“As a young boy, Euan Blair’s famous parents did their utmost to protect him from the intrusive gaze of the British media, eliciting a series of agreements from newspapers in an attempt to ensure the former prime minister’s young family were kept out of the limelight.”
The Guardian, 30th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An Iranian scholar who stole pages from priceless books at Oxford’s Bodleian library and the British Library has had his sentence halved.”
BBC News, 29th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Powar & Anor, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 594 (25 March 2009)
Edwards, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 602 (17 March 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Lord Chancellor Jack Straw today announced the establishment of an Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity with Baroness Julia Neuberger as its Chair.”
Ministry of Justice, 28th April 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Parents fighting in the family courts for contact with their children are being denied access to their personal files by a corrupt system, a leading parental rights campaigner has said.”
The Times, 29th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Quotas for ethnic minority and women judges could be part of new proposals aimed at improving ‘diversity’ in the judiciary. Baroness Julia Neuberger, a government adviser, said she wanted to remove ‘blockages’ faced by applicants for judicial posts and make judges more representative of society.”
The Independent, 29th April 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Accenture Services Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2009] EWHC 857 (Admin) (28 April 2009)
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families v BP [2009] EWHC 866 (Admin) (28 April 2009)
Yusuf v The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain [2009] EWHC 867 (Admin) (28 April 2009)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Jefferies International Ltd v Landsbanki Islands HF [2009] EWHC 894 (Comm) (28 April 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill has accepted substantial libel damages from the owners of a website.”
BBC News, 28th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man jailed for murdering five family members has lost his challenge against an order that he must die behind bars.”
BBC News, 28th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The university admissions service, Ucas, is considering whether to drop a requirement for students to declare criminal convictions when they apply to university, following a high-profile case exposed by the Guardian.”
The Guardian, 28th April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Shaaira Alexis unwittingly drank blackboard cleaning fluid after the schoolgirl sneaked into her classroom and poured it into a water bottle, a court was told.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Justice Secretary Jack Straw today announced new plans on prison capacity and the management of both prisons and probation, better to protect the public and further reduce reoffending.”
Ministry of Justice, 27th April 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
High Court (Administrative Court)
Sharief v The General Medical Council [2009] EWHC 847 (Admin) (27 April 2009)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Coal Pension Properties Ltd v Nu-Way Ltd [2009] EWHC 824 (TCC) (27 April 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
Court of Appeal
“It was sufficient when launching an equal pay claim to send a written statement of grievance to the employer identifying the issue as an equal pay claim.”
The Times, 28th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
British Airways plc v Williams and Others
Court of Appeal
“An airline which based its paid annual leave rate for pilots on their basic salary rather than on what they might be expected actually to earn, including supplements, was not in breach of the statutory holiday pay requirements.”
The Times, 28th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A senior fireman who was sacked after a female colleague’s name badge was defaced in a ‘puerile’ prank has won £45,000 in damages.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An Appeal Court judge has warned lawyers acting for one of Germany’s richest women that her bid to get a pre-nuptial agreement recognised in an English court was unlikely to succeed.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Yesterday morning I finally walked through a door that used to be marked ‘keep out’. It was an eerie feeling. The guards and clerks at Ipswich County Court were polite, but nervous. One admitted he was a bit shocked by the arrival of two Times journalists. I felt a bit shocked, too — by the banality of the set-up, in contrast to the bitter heartaches it contains.”
The Times, 28th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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