Swansea solicitor Cornelius has fraud convictions quashed – BBC News
“A solicitor from Swansea jailed for fraud and money laundering has had his conviction quashed and been set free.”
BBC News, 14th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Attorney General: speech at City University on human trafficking – Attorney General’s Office
“Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP: The role of UK law as a model for combating human trafficking and slavery. Lecture to the City Law School, London.”
Attorney General’s Office, 13th March 2012
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Gay marriage: government to begin public consultation – The Guardian
“The government is to press ahead with its plans to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry despite criticism from leading figures in the Church of England and the Roman Catholic church.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Gay father wins right to be involved in son’s life – The Guardian
“The gay father of a two-year-old boy living with his lesbian mother and her partner has won the right to be involved in his life in a landmark ruling that could have significant implications for ‘alternative families’.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Cornelius, R v [2012] EWCA Crim 500 (14 March 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Reddy v The General Medical Council [2012] EWCA Civ 310 (14 March 2012)
Harripaul v London Borough of Lewisham [2012] EWCA Civ 266 (14 March 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Danks & Ors v Qinetiq Holdings Ltd & Anor [2012] EWHC 570 (Ch) (14 March 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Autistic teenager wins damages from police after being restrained – The Guardian
“A severely autistic epileptic teenager who was pulled out of a swimming pool and restrained after he jumped in fully clothed during a school trip has won £28,250 damages from the Metropolitan police.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man jailed for father death fraud – The Independent
“A man who did not report the death of his father for nearly five months and claimed his benefit payments has been jailed for three years.”
The Independent, 14th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Supreme Court
S (A Child), Re [2012] UKSC 10 (14 March 2012)
Ministry of Defence v AB & Ors [2012] UKSC 9 (14 March 2012)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Kapoor & Ors v R. [2012] EWCA Crim 435 (09 March 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd [2012] EWHC 466 (Admin) (24 February 2012)
Ujam v General Medical Council [2012] EWHC 580 (Admin) (13 March 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
XVW & YZA v Gravesend Grammar Schools for Girls & Anor [2012] EWHC 575 (QB) (13 March 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Rhinegold Publishing Ltd v Apex Business Development Ltd [2012] EWHC 587 (Ch) (13 March 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Osmium Shipping Corp v Cargill International SA [2012] EWHC 571 (Comm) (13 March 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Helmot v Simon: tort in a nutshell from the Channel Islands – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“It’s always, and only, simple propositions that matter. But often, in the law, only big judges have the confidence to utter simple things. That was what happened in Helmot v Simon [2012] UKPC 5 (7 March 2012), an appeal to the Privy Council by an optimistic defendant who sought to overturn a decision of the Court of Appeal of Guernsey, (whose judgment had been delivered by a judge by the name of Sumption).”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 14th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
The falsely retracted rape claim: how the justice system failed – The Guardian
“It has been a catastrophic case for both ‘Sarah’ the victim and the public. Here are the key questions that need answering.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Rights Gone Wrong? – BBC Two
“Anger over votes for prisoners and the release of Abu Qatada shows just what a toxic issue human rights law has become. In this provocative film, Andrew Neil travels to Europe and across Britain to find out why Britain follows these laws and asks can anything be done to restore our faith in them?”
BBC Two, 14th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Souglides v Tweedie and another – WLR Daily
Souglides v Tweedie and another [2012] EWHC 561 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 74
“An interest carved out of a superior leasehold or freehold interest could constitute ‘an interest reversionary (whether directly or indirectly)’ on the term of a lease for the purpose of section 9(1) of the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964. Accordingly, an option for a lease extension fell within section 9(1) and so was exempt from the rule against perpetuities.”
WLR Daily, 12th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Revenue and Customs Commissioners v First Nationwide – WLR Daily
Revenue and Customs Commissioners v First Nationwide [2012] EWCA Civ 278; [2012] WLR (D) 73
“The tax status of preference dividends from a Cayman Islands company to whose shares the taxpayer had subscribed, was determined by the machinery by which they were distributed. Under Cayman law share premium was distributable as dividend, whereas in English tax law share premium was treated in the same way as paid-up share capital. The transaction was not a sale and repurchase of securities such as to constitute a ‘buying back’ within the meaning of sections 737A and 730B of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.”
WLR Daily, 13th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Assuring the Quality of Legal Services – Legal Services Board
“Options for regulators to consider when deciding how best to prevent risks to, and improve, the quality of legal services consumers receive are outlined today [13 March] by the Legal Services Board (LSB).”
Full story (PDF)
Legal Services Board, 13th March 2012
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
Veterans lose nuclear weapons test damages bid – BBC News
“Hundreds of ex-servicemen exposed to radiation in British nuclear weapons tests have lost a Supreme Court bid to launch damages claims against the MoD.”
BBC News, 14th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Strasbourg rules on anti-gay speech for the first time – UK Human Rights Blog
“‘Will both teacher and pupils simply become the next victims of the tyranny of tolerance, heretics, whose dissent from state-imposed orthodoxy must be crushed at all costs?’, asked Cardinal O’Brien in his controversial Telegraph article on gay-marriage. He was suggesting that changing the law to allow gay marriage would affect education as it would preclude a teacher from telling pupils that marriage can only mean a heterosexual union. He later insinuated that the change might lead to students being given material such as an ‘explicit manual of homosexual advocacy entitled The Little Black Book: Queer in the 21st Century.'”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
The European court of human rights needs these British reforms – The Guardian
“The Strasbourg court is in a mess. It doesn’t help human rights to damn our eminently sensible reforms as reactionary.”
The Guardian, 13th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
No “near miss” principle in immigration cases, despite Article 8 – UK Human Rights Blog
“The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no ‘near miss’ principle in the application of the Immigration Rules. People who miss the five years’ continuous residence requirement – even if by two weeks – will not have met the rules. There is no exception.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
