“Legal Aid Minister Lord Bach has given a speech on the legal aid reform programme at the Advice Services Alliance conference in which he has announced that more people will be eligible for civil legal aid.”
Ministry of Justice, 20th March 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Dozens of miscarriages of justice could occur in the next few months because the body that regulates expert witnesses in court is being shut down by the Government, senior scientists warned yesterday.”
The Independent, 22nd March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Laws intended for counter-terrorism are being misused in an increasingly heavy-handed approach to policing protests, a new parliamentary report warns today.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A quarter of all the largest public-sector database projects, including the ID cards register, are fundamentally flawed and clearly breach European data protection and rights laws, according to a report published today.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Energy companies will be banned from charging ‘unjustified’ prices under new rules proposed by the regulator Ofgem.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Sean Hodgson, who spent 27 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, has been given just £46 by the government with which to restart his life. The Prison Service has awarded the mentally ill former prisoner the equivalent of £1.70 for every year he was wrongly imprisoned.”
The Observer, 22nd March 2009
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
“Prime minister would not support proposal backed by more than 100 MPs to allow families to help terminally ill relatives to die.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Parking companies will be subject to strict new limits on the penalties and fees they can charge, under government plans to drive rogue operators out of business.”
The Times, 20th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The High Court has ruled that oil company Total is liable for damages caused by the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot in Hertfordshire.”
BBC News, 20th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Balshaw [2009] EWCA Crim 470; [2009] WLR (D) 102
“Where a person was convicted of an offence before the Crown Court, and was ordered to pay costs to the prosecutor, there was no principle that the order was proscribed where the costs were designed to compensate a third party.”
WLR Daily, 18th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Rottmann v Brittain; In re Rottmann (a bankrupt); [2009] WLR (D) 101
“The court had power to suspend the public examination of a bankrupt pursuant to s 290 of the Insolvency Act 1986 and order the examination to be conducted in private where foreign criminal proceedings had been instituted against the bankrupt.”
WLR Daily, 18th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in once of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
King v Director of Serious Fraud Office [2009] UKHL 17; [2009] WLR (D) 100
“The Crown Court’s jurisdiction, under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, to make a restraint and disclosure order following a request by a foreign prosecutor was restricted to property located within England and Wales.”
WLR Daily, 18th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Hatzl and another v XL Insurance Co Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 223; [2009] WLR (D) 99
“The word ‘defendant’ in art 31(1)(a) of the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road should be interpreted purposively so as to extend to the parties to the contract and to other parties to whom the convention ascribed rights and duties, but not to include an assignee, even if he was also an insurer. An assignee of rights under the convention was to be treated as standing in the shoes of his assignor. He had no different rights to be sued in a particular forum than his assignor.”
WLR Daily, 19th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Firms winning legal service contracts from competitors could face a ‘landslide’ of six-figure claims for unfair dismissal if they do not take on staff on reasonable terms along with the contract, the winner of a landmark employment tribunal case said this week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 19th March 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Applications for settlement, in certain categories require the applicant to demonstrate that the Knowledge of Life in the UK (KOL) requirement has been met, before settlement can be granted.”
UK Border Agency, 19th March 2009
Source: www.uba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The Immigration Rules covering highly skilled migrant workers will change on 31 March 2009, raising the academic and financial requirements of two categories in Tier 1 of the points-based system. At the same time, the resident labour market test will be strengthened to ensure that skilled jobs are advertised within the United Kingdom before they can be offered to migrant workers.”
UK Border Agency, 18th March 2009
Source: www.uba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Criminal justice measures to enhance fraud prosecutions.”
Attorney General’s Office, 18th March 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Gargett v Lambeth London Borough Council
Court of Appeal
“An applicant who had been in receipt of income and housing benefit and had been paid her housing costs had not been deprived of the right to seek discretionary housing payments for arrears of unpaid increased rent on the ground she had already received her housing costs payment.”
The Times, 20th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Regina (AM and Others) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and Another
Court of Appeal
“Allegations of inhuman or degrading treatment of inmates at a privately run immigration detention centre should have been investigated by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to meet the United Kingdom’s obligation under article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 20th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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