“Lawyers for a nine-year-old boy set to be removed from the UK tomorrow are urgently trying to stop his deportation.”
The Guardian, 19th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman has won a legal battle over the care of her three-year-old grandson after the Supreme Court reversed rulings that he should live with his father.”
The Times, 20th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A senior judge has ordered a boy to leave his home and school to go and live with his father, against the wishes of both the child and his mother.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th November 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The high court today (19 November) flatly rejected claims by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, that releasing evidence of the CIA’s inhuman and unlawful treatment of UK resident Binyam Mohamed would harm Britain’s relations with the US by giving away intelligence secrets.”
The Guardian, 19th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Sweeping reforms to combat internet piracy, secure the future of public service broadcasting and extend digital radio are unlikely to pass into law, the Conservatives have warned.”
The Times, 20th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Proposals to further open up family courts to the media have been announced as part of new legislation put before Parliament today.”
Ministry of Justice, 19th November 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Proposed new powers to track every email, phone call and website visit have been backed by the country’s top prosecutor as ‘vital’ to fighting crime.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th November 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lord Mandelson is seeking to amend the laws on copyright to give the government sweeping new powers against people accused of illegal downloading.”
The Guardian, 19th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Senior judges say the foreign secretary is stopping them releasing details of CIA interrogation techniques – even though the US has published them.”
BBC News, 19th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 published
Full text of Act (PDF)
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Maher & Anor v Groupama Grand EST [2009] EWCA Civ 1191 (12 November 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Horsley v Cascade Insulation Services Ltd & Ors [2009] EWHC 2945 (QB) (18 November 2009)
Al Rawi & Ors v The Security Service & Ors [2009] EWHC 2959 (QB) (18 November 2009)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Gidden v Chief Constable of Humberside [2009] EWHC 2924 (Admin) (29 October 2009)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Regina v Patel; Regina v Hussain
Court of Appeal
“Where medicinal products were intended for sale to end users outside the European Community, the Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Regulations (SI 1994 No 3144) had no application.”
The Times, 19th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Independent Trustee Services Ltd v Hope and Others
Chancery Division
“As a matter of law, the existence of the Pension Protection Fund was not a factor that trustees of a pension scheme could legitimately take into account in the exercise of a power to buy out scheme benefits.”
The Times, 19th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The United Kingdom’s thin capitalisation (‘thin cap’) provisions which remained in force, in a potentially discriminatory form, until 2004 were not proportionate to achieve the purpose of preventing abusive tax avoidance because they did not allow for a separate defence of commercial justification and so constituted a restriction on freedom of establishment contrary to art 43EC.”
WLR Daily, 18th November 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.
“When Dr Christine Gill last month successfully challenged her mother’s will, which had bequeathed the £2 million family farm in North Yorkshire to the RSPCA, it was just the latest in an increasingly long line of disputes over wills to have been picked over by the media.”
The Times, 19th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A hospital trust in Swindon is being prosecuted on health and safety grounds in the case of a Filipino nurse who died when she was given the wrong drug after giving birth.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The opening up of the legal services market brings with it opportunities and threats as new players seek to establish themselves.”
The Times, 19th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Government has confirmed that it will pass legislation allowing for the termination of internet connections used by suspected illegal file-sharers but has not yet said whether the action will be subject to independent or court oversight before it takes place.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th November 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
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