“An 80-year-old woman accused of hurling anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic abuse at neighbours has been given an Anti-social Behaviour Order (Asbo).”
BBC News, 7th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who stabbed a neighbour’s dog to death as it attacked his pet Labrador has been cleared of acting unlawfully.”
BBC News, 7th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Tucked away on page 52 of the government’s response to the legal aid green paper were words that would make many criminal lawyers shudder: ‘We intend to consult on detailed proposals for introducing competition in criminal proceedings later in the year.’ ”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“News International announced on Thursday that it is closing the News of the World after this Sunday’s edition, with no end in sight to the political and commercial fallout from the phone-hacking scandal after 72 hours of mounting crisis”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This guidance applies to cases where a complainant of rape or domestic violence: makes a false allegation,
retracts an allegation, or withdraws a retraction.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 7th July 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Director of public prosecutions issues guidance to help distinguish genuine victims in danger of attack.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“David Cameron will meet Ed Miliband next Wednesday to agree terms of two official inquiries into the phone-hacking scandal, including a judge-led inquiry into the conduct of the original police investigation, and an inquiry into the future of the media and its regulation.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Chair of the Press Complaints Commission Baroness Buscombe says her organisation has acted over the News of the World’s phone hacking scandal but admits the system needs to be reformed.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Lord Chief Justice yesterday attacked the ‘widespread’ use of out of court penalties amid fears one in three are being inappropriately handed out.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Too many women leave the law before they qualify for judicial appointment. The inflexible work culture must be changed.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A paedophile who faked his own death by leaving his clothes, car keys and a suicide note on a Lancashire beach has been jailed for seven years.”
BBC News, 7th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Government plans to make more services available online and to use cloud computing to deliver public services need to be clearer on how information will be protected, a House of Commons committee has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Three police investigations involving a Bedfordshire man who was murdered, decapitated and dumped in a lake were ‘flawed’, the police watchdog has said.”
BBC News, 7th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain was an occupying power following the invasion of Iraq and failed to carry out effective investigations into the killing of civilians, the European court of human rights has ruled in a landmark judgment.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related links: AL-JEDDA v. THE UNITED KINGDOM – 27021/08 [2011] ECHR 1092 (7 July 2011)
AL-SKEINI AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM – 55721/07 [2011] ECHR 1093 (7 July 2011)
“The home secretary, Theresa May, is to ask MPs to pass an emergency bill to resolve the police bail crisis amid warnings from defence lawyers that it amounts to a ‘smash and grab raid’ to boost police powers.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court
NML Capital Ltd v Argentina [2011] UKSC 31 (6 July 2011)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Dalton v Nottinghamshire County Council [2011] EWCA Civ 776 (06 July 2011)
AH v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 787 (06 July 2011)
Howell & Ors v Lees- Millais & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 786 (06 July 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Lewis v Client Connection Ltd. [2011] EWHC 1627 (Ch) (06 July 2011)
Balli (Also Known As Ravinder Singh), Re Contempt Of Court [2011] EWHC 1736 (Ch) (01 July 2011)
Leighton Contracting (Qatar) WLL v Simms & Ors [2011] EWHC 1735 (Ch) (22 June 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Babakandi v Westminster City Council [2011] EWHC 1756 (Admin) (06 July 2011)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Fenice Investments Inc v Erram Falkus Construction Ltd [2011] EWHC 1678 (TCC) (06 July 2011)
Lanes Group Plc v Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd [2011] EWHC 1679 (TCC) (06 July 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The public asked for the release of more information from public bodies at the start of this year than at any time since the immediate aftermath of the enactment of freedom of information (FOI) laws, the Government has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina [2011] UKSC 31; [2011] WLR (D) 220
“The Republic of Argentina was not entitled, by virtue of section 31 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, to state immunity in respect of proceedings brought in England for the enforcement of a judgment obtained in New York. In addition, the terms of the agreement between the republic and the claimant, amounted to a waiver of immunity and a submission to the jurisdiction of the English court.”
WLR Daily, 6th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Joujou and others v Masri [2011] EWCA Civ 746; [2011] WLR (D) 219
“Judicial comity prevented the court from threatening contempt proceedings against judicial administrators who were refusing on instructions from the foreign court which appointed them to comply with a order of a High Court judge.”
WLR Daily, 28th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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