Judges need more discretion, not more laws – The Times
“What should be done when people take the law into their own hands in pursuit of what they regard as justice?”
The Times, 25th January 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
UK ‘using obscure legal principle’ to dismiss torture claims in colonial Kenya – The Guardian
“The government is invoking an obscure legal principle to dismiss claims of torture and rape by the British colonial administration in Kenya, campaigners claimed.”
The Guardian, 25th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Attorney General urged to increase sentence in Edlington torture case – Daily Telegraph
“Child welfare campaigners have called for a longer sentence to be given to the two brothers who tortured and sexually humiliated two young boys.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd January 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Tories back plan to extend ‘Sarah’s law’ sex offender checks – The Guardian
“The Conservatives today backed plans by the home secretary, Alan Johnson, for a national roll-out of powers allowing parents to check whether those who regularly care for their children are convicted sex offenders.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Fears of ‘licence to kill’ as Tories bid to change self-defence law – The Times
“A new law to give greater protection to householders is unnecessary and could be a licence to kill, a leading criminal barrister has warned.”
The Times, 25th January 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Mum jailed over ‘most ill child’ pretence – The Independent
“A mother who pretended that her son was terminally ill for six years in order to gain access to celebrities, a prime minister, the royal family and charitable donations has been jailed for three years.”
The Independent, 22nd January 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Parents of Edlington torture brothers could be charged – BBC News
“The parents of two brothers detained indefinitely after they tortured two young boys in a ‘sadistic’ attack could face prosecution, police have revealed.”
BBC News, 23rd January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Police stop and search ‘not cutting knife crime’, new figures suggest – The Guardian
“There is little connection between the use of stop and search powers by the Metropolitan police and reductions in knife crime, according to new figures analysed by a leading criminologist.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Noisy sex’ woman spared prison – BBC News
“A woman who breached an Asbo banning her from having noisy sex has been given a suspended prison sentence.”
BBC News, 22nd January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Is divorce law fair? – Daily Telegraph
“A multimillionaire faces Britain’s biggest divorce payout. Is Lisa Tchenguiz right to demand £100m of her husband’s wealth?”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd January 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Edlington brothers jailed for torture of two boys – The Guardian
“Two young brothers who subjected a pair of children to a 90-minute ordeal of beating, torture and sexual humiliation were today sentenced to an indeterminate detention term of at least five years.”
The Guardian, 22nd January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
How Edlington case follows course paved by Bulger trial – BBC News
“Two brothers are among Britain’s youngest convicted criminals to be placed in custody after being detained for a horrific attack on another two boys in Edlington, South Yorkshire, carried out when they were aged just 10 and 11.”
BBC News, 22nd January 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc and another v Competition Commission and another – WLR Daily
“In deciding whether or not the recommendation of the Competition Commission that a proposed merger should be prevented as contrary to the public interest, the Competition Appeal Tribunal was not required to exercise a greater intensity of judicial review than would be applied on a normal judicial review application. S 120(4) of the Competition Act 1998 required the appeal tribunal to apply the same principles as would be applied by a court on an application for judicial review. It would fly in the face of the section’s words if the tribunal, as a hyper-competent specialised tribunal, were required to undertake a more intensive review.”
WLR Daily, 21st January 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.
R (G) v Governors of X School (Secretary of State for Children and Schools and Families intervening) – WLR Daily
“Where an individual was subject to two or more sets of proceedings, or phases of a single proceeding, and a civil right or obligation enjoyed or owed by him would be determined in one of them, he could (but not necessarily would), by force of art 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, enjoy appropriate procedural rights in relation to another of them if its outcome would have a substantial influence or effect on the determination of the civil right or obligation. Accordingly, disciplinary proceedings which could lead to a teacher being statutorily barred from working with children were determinant of an individual’s right to practice his profession and art 6 was engaged by those proceedings.”
WLR Daily, 21st January 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.
Regina (Boyejo and Others) v Barnet London Borough Council; Regina (Smith) v Portsmouth City Council – Times Law Reports
Regina (Boyejo and Others) v Barnet London Borough Council; Regina (Smith) v Portsmouth City Council
Queen’s Bench Division
“References in documentation before decision-makers to disabilities or to rights of equality, was not sufficient to fulfil the statutory requirement of such recognition.”
The Times, 22nd January 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
M-W (A Child), Re [2010] EWCA Civ 12 (21 January 2010)
McHale v Cadogan [2010] EWCA Civ 14 (21 January 2010)
British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc v The Competition Commission [2010] EWCA Civ 2 (21 January 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Biddle & Company (a firm) v Tetra Pak Ltd & Ors [2010] EWHC 54 (Ch) (21 January 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Supablast (Nationwide) Ltd. v Story Rail Ltd. [2010] EWHC 56 (TCC) (21 January 2010)
High Court (Commercial Court)
ING Bank N.V. v Ros Roca S.A. [2010] EWHC 50 (Comm) (21 January 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Judge is refused care authorities’ report in Edlington torture case – The Times
“Care authorities have refused to allow a High Court judge to read a confidential report into their handling of two young brothers who sadistically tortured two children and left them for dead.”
The Times, 22nd January 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Juicy twist in Vivian Imerman’s divorce – The Times
“A business tycoon’s estranged wife has won the right to use 20,000 documents stolen from his computer in her battle for a slice of his £300 million fortune.”
The Times, 22nd January 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
