“The attorney general is to ask the court of appeal to increase the sentences handed down in the Baby Peter case after several complaints from child welfare organisations and the public that they were disappointingly short.”
The Guardian, 27th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, was in court yesterday — to defend his plans for ‘virtual courts’, under which thousands of defendants will lose their right to have a courtroom hearing.”
The Times, 28th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Amnesty International has attacked Britain’s record on human rights and called for a public inquiry in to allegations of collusion over the torture of Binyam Mohamed.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th May 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An elderly woman left almost penniless in a divorce dispute is to go to the highest court in a challenge that will test London’s reputation as ‘divorce capital of the world’.”
The Times, 28th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Thousands of workers in the construction industry were denied employment because of a secret ‘blacklist’, a court heard today.”
The Independent, 27th May 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The British government is sending refused asylum seekers back home, a Guardian investigation has revealed, despite the fears of human rights campaigners and lawyers that deportees could encounter persecution on their return.”
The Guardian, 27th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Rolls Royce plc v Unite the Union
Court of Appeal
“Length of service was a lawful criterion for selection for redundancy since it achieved a legitimate aim by a proportionate means.”
The Times, 27th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009
The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Housing (Replacement of Terminated Tenancies) (Successor Landlords) (England) Order 2009
The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Commencement No.5) Order 2009
The Berwick Upon Tweed Harbour Revision (Constitution) Order 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“High risk sex offenders under supervision in the community face fewer checks by the police after revised Government guidance relaxed their monitoring.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th May 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Banning the further reporting of a story which has already gained the attention of millions of people around the world would be ludicrous, absurd and unenforceable, the High Court has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th May 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A chief constable could face jail and an end to his 35-year police career for defying a High Court order to return computers suspected of holding a huge collection of child abuse images to a controversial expert witness.”
The Times, 27th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The home secretary Jacqui Smith faces legal action over allegations that MI5 agents colluded in the torture of a British former civil servant by Bangladeshi intelligence officers.”
The Guardian, 26th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Judge Richard Bray criticised the force for the number of reprisal crimes committed, saying the courts were ending up dealing with revenge attacks because the police did not respond to calls quickly enough.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th May 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The lawyer who has put a police chief’s job on the line over a search warrant is the same man who represented Harry Redknapp in his successful claim over a dawn raid on his home.”
The Times, 27th May 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A widely-requested European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on keyword advertising may fail to give businesses in the UK and Ireland the legal clarity it would give to the rest of Europe, a High Court judge has warned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th May 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A police officer who admitted altering his notes about the death of Jean Charles de Menezes has been cleared following an inquiry.”
BBC News, 26th May 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Wood v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2009] EWCA Civ 414 (21 May 2009)
Baker v Quantum Clothing Group [2009] EWCA Civ 499 (22 May 2009)
R (A Child), Re [2009] EWCA Civ 445 (22 May 2009)
Vodafone 2 v HM Revenue & Customs [2009] EWCA Civ 446 (22 May 2009)
BCL Old Co Ltd & Ors v BASF SE & Ors [2009] EWCA Civ 434 (22 May 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
L’Oreal SA & Ors v EBay International AG & Ors [2009] EWHC 1094 (Ch) (22 May 2009)
Interflora, Inc & Anor v Marks & Spencer Plc & Anor [2009] EWHC 1095 (Ch) (22 May 2009)
Blue Sphere Global Ltd v HM Revenue & Customs [2009] EWHC 1150 (Ch) (22 May 2009)
Mohammadi v Shellpoint Trustees Ltd & Anor [2009] EWHC 1098 (Ch) (22 May 2009)
Lovett & Anor v Carson Country Homes Ltd & Ors [2009] EWHC 1143 (Ch) (01 May 2009)
Revenue & Customs v Micro Fusion 2004-1 LLP [2009] EWHC 1082 (Ch) (22 May 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
Aerotel Ltd v Wavecrest Group Enterprises Ltd and others [2009] EWCA Civ 408; [2009] WLR (D) 171
“A patentee seeking to rely on commercial success as an indicator of non-obviousness in order to rebut an allegation of its patent being obvious over prior art had to establish that the commercial success relied on was due to his invention and not to other market factors. Where a number of other factors might have explained the success, unless he could show they were irrelevant or largely so, he would not have proved what he needed to rebut the allegation. The evidential onus of proof was on him, and the party making the allegation was not required to show that the commercial success was due to other factors.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 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.
Vodafone 2 v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2009] EWCA Civ 446; [2009] WLR (D) 170
“It was possible to provide a conforming interpretation of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 which avoided any unlawful restriction on a taxpayer company’s freedom of establishment, conferred by art 43EC of the EC Treaty, by the introduction of an additional exception to those contained in s 748(1)(a) to (e) and (3) in respect of the apportionment of profits of controlled foreign companies by the additional implication of the words ‘ if [the company] is, in that accounting period, actually established in another member state of the EEA and carries on genuine economic activities there’.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 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.
Mohammadi v Shellpoint Trustees Ltd and another [2009] EWHC 1098 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 169
“When a legally assisted person’s solicitors had ceased to act, without another firm being retained under a legal aid certificate, and that fact had been communicated to the opposing party, then from the moment of that communication the litigant ceased to be a legally assisted person for the purposes of the Legal Aid Act 1988.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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