“Phil Woolas has given up his battle against becoming the first MP for almost a century to lose his seat for lying about an opponent.”
The Independent, 4th December 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Criminals who plead guilty early will have their sentences slashed by up to half under plans to be unveiled by Kenneth Clarke next week.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th December 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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.
“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 [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 [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 [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 [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.
“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.
“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
“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 mandatory life sentence for murder is unknown in other countries and distorts the law.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd December 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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