“A senior judge will be appointed to oversee an inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson at the ‘earliest opportunity’, it emerged today.”
The Independent, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The UK Border Agency has been warned it may be discriminating unlawfully against Pakistanis applying for British visas and in favour of applicants from Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Dubai.”
The Guardian, 4th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Joshua Rozenberg asks whether recent reforms to the military justice system are sufficient to restore confidence in the way the armed forces deal with crimes committed by their own troops.”
BBC Law in Action, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“It should come as no surprise that Lord Macdonald, the eminent QC and former director of public prosecutions who is reporting on terror laws for the government, is strongly opposed to control orders. Lawyers do not like them. And if, like me, you have represented men trying to challenge their control orders, it is easy to see why: they are like nothing you have experienced in your legal career.”
The Guardian, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Proposals to scrap jury trials for lesser offences were today criticised by the Law Society as ‘entirely wrong’.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The coroner hearing the inquests for the 52 victims of the July 7 bombings ruled today that she cannot hear top secret intelligence material in closed sessions.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A 21-year-old student has been jailed for life at the Old Bailey for trying to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms because he voted for the war in Iraq.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Louise Casey, the independent Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses, has today published a new report on improving support for victims in the criminal justice system.”
Ministry of Justice, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Google breached UK data laws in its collection of personal data via Street View cars, the UK’s Information Commissioner has said.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Williams, R. v [2010] EWCA Crim 2552 (02 November 2010)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Chadwick v Hollingsworth [2010] EWCA Civ 1210 (02 November 2010)
Crosstown Music Company 1 LLC v Rive Droite Music Ltd & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 1222 (02 November 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
McLaughlin & Ors v London Borough of Lambeth & Anor [2010] EWHC 2726 (QB) (02 November 2010)
Chadwick v Hollingsworth (No. 2) [2010] EWHC 2718 (QB) (02 November 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“As the AA and Saga launch online portals, more than half of law firms say they expect to lose work to non-lawyer competitors.”
The Guardian, 2nd November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The right of ‘persons interested’ under section 15(1) of the Audit Commission Act 1998 to inspect the accounts to be audited and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts relating to them did not stretch, on the facts, to examination of commercially sensitive material which was protected by art 1 of the First Protocol of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 2nd November 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.
White v Davenham Trust Ltd [2010] EWHC 2748 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 272
“The mere existence of a secured remedy against another party was not a substantial ground for refusing to allow a creditor to pursue a remedy in bankruptcy against a surety.”
WLR Daily, 2nd November 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.
“Red tape swamping police and prosecutors is at ‘unacceptable’ levels, a watchdog warned today as it revealed officers and officials have to go through 1,000 different steps just to deal with a simple burglary.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Scrapping the right to a jury trial for lesser offences that ‘clog up the courts’ could save £30 million a year in prosecutors’ costs alone, the Government’s victims’ commissioner said today.”
The Independent, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Police believe a gifted student convicted of attempting to stab to death a former government minister for supporting the Iraq war is the first Briton to have been inspired by al-Qaida to try to assassinate a politician on British soil.”
The Guardian, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Convicted child killer Peter Chester today takes his groundbreaking fight for the right to vote to the Court of Appeal.”
The Independent, 3rd November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Campaigners launched legal action today in an attempt to ban the export from Britain of an anaesthetic used to execute prisoners in the United States.”
The Independent, 2nd November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A lesbian couple have pledged to go to court in an attempt to overturn the ban on same-sex marriages after a register office refused to grant them a civil licence.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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