Hammer attack review is quashed – BBC News
“A review into a hammer attack on a Wiltshire schoolboy was so flawed that it must be quashed, a judge has ruled.”
BBC News, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Acquitted man barred from suing rape accuser – The Guardian
“A former magistrate who spent two years in jail before being cleared of rape has lost his legal battle to sue his accuser for £300,000 damages.”
The Guardian, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Meat firm fined over beck spill – BBC News
“A meat processing company in Lincolnshire has been fined £10,000 after ammonia escaped into a stream and killed 100 fish.”
BBC News, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Criticism over meningitis death – BBC News
“A hospital has been criticised by a coroner for failing to spot that a 10-year-old boy, who later died from meningitis, was gravely ill.”
BBC News, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Prisoner’s High Court battle for the right to vote – The Independent
“A prisoner has launched a High Court battle for the right to vote in parliamentary and EU elections.”
The Independent, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Equality bill takes aim at ‘institutional ageism’ in NHS – The Guardian
“Ageism within the NHS and social care is set to be made illegal after a review of the treatment of older people found discrimination was ‘rooted’ in the attitudes of staff and organisations.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Children allegedly hurt by police CS spray during arrest – The Guardian
“A senior police officer tonight said his force was concerned by complaints that children were injured by CS spray during an arrest.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Law of confidence can trump libel law, rules High Court – OUT-LAW.com
“The High Court has upheld a famous person’s rights under the law of confidence over someone else’s right to reveal his activity with a prostitute under defamation law. The Court has granted an interim injunction which will keep the man’s identity a secret.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Amendment to Schedule 6 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 Order 2009
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 22) Order 2009
The Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2009
The European Communities (Designation) (No. 4) Order 2009
The Health Professions (Hearing Aid Dispensers) Order 2009
The Transfer of Functions of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal Order 2009
The British Nationality Act 1981 (Amendment of Schedule 6) Order 2009
The Copyright and Performances (Application to Other Countries) (Amendment) Order 2009
The Patents (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2009
The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Order 2009
The Food Labelling (Declaration of Allergens) (England) Regulations 2009
The Manufactured Interest (Tax) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Income Tax (Manufactured Overseas Dividends) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Reduced legal aid rates will cause ‘mass exodus’ of law firms – The Times
“Vulnerable children and families will bear the brunt of swingeing new cuts that will cause a ‘mass exodus’ of law firms from legal aid, lawyers warned yesterday.”
The Times, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Violent crimes ‘wrongly classed’ – BBC News
“More than a third of violent incidents classed as ‘no crime’ have been wrongly recorded, according to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Freelancer’s copyright infringed by sales of digital back issues, rules High Court – OUT-LAW.com
“A Daily Mirror service which sold digital copies of back issues infringed the copyright of a freelance photographer whose pictures appeared on their pages, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Census (England and Wales) Order 2009
The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (Commencement No. 12) Order 2009
The Extradition Act 2003 (Specification of Category 1 Territories) Order 2009
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Youth Conditional Cautions: Financial Penalties) Order 2009
The Corporation Tax (Implementation of the Mergers Directive) Regulations 2009
The Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors (Amendment) Regulations 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Chief Constable of Humberside Police and others v Information Commissioner (Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening) – WLR Daily
“In relation to the national police computer it was for the data controller to determine the purposes for which data was processed. It was a registered purpose to hold information so that it could be supplied to others in legitimate need such as the courts and the Crown Prosecution Service. Consequently there could be no question of the retention of records of old minor convictions being held to be either excessive or being held for longer than necessary.”
WLR Daily, 19th October 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Birmingham City Council v Qasim and others – WRL Daily
Birmingham City Council v Qasim and others [2009] EWCA Civ 1080; [2009] WLR (D) 301
“The allocation of a secure tenancy and the grant of such a tenancy by a local housing authority were separate concepts, so that where the authority granted a tenancy to a tenant to whom accommodation had been allocated inconsistently with the authority’s allocation scheme, pursuant to Pt VI of the Housing Act 1996, the tenancy was not thereby rendered void or ineffective.”
WLR Daily, 19th October 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.
Wilson v Health and Safety Executive (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) – WLR Daily
“An employer could be required, in proceedings in which an equal pay claim was brought, to provide objective justification for his use of a length of service criterion as well as its adoption in the first place.”
WLR Daily, 19th October 2009
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.
Chief Constable of Humberside Police and Others v Information Commissioner, Secretary of State for the Home Department intervening – Times Law Reports
Court of Appeal
“There could be no question of the retention of records of old minor convictions being held in the national police computer to be either excessive or being held for longer than necessary. It was for the data controller to determine the purposes for which data were processed and it was a registered purpose to hold information so that it could be supplied to others in legitimate need such as the courts and the Crown Prosecution Service.”
The Times, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Lord Woolf raps solicitors for CPR failings – Law Society’s Gazette
“Lord Woolf has blamed lawyers, the judiciary and government for blunting the impact of his 10-year-old reforms to the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR).”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Legal training: is it taking too long? – The Times
“American commercial law firms are beating their City counterparts in the race for the best international talent because of anachronistic legal profession rules, say leading UK academics.”
The Times, 22nd October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
