Levi Bellfield guilty of Milly Dowler murder – BBC News
“Former nightclub doorman Levi Bellfield has been found guilty of murdering 13-year-old Milly Dowler.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Chancery Lane urges government to fund family justice reforms – Law Society’s Gazette
“The Law Society has backed the Family Justice Review’s ‘far-reaching’ proposals for reform, but urged the government not to proceed with the changes unless it can provide the money to implement them properly.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Supreme Court
Cart v The Upper Tribunal (Rev 1) [2011] UKSC 28 (21 June 2011)
Eba v Advocate General for Scotland (Scotland) [2011] UKSC 29 (21 June 2011)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Coventry City Council v PGO & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 729 (22 June 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Kent County Council v Lawrence [2011] EWHC 1590 (QB) (22 June 2011)
High Court (Family Division)
A Local Authority v DL & Ors [2011] EWHC 1022 (Fam) (19 April 2011)
A v P [2011] EWHC 1530 (Fam) (21 June 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Shropshire Community Health National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Order 2011
The Nottinghamshire Healthcare National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 2011
The Plastic Kitchenware (Conditions on Imports from China) (England) Regulations 2011
The Building (Amendment) Regulations 2011
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Nitrous Oxide) Regulations 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Eba v Advocate General for Scotland – WLR Daily
Eba v Advocate General for Scotland [2011] UKSC 29; [2011] WLR (D) 204
“The approach to judicial review of unappealable decisions of the Upper Tribunal in Scotland should be to align itself with what had been decided by the Supreme Court to be the approach to be taken in England and Wales. Accordingly, as in England and Wales, the same criteria which had to be satisfied when making a second-tier appeal to the Court of Appeal applied when deciding whether a refusal of permission by the Upper Tribunal to appeal to itself was open to judicial review in Scotland.”
WLR Daily, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Regina (Cart) v Upper Tribunal; Regina (MR (Pakistan)) Upper Tribunal – WLR Daily
“Judicial review of a refusal by the Upper Tribunal of permission to appeal to itself was limited to the grounds upon which permission to make a second-tier appeal to the Court of Appeal would be granted.”
WLR Daily, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Atrium Medical Corpn and another v DSB Invest Holding SA – WLR Daily
Atrium Medical Corpn and another v DSB Invest Holding SA [2011] EWHC 74 (Pat); [2011] WLR (D) 202
“High Court proceedings for declarations as to whether a product incorporated technical information, thus ultimately resulting in the determination of whether royalties were due, fell within the definition of ‘intellectual property litigation’ in regulation 3 of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents Higher Courts Qualification Regulations 2007 and therefore a patent attorney litigator was an ‘authorised person’ entitled to conduct the litigation and to exercise rights of audience in relation thereto.”
WLR Daily, 21st June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Justice in Times of Austerity” – speech by Commissioner Viviane Reding now available – The Bar Council
“Vice-President of the European Commission and the first Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, Viviane Reding delivered the keynote address at a seminar on ‘Justice in Times of Austerity’, co-hosted by the Bar Council, the Criminal Bar Association, the Family Law Bar Association and the European Circuit of the Bar of England and Wales.”
The Bar Council, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
Child abuse loophole to be closed – Ministry of Justice
“A legal loophole that could allow those who physically abuse children or vulnerable adults to escape justice is to be closed, the Government announced today (22 June).”
Ministry of Justice, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Ryan Lovell-Hancox: Killers were known to authorities – BBC News
“A murdered three-year-old West Midlands boy was not protected despite his killers being known to child protection agencies, a report has found.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Top-paid civil servants lose right to wage privacy – The Guardian
“Senior civil servants who tried to keep their salaries secret will be made to reveal them, the Information Commissioner has ruled. The government has been ordered to name every civil servant on a salary above £150,000 – more than the prime minister – after some resisted, citing the Data Protection Act. The ruling means that the identity of 24 Whitehall mandarins who refused to be named when the coalition published a list of high earners in government a year ago will now be revealed, and that pressure will mount for other high earners below the £150,000 mark to also be named.”
The Guardian, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Warnings over launch of national crime database – The Independent
“Hackers could crack the new Police National Database and access sensitive information of millions of innocent people, human rights campaigners have warned.”
The Independent, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
PCS strikers aim to close Supreme Court – Law Society’s Gazette
“The courts will rely on their depleted ranks of senior managers to remain open during industrial action, when Ministry of Justice members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) strike on 30 June in protest at proposed changes to public sector pensions and job cuts.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Dewi Evans guilty of Pontyberem murder of wife Jackie – BBC News
“A former miner who stabbed his wife during a row after she refused his offer of a cup of tea has been unanimously convicted of murder.”
BBC News, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Inquiry finds link between military veterans and crime – The Guardian
“Military veterans are twice as likely to be convicted for sex offences than other people and more likely to commit violent offences, an inquiry has found.”
The Guardian, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Command Papers – official-documents.gov.uk
The increasing world of regulation and compliance – Law Society’s Gazette
“In a secret location in the UK, there is a warehouse the size of a football pitch that climbs five storeys into the sky. Under its gargantuan roof are more than three million boxes and, in these boxes, are thousands and thousands of files and innumerable documents.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Good Hope Hospital security guard jailed for bomb hoax – BBC News
“A hospital security guard who planted a fake bomb where he worked prompting a six-hour security alert has been jailed for 15 months.”
BBC News, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
British banks ignore money-laundering rules, says FSA – The Guardian
“The City of London is showing brazen disregard for rules to stop money laundering and is welcoming with open arms some of the world’s most unsavoury political leaders and their cronies, according to a damning report by the Financial Services Authority.”
The Guardian, 22nd June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Ken Clarke threatens to cut free legal aid for suspects – The Independent
“Kenneth Clarke faced anger last night after threatening to scrap the automatic right of arrested suspects to receive free advice from a solicitor.”
The Independent, 23rd June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
