“Male pensioners could lose around £340 a year if the European court backs gender equality rules for insurance companies this week, experts are predicting.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Children as young as 13 are being released from custody without a safe place to live, forcing them into a cycle of homelessness and reoffending, research has shown.”
The Guardian, 28th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jeremy Bamber and two other killers are to ask the European Court of Human Rights to rule on whole-life sentences.”
BBC News, 26th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government has bowed to pressure from business and relaxed key elements of the Bribery Act.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Ahmed & Anor v R [2011] EWCA Crim 184 (25 February 2011)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Ricky Edwards-Tubb v JD Wetherspoon Plc [2011] EWCA Civ 136 (25 February 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Aviva Insurance Ltd v Brown [2011] EWHC 362 (QB) (25 February 2011)
Locke v Stuart & Anor [2011] EWHC 399 (QB) (25 February 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Moneim v General Medical Council [2011] EWHC 327 (Admin) (25 February 2011)
Nagiub v General Medical Council [2011] EWHC 366 (Admin) (25 February 2011)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Antonio Gramsci Shipping Corp & Ors v Stepanovs [2011] EWHC 333 (Comm) (25 February 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Hundreds of foreign prisoners are held indefinitely after they have served their criminal sentences. Harriet Grant investigates.”
The Guardian, 25th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman has been jailed for lying that she had been abducted and raped after becoming worried her husband would find out about a one night stand.”
BBC News, 25th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A law student who posted Islamic terrorist propaganda on the internet after becoming radicalised has been jailed for five years.”
BBC News, 25th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A commuter who sued London Underground for £1 million damages after he was grabbed by an employee at a ticket barrier has won just £11,925 in compensation.”
The Independent, 25th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Appeal court rejects Rangzieb Ahmed’s claim that British authorities ‘outsourced’ his torture to Pakistan.”
The Guardian, 25th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A US businessman who stabbed his wife 23 times and left her under a hedge has been jailed for at least 16 years.”
BBC News, 25th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Thompson, R v [2011] EWCA Crim 102 (03 February 2011)
Moss, R v [2011] EWCA Crim 252 (1 February 2011)
Thornley, R v [2011] EWCA Crim 153 (26 January 2011)
Webb, R v [2011] EWCA Crim 152 (26 January 2011)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Ceva Logistics Ltd v Lynch & Anor [2011] EWCA Civ 188 (25 February 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Francotyp-Postalia Ltd v Whitehead & Ors [2011] EWHC 367 (Ch) (25 February 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Ahmad v London Borough of Brent & Ors [2011] EWHC 378 (QB) (25 February 2011)
Hook v British Airways Plc [2011] EWHC 379 (QB) (25 February 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Patents Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“There was no difference in principle between the ambit of a solicitor’s duty to the court in relation to the conduct and supervision of disclosure of documents and the conduct and supervision of any redaction of disclosable doccuments prior to inspection.”
WLR Daily, 24th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.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.
“It was contrary to the policy and objects of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 to impose an obligation on the Secretary of State when refusing an overstayer’s application for leave to remain to make an appealable removal decision at the same time which would confer a right of appeal.”
WLR Daily, 24th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.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.
“The Home Secretary, when refusing to extend a foreign national’s leave to remain in the United Kingdom, ought at the same time or promptly thereafter make a removal decision which, if adverse, would enable the foreign national to appeal without breaking the law by overstaying.”
WLR Daily, 24th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.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 v Vasili [2011] WLR (D) 58
“If an object had all the characteristics of a flick knife, it would therefore be considered an offensive weapon per se: the fact that the same object functioned also as a lighter did not stop it being an offensive weapon.”
WLR Daily, 24th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary would be removed.
“Companies whose small print changes the basis of consumer deals will face investigation by consumer regulator the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), it has said. According to the OFT, one in five consumers had experienced a contract problem in the last year.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th February 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“An in-depth study into education and training within the profession will address the current ‘mismatch’ between the number of Legal Practice Course graduates and training contracts, and will assess the role of paralegals, the Legal Services Board has said.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th February 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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