“War crime suspects who have fled to Britain after being involved in genocide or crimes against humanity dating back to 1991 will face prosecution in UK courts under proposals announced by the justice secretary, Jack Straw yesterday.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A move to relax the law on assisted dying was thrown out by the Lords on Tuesday night. Peers voted by 194 to141 to reject a proposal to allow people to help someone with a terminal illness travel to a country where assisted suicide is legal.”
The Times, 8th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Banking executives will have their pay linked to long term profitability under new rules designed to prevent a repeat of last year’s financial meltdown.”
The Times, 8th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Figures put before Parliament by the Treasury show that the judicial pension pot rose from £62 million in the financial year 2004/5 to £131m last year.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The Value Added Tax (Buildings and Land) Order 2008
The Swine Vesicular Disease (Wales) Regulations 2009
The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulation 2009
The Education (Admission Appeals Arrangements) (Wales) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2009
The Local Health Boards (Directed Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2009
The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2009
The M42 Motorway (Junctions 7 to 9) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2009
The Non-Domestic Rating (Deferred Payments) (England) Regulations 2009
The Adult Skills (Specified Qualifications) Regulations 2009
The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2009
The Welfare Reform Act 2007 (Commencement No. 11) Order 2009
The Horse Passports Regulations 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“More than half the 114 people arrested in Nottingham over a suspected demonstration at a power station will not face charges, police have said.”
BBC News, 6th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Former cabinet ministers, senior lawyers and a prominent campaigner for older people will today try to lift the threat of imprisonment hanging over relatives accompanying loved ones who go abroad to kill themselves.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An anti-airport protester who sent a series of bomb hoaxes and threats to Gatwick airport over five years was yesterday jailed for three and a half years.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“MPs tonight [6th July] approved fines of up to £1,000 for those who fail to tell the passport and identity service of changes in their personal details including address, name, nationality and gender.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Richard Desmond, owner of Express Newspapers, is suing investigative biographer Tom Bower for suggesting he made a ‘humiliating’ apology to Conrad Black, the former proprietor of The Daily Telegraph.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An official inquiry into the way the G20 demonstrations were policed is expected to call for urgent reform today, amid concerns that police are failing in their duty to facilitate lawful protest. ”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Saleswomen Beth Moules and Sharleen Amos, both 25, were taunted about their relationship and subjected to crude insults.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Justice Secretary Jack Straw has made a statement on offenders released from prison who have been recalled and who have not yet returned to custody.”
Ministry of Justice, 6th July 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Almost 1,000 criminals who should have been returned to prison are still at large, it was revealed yesterday.”
The Independent, 7th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Alan Jermey was told he must serve at least 16 years after being found guilty of murdering Kirsty Wilson.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An Iranian millionaire and business associate of David Mills, the estranged husband of Tessa Jowell, has had his assets frozen by the High Court as part of a claim that he and his company received £6.2m in unauthorised fees and payments from a Welsh steel mill which collapsed with the loss of more than 300 jobs.”
The Independent, 7th July 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The security service MI5 is being accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice by offering a man inducements to drop his allegation that its officers colluded in his torture.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Masood and others v Zahoor and others [2009] EWCA 650; [2009] WLR (D) 231
“Where a claimant relied on a forged document he forfeited the right to have an adjudication of his claim, and it was irrelevant that the defendant also relied on forged documents. There was no weighing or balancing exercise to be carried out.”
WLR Daily, 7th July 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.
Regina (Aweys and Others) v Birmingham City Council; Moran v Manchester City Council
House of Lords
“A local housing authority had been entitled to decide that overcrowded families were homeless but to leave them there in the short term; it was a question of fact what term was too long.”
The Times, 7th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The ‘centre of main interests’ for the purposes of the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 must be identified by reference to factors which were both objective and ascertainable by third parties. What was ascertainable by a third party was what was in the public domain and what a typical third party would learn as a result of dealing with the company.”
WLR Daily, 6th July 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.
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