Cardiff man jailed for stealing car with baby inside – BBC News
“A man who stole a car without realising a one-year-old girl was asleep in the back has been jailed for 34 months.”
BBC News, 7th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Victims of sex abuse in Catholic children’s homes set to win damages – The Observer
“One of the longest-running legal cases in UK history, centred on systemic sexual abuse at children’s homes in the north-west of England, is poised to end after a judge found in favour of two men who claimed they had been sexually assaulted while in care.”
The Observer, 9th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Draft law opens way for first women bishops by 2014 – The Sunday Times
“The Church of England has paved the way for ordination of its first women bishops with new legislation that it hopes will prevent Anglicans splitting over the issue.”
The Sunday Times, 9th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
BA price-fixing trial collapses – The Guardian
“Serious and significant failings by the Office of Fair Trading led to the collapse of the trial of senior British Airways executives over allegations of price-fixing with Virgin Atlantic.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Tycoon’s wife gives taxman secret files – The Sunday Times
“Michelle Young, 45, who is divorcing her husband Scot, is to give HM Revenue & Customs a computer disk containing hundreds of pages of emails and other documents outlining his dealings in property, shares and film companies over the past five years.”
The Sunday Times, 9th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Jailed Cazenove partner ordered to pay over £500,000 – The Times
“A former partner at the Queen’s stockbroker Cazenove, who was jailed for insider trading, has been ordered to pay over half a million pounds in confiscation and costs or spend more time behind bars.”
The Times, 7th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Lord Carey intervenes in council prayers battle – The Guardian
“The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, today [7th May] backed the saying of prayers before council meetings as a pressure group prepared to launch a legal battle on the issue.”
The Guardian, 7th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
UK policy on gay and lesbian asylum seekers challenged in Supreme Court – The Guardian
“Laws which mean gay and lesbian asylum seekers can be returned to countries where they face persecution will be challenged tomorrow [10th May] in the UK’s highest court.”
The Guardian, 9th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Algerian terror suspect allowed to stay for children – Daily Telegraph
“An Algerian terror suspect has been allowed to stay in Britain because attempts to remove him have taken so long his children are now settled here.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Competition Commission clears music biz merger – OUT-LAW.com
“The Competition Commission has given the all clear to a merger between two live music companies for the second time. Its first decision in the case was quashed by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th May 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
Prisoners may be unpopular but they should still vote – The Times
“In October 2005, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights decided that it is a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights for this country to disenfranchise all prisoners from voting in parliamentary and local elections. At today’s general election, four and a half years later, that absolute ban persists.”
The Times, 6th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina v Neish – WLR Daily
“The process whereby a judge gave instructions to the court listing office to relist the hearing of confiscation proceedings amounted to a postponement of the proceedings by the court of its own motion and was a valid postponement for the purposes of s 14 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.”
WLR Daily, 7th 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.
Regina v Cooper (John) – WLR Daily
“Where a defendant was charged with perjury, he could not be convicted solely on the evidence of a witness who relied on business records which he had prepared himself and which did not therefore represent independent evidence.”
WLR Daily, 7th 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.
Football fan Garry Mann ‘devastated’ to lose extradition battle – Independent
“England football fan Garry Mann was left ‘devastated’ today as he lost his final legal battle against extradition to Portugal, where he faces a two-year jail sentence.”
The Independent, 7th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Smuggler of endangered birds’ eggs avoids jail – The Guardian
“An obsessive smuggler of wild birds’ eggs has avoided jail, to the disappointment of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, whose staff helped to track down his hoard.”
The Guardian, 7th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: recent Decisions
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Tullett Prebon Plc & Ors v BGC Brokers LP & Ors [2010] EWHC 989 (QB) (06 May 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Regina (Clue) v Birmingham City Council and Others – Times Law Reports
Regina (Clue) v Birmingham City Council and Others
Court of Appeal
“A local authority was not entitled to decide how the Secretary of State for the Home Department might dispose of an application for leave to remain in the United Kingdom.”
The Times, 7th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Al Rawi and Others v Security Service and Others – Times Law Reports
Al Rawi and Others v Security Service and Others
Court of Appeal
“The principle that a litigant should be able to see and hear all the evidence, seen and heard by a court determining his case, was so fundamental and so embedded in the common law, that, in the absence of parliamentary authority, it should not be overridden by a judge in an ordinary civil claim.”
The Times, 7th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina (Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry) v Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, The NHS Confederation (Employers) Co Ltd, interested party – Times Law Reports
Court of Justice of the European Union
“European Union law did not prevent national health authorities from introducing financial incentive schemes aimed at replacing the prescription of certain medicines by other and cheaper named medicines in the same therapeutic class, provided certain conditions were satisfied.”
The Times, 7th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
