Common European Sales Law – Law Commission
“An optional system of European contract law advice to the UK Government published.”
Law Commission, 10th November 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission
CPS statement on the case of Anne the Elephant – Crown Prosecution Service
“CPS takes on the prosecution of Bobby and Moira Roberts over mistreatment of circus elephant.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 10th November 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
Dumo Sibanda house fire murder: George Sithole jailed – BBC News
“A ‘jealous and possessive’ man has been jailed for life for murdering a six-year-old girl who died in a Sussex house fire seven years ago.”
BBC News, 10th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Met Police chief inspector sacked over sex and drugs boast – BBC News
“A Metropolitan Police chief inspector has been sacked after boasting on a dating website of committing a sexual offence and taking drugs.”
BBC News, 10th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Taxman wins £100m on slot machine VAT ruling – The Guardian
“Revenue & Customs could claw back more than £100m after European court ruling on VAT for slot machines and bingo games.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
MPs in freedom of information call for release of files on secret rendition – The Guardian
“Intelligence documents showing how British officials were involved in the secret rendition of UK residents to Guantánamo Bay and other jails – where they say they were abused and tortured – must be disclosed, an information tribunal was told on Thursday.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal aid cuts ‘will stop the most vulnerable getting justice’ says report – The Guardian
“Civil Justice Council says planned £350m reduction in legal aid budget will also result in courts struggling to manage caseloads.”
The Guardian, 11th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Access to Justice for Litigants in Person (or self-represented litigants) – Civil Justice Council
“A CJC working party has looked at how access to justice can be improved for individuals, known as litigants-in-person, who either choose not to have or cannot afford legal representation. Its report sets out a range of short and longer term practical recommendations aimed at addressing the problems faced by unrepresented litigants to help them resolve their disputes.”
Civil Justice Council, 11th November 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/advisory-bodies/cjc
Council cuts to elderly care fees ruled illegal – Daily Telegraph
“Councils across England could be forced to spend hundreds of millions of pounds extra on care for the elderly after a landmark High Court case.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Clegg orders inquiry into ‘sex discrimination’ by banks – Daily Telegraph
“High street banks are guilty of sex discrimination, refusing pregnant women mortgages and charging higher interest rates on business loans to female entrepreneurs, research has found.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Muslims Against Crusades banned from midnight – BBC News
“Home Secretary Theresa May is banning Muslims Against Crusades, a group planning an anti-Armistice Day protest.”
BBC News, 10th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Channel Islands VAT loophole to close from April – OUT-LAW.com
“A tax loophole which allows retailers to avoid VAT charges by bringing low-value goods into the UK via the Channel Islands is to end from 1 April 2012, the Government has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Cohabitees’ property rights: still as clear as mud – The Guardian
“The Jones v Kernott judgment does little to resolve the grey area of ex-cohabitees’ entitlements to a share in their former home.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Public school gangster jailed for 30 years – The Independent
“A former public schoolboy who wanted to be a gangster was jailed for a minimum 30 years for murder today.”
The Independent, 10th November 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Wandsworth Prison murder: Killers jailed for life – BBC News
“Two men convicted of murdering a man outside a prison in south London have been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 10th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Drake & Anor v Fripp [2011] EWCA Civ 1282 (03 November 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Pykett v Ebony Clement & Anor [2011] EWHC 2925 (QB) (09 November 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Family Division)
ML & Anor v RW & Anor [2011] EWHC 2455 (Fam) (29 July 2011)
AR v AR [2011] EWHC 2717 (Fam) (11 August 2011)
London Borough of Tower Hamlets v BB & Ors [2011] EWHC 2853 (Fam) (31 August 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd v Berrisford – WLR Daily
Mexfield Housing Co-operative Ltd v Berrisford [2011] UKSC 52; [2011] WLR (D) 322
“An agreement for a term of uncertain duration could not give rise to a tenancy in accordance with its terms but, pursuant to section 149(6) of the Law of Property Act 1925, it could take effect as a lease for 90 years, determinable on the death of the tenant.”
WLR Daily, 9th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Jones v Kernott – WLR Daily
Jones v Kernott [2011] UKSC 53; [2011] WLR (D) 321
“When a cohabiting couple bought a family home in their joint names and were both responsible for the mortgage, but without any express declaration as to their beneficial interests, the starting point was that equity followed the law so that the presumption was that they were joint tenants both in law and in equity. That presumption could be displaced by showing that the parties had a different common intention at the time when they acquired the home or that they later formed a common intention that their respective shares would change. Their common intention was to be deduced objectively from their conduct. If it was clear that the parties did not intend joint tenancy at the outset or had changed their original intention, but it was not possible to ascertain, whether by direct evidence or by inference, what their actual intention was as to the shares in which they owned the property, each was entitled to that share which the court considered fair, having regard to the whole course of the dealing between them in relation to the property.”
WLR Daily, 9th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Fresenius Kabi Deutchland GmbH and others v Carefusion 303, Inc and related action – WLR Daily
“The practice in the Patents Court whereby a patentee could discontinue his claim for infringement and consent to the revocation of his patent on terms that he paid the costs of the action up to the date of service of the original defence, with the alleged infringer paying the costs of the action thereafter to the date of discontinuance, was no longer to be followed. It was to be replaced by the general rule in CPR r 38.6 that, unless the court otherwise ordered, a claimant who discontinued was liable to pay the defendant’s costs.”
WLR Daily, 8th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Copple and others v Littlewoods plc and others – WLR Daily
Copple and others v Littlewoods plc and others [2011] EWCA Civ 1281; [2011] WLR (D) 319
“Where an employer’s pension scheme indirectly discriminated against part-timers on the ground of sex by denying them access to the scheme, a female part-time worker was not entitled to any remedy arising from her exclusion from the scheme if she would not in fact have chosen to join the scheme even if she had been eligible to do so.”
WLR Daily, 8th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
