“Almost one in four Freedom of Information requests are being turned down by Government departments and public bodies, and the trend is getting worse.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The way in which neonatal deaths are investigated should be more consistent, a senior coroner said.”
BBC News, 1st June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government is moving swiftly to change the law on universal jurisdiction to abolish the ability to bring private prosecutions for international crimes in the UK.”
The Guardian, 30th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In the 1960s, when I began to practise law, there was no positive right to free speech in English law. Free speech was a strong British political value, but as a matter of English law it was merely the space left by the criminal and civil law — official secrecy, fair trials, contract, confidentiality, copyright, defamation and the rest.”
The Times, 30th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Earlier this month, the Public and Commercial Services Union challenged the government’s attempts to reduce the level of redundancy pay for civil servants, and won. The case has been hailed as a ‘major victory’, but it may not be the triumph it first appears.”
The Guardian, 28th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three teenagers who killed a woman by pushing a firework through her letterbox following a string of bullying attacks on her son were jailed today.”
The Independent, 28th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A Berkshire man who hired 23 illegal immigrants at a laundry in Hampshire has been jailed for a year for assisting unlawful immigration.”
BBC News, 28th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A solicitor has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 29 years for hiring a hitman to murder his business partner.”
BBC News, 28th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lists of Britons who infringe copyright are to be drawn up by the UK’s biggest ISPs, under proposals from the regulator Ofcom.”
BBC News, 28th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A campaign group is going to court to try to stop a council’s ‘archaic practice’ of holding prayers before meetings. The National Secular Society (NSS) has instructed a solicitor to take its battle with Bideford Town Council, in Devon, to the High Court, claiming the policy breaches human rights.”
The Independent, 28th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“High Court judge Mr Justice Floyd ruled that a prototype model designed by a competing appliances company could be ‘passed off’ as a Henry machine if it went on the market.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An analysis of Lord Lester’s private members’ defamation bill.”
The Guardian, 27th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A daughter has lost a High Court attempt for another inquest into her mother’s death.”
BBC News, 25th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police made a ‘blatant error’ by not seizing firearms certificates from a man who went on to shoot his step-daughter, the police watchdog has said.”
BBC News, 26th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A taxi driver who killed a passenger after driving off with his cab door open has been spared jail.”
BBC News, 27th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v HK (Turkey) [2010] EWCA Civ 583 (27th May 2010)
Haugesund Kommune & Anor v Depfa ACS Bank [2010] EWCA Civ 579 (27 May 2010)
Varsani v Relfo Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 560 (27 May 2010)
Kookmin Bank v Rainy Sky SA & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 582 (27 May 2010)
Brazzill & v Willoughby & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 561 (27 May 2010)
Oxfordshire County Council v X & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 581 (27 May 2010)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Brewster & Anor v R. [2010] EWCA Crim 1194 (27 May 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Craftrule Ltd.v 41-60 Albert Palace Mansions (Freehold) Ltd [2010] EWHC 1230 (Ch) (27 May 2010)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Towler v Wills [2010] EWHC 1209 (Comm) (27 May 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench division)
Hurst & Ors v Hone & Ors [2010] EWHC 1159 (QB) (27 May 2010)
Underhill v Corser & Anor [2010] EWHC 1195 (QB) (27 May 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The phrase ‘a self-contained part of a building’ in ss 3 and 4 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 did not, either expressly or by implication, require that a self-contained part of a building should be indivisible into smaller such parts.”
WLR Daily, 27th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd [2010] UKSC 23; [2010] WLR (D) 137
“In a claim under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 based on the rights conferred under Council Directive 85/374/EEC concerning liability for defective products, which by art 11 required proceedings to be brought against the producer within ten years of the product being put into circulation, domestic law could not allow the producer to be substituted as the defendant outside that period in place of a wholly-owned subsidiary (who was the supplier but had been erroneously thought to be the producer) unless the parent company had actually determined when the supplier put the product in circulation.”
WLR Daily, 27th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Jones v Kernott [2010] EWCA Civ 578; [2010] WLR (D) 136
“Where the parties had agreed when they separated that they had equal interests in a residential property conveyed into their joint names there had to be something to displace those interests before the court could impute from the parties’ conduct an intention to vary that equality. The passage of time was insufficient to do so even if in the meantime the defendant had acquired alternative accommodation and the claimant had paid all the outgoings.”
WLR Daily, 27th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2010] EWCA Crim 571; [2010] WLR (D) 135
“An employee who suffered damage as a result of findings of personal or professional misconduct leading to dismissal and loss of professional status that were made against him in disciplinary proceedings conducted in breach of contract, and which would not otherwise have been made, could recover damages at large.”
WLR Daily, 27th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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