“The top prosecutor has demanded an end to the use of police cautions to deal with thousands of serious assaults every year amid concern that the justice system is failing to rein in violent offenders.”
The Times, 8th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Britain’s reputation for ‘libel tourism’ is driving American and foreign publishers to consider abandoning the sale of newspaper and magazines in Britain and may lead to them blocking access to websites, MPs have been warned.”
The Guardian, 9th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nearly half of all crimes — or 700,000 a year — are handled outside the courts, including shoplifting, burglary and assault. Under a drive in the past decade towards swift, summary justice, police have been given wide powers to impose cautions and fines (fixed penalty notices), and prosecutors can impose conditional cautions.”
The Times, 9th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“British citizens who have been forced into marriages overseas are being asked to cover the costs of their repatriation to the UK, The Independent has learnt.”
The Independent, 9th November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Legal Services Board’s new consumer panel will examine referral fees as the very first item on its agenda when it meets for the first time later this month, the Gazette has learned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th November 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Concern is increasing among judges and magistrates that thousands of cautions are being handed out by police or prosecutors for violent assaults that should come before courts.”
The Times, 9th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“MPs who refuse to repay excessive or incorrect expenses claims could be forced to appear in public before a High Court judge to plead their case.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Media Legal Defence Initiative, launched last week, aims to help journalists around the world by providing lawyers willing to fight for media freedoms.”
The Guardian, 9th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A soldier has avoided jail because of ‘his service to his country.’ ”
BBC news, 6th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man overheard praying for forgiveness after murdering his pregnant girlfriend’s mother has been jailed for life by a judge at the Old Bailey.”
BBC News, 6th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Wording in a contract that seeks to exclude liability in a contract is more vulnerable to being struck out than lawyers previously thought. A ruling suggests that exclusion clauses are more likely to be effective when broken into separate terms.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th November 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“An advertiser broke the rules when it used better lighting, posing and colours in the ‘before’ than the ‘after’ pictures in a cosmetics ad, regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th November 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
SA (Kuwait) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 1157 (05 November 2009)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
HHR Pascal BV v W2005 Puppet II BV [2009] EWHC 2771 (Comm) (05 November 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Nottingham firm Paragon Law has forced West Bromwich and Peterborough firm Paragon Solicitors to change its name and pay legal costs after a trade mark dispute.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 5th November 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission are conducting a joint review of insurance contract law.”
Law Commission, 5th November 2009
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
“Victims and their families should fully understand what a sentence means in practice, and CPS prosecutors can play a key role in explaining, the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, said today.”
Attorney General’s Office, 5th November 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
R (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice and another [2009] WLR (D) 316
“Where a United Kingdom court had made a declaration of incompatability [sic] pursuant to s 3(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998 in respect of legislation and where the Government was in the process of putting forward legislation to Parliament and no further vindication of the claimants rights was necessary, the court would not exercise its discretion so as to make a further declaration of incompatability in respect of the same or similar legislation.”
WLR Daily, 4th 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.
Grainger plc v Nicholson UKEAT/219/09; [2009] WLR (D) 315
“An asserted philosophical belief that mankind was heading towards catastrophic climate change and therefore people were under a moral duty to lead their lives in a manner which mitigated or avoided that catastrophe for the benefit of future generations, and to persuade others to do the same, if genuinely held was capable of amounting to a ‘philosophical belief’ for the purpose of the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003.”
WLR Daily, 4th 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.
EBR Attridge Law LLP and another v Coleman UKEAT/71/09; [2009] WLR (D) 314
“The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 should be interpreted so as to prohibit discrimination against employees who, although not themselves disabled, were treated less favourably or harrassed on the ground of their association with a person who was disabled.”
WLR Daily, 4th November 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Attorney-General’s Reference (No 16 of 2009); Regina v Yates
Court of Appeal
“An offender who chose to be loyal to a gang member who had committed murder and assisted in impeding his apprehension had to expect a substantial prison sentence.”
The Times, 6th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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