“The Government must provide more detail on exactly how alleged copyright infringers will be cut off from the internet before a file-sharing disconnection law is passed, according to a parliamentary committee.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th February 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A Metropolitan Police officer praised by ex-London Mayor Ken Livingstone for his handling of a racist attack on him has lost a race discrimination claim.”
BBC News, 15th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Four fans have been given football banning orders following the violence in Southampton after the FA Cup tie against rivals Portsmouth.”
BBC News, 15th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ministers should act immediately to ensure that the use of full-body scanners at British airports is lawful, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has warned.”
The Guardian, 16th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A lonely churchgoer submitted her female priest to a terrifying harassment campaign after fixating on her as a mother figure, a court heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An ‘eye in the sky’ arrest of a teenager fleeing from a stolen car using a surveillance drone could land police in court after it emerged it did not have permission to be in the air.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former Playboy Model of the Year walked free from court yesterday after being given a suspended sentence for attacking a woman in a nightclub toilet cubicle in a jealous row over her husband.”
The Independent, 16th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Disgraced officer, jailed for four years, is to appeal against conviction for corruption, says legal team.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The News of the World is believed to be planning to settle a court case which threatens to disclose further evidence of the involvement of its journalists in illegal information-gathering by private investigators. According to one source at the paper, executives have devised a plan to block the case by offering money to the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to persuade him to settle his legal action over the illegal interception of his voicemail messages.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s senior judges will rethink this week their controversial decision to excise damning criticism of MI5 from a ruling published last week. Lawyers for leading British and American media organisations have written to the Court of Appeal asking the judges to reinstate a paragraph — which disclosed how much M15 had been told about the torture of the Guantánamo Bay detainee, Binyam Mohamed — that they removed from their draft judgment after representations from the Foreign Secretary.”
The Times, 16th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The widow of a solicitor who died while being treated for respiratory failure in hospital has been awarded an undisclosed six-figure sum in damages.”
BBC News, 15th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The two barons of the European budget airline industry are to see each other in court after Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of easyJet, yesterday instructed Schillings, the libel lawyers, to serve a writ on Michael O’Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair. In a statement released last night, Sir Stelios, the largest shareholder in easyJet, said: ‘My lawyers have today commenced High Court proceedings against Michael O’Leary and Ryanair for libelling me. Full details of my claim against them will be published later this month. It was about time someone was willing to spend the money to take this arrogant man to court for his despicable behaviour.’ ”
The Times, 13th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“There have been calls for the UK’s treason laws to be used against radical Muslim groups such as Islam4UK in response to their protests about the British army’s campaign in Afghanistan. But how relevant is legislation which dates back to the 14th century?”
BBC News, 15th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Supreme Court
McInnes v Her Majesty’s Advocate (Rev 1) (Scotland) [2010] UKSC 7 (10 February 2010)
Allison v Her Majesty’s Advocate (Rev 1) (Scotland) [2010] UKSC 6 (10 February 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Asztaslos v Szekszard City Court, Hungary [2010] EWHC 237 (Admin) (12 February 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Commercial court)
Kommune & Anor v Depfa ACS Bank & Anor [2010] EWHC 227 (Comm) (12 February 2010)
Yechiel v Kerry London Ltd [2010] EWHC 215 (Comm) (12 February 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Carter v Ministry of Justice [2010] EWHC 60 (QB) (12 February 2010)
Guerrero & Ors v Monterrico Metals Plc & Anor [2010] EWHC 160 (QB) (12 February 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Terrorist Asset-Freezing (Temporary Provisions) Act 2010 published
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Communications Act 2003 (Disclosure of Information) Order 2010
The Asian Development Bank (Further Payments to Capital Stock) Order 2010
The Pharmacy Order 2010 (Commencement No. 1) Order of Council 2010
The General Pharmaceutical Council (Constitution) Order 2010
Source: www.opsi.co.uk
“The aims of the provisions of the Cremation Act 1902 were to ensure that cremations were subject to uniform rules throughout the country, to enable the Secretary of State to regulate the manner and places in which cremations were carried out, to require a crematorium to be a building which was appropriately equipped and to ensure that a crematorium was not located near homes or roads. Further, the Act envisaged that crematoria would be constructed, so that, provided a structure was relatively permanent and substantial so that it could properly be said to have been constructed and provided it could normally be so described, the structure would be a ‘building’ within s 2 giving that word its natural and wide meaning.”
WLR Daily, 12th February 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Byers and Others v Yacht Bull Corporation and Another
Chancery Division
“The court had no jurisdiction to hear a claim by English liquidators to beneficial ownership of a yacht acquired by money from Madoff Securities International Ltd.”
The Times, 15th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Speaking in Vienna today at the 38th Annual Conference of European Bar Leaders, the Chairman of the Bar, Nicholas Green QC said the latest round of proposed cuts in criminal legal aid in England and Wales, coupled with the absence of a clear strategic vision for the future of legal aid were placing the country’s justice system at risk.”
The Bar Council, 12th February 2010
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
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