law reports – Page 316 – Current Awareness

“Sewage escaping from pipes maintained by a statutory undertaker was ‘controlled waste’ within the meaning of s 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.”

WLR Daily, 29th July 2008

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ETI Euro Telecom International NV v Republic of Bolivia and another – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2008 in arbitration, conflict of laws, freezing injunctions, law reports by sally

ETI Euro Telecom International NV v Republic of Bolivia and another [2008] EWCA Civ 880; [2008] WLR (D) 263

“International arbitration proceedings were not ‘proceedings’ for the purpose of s 25 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 to enable the English court to grant interim relief to preserve the outcome of the arbitration proceedings. Where injunctive relief was sought in the English court, the claimant should deal both with state immunity from the adjudicative jurisdiction of the court and with state immunity from enforcement. The court should consider and decide the question of state immunity at as early a stage on the proceedings as practicable.”

WLR Daily, 29th July 2008

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Regina (C) v Secretary of State for Justice – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2008 in law reports, restraint, young offenders by sally

Regina( C) v Secretary of State for Justice; [2008] WLR (D) 262

“The introduction of an amendment to the Secure Training Centre Rules to permit physical restraint of young offenders in secure training centres to ensure good order and discipline without prior consultation with the Children’s Commissioner was unlawful and engaged art 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom.”

WLR Daily, 29th July 2008

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Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL and others (No 4) – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2008 in company directors, foreign companies, judgments, jurisdiction, law reports by sally

Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL and others (No 4) [2008] EWCA Civ 876; [2008] WLR (D) 261

“The court had jurisdiction under CPR r 71.2 to order the examination of a foreign director of a company which had submitted to the jurisdiction, defended a claim on the merits and failed to pay the judgment debt. A director of a corporate director of the judgment debtor was not ‘an officer of that body’ within the meaning of the rule.”

WLR Daily, 29th July 2008

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JT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2008 in asylum, law reports, statutory interpretation by sally

JT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 878; [2008] WLR (D) 260

“When construing s 8(1) of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004, which provided various factors that the court should take account of in assessing the credibility of an asylum seeker, the qualifying word ‘potentially’ should be read into an explanatory clause which would then read: ‘as (potentially) damaging the claimant’s credibility’.”

WLR Daily, 29th July 2008

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Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd – Times Law Reports

Posted July 30th, 2008 in law reports, media, privacy by sally

Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd

Queen’s Bench Division

“It was not for the media to expose sexual conduct between consenting adults which did not involve any significant breach of the criminal law except where there was a countervailing public interest because at least one of the established limiting principles, such as victimisation or corruption of the young, came into play.”

The Times, 30th July 2008

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted July 29th, 2008 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Cantrell v Wycombe District Council [2008] EWCA Civ 866 (29 July 2008)

Bailey v The Ministry of Defence & Anor [2008] EWCA Civ 883 (29 July 2008)

Blyth Valley Borough Council v Persimmon Homes (North East) Ltd & Ors [2008] EWCA Civ 861 (29 July 2008)

Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge & Ors (“Bainbridge 1”) [2008] EWCA Civ 885 (29 July 2008)

G, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Southwark [2008] EWCA Civ 877 (29 July 2008)

High Court (Administrative Division)

O, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 1736 (Admin) (10 July 2008)

Taylor Wimpey UK, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2008] EWHC 1738 (Admin) (09 July 2008)

Sedgefield Borough Council v Crowe [2008] EWHC 1814 (Admin) (08 July 2008)

YG, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 1735 (Admin) (08 July 2008)

Ashby, R (on the application of) v Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain [2008] EWHC 1739 (Admin) (07 July 2008)

Watkins-Singh, R (on the application of) v The Governing Body of Aberdare Girls’ High School & Anor [2008] EWHC 1865 (Admin) (29 July 2008)

High Court (Commercial Court)

Underwriting Members of Lloyd’s Syndicate 980 & Ors v Sinco SA [2008] EWHC 1842 (Comm) (29 July 2008)

High Court (Technology and Construction Court)

Makers UK Ltd v London Borough of Camden [2008] EWHC 1836 (TCC) (25 July 2008)

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted July 29th, 2008 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

Noble, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1473 (24 June 2008)

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

British Airways Plc v Grundy [2008] EWCA Civ 875 (28 July 2008)

ETI Euro Telecom International NV v Republic of Bolivia & Anor [2008] EWCA Civ 880 (28 July 2008)

JT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 878 (28 July 2008)

High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)

Mason v Ministry of Justice [2008] EWHC 1787 (QB) (28 July 2008)

Thames Water Utilities Ltd, R (on the application of) v Water Services Regulation Authority [2008] EWHC 1763 (QB) (28 July 2008)

High Court (Chancery Division)

Daniels & Ors v Deville & Ors [2008] EWHC 1810 (Ch) (25 July 2008)

High Court (Administrative Division)

Lewis, R (on the application of) v Persimmon Homes Plc [2008] EWHC 1813 (Admin) (18 July 2008)

Securiplan Plc & Ors, R (on the application of) v Security Industry Authority & Anor [2008] EWHC 1762 (Admin) (25 July 2008)

