“Actor Sienna Miller accepted £100,000 compensation from News of the World on Friday after the paper accepted unconditional liability for all her phone-hacking claims.”
The Guardian, 13th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Four men who believe the News of the World hacked their phones have applied to the High Court again for a judicial review into the police inquiry.”
BBC News, 12th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A drama teacher who took advantage of a vulnerable pupil and had a lesbian affair with her has been jailed for three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Rail infrastructure company Network Rail (NR) was fined £3 million today for safety failings over the 2002 Potters Bar train crash which claimed seven lives.”
The Independent, 13th May 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
High Court (Chancery Division)
Humber Oil Terminals Trustee Ltd v Associated British Ports [2011] EWHC 1184 (Ch) (11 May 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
MJN v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] EWHC 1192 (QB) (11 May 2011)
Clynes v O’ Connor [2011] EWHC 1201 (QB) (13 May 2011)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Harry Yearsley Ltd v Secretary of State for Justice [2011] EWHC 1160 (TCC) (12 May 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The RSPCA has welcomed prison sentences and a ban on keeping animals handed out to a couple who admitted causing unnecessary suffering to two dogs.”
BBC News, 12th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who threw a holidaymaker off a pier at Ilfracombe, Devon, has been given four years in a young offenders’ institution.”
BBC News, 12th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Law Society is set to launch legal proceedings against the owner of Solicitors from Hell, the website that blacklists law firms and solicitors. Chancery Lane will seek two injunctions against the site and its owner Rick Kordowski: one on behalf of solicitors and firms named on the site, and a second on behalf of the wider profession.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 12th May 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Software companies should be entitled to bigger damages for the use of copied software, industry lobby group the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Original pan-EU plans to collect passenger name record data (PNR) applied only to flights to and from EU countries from outside the EU. The Government has opted in to the process only after receiving the support of 15 other countries for its amendment to the plan so that it applied to some flights within the EU.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
K v L [2011] EWCA Civ 550 (13 May 2011)
AXA Sunlife Services Plc v Campbell Martin Ltd & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 549 (12 May 2011)
Kennedy v The Information Commissioner & Anor [2011] EWCA Civ 367 (12 May 2011)
DM v Secretary of State for Justice [2011] EWCA Civ 522 (12 May 2011)
Amos v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 552 (12 May 2011)
Fraenkl -Rietti v Cheltenham & Gloucester Plc [2011] EWCA Civ 524 (12 May 2011)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Young, R. v [2011] EWCA Crim 1176 (12 May 2011)
Twist & Ors v R. [2011] EWCA Crim 1143 (12 May 2011)
Bond, R v [2011] EWCA Crim 1197 (13 May 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Evans, R (on the application of) v The Lord Chancellor & Anor [2011] EWHC 1146 (Admin) (12 May 2011)
A, R (on the application of) v Lewisham Youth Court & Anor [2011] EWHC 1193 (Admin) (12 May 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
Lane v Cullens Solicitors and others [2011] EWCA Civ 547; [2011] WLR (D) 157
“Where a personal representative had distributed sums out of the relevant estate notwithstanding a notified third party claim against the estate, and sought to sue solicitors in professional negligence, the applicable limitation period could be found to run from the time at which the legal position had altered, viz upon payment out, regardless of the question whether the third party claim was correctly to be characterised as a vested or a contingent claim.”
WLR Daily, 11th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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Regina (Nassery) v Brent London Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 539; [2011] WLR (D) 156
“Where a local authority was assessing whether a person was ‘in need of care and attention’ for the purposes of section 21(1)(a) of the National Assistance Act 1948 the primary focus was on present rather than future needs, but provided there was a present need for some sort of care an authority was also empowered to intervene before it became much worse.”
WLR Daily, 11th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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Regina (Adams) v Secretary of State for Justice (JUSTICE and another intervening); In re MacDermott’s and McCartney’s Applications for Judicial Review (JUSTICE intervening) [2011] UKSC 18; [2011] WLR (D) 155
“A miscarriage of justice, within the meaning of section 133 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, occurred where a new fact so undermined the evidence against the defendant that no conviction could possibly be based upon it.”
WLR Daily, 11th may 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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“At the hearing of a taxpayer’s appeal against a closure notice determining an inquiry into a limited liability partnership’s tax return, the revenue was not confined to relying on the precise reasons for the decision given by the investigating officer in his closure notice.”
WLR Daily, 11th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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“Plans form response to the advice of the Consumer Panel on quality.”
Legal Services Board, 12th May 2011
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
“In the journey towards the introduction of the first Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in May 2012, the government today published a draft protocol setting out the relationship between PCCs and Chief Constables.”
Home Office, 11th May 2011
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A man from London has been sentenced to 7 years in prison at Canterbury Crown Court after pleading guilty to heroin smuggling.”
UK Border Agency, 11th May 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Today’s ruling by the European court of human rights in Max Mosley’s privacy case is a victory for the British government, which argued at the hearing in January that countries were entitled to a wide ‘margin of appreciation’ – in other words, discretion – in deciding how to strike the balance between freedom of expression and respect for an individual’s private life.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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