Daylight Saving Bill gets initial approval from MPs – BBC News
“The campaign to give the UK more hours of daylight in the evenings has been boosted by MPs who have given it initial approval.”
BBC News, 3rd December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Legal aid lawyers were struggling even before the cuts – The Guardian
“These are dark days for junior legal aid lawyers. Even before the cuts to the legal aid budget were announced last month, they were struggling to get by on salaries that are among the lowest in the public sector (£16,650 for trainee solicitors and £10,000 for trainee barristers, rising to little more than £25,000 after several years in the job). Now they’re bracing themselves for their practices to be decimated as many of their clients lose eligibility for state funding.”
The Guardian, 3rd December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Repeat offenders with 100 convictions spared jail – The Independent
“Thousands of repeat offenders are being spared jail by the courts, despite having as many as 100 previous convictions, it emerged last night.”
The Independent, 5th December 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
High court judge to rule if coalition’s budget is biased against women – The Guardian
“A high court challenge aimed at overturning the government’s emergency, summer budget is due to be heard today.”
The Guardian, 6th December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
High Court (Chancery Division)
Green v Bramston & Ors [2010] EWHC 3106 (Ch) (02 December 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Razai & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWHC 3151 (Admin) (02 December 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Income Tax (Indexation) Order 2010
The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Disabled People’s Right to Control (Pilot Scheme) (England) Regulations 2010
The Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (Marine Voyages Reliefs) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Education (School Attendance Targets) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Salazar-Duarte v Government of the United States of America – WLR Daily
“For the purposes of s 103(9) of the Extradition Act 2003, the person whose extradition was sought was deemed to be informed of the extradition order against him when the solicitors acting on his behalf received a letter, whether by post, fax or e-mail, which informed him that the order had been made.”
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010
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.
Fulham Football Club (1987) Ltd v Sir David Richards and another – WLR Daily
“The statutory right conferred on a member of a company to present an unfair prejudice petition under s 994 of the Companies Act 1996 was not an inalienable one: members of companies and the companies themselves could agree to refer disputes that might otherwise support unfair prejudice petitions to arbitration, provided that the types of remedies sought were not, inter alia, in a category that was limited by public policy or sought to bind third parties or affected the public at large, so as to limit the scope of the available arbitrations.”
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010
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 v Chaytor and others – WLR Daily
Regina v Chaytor and others [2010] UKSC 52; [2010] WLR (D) 311
“Parliamentary privilege did not pose any bar to the prosecution of defendants charged with false accounting who, while serving Members of Parliament, made claims for expenses and allowances to the Fees Office of the House of Commons.”
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010
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.
Joseph v Spiller – WLR Daily
Joseph v Spiller [2010] UKSC 53; [2010] WLR (D) 310
“The defence in defamation proceedings of fair comment – to be renamed ‘honest comment’ – did not require that the comment had to identify the matters on which it was based with sufficient particularity to enable readers to judge for themselves whether it was well founded. The comment did, however, have to identify at least in general terms what it was that had led the commentator to make the comment”
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010
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 v Major – WLR Daily
Regina v Major [2010] WLR (D) 309
“The Registrar of Criminal Appeals had power to grant a representation order in respect of an application or appeal against a restraining order imposed on acquittal of an offence, pursuant to the provisions of s 5A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.”
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010
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 (Moore) v Skipton Fund Ltd – WLR Daily
R (Moore) v Skipton Fund Ltd [2010] EWHC 3070 (Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 308
“For the purposes of a claim for an ex gratia payment from public funds, there was nothing irrational or unfair in requiring certain people infected with hepatitis C through treatment with NHS blood or blood products prior to September 1991, to show that spontaneous clearance of the virus after a period of six months had occurred.”
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010
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.
HR Trustees Ltd v German and another; In re IMG Pension Plan – WLR Daily
“Section 91 of the Pensions Act 1995 as amended prevented neither the parties from making nor the court from approving or enforcing a bona fide compromise of any disputed or doubted right and entitlement of members of the scheme under an occupational pension scheme.”
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2010
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.
Abuser who videoed attacks on toddler jailed for murder – The Guardian
“A man who filmed himself attacking a 15-month-old repeatedly over six months has been jailed for 24 years for the boy’s murder.”
The Guardian, 2nd December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man guilty of arranging estranged wife’s machete murder – The Guardian
“A man was today found guilty of ordering the murder of his estranged wife, who was hacked to death with a machete in a suburban street as she walked to collect the couple’s children.”
The Guardian, 2nd December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The law on mercy killing is badly in need of an overhaul – Daily Telegraph
“The mandatory life sentence for murder is unknown in other countries and distorts the law.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd December 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Deaths in police custody since 1998: 333; officers convicted: none – The Guardian
“A total of 333 people have died in or following police custody over the past 11 years, but no officer has ever been successfully prosecuted, according to a watchdog’s report.”
The Guardian,
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Burridge v R. [2010] EWCA Crim 2847 (02 December 2010)
Burcombe v R. [2010] EWCA Crim 2818 (29 November 2010)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
T v T [2010] EWCA Civ 1366 (01 December 2010)
K (Children), Re [2010] EWCA Civ 1365 (02 December 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Bayes- Walker & Anor v Bayes- Walker & Ors [2010] EWHC 3142 (Ch) (02 December 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
