House of Lords
“An assured tenancy subject to a possession order ended only when possession was delivered up.”
The Times, 15th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Solicitors across Britain are bracing themselves for further sanctions over the coalminers’ compensation scandal that led to two lawyers being struck off for dishonesty.”
The Times, 13th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Tankard v John Fredricks Plastics Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1375 (11 December 2008)
Goodwin v Bennetts UK Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1374 (11 December 2008)
T-Mobile (UK) Ltd. & Anor v Office of Communications [2008] EWCA Civ 1373 (12 December 2008)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Stannard & Ors, R v [2008] EWCA Crim 2789 (26 November 2008)
PM v R. [2008] EWCA Crim 2787 (26 November 2008)
C & Ors, R v [2008] EWCA Crim 2790 (26 November 2008)
JS v Regina [2008] EWCA Crim 2788 (26 November 2008)
A, R v [2008] EWCA Crim 2908 (01 December 2008)
Sanchez, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 2936 (05 December 2008)
Ward, R v [2008] EWCA Crim 2955 (11 December 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Tekle v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 3064 (Admin) (11 December 2008)
Veerasingam v SSHD [2008] EWHC 3044 (Admin) (11 December 2008)
Derwent Holdings Ltd v Liverpool City Council [2008] EWHC 3023 (Admin) (12 December 2008)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Middle Eastern Oil LLC v National Bank of Abu Dhabi [2008] EWHC 2895 (Comm) (27 November 2008)
Cavell USA Inc & Anor v Seaton Insurance Company & Anor [2008] EWHC 3043 (Comm) (11 December 2008)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Crossley & Anor v Newsquest (Midlands South) Ltd [2008] EWHC 3054 (QB) (11 December 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
“On a proper construction of Part I of the Housing Act 1988 an assured tenancy subject to a possession order ended only when the order was executed.”
WLR Daily, 11th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
CL (Vietnam) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; [2008] WLR (D) 381
“On an appeal by an uaccompanied child seeking asylum, against the refusal of his claim and removal directions, an immigration judge was required to determine the adequacy of reception facilities for the child on return as part of the consideration of that child’s human rights. It was not solely a matter for the Secretary of State’s determination.”
WLR Daily, 11th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Regina (Wellington) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
House of Lords
“A mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole which would be imposed on a prisoner convicted of two offences of murder in the first degree did not amount to inhuman or degrading punishment so as to justify a refusal to extradite him to stand trial in the United States of America.”
The Times, 12th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
D v Buckinghamshire County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 1372 (10 December 2008)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Anderson v Lyotier & Anor (t/a Snowbizz) [2008] EWHC 2790 (QB) (14 November 2008)
TCD v Harrow Council & Ors [2008] EWHC 3048 (QB) (10 December 2008)
High Court (Family Division)
T v B & Anor [2008] EWHC 3000 (Fam) (10 December 2008)
A B v J L B [2008] EWHC 2965 (Fam) (01 December 2008)
KSO v MJO & Ors [2008] EWHC 3031 (Fam) (08 December 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Kehr & Tucker Ltd v Astronomical Ltd [2008] EWHC 2862 (TCC) (07 November 2008)
Air Design (Kent) Ltd v Deerglen (Jersey) Ltd [2008] EWHC 3047 (TCC) (10 December 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
R (Wellington) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] UKHL 72; [2008] WLR (D) 380
“A mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole imposed for two offences of murder in the first degree did not amount to inhuman or degrading punishment so that the Secretary of State had not acted unlawfully in ordering the extradition of an applicant to stand trial in the United States of America.”
WLR Daily, 10th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
R v Chargot (trading as Contract Services) and others [2008] UKHL 73; [2008] WLR (D) 379
“When criminal proceedings were brought against an employer under ss 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 it was sufficient for the prosecution to prove merely a risk of injury arising from a state of affairs at work, and it was not necessary to identify, allege and prove specific breaches of duty by the employer. Once that was done a prima facie case of breach was established. The onus then passed to the employer to make good the defence of reasonable practicability.”
WLR Daily, 10th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Earl Cadogan and another v Sportelli and another [2008] UKHL 71; [2008] WLR (D) 378
“In determining the price payable by tenants for leasehold enfranchisement, landlords and freeholders generally were not entitled to ‘hope value’ as an element in the value of their interests.”
WLR Daily, 10th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
House of Lords
“The right to life protected by article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights imposed an operational obligation on medical authorities to do all that could reasonably be expected of them to prevent a patient detained in a mental hospital who was known to be at a real and immediate risk of committing suicide from doing so.”
The Times, 11th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Cream Holdings Ltd & Ors v Davenport [2008] EWCA Civ 1363 (09 December 2008)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Kitfix Swallow Group Ltd v Great Gizmos Ltd [2008] EWHC 2723 (Ch) (12 November 2008)
Ellis v Ellis [2008] EWHC 2989 (Ch) (08 December 2008)
High Court (Commercial Court)
JP Morgan Chase Bank & Ors v Springwell Navigation Corp [2008] EWHC 2848 (Comm) (21 November 2008)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Blacklight Power v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks
Chancery Division
“The correct standard of proof for establishing patentability was the balance of probabilities.”
The Times, 10th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Club la Costa (UK) plc v Gebhard and Another
Queen’s Bench Division
“An offer to make amends for a defamatory statement could not be valid without the offer or accepting that the specific defamatory meaning contained in the statement complained of was defamatory of the person bringing the complaint.”
The Times, 10th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Louca v Public Prosecutor, Bielefeld, Germany Kaba v Court of First Instance, Creteil, France
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“While a European arrest warrant had to be validated by reference to an enforceable national legal procedure, it need not refer to any other European arrest warrant that might previously have been issued in respect of the alleged offences contained in the current warrant.”
The Times, 10th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Craner v Dorset County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 1323; [2008] WLR (D) 377
“Although an action for personal injuries of a school caretaker against the employer council for leaving uneven paving slabs in the school site should be brought under reg 12(1)(2) of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992, if the claimant had brought his claim under reg 12(3) alleging ‘obstruction’ and the defence was simply that what had occurred was a freak or inexplicable accident which could never have been prevented or guarded against the judge was entitled to find against the council.”
WLR Daily, 8th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Regina v Stannard; Regina v A; Regina v Clarkson
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“Where a defendant was before the court to be sentenced for offences committed both before and after April 4, 2005, when the dangerous offender provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 came into force, distinct statutory provisions applied but that did not mean that if the offences committed before April 4, 2005 were more serious than those committed after that date a sentence of imprisonment for public protection could not be imposed.”
The Times, 9th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
In re Hemming (deceased); Raymond Saul & Co (a Firm) v Holden and Another
Chancery Division
“Where a sole residuary legatee under a will became bankrupt but was automatically discharged from bankruptcy before the completion of the administration of the estate of the testator, the money and assets which were thereafter ascertained to form the net residuary estate were payable to his trustee in bankruptcy.”
The Times, 9th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Lewis and Another v Metropolitan Property Realizations Ltd
Chancery Division
“A trustee in bankruptcy who sold the estate’s interest for deferred contingent consideration ‘realised’ the interest within the meaning of section 283A(3)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986.”
The Times, 9th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
© Inner Temple Library 2025