“The UK Border Agency says ‘tighter controls’ will be introduced to stop some Eurostar passengers being able to enter the UK without passport checks.”
BBC News, 8th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“One of the last barriers to women being treated equally in the armed forces was lifted on Thursday when the Ministry of Defence announced that they will soon be allowed to serve onboard Royal Navy submarines.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An election leaflet featuring claims about an opponent’s parliamentary expenses was defamatory, a high court judge has ruled.”
The Guardian. 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two men have each been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of deliberately setting fire to a Stoke-on-Trent mosque.”
BBC News, 8th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A taskforce has been set up by the Environment Agency (EA) to crack down on illegal waste sites in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 8th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The integrity of the jury system is under challenge from temptations to trawl the internet for information about defendants, the lord chief justice will warn. In the wake of a series of prosecutions of jurors who went online, Lord Judge has called for greater awareness about the technological dangers threatening the justice system.”
The Guardian, 9th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A solicitor at HM Revenue & Customs who turned whistleblower to disclose that senior managers had quietly let off Goldman Sachs from paying millions of pounds in tax penalties is facing disciplinary procedures and possible prosecution for speaking out.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers have warned of the risk of ‘institutionalised abuse’ in care homes and hospitals for people with learning disabilities, as five recent inspections showed four were breaking the law.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former chauffeur to Heather Mills made an illegal copy of her disabled parking badge with her ‘full knowledge and consent’, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A father who killed his toddler son because he was crying was jailed for nine years today.”
The Independent, 7th December 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Worries over judicial appointment process and quality of candidates as barrister salaries outstrip bench.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One of the biggest universities in the UK has obtained a high court injunction that criminalises all occupation-style protests on its 250-acre campus for the next 12 months, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Millionaire businessman George Wharton’s three daughters have lost out on a share of his £4 million fortune after his deathbed marriage to his former mistress left ‘a family at war with itself.’ ”
Daily Telegraph, 8th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading has referred the privately funded healthcare industry to the Competition Commission after it found a number of features that prevent, restrict or distort competition in the £5bn UK private healthcare market.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Revenue and Customs Comrs v PA Holdings Ltd: [2011] EWCA Civ 1414; [2011] WLR (D) 354
“Once it was established that payments awarded to employees in the form of shares and dividends were income received from employment the payments were liable to be charged under Schedule E and could not be charged under any other Schedule.”
WLR Daily, 30th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Elmi: [2011] EWCA Civ 1403; [2011] WLR (D) 353
“A person from abroad who had ticked a form at a job centre to confirm she was seeking work and then applied for income support satisfied the requirement in article 7(3)(c) of the Citizens Direction that she was registered as a job seeker and was entitled to income support.”
WLR Daily, 18th October 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
In re Digital Satellite Warranty Cover Ltd and others: [2011] EWCA Civ 1413; [2011] WLR (D) 352
“A contract for repair or replacement only in the event of breakdown or malfunction which did not oblige the insurer to indemnify the insured for costs which the insured himself incurred fell within paragraph (b) of class 16 Schedule I to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001.”
WLR Daily, 29th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Ministry of Defence v Cartner [2011] EWCA Civ 1516 (08 December 2011)
Country Style Foods Ltd v Bouzir [2011] EWCA Civ 1519 (08 December 2011)
Cusack v London Borough of Harrow [2011] EWCA Civ 1514 (07 December 2011)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
MO, & Ors, R. v [2011] EWCA Crim 2854 (08 December 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
RP, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Brent [2011] EWHC 3251 (Admin) (07 December 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Wharton v Bancroft & Ors [2011] EWHC 3250 (Ch) (08 December 2011)
High Court (Commercial Court)
RGI International Ltd & Anor v Synergy Classic Ltd & Ors [2011] EWHC 3166 (Comm) (02 December 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Lord Chancellor v Ian Henery Solicitors Ltd [2011] EWHC 3246 (QB) (08 December 2011)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Dobson & Ors v Thames Water Utilities Ltd (No 2) [2011] EWHC 3253 (TCC) (08 December 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org.uk
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulations 2011
The Income Tax (Indexation) Order 2011
The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Community Infrastructure Levy Functions) Order 2011
The Local Authorities (Referendums)(Petitions)(England) Regulations 2011
The Competition Act 1998 (Public Policy Exclusion) (Revocation) Order 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
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