“Three Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service managers will face charges of manslaughter by gross negligence for the deaths of four firefighters in a warehouse in Atherstone-on-Stour in 2007, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 28th February 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A prisoner who suffers social phobia has lost his legal fight to complete his jail term under curfew at home.”
BBC News, 28th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Scottish government is to outline its ‘serious concerns’ about plans which it says could threaten the historic independence of Scots law.”
BBC News, 1st March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Rajib Karim, a software engineer for British Airways (BA), was found guilty today at Woolwich Crown Court of involvement in preparing a ‘chilling plan’ to blow up a passenger plane.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 28th February 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Legal aid changes in England and Wales could mean hundreds of thousands more people representing themselves in court, judges have warned. So how exactly do you become an amateur lawyer?”
BBC News, 28th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Act of Parliament that created the Court of Protection was pushed through in a hurry, amid an outcry from dozens of MPs, as the government tried to get its outstanding business completed in time for the 2005 general election.”
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The Independent, 1st March 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Guardian and other news organisations have won a court ruling that could open up the care system for people with learning difficulties to public scrutiny.”
The Guardian, 28th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“MPs are to debate the government’s Protection of Freedoms bill later, which ministers claim will protect millions of people in England and Wales ‘from unwarranted state intrusion in their private lives’.”
BBC News, 1st March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The coalition government wants to reduce the national deficit by billions, but is facing regular court challenges against its decisions to cut budgets. Some have been successful, such as the challenge to the cancellation of a school building programme and to London Councils’ decision to cut the London boroughs’ grants scheme budget — and there are more to come.”
The Guardian, 28th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who used his mobile phone to film a couple having sex through their bedroom window before showing it to friends in the pub was jailed for 12 months today.”
The Independent, 28th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Young women could face big increases in the cost of car insurance, if insurers are told that they have to stop quoting different prices for men and women.”
BBC News, 1st March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The mayor of London has returned to the High Court in a fresh bid to evict veteran peace campaigner Brian Haw from Parliament Square Gardens.”
The Independent, 28th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A Pentecostal Christian couple have lost their high court claim that they were discriminated against by a local authority because they insisted on their right to tell young foster children that homosexuality is morally wrong.”
The Guardian, 28th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Daily Mail does not have to identify the people behind two anonymously posted comments on its website because to do so would breach their rights to privacy, the High Court has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th February 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“In all cases where a local authority was seeking possession of a property which constituted a persons home, including persons who had been granted introductory tenancies pursuant to Part V of the Housing Act 1996 and persons who had been granted a licence of property under the homelessness regime in Part VII of the 1996 Act, the court being asked to make the order for possession had to have the power, pursuant to article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, to consider whether the order would be a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.”
WLR Daily, 25th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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British Airways plc v Mak and others [2011] EWCA Civ 184; [2011] WLR (D) 63
“The employment tribunal had jurisdiction to entertain claims for race and age discrimination brought against a British airline by employees based in Hong Kong, who worked for the airline on flights between Hong Kong and London among other destinations, since they did work partly in Great Britain and their employment was therefore to be regarded as being at an establishment in Great Britain.”
WLR Daily, 25th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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41–60 Albert Palace Mansions (Freehold) Ltd v Craftrule Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 185; [2011] WLR (D) 62
“The meaning of the words ‘a self-contained … part of a building’ in section 3 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 was clear and there was nothing in the section to suggest that the right to enfranchisement attached only to the smallest possible self-contained part of a building.”
WLR Daily, 25th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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PO (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 132; [2011] WLR (D) 61
“The current practice of producing a headnote of the determination of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal in a country guidance case needed to be reviewed.”
WLR Daily, 25th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Delta Air Lines Inc [2011] EWCA Civ 162; [2011] WLR (D) 60
“Notwithstanding the difficulties which could arise in cases where the technology was complex, it should not be assumed that summary judgment was not for patent disputes; the general rules as to summary judgment applied equally to patent cases as to other types of case and where the technology was relatively simple to understand, and the court was able, on summary application, to form a confident view about the claim and its construction, in particular about the understanding of the man skilled in the art, there was no good reason why summary procedure could not be invoked.”
WLR Daily, 25th February 2011
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