Regina (RK) (Nepal) and Another v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“A non-British student with conditional leave to enter and stay in the United Kingdom and who was ordered to leave on breaching those conditions, could not appeal against that decision while still in the country.”
The Times, 11th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The test for a verdict of unlawful killing was not exclusively objective, it being necessary to find at least the mental element necessary for a criminal conviction of assault; and insanity, if properly raised on the evidence, had to be disproved to the criminal standard to sustain such a verdict.”
WLR Daily, 8th May 2009
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 Commissioners v Annabel’s (Berkeley Square) Ltd and others; [2009] WLR (D) 149
“Money payments made in the form of discretionary service charges by customers to waiters and bar staff by credit or debit card or by cheque, and collected by the proprietor/employer to be transmitted to employees via a ‘tronc’ system (an arrangement for the pooling and distribution to employees), administered by an employee called ‘troncmaster’, did not count towards an employee’s remuneration within the meaning of reg 30(a) of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999, to meet the requirement of s 1 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998.”
WLR Daily, 8th May 2009
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.
“The prosecution of cross-border terrorism offences will be strengthened by a new protocol agreed today (8 May 2009) by the Lord Advocate, the Right Honourable Elish Angiolini QC, and the Attorney General, the Right Honourable Baroness Scotland QC.”
Attorney-General’s Office, 9th May 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“The government is to outlaw the use by companies of covert blacklists that have prevented trade unionists from getting work. Ministers have been forced to act after a watchdog exposed widespread blacklisting in the construction industry this year.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two European commissioners have outlined plans to more closely harmonise copyright law across the European Union’s 27 member states and create EU-wide copyright licences. The commissioners want to end ‘fragmentation’ of copyright laws.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th May 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Someone who deliberately breaches a fundamental term of a contract generally cannot rely on exemptions in the contract to avoid liability to the other party without clear, strong language to that effect, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th May 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Five elderly Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau independence uprising of more than 50 years ago are to issue a reparations claim against the British government in London next month.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Many disabled victims of crime are being failed by the system, the Guardian has learned, following two cases in which the Crown Prosecution Service and the police were forced to apologise for not taking offences seriously enough.”
The Guardian, 11th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Liberal Democrats’ biggest donor, who remains on the run after stealing nearly £8m from the former chairman of Manchester United, was sentenced in his absence to seven years in jail yesterday.”
The Independent, 9th May 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Five members of one family were found guilty of ‘grotesque’ cruelty yesterday after one of Britain’s largest horse-rescue operations. RSPCA inspectors who raided Spindle Farm in Buckinghamshire last year found a ‘horror scene’ of starving, emaciated and diseased animals, surrounded by the rotting corpses of others.”
The Independent, 9th May 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A metal detector enthusiast who claimed to have discovered hoards of valuable antiquities during years of treasure hunting has been convicted of selling modern fakes.”
The Times, 11th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A senior judge has called on the government to reconsider plans to increase court fees in civil and family cases in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 8th May 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“MPs defied their own legal advice last night and asked the police to investigate how expenses details had been offered for sale to newspapers.”
The Times, 9th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A bid by a devout Hindu for the legal right to be cremated on a traditional open-air funeral pyre has been rejected by the High Court in London.”
BBC News, 8th May 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The High Court has taken the unusual step of reopening a controversial judgement in the case of the former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed.”
BBC News, 8th May 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Serious Fraud Office is to ask parliament to enhance its powers to fight fraudulent companies and corrupt directors, the Gazette has learned. The investigation and prosecution agency has begun consulting privately with senior lawyers and officials before it approaches parliament later in the year. Sources close to the discussions said the SFO wants powers to fine fraudulent companies and impose deferred prosecutions, as well as legislation requiring companies to report frauds as soon as they are discovered.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 7th May 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The peer tasked by Chancery Lane with reviewing legal regulation says that only ‘minor’ adjustments to the Law Society’s internal governance may be required to yield ‘enormous benefit’ for the regulation of law firms.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 7th May 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Whiston v London Strategic Health Authority [2009] EWHC 956 (QB) (07 May 2009)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Shashoua & Ors v Sharma [2009] EWHC 957 (Comm) (07 May 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
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