Companies fined after man dragged through machine – BBC News
“Two companies have been fined a total of £75,000 after a man was dragged through a 5in (13cm) gap in machinery.”
BBC News, 27th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Baby powder heroin plot men jailed at Hull court – BBC News
“Two men from Hull have been jailed for their parts in an operation to smuggle heroin with a street value of £13m in packets of baby powder.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Meares v Medway Primary Care Trust [2011] EWCA Civ 897 (28 July 2011)
Lait v Evening Standard Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 859 (28 July 2011)
St Helens & Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust v Brownbill & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 903 (28 July 2011)
Mew & Anor v Tristmire Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 912 (28 July 2011)
Towers v Premier Waste Management Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 923 (28 July 2011)
Gayle v Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust [2011] EWCA Civ 924 (28 July 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Sulaiman v General Medical Council [2011] EWHC 1903 (Admin) (28 July 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Williams v Lawrence & Anor [2011] EWHC 2001 (Ch) (28 July 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
Clippings ruling could derail much online publishing, says expert – OUT-LAW.com
“OPINION: Are you reading this at work? Are you sure you are not breaking copyright law by doing so? If OUT-LAW.COM copied most websites’ terms and conditions you probably would be, if the Court of Appeal is to be believed. Yesterday it said that the users of a clippings service infringed newspaper publishers’ copyrights when they clicked on links to view articles on web pages. But a fairly obscure spat over business information has the potential to derail much of the basis of online publishing.”
OUT-LAW.com, 28th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Clippings services users must have licence or infringe newspapers’ copyright, says court – OUT-LAW.com
“Users of a clippings service must have a licence from newspaper publishers to click on links taking them to newspaper website pages to avoid infringing the publishers’ copyrights, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Swift 1st Ltd v Colin and others – WLR Daily
Swift 1st Ltd v Colin and others [2011] WLR (D) 262
“The holder of a charge over a property had full power of sale under the Law of Property Act 1925 irrespective of the fact that the charge had not been substantially registered. All that was required to exercise that power was for the mortgage to have been executed by deed.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd and others v Meltwater Holding BV and others – WLR Daily
“The end users of a commercial online media monitoring service who did not hold a web end-user licence from the publishers committed infringement of the publishers’ copyright in receiving and using the service.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Belmont Park Investments Pty v BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd – WLR Daily
Belmont Park Investments Pty v BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd [2011] UKSC 38; [2011] WLR (D) 260
“The policy behind the anti-deprivation rule in insolvency law, that parties could not, on bankruptcy, deprive the bankrupt of property which would otherwise be available for creditors, was to be given a commonsense application which prevented its application to bona fide commercial transactions which did not have as their predominant purpose the deprivation of the property of one of the parties on bankruptcy.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Oguz v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Centre for Advice on Individual Rights in Europe intervening) – WLR daily
“Article 41(1) of the Additional Protocol, signed on 23 November 1970 at Brussels and concluded, approved and confirmed on behalf of the Community by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2760/72 (OJ 1973 C 113 p17), had to be interpreted as meaning that it could be relied on by a Turkish national who, having leave to remain in a member state on condition that he did not engage in any business or profession, nevertheless entered into self-employment in breach of that condition and later applied to the national authorities for further leave to remain on the basis of the business which he had meanwhile established.”
WLR Daily, 21st July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
New strategy to strike at the heart of organised crime – Home Office
“The government is today launching a strategy to crack down on serious and organised criminals. Profiling organised criminals, disrupting the finances of criminal networks and establishing a new organised crime co-ordination centre are among the range of actions set out in the new strategy, announced by Home Office minister James Brokenshire today.”
Home Office, 28th July 2011
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
BSB makes considered decision about Pupillage Portal – Bar Standards Board
“Following notification by the Bar Council about problems with the pupillage recruitment system known as the Pupillage Portal, the BSB has carefully considered whether the recruitment timetable for this year needed to be altered to allow all applications to be properly considered.”
Bar Standards Board, 28th July 2011
Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
Select committee to propose radical overhaul of English football – The Guardian
“A report by the parliamentary select committee on culture, media and sport could have major ramifications for the game.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Gemma Hayter: Three guilty of railway murder – BBC News
“Three people have been found guilty of murdering a woman who was found dead on a disused railway line.”
BBC News, 29th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Rogue Afghan attack was ‘unlawful killing’ – BBC News
“Three soldiers were unlawfully killed by a rogue Afghan soldier in Helmand in July 2010, an inquest has ruled.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Protests as inquiry into ‘blagging’ case minister and his agent is dropped – Daily Telegraph
“The independence of the Information Commissioner’s Office has been called into question by Labour after the watchdog declined to pursue an inquiry into minister Jonathan Djanogly.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Bereaved husband claims sex discrimination over NHS pension – Daily Telegraph
“The bereaved husband of a doctor has undertaken a legal test case claiming sex discrimination because he is receiving a smaller NHS pension than if he were a widow.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Watchdog has ‘serious concerns’ over Castlebeck care – The Independent
“A company that closed one of its private hospitals after horrifying allegations of abuse must make ‘root and branch improvements’, a social care watchdog has said.”
The Independent, 28th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Government plans ‘tougher approach to organised crime’ – The Independent
“The Government today promised a ‘much tougher approach to organised crime’ as it outlined a new strategy to tackle drug gangs and fraudsters.”
The Independent, 28th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
