Why are over-70s banned from jury duty? – BBC News
“It has been decreed that the ban on over-70s doing jury duty will remain. But many older people would welcome the opportunity.”
BBC News, 10th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Nurse convicted of killing wife in Southport – BBC News
“A nurse who strangled his wife and tried to make it look as though she died in an accident has been found guilty of her murder.”
BBC News, 10th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
ASA watchdog bans ‘offensive’ anti-terror hotline radio advert – The Guardian
“Britain’s eccentrics, recluses and misanthropes, you can relax. Ignoring neighbours and keeping your curtains permanently shut to the world outside might not win you many friends, but you’re no longer likely to be denounced as a possible terrorist.”
The Guardian, 11th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hitman guilty of Surrey housewife murder – BBC News
“A hitman who flew to the UK from Thailand to kill a housewife in Surrey has been found guilty of murder.”
BBC News, 10th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Stirland case coroner calls for witness reforms – BBC News
“Police should review witness protection protocols, a coroner has said in her report into the gangland killings of a Lincolnshire couple.”
BBC News, 10th August 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Letting over-70s serve on juries ‘would disrupt criminal trials’ – Daily Telegraph
“The Council of Circuit Judges, which represents more than 600 judges in England and Wales, said it had come to the ‘firm conclusion that there is no compelling case to alter the status quo’.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th August 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Sion Jenkins compensation bid rejected – The Independent
“Former teacher Sion Jenkins was refused compensation for the six years he spent in prison before being acquitted of his foster daughter’s murder, it was reported today.”
The Independent, 10th August 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Gojra & Anor, R v [2010] EWCA Crim 1939 (06 August 2010)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Lockheed Martin Corp v Willis Group Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 927 (30 July 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2010
The Assembly Learning Grants (European University Institute) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Consumer Credit (Advertisements) Regulations 2010
The Consumer Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 6 and Commencement No. 5 (Amendment)) Order 2010
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Omak Maritime Ltd v Mamola Challenger Shipping Co Ltd – WLR Daily
Omak Maritime Ltd v Mamola Challenger Shipping Co Ltd [2010] EWHC 2026 (Comm); [2010] WLR (D) 230
“An arbitral tribunal in assessing damages for breach of contract had been wrong to treat a claim for wasted expenses and a claim for loss of profits as two separate and independent claims which could not be ‘mixed’. Both claims were governed by the principle which required the court to make a comparison between the claimant’s current position and what it would have been had the contract been performed. Where steps had been taken to mitigate the loss which would otherwise have been caused by a breach of contract that principle required the benefits obtained by mitigation to be set against the loss which would otherwise have been sustained.”
WLR Daily, 6th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
R (PM) v Hertfordshire County Council – WLR Daily
R (PM) v Hertfordshire County Council [2010] EWHC 2056 (Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 229
“A local authority charged with obligations to children under ss 17 and 20 of the Children Act 1989 was not bound by a simple finding of fact by the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) as to the age of an applicant for support. Such a finding was not a judgment in rem nor otherwise binding in law on the local authority, or on other strangers to the asylum and immigration appeal.”
WLR Daily, 6th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
R v Geary – WLR Daily
“The offence under s 328(1) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 of entering into or becoming concerned in an arrangement which a person knew or suspected facilitated the acquisition, retention, use or control of criminal property by or on behalf of another person, applied to property which was criminal at the time when the arrangement attached to it, and did not extend to property which was originally legitimate but became criminal only as a result of carrying out the arrangement.”
WLR Daily, 6th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Judge to rule on Daniel Ubani’s attempts to silence sons of dead patient – The Guardian
“A judge will rule later this month on attempts by a German doctor who accidentally killed a patient on his first UK shift as a locum GP to restrict a campaign by the dead man’s sons to stop him working as a doctor in his home country.”
The Guardian, 9th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Family judges alarmed over legal aid tender – Law Society’s Gazette
“The head of the family courts has warned the Legal Services Commission that he has been ‘inundated’ by family judges expressing serious concerns over the outcome of the family legal aid tender, in a letter seen by the Gazette.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th August 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Is the European court of justice a legal or political institution now? – The Guardian
“The most curious feature of the European court of justice (ECJ) , the court of the European Union, is not that it is a political court, but rather that it has until very recently been so successful in pursuing its political programme of the integration of Europe through law without attracting much public or even expert notice.”
The Guardian, 10th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Human rights: from Europe to the UK – The Guardian
“A new government report on the implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments has highlighted the vexed issue of the rightful place of such rulings in domestic law. Many decisions, such as on prisoner voting rights, have languished for years unimplemented and it remains to be seen whether the coalition government will do any more to fulfil its legal obligations to the thousands affected.”
The Guardian, 9th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
High Court (Chancery Division)
HMRC v Portsmouth City Football Club Ltd & Ors [2010] EWHC 2013 (Ch) (05 August 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Chauhan v General Medical Council [2009] EWHC 2093 (Admin) (06 August 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Lockheed Martin Corpn v Willis Group Ltd – WLR Daily
Lockheed Martin Corpn v Willis Group Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 927; [2010] WLR (D) 225
“Where a party was to be substituted on the grounds of mistake under CPR r 19.5 there was no further formal jurisdictional requirement that the mistake was not misleading to the other party or did not cause reasonable doubt as to the identity of the party intended to be sued.”
WLR Daily, 5th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Health & Safety Executive v Wolverhampton City Council and another – WLR Daily
“A material consideration for a local planning authority when deciding whether to revoke or modify the grant of planning permission under s 97 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 was the authority’s liability to pay compensation under s 107 of the Act.”
WLR Daily, 4th August 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
