“The spectacle of two boys aged 10 and 11 standing trial at the Old Bailey accused of raping an even younger child aged 8 has reignited the debate about putting children on trial.”
The Times, 25th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A possessive husband was jailed for life today for killing his glamorous wife after she said she was leaving him to start a new life in Las Vegas.”
The Independent, 24th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The eldest son of a woman convicted of murdering her brain-damaged child has called for changes in the law governing ‘mercy killing’.”
BBC News, 24th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The case of the two young boys convicted of attempted rape highlights once more the low age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The family of a pensioner who died after he was given an overdose of painkillers by a German locum doctor has accepted £40,000 compensation.”
BBC News, 24th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Child witnesses frequently give evidence in criminal trials, particularly as complainants in sexual allegations, and I have been required to question many in my 16 years as a defence barrister.”
The Times, 25th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Demands were made last night for sweeping reform of the way that young children are dealt with in the criminal courts after two boys aged 10 and 11 were found guilty of attempting to rape a girl of 8.”
The Times, 25th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Andrew Wakefield, the doctor at the centre of the MMR scare, has been struck off the medical register after being found guilty of serious professional misconduct.”
The Guardian, 24th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teacher who snapped and attacked a pupil who had been goading him was spared a prison sentence today when he was handed a two-year community order.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man fined £50 for dropping a cigarette butt down a drain celebrated a victory when the case was thrown out of court.”
The Independent, 24th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two boys aged 10 and 11 have been found guilty at the Old Bailey of attempted rape of an eight-year-old girl in London.”
BBC News, 24th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
HXA v The Home Office [2010] EWHC 1177 (QB) (21 May 2010)
High Court (Commercial Court)
FKI Engineering Ltd & Anor v Stribog Ltd [2010] EWHC 1160 (Comm) (21 May 2010)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Equity, ADR, Arbitration and the Law: Different Dimensions of Justice (PDF)
Speech by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls
The Fourth Keating Lecture, Lincoln’s Inn, 19 May 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The Secretary of State’s apparently untrammelled discretion contained in s 42(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 to discharge a patient detained in hospital under ss 37 and 41 of the Act in order to facilitate his or her deportation on the grounds that he had committed criminal offences was to be exercised rationally and in such a way as would not breach the patient’s Convention rights. In considering whether deportation would interfere with a patient’s Convention right to respect for his private and family life, very serious reasons were required to justify expulsion where the patient had lawfully spent a major part of his childhood or youth in the host country and had committed the relevant offences as a juvenile.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 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.
British Airways plc v Unite the Union [2010] WLR (D) 131
“When, following a ballot the result of which supported strike action, one was asking whether a union and its members were protected from a claim in tort under certain provisions within Part V of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, the conditions contained in s 231 of the Act as to the provision by the union of information to its members concerning the results of the ballot were critical. However, s 231 was poorly drafted and it was not appropriate to adopt an over-literal interpretation of its wording.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 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.
Roberts v Gill & Co [2010] UKSC 22; [2010] WLR (D) 130
“A beneficiary under a will who had commenced proceedings against solicitors he alleged had acted negligently in connection with the estate could not, after the relevant limitation period had expired, amend his claim so as to also claim on behalf of the estate by way of a derivative action.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 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.
Court of Appeal
“Where, in civil proceedings in which a litigant’s rights to a fair trial under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights applied, irreducible minimum rights were required to be accorded the litigant to be given sufficient information of the evidential case against him, to enable him to give effective instructions concerning the essential allegations against him.”
The Times, 18th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“A subsequent spouse had to take the other subject to all existing encumbrances, whether known or not.”
The Times, 18th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Unite and Others v Nortel Networks UK Ltd (in Administration)
Chancery Division
“A claim by an employee against an employer in administration did not require a judgment to render it provable for two reasons: the nature of the claim and the nature of the decision on which any award depended.”
The Times, 18th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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