalised and enforced. In this article I apply the scientific learning on our cooperative instincts to the question of environmental regulation. I argue that whilst we seem to be hard-wired to cooperate, environmental responsibility will only be instilled under certain conditions that resonate with our evolved psychology, and that most modern environmental law fails to acknowledge these conditions.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Campaigners call for new homicide law for inciting suicide – The Guardian
“Growing concerns about the failure of police to properly investigate cases of women who have killed themselves after violence or abuse have led to a campaign for a new homicide law of ‘suicide aggravated by harassment or violence’.”
The Guardian, 19th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
