“This Bill implements Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission recommendations about the rights of a third party to claim directly against an insurer.”
Ministry of Justice, 18th December 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Ministry of Justice has today published a set of reforms that aim to rebalance the legal aid budget to ensure that the £2.1 billion currently spent every year goes as far as possible in favour of civil help for those who need it most.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th December 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Home Secretary has announced the creation of an independent panel, which will be responsible for overseeing the release of documents related to the 1989 Hillsborough football disaster.”
Home Office, 15th December 2009
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The UK Border Agency is changing the way it manages judicial review challenges from those being removed from the UK.”
UK Border Agency, 18th December 2009
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Sentences for manslaughter deaths will be dealt with differently in future, the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, said today, following a landmark judgement at the Court of Appeal in London which will give new guidance in cases of manslaughter where death was a result of unlawful violence.”
Attorney General’s Office, 18th December 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“Hefty jail terms are to be imposed when people die after a violent punch to the head, after a landmark ruling by a rare five-strong panel of senior judges yesterday.”
The Times, 19th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A man, 44, who drove six miles the wrong way along a dual carriageway has been jailed for eight months and banned from driving for three years.”
BBC News, 19th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 39-year-old man who raped a 17-year-old girl in Milton Keynes has been jailed for at least seven years.”
BBC News, 20th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ministers have agreed to the release of secret documents that could prove MI5 agents were present during the torture of a British resident held by the US government for eight years.”
The Independent, 21st December 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The names of nearly a million people who have not been convicted or cautioned for any crime will continue to be stored on the police national computer, even though the government is changing the law so that their DNA profiles are deleted.”
The Observer, 20th December 2009
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
“Sports Direct, the retailer controlled by Mike Ashley, has been reported to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for allegedly breaking City rules in its attempt to buy a smaller rival, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 21st December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Government is set to pay millions of pounds to thalidomide victims and to apologise for their suffering.”
TheTimes, 21st December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“It could make for an interesting scenario: a construction worker, a cowboy, a traffic cop, a Native American chief, a sailor, Jamie Oliver, a leather queen, some lawyers and a judge – together in court.”
The Guardian, 18th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A leading medical scientist is refusing to speak in England about findings from his work because he fears being sued for libel. Henrik Thomsen, a Danish radiologist, has said the health of patients in England is being put at serious risk because he and other scientists are prevented from sharing their knowledge, due to what they see as an increasingly draconian atmosphere in London’s libel courts.”
The Guardian, 2oth December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former police officer who was convicted of attempted rape and two sexual assaults has been jailed for five years.”
BBC News, 18th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Cotton v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2009] EWCA Civ 1330; [2009] WLR (D) 372
“Accrued holiday paid on the termination of employment constituted earnings of the same kind as ordinary pay so that an employee was treated as gainfully employed and not eligible for social security benefits in respect of earnings payable in the period starting with the first day of the benefit week in which they were paid and ending on the day before the next payment of ordinary earnings.”
WLR Daily, 17th December 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 statutory trust created by Chap 7 of the Clients Assets Sourcebook (‘CASS 7’) issued by the Financial Services Authority (‘FSA’) took effect upon the receipt, rather than upon the segregation, of client money. Pending segregation of client money, a firm was obliged to take reasonable steps to ensure that, in relation to client money mixed in its house account with the firm’s own money, clients’ rights in relation to that client money were not put at risk, and the client money was not used for the firm’s own purposes. Client money outside the firm’s segregated accounts did not form part of the client money pool (‘CMP’).”
WLR Daily, 17th December 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Regina v Round; Reginav Dunn [2009] EWCA Crim 2667; [2009] WLR (D) 370
“It was not incumbent on sentencing judges to structure consecutive sentences differently from the ordinary manner of expressing their sentences in order to maximise the uncertain possibilities of home detention curfew.”
WLR Daily, 17th December 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“The concept of fraud in the English commercial law context in a case having an international flavour was much wider than the concept of deceit flowing from a fraudulent misrepresentation and could extend to cases without the need to establish the element of dishonesty of the person against whom the fraud was alleged.”
WLR Daily, 17th December 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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