“More criminals are being jailed for carrying a knife and the number of offences dealt with involving knives has fallen, according to new statistics published by the Ministry of Justice today.”
Ministry of Justice, 11th June 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A Mauritian-born couple have been found guilty of four counts of human trafficking and three counts of employing illegal workers.”
UK Border Agency, 9th June 2009
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Online travel company LastMinute.com has won the right to have a competing firm’s European trade mark cancelled. The European Union’s Court of First Instance (CFI) has backed the British firm, overturning a ruling by the EU office for trade marks.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th June 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Online supermarket Ocado could not back up price-matching claims made in its adverts, ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said. The company has been told not to repeat its claims while operating the current system.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th June 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A drunk woman who drove almost half a mile along railway tracks before her car broke down has been spared jail.”
BBC News, 11th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Thousands of parking tickets paid by credit card could be cancelled after a council’s charges were ruled unlawful.”
BBC News, 11th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Four out of five knife offenders avoid going straight to jail, according to government figures published yesterday.”
The Times, 12th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A public school is being sued by a former pupil who was permanently disabled following a drunken fall from a window.”
The Times, 12th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Attorney General will consider whether the sentences given to two men who tortured and murdered two French students were ‘unduly lenient’.”
BBC News, 11th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A speeding motorcyclist who unwittingly filmed a fellow biker’s death crash with a camera strapped to his petrol tank, walked free from court today with a ban.”
The Independent, 11th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A priest has been barred from holding a licence after he admitted sending ‘sexual and intimate’ text messages to a teenage parishioner.”
The Independent, 11th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The investigation into alleged child abuse at the Little Ted nursery is likely to consider whether the worker who was charged yesterday was subjected to the correct vetting process. Loopholes in vetting came to light after the Soham murders of 2002. Yet a new system designed to strengthen checks has yet to come into force, although ministers say they are confident that they will meet the latest deadline of this October.”
The Times, 11th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A Metropolitan police sergeant who was filmed slapping a female protester at the G20 protests is under investigation for allegedly assaulting a second woman, the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 11th June 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A lorry driver who abducted a 15-year-old girl he met in an internet chatroom and took her to France has been jailed for five years.”
BBC News, 11th June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three youths were found guilty today of murdering Ben Kinsella, the 16-year-old brother of former EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella.”
The Independent, 11th June 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Secretary of State for Work & Pensions v Yates [2009] EWCA Civ 479 (10 June 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Penfold v Fuller [2009] EWHC 1195 (Ch) (18 May 2009)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Thompson (t/a R J Thompson International) v Charlesworth [2009] EWHC 417 (TCC) (17 February 2009)
National House Building Council v Relicpride Ltd & Ors [2009] EWHC 1260 (TCC) (22 May 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
“In law, small cases often mark major milestones. When the prosecution of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings begins next week at Stroud Magistrates’ Court, a new chapter in English law will begin. It will be the first case brought under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and it signifies a new approach to prosecuting companies for alleged crimes.”
The Times, 11th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AF (No 3); Same v AN; Same v AE
House of Lords
“Where, in the interests of national security, the Secretary of State for the Home Department wanted to rely on closed material in a terror-suspect hearing to justify his decision to make a control order, the controlled person had to be given sufficient information about the case against him to enable him to give effective instructions to the special advocate representing him.”
The Times, 11th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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