Shannon’s mother will not appeal – BBC News
“Karen Matthews, who kidnapped her own daughter in a bungled effort to gain reward money for the missing child, has abandoned her appeal, her lawyer said.”
BBC News, 7th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Legalisation of drugs could save UK £14bn, says study – The Guardian
“The regulated legalisation of drugs would have major benefits for taxpayers, victims of crime, local communities and the criminal justice system, according to the first comprehensive comparison between the cost-effectiveness of legalisation and prohibition. The authors of the report, which is due to be published today, suggest that a legalised, regulated market could save the country around £14bn.”
The Guardian, 7th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Expert Evidence in Criminal Trials – Law Commission
“We published a consultation paper on 7 April 2009, in which we have made a number of provisional proposals which would reform the law governing the admissibility of expert evidence in criminal proceedings in England and Wales. A press release is also available.”
Law Commission, 7th April 2009
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedule 4) Order 2009
The Freedom of Information (Time for Compliance with Request) Regulations 2009
The Charities Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional Provisions and Savings) (Amendment) Order 2009
The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2009
The Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Building (Scotland) Act 2003 (Exemptions for Defence and National Security) Order 2009
The Armed Forces (Aliens) Regulations 2009
The Armed Forces (Civilians Subject to Service Discipline) Order 2009
The Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009
The Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Fees) (England) Order 2009
The Organic Products Regulations 2009
The Land Registration Fee Order 2009
The Occupational Pension Schemes (Contracting-out) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Cornwall (Electoral Arrangements and Consequential Amendments) Order 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
One in four criminals and suspects in bail hostels recalled to jail – Daily Telegraph
“One in four criminals and suspects living in controversial bail hostels have had to be recalled to jail after committing new crimes or breaking the rules.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Regina v Evans (Gemma) – Times Law Reports
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“For the purposes of gross negligence manslaughter, when a person had created or contributed to the creation of a state of affairs which he knew, or ought to have known had become life-threatening to another person, a consequent duty would normally arise on him to act by taking reasonable steps to save the other’s life.”
The Times, 7th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina (Mendes and Another) v Southwark London Borough Council – Times Law Reports
Regina (Mendes and Another) v Southwark London Borough Council
Court of Appeal
“A judge needed to give reasons for preferring one side’s arguments over the other on an application made by written submissions concerning costs.”
The Times, 7th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Myerson v Myerson (No 2) – Times Law Reports
Court of Appeal
“A husband could not have an order compromising an ancillary relief application rewritten where his wealth had fallen significantly.”
The Times, 6th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Serious Organised Crime Agency v Szepietowski and Others – Times Law Reports
Serious Organised Crime Agency v Szepietowski and Others
Chancery Division
“There was no exception in the exclusion regime of section 252 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, concerning restrictions on dealing with property, to confine attention to assets vested in trustees while disregarding their personal assets.”
The Times, 6th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service – Times Law Reports
Regina (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service
Court of Appeal
“The Administrative Court did not have jurisdiction to entertain a claim that a public authority proposed to act in a way incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights where the matters brought up were within the purview of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.”
The Times, 6th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
British Airways plc v Williams and others – WLR Daily
British Airways plc v Williams and others [2009] EWCA Civ 281; [2009] WLR (D) 126
“An airline which had paid its pilots during the period of their ‘paid annual leave’ by reference to their basic salary, rather than the pay they might expect to earn, including supplements, during a working week, was not in breach of the applicable statutory requirements as to payment of such paid annual leave.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 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.
Slack and others v Cumbria County Council (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) – WLR Daily
“The beginning of the period allowed for initiating an equal pay claim would not be triggered until the expiry of the stable employment between the employer and employee within the meaning of the section 2ZA of the Employment Act 1970. A new employment contract varying the term of an existing contract between the same employer and the same employee in a stable relationship did not terminate the existing contract so as to trigger the beginning of that period.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 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.
Office of Fair Trading v Foxtons Ltd – WLR Daily
Office of Fair Trading v Foxtons Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 288; [2009] WLR (D) 128
“An injunction granted in a general challenge by the Office of Fair Trading against the unfairness of certain clauses in an estate agent’s standard terms could extend to the continuing use of unfair terms in an existing contract.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 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.
Proceedings brought by A (Case C-523/07) – WLR Daily
Proceedings brought by A (Case C-523/07); [2009] WLR (D) 129
“For the purposes of the rule that the courts of the EC member state where a child was habitually resident had jurisdiction in matters of parental responsibility, ‘habitual residence’ denoted some degree of integration by the child in a social and family environment.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 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.
Orchard v Lee and another – WLR Daily
Orchard v Lee and another [2009] EWCA Civ 295; [2009] WLR (D) 130
“A child at school playing a game in an authorised play area who was not breaking any rules and who was not acting beyond the norms of the game would not have anticipated that some significant personal injury would result from his actions and so was not liable for an injury caused to a playground supervisor.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Hall & Woodhouse Ltd v Poole Borough Council – WLR Daily
Hall & Woodhouse Ltd v Poole Borough Council; [2009] WLR (D) 131
“The acts of third parties were not as a matter of law to be imputed to a premises licence holder for the purposes of s 136(1)(a) of the Licensing Act 2003; it was necessary for the court to look at the actual conduct of the person charged with the offence and find whether as a matter of fact he had carried on or attempted to carry on an licensable activity, as defined in s 1 of and Schs 1 and 2 to the Act, otherwise than in accordance with an authorisation.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 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.
R (Coleman) v Governor of Wayland Prison and another – WLR Daily
R (Coleman) v Governor of Wayland Prison and another; [2009] WLR (D) 132
“While a mobile telephone found in the possession of a prisoner might properly be taken away from him, neither rule 43(5) of the Prison Rules 1999 nor the common law provided a prison governor with power to destroy the mobile telephone.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 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.
Criminals freed because of unreliable evidence from expert witnesses, Law Commission says – Daily Telegraph
“Criminals could have been wrongly freed by the courts because of unreliable evidence from expert witnesses, the Government’s law advisers say today.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
FSA wins case to bar General Re chief – The Times
“Financial Services Authority says it has turned down appeal by former insurance chief over ban on working in the City.”
The Times, 6th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Same sex couples names to appear on birth certificates – Daily Telegraph
“New rules allowing same-sex couples undergoing fertility treatment to name both partners on the child’s birth certificate came into force on Monday.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
