Budget 2010: Budget documents – BBC News
“Read all the official documents from Alistair Darling’s 2010 Budget report in PDF form.”
BBC News, 24th March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Chancery Lane calls for ‘radical rethink’ of legal aid funding – Law Society’s Gazette
“A loan fund akin to the student loans scheme and a ‘polluter pays’ funding mechanism are among ideas advanced today for legal aid funding by the Law Society.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th March 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Unified courts and tribunals service – Ministry of Justice
“Justice Secretary Jack Straw has announced that the Ministry of Justice will be bringing Her Majesty’s Courts Service and the Tribunals Service into a new, single organisation.”
Ministry of Justice, 24th March 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Supreme Court
British Airways plc v Williams & Ors [2010] UKSC 16 (24 March 2010)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Wade v Baylis [2010] EWCA Civ 257 (23 March 2010)
Ahmed & Ors v Khan [2010] EWCA Civ 290 (23 March 2010)
Revenue and Customs v Kearney [2010] EWCA Civ 288 (23 March 2010)
Revenue and Customs v Ruas [2010] EWCA Civ 291 (23 March 2010)
Oguz v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 311 (23 March 2010)
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v Scullion [2010] EWCA Civ 310 (23 March 2010)
Bent v Highways & Utilities Construction Ltd & Anor [2010] EWCA Civ 292 (24 March 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Teasdale v HSBC Bank Plc [2010] EWHC 612 (QB) (23 March 2010)
Budu v The British Broadcasting Corporation [2010] EWHC 616 (QB) (23 March 2010)
Edwards v Martin [2010] EWHC 570 (QB) (23 March 2010)
Fonexco Group Ltd & Ors v Manches (a firm) & Anor [2010] EWHC 493 (QB) (19 March 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Bayfine UK v Revenue & Customs [2010] EWHC 609 (Ch) (23 March 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Local Authorities (Capital Finance and Accounting) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) (Wales) Order 2010
The Assembly Learning Grant (Further Education) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Animals (Divisional Veterinary Managers) (Wales) Regulations 2010
The Animal Health (Divisional Veterinary Managers) (Wales) Order 2010
The Extradition Act 2003 (Amendment to Designations) Order 2010
The Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 2010
The Armed Forces (Redundancy, Resettlement and Gratuity Earnings Schemes) (No. 2) Order 2010
The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
R (One Search Direct Holdings Ltd (trading as One Search Direct)) v York City Council – WLR Daily
“In failing to provide access to unrefined information, the council was not acting in a way that was contrary to the Government’s intention not to impose an obligation on authorities to allow such access, nor to the aims and purposes of the statutory provisions, including the subsidiary legislation made by the Secretary of State.”
WLR Daily, 23rd March 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Ali and another v Birmingham City Council (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening) – WLR Daily
“A local housing authority’s duty, under section 193 of the Housing Act 1996, to secure that accommodation be made available for an unintentionally homeless person who had a priority need did not give the homeless person a ‘civil right’ within the meaning of art 6(1) of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms because the provision of appropriate accommodation was dependent upon the exercise of evaluative judgments by the local authority as to whether the statutory criteria had been satisfied and how the homeless person’s need ought to be met.”
WLR Daily, 23rd March 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.
The Bridgewater Canal Company Ltd v GEO Networks Ltd – WLR Daily
The Bridgewater Canal Company Ltd v GEO Networks Ltd [2010] EWHC 548 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 85
“The consideration payable, pursuant to para 13(2)(e)(ii) of Sch 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984, as amended by the Communications Act 2003, by an operator of a communications network to a person with control of land for the right to carry out work undertaken pursuant to the provisions of the Electronic Communications Code, as contained in Sch 2 to the 1984, as amended, included payment to reflect not only the right to carry out the works but also for the right to retain the works on the land once the works themselves had been completed.”
WLR Daily, 22nd March 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.
Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office v Piggott (Lamb interested party) – WLR Daily
“A court had jurisdiction to make a management receivership order over any property on the basis that it was realisable property where an issue was still to be determined between the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office and an interested third party as to the beneficial interest in such property.”
WLR Daily, 22nd March 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.
Connor v Surrey County Council – WLR Daily
Connor v Surrey County Council [2010] EWCA Civ 286; [2010] WLR (D) 83
“A duty of care owed by a public body to one of its employees as a function of that employment relationship and which existed independently of the impact of action or inaction under statute could be violated, so as to give rise to a claim for damages, by failure to exercise a statutory discretion, but only where the discretion was, or would have been able to be, exercised consistently with the duty-ower’s full performance of its public law functions.”
WLR Daily, 22nd March 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.
Barber v Croydon London Borough Council – Times Law Reports
Barber v Croydon London Borough Council
Court of Appeal
“A local housing authority had acted unreasonably in seeking possession against a mentally impaired tenant for anti-social behaviour when it failed to take into account the possibility that his behaviour might have been produced by his mental impairment.”
The Times, 24th March 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Hertfordshire GP who sexually assaulted patients jailed – BBC News
“A Hertfordshire GP who carried out sexual assaults on three women has been jailed for 16 months.”
BBC News, 24th March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Reform of libel laws will protect freedom of expression – Ministry of Justice
“Reforms of the law on libel will be taken forward in the next Parliament, Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced today.”
Ministry of Justice, 23rd March 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Hunger-striker to sue over claims that he ate Big Macs – The Independent
“A hunger striker who held a 23-day fast in Parliament Square last year in protest at the Sri Lanka’s offensive against the Tamil Tigers is suing two newspapers over claims that he secretly ate burgers during his vigil.”
The Independent, 24th March 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Serious Fraud Office ends inquiry into miners’ union and claims over damages – The Times
“The Serious Fraud Office has abandoned a long-running criminal inquiry into a miners’ union and the world’s largest personal injury compensation scheme.”
The Times, 24th March 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Government insists vicars will not be sued for refusing ‘gay marriages’ in churches – Daily Telegraph
“Ministers have assured clergy that they will not face legal action if they refuse to carry out new ‘gay weddings’ in churches.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Secret tribunal appeal for cousin of trans-Atlantic airlines bomber – Daily Telegraph
“The Home Office is attempting to hold an employment tribunal involving the cousin of a convicted terrorist in secret it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd March 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Jack Straw unveils plan to curb libel tourism – The Guardian
“Overseas claimants will be discouraged from launching libel cases in UK courts and a ‘public interest’ defence may be introduced to protect investigative journalism, under legal changes unveiled today.”
The Guardian, 24th March 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘No release’ for Yorkshire Ripper, says Jack Straw – BBC News
“There are ‘no circumstances’ in which Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe could be released from prison, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
No compensation for Ian Huntley, says Jack Straw – The Independent
“The Government has ‘absolutely no intention’ of paying compensation to Soham killer Ian Huntley after he was attacked in prison, Justice Secretary Jack Straw said today.”
The Independent, 23rd March 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