High Court (Commercial Court)

Orascom Telecom Holding SAE v Republic of Chad & Ors [2008] EWHC 1841 (Comm) (28 July 2008)

Berghoff Trading Ltd & Ors v Swinbrook Developments Ltd & Ors [2008] EWHC 1785 (Comm) (28 July 2008)

High Court (Technology and Construction Court)

Makers UK Ltd v London Borough of Camden [2008] EWHC 1836 (TCC) (25 July 2008)

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Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted July 29th, 2008 in damages, law reports, media, privacy by sally

Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2008] EWHC 1777 (QB); [2008] WLR (D); [2008] WLR (D) 259

“Sado-masochistic behaviour, even where it involved adultery, was not a matter of genuine public interest justifying interference by the media in an individual’s private life. Exemplary damages were not available in a claim for infringement of privacy: a claim for compensatory damages could reflect an element of aggravation. Certain principles were applicable in the assessment of compensatory damages for infringement of privacy.”

WLR Daily, 28th July 2008

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Bocardo SA v Star Energy and another – WLR Daily

Posted July 29th, 2008 in law reports, oil wells, trespass by sally

Bocardo SA v Star Energy and another [2008] EWHC 1756 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D); [2008] WLR (D) 258

“Access to land to remove oil vested in the Crown from beneath the subsoil, without obtaining access rights from the owner of the land, amounted to an actionable trespass entitling the landowner to compensation, which was to be assessed on the basis of what would be fair and reasonable between willing parties.”

WLR Daily, 28th July 2008

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Newport City Council v Charles – Times Law Reports

Posted July 29th, 2008 in appeals, law reports, legal representation, lists by sally

Newport City Council v Charles

Court of Appeal

“A fixture need not be vacated when the Civil Appeals Listing Office had failed to ascertain that leading counsel was prebooked for an appeal due to be heard in Cardiff.”

The Times, 29th July 2008

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Coleman v Attridge Law (a Firm) and Another Case C-303/06 – Times Law Reports

Posted July 29th, 2008 in children, disability discrimination, EC law, harassment, law reports by sally

Coleman v Attridge Law (a Firm) and Another Case C-303/06

Court of Justice of the European Communities

“The prohibition of direct discrimination against and harassment of disabled people in employment, provided for in the Community disability directive, was not limited to employees who were themselves disabled but extended to unequal treatment and harassment of a non-disabled employee for reasons connected with the disability of his child.”

The Times, 29th July 2008

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Coleman v Attridge Law and another – WLR Daily

Posted July 28th, 2008 in children, disability discrimination, EC law, harassment, law reports by sally

Coleman v Attridge Law and another (Case C-303/06); [2008] WLR (D) 257

“The person whose disability gave rise to direct discrimination against an employee, so as to constitute an infringement of Directive 2000/78 on equal treatment and occupation, could in principle be a disabled child of the employee, and was not limited to the employee himself, and the same was true of harassment of the employee.”

WLR Daily, 25th July 2008

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R v Sivaraman – WLR Daily

Posted July 28th, 2008 in conspiracy, fraud, law reports, proceeds of crime by sally

R v Sivaraman; [2008] WLR (D) 256

“There was no rule of law to the effect that, for the purposes of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the amount of the benefit to each of the co-conspirators to a fraud must be taken as the whole amount of the loss attributable to the fraud: the amount of the benefit might vary as between the co-conspirators, and was to be determined on a common sense appreciation of the particular facts of the case.”

WLR Daily, 25th July 2008

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Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd and another – WLR Daily

Posted July 28th, 2008 in financial advice, law reports, negligence, pensions by sally

Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd and another [2008] EWCA Civ 863; [2008] WLR (D) 255

“Where a client, on the advice of a financial adviser, shifted his pension investment from a relatively safe occupational final salary pension scheme to a new more risky personal pension income withdrawal scheme, which later suffered in value owing to falling annuity rates, the client’s right to sue the adviser in negligence accrued on the date when the transfer was made and was not contingent upon the subsequent occurrence of loss in value or his even later discovery of such loss.”

WLR Daily, 25th July 2008

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CTI Group Inc v Transclear SA – WLR Daily

Posted July 28th, 2008 in contracts, law reports, sale of goods by sally

CTI Group Inc v Transclear SA [2008] EWCA Civ 856; [2008] WLR (D) 254

“A contract for the sale by description of unascertained goods of a specified origin was not frustrated where although delivery of the goods remained physically and legally possible, the seller’s suppliers chose, for whatever reason, not to make them available.”

WLR Daily, 25th July 2008

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NA v United Kingdom (Application No. 25904/07)- Times Law Reports

Posted July 28th, 2008 in asylum, human rights, law reports, Sri Lanka by sally

NA v United Kingdom (Application No. 25904/07)

European Court of Human Rights

” The level of risk of ill-treatment in returning failed asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka was indicated by the fact that since 2007 the European Court of Human Rights has granted interim measures preventing the return of 342 Tamil applicants from the United Kingdom.”

The Times, 28th July 2008

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