“The Government misled MPs over Britain’s role in the rendition of two men arrested by the UK and then imprisoned by the Americans for five years in Afghanistan, it is claimed today.”
The Independent, 7th December 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Open justice, an essential ingredient of a democracy, is usually understood to mean the absence of secret trials and the right of the individual – subject to very few carefully defined exceptions – to enter any of our courts and watch proceedings, without hindrance. But most people do not find it practical or easy to make such personal visits, so the principle of open justice has been extended to include the presence of representatives of the media, acting as the people’s proxy, reporting on behalf of the population what goes on in our courts.”
The Guardian, 7th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Controversial ‘super-injunctions’ highlighted by the Guardian do prevent the media’s reporting of proceedings in parliament, the Commons Speaker’s legal team have advised in a move MPs will regard as a real threat to free speech.”
The Guardian, 6th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two million unmarried couples need new legal rights to protect them from injustice if they separate, the new senior judge in charge of law reform has said.”
The Times, 7th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The swelling ranks of badly behaved cyclists may soon face more than an angry cabbie honking his horn or a pedestrian giving the V sign. A council determined to make them obey the Highway Code is to deploy enforcers in a hunt for so-called ‘Lycra louts’ as they whizz through red lights or ride listening to iPods.”
The Times, 7th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.k
“Two brothers who admitted the manslaughter of a senior banking executive in Norfolk have appealed against their jail terms.”
BBC News, 3rd December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A motorist who was drunk when she hit and killed a 15-month-old boy in his pushchair has lost her appeal against her seven-year sentence.”
BBC News, 4th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, had better watch out. Next year’s Bar chairman has the Crown Prosecution Service in his sights. Nicholas Green, QC, talks of gathering storm clouds threatening the stability of the Bar and of pressures bearing down with ‘potentially devastating effect’. And one of these, he says, is the push by Crown prosecutors to take on Crown Court work that used to be handled by the Bar.”
The Times, 3rd December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
YJL London Ltd v Roswin Estates LLP [2009] EWHC 3174 (TCC) (03 December 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009
The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations 2009
The County Borough of Bridgend (Communities) Order 2009
The Crime and Disorder Strategies (Prescribed Descriptions) (Wales) Order 2009
The City and County of Cardiff (Old St. Mellons, Rumney and Trowbridge Communities) Order 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Aventis Pasteur SA v OB (Case C-358/08); [2009] WLR (D) 352
“The Community Directive on liability for defective products normally precluded a producer of a product from being substituted, after the expiry of the 10-year limitation period, for a defendant who had been sued within that period.”
WLR Daily, 3rd 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.
In re I (A Child) [2009] UKSC 10; [2009] WLR (D) 351
“The right of parties in child contact proceedings to opt in to the jurisdiction of an EU country which would not otherwise have jurisdiction to determine the child’s future, contained in art 12.3 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 on jurisdiction and enforcement in matrimonial and parental responsibility matters (‘Brussels II Revised’), could apply when the child was habitually resident outside the European Union.”
WLR Daily, 3rd 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.
R (Adams) v Secretary of State for Justice [2009] EWCA Civ 1291; [2009] WLR (D) 350
“A convicted person seeking compensation as a result of reversal of his conviction on the basis of new or newly discovered facts establishing beyond reasonable doubt that there had been a miscarriage of justice had to show that the facts had been unknown to the convicted person during the trial process or an in-time appeal. Incompetence by legal representatives in deploying those facts at trial was not envisaged as something going seriously wrong in the conduct of the trial such as to constitute a miscarriage of justice.”
WLR Daily, 3rd 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.
In re I (a Child) (Jurisdiction)
Supreme Court
“The right of parties in child contact proceedings to opt in to the jurisdiction of a European Union country which would not otherwise have jurisdiction to determine the child’s future could apply when the child lived outside the European Union.”
The Times, 4th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“In a prosecution for a sexual offence, a previous conviction, even if for a sexual offence, was admissible as evidence of propensity only if the circumstances were such that it had some probative force by reason of similarity to the offence charged.”
The Times, 4th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A Black Country solicitor faces jail after stealing £90,000 from a blind widow and spending the money on luxury items including a pedigree ‘teacup’ chihuahua.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Major changes are being made to the way that courts may sentence young offenders. On 27 April, provisions were brought into force to increase the use of referral orders. These are mandatory if the offence is imprisonable and a first-time offender admits the offence and all connected offences, and the court does not deal with the matter by way of an absolute discharge, hospital order or custodial sentence.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“International arbitration has ‘lost its way’, the former lord chief justice Lord Woolf (pictured) told the Gazette this week, as he launched a set of guidelines which will build mediation into the arbitration process.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A document setting out the high-level strategic priorities that the Ministry of Justice requires the NOMS Agency to deliver in 2010-11.”
Ministry of Justice, 3rd December 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Justice Minister Jack Straw has today given a speech about the administration of Justice in Wales.”
Ministry of Justice, 3rd December 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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