Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Stewart, R v [2009] EWCA Crim 593 (26 March 2009)
Farrell, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 511 (13 March 2009)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
AF (Jamaica) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 240 (26 March 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Thorpe v Revenue and Customs [2009] EWHC 611 (Ch) (26 March 2009)
JML Direct Ltd v Freesat UK Ltd [2009] EWHC 616 (Ch) (26 March 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Kirk Reid, a children’s football coach, has been convicted of stalking and sexually assaulting 25 women in London over 12 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The regulation of big corporate law firms is not ‘fit for purpose’ and urgently needs reform, a report for the Law Society has concluded.”
The Times, 26th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Intelligence which could have been derived through torture presents the UK with a ‘very real dilemma’, the UK Foreign Office has said.”
BBC News, 26th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court (Chancery Division)
JSD Corporation Pte Ltd v (1) Al Waha Capital PJSC & Anor [2009] EWHC 583 (Ch) (25 March 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Barclays Bank Plc v Guardian News Media Ltd [2009] EWHC 591 (QB) (19 March 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
Thorner v Major and others [2009] UKHL 18; [2009] WLR (D) 111
“Oblique assurances by a farmer of an intention to leave a farm to a cousin, who had worked full-time without any remuneration on the farm for 29 years, could constitute a sufficiently clear and unequivocal representation to establish a proprietary estoppel when the farmer ultimately died intestate.”
WLR Daily, 25th March 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.
“Consistent with the interests of open justice and the rule of law, an annex to an earlier judgment of the court, integral to that judgment but previously withheld so as not to prejudice confidential plea bargain negotiations in the United States involving the claimant, should be made public in accordance with the undertaking of the court at the time of that judgment.”
WLR Daily, 25th March 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.
“A careful approach was to be applied when one was considering an asylum application and the question whether an asylum-seeker was excluded from the provisions of the Refugee Convention by reason of art 1F(c) on the ground that he had been guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.”
WLR Daily, 25th March 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.
R (Mendes and another) v Southwark London Borough Council; [2009] WLR (D) 108
“A judge needed to give reasons for preferring one side’s arguments over the other on an application for costs made by written submissions following the case being settled.”
WLR Daily, 25th March 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.
House of Lords
“Oblique assurances could in the appropriate context constitute a sufficiently clear and unequivocal representation to establish a proprietary estoppel.”
The Times, 26th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“John Darwin, the ‘back-from-the-dead canoeist’ who was jailed for carrying out a ‘sophisticated’ £250,000 fraud, is challenging his six-year prison sentence in the Court of Appeal on Thursday.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“New legislation is often welcomed with a whiff of trepidation, especially by businesses. Change – in particular legal change – usually prompts feelings of uncertainty and suspicion.”
The Times, 26th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The creator of an inflatable artwork which blew away in a County Durham park killing two women will be sentenced later for health and safety breaches.”
BBC News, 26th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Lord Chancellor will soon be announcing who will fill the vacancies on the new supreme court, which begins work in October when the law lords move across Parliament Square to Middlesex Guildhall. There is a very strong case for increasing the retirement age for supreme court justices from 70 to 75. In 1916 the Earl of Halsbury heard a case on the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords at 92. The Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 now provides that judges must retire at 70. There is an exception for those first appointed to a judicial office before March 31, 1995. They can continue working until 75.”
The Times, 26th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“… a private member’s bill being debated by MPs tomorrow would allow relatives to apply to the high court for a declaration that someone is missing and presumed dead before seven years has expired, making it easier to deal with issues like the dissolution of a marriage and the disposal of property and insurance claims.”
The Guardian, 25th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Councils in England and Wales have used controversial spying laws 10,000 times in the past five years, figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats show.”
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BBC News, 26th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Concerns have been raised about whether Lord Justice Rupert Jackson’s review into the high cost of civil litigation should apply to large-scale commercial disputes.”
Legal Week, 26th March 2009
Source: www.legalweek.com
“Happily most people will never meet a family law barrister professionally. Those who do, however, will almost certainly be at a time of great crisis in their life. From an acrimonious breakdown of a marriage or civil partnership to the State intervening to remove children who medical or social work professionals believe (rightly or wrongly) to have been abused, any family from any background may find themselves litigating before the family courts. I remember one week when I represented both a prostitute and a peer of the realm (not, on this occasion, in the same case).”
The Times, 25th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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