“Data held by the police, the NHS, schools, the Inland Revenue, local councils and the DVLA could all end up in private hands, according to Privacy International.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th January 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Officers will not actively target members of the public to track down those who own violent pornography banned under a new law, police chiefs admitted yesterday.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Internet service providers will not be forced to disconnect users who repeatedly flout the law by illegally sharing music and video files, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 26th January 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Royal Family’s 100-year-old convention that their wills may be kept secret is to be reexamined by senior judges..”
The Times, 24th January 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The High Court has granted an appeal against a ruling that UKIP should forfeit only a fraction of £367,697 it received in ‘impermissible donations’.”
BBC News, 22nd January 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Source: www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk
Please note only the current day’s list will be accessible.
“A farmer and his son have been found guilty of health and safety failings after a teenager died in a farm machinery accident near Bristol.”
BBC News, 23rd January 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The death of a 50-year-old disabled man who drowned in a bath in council-run accommodation was preventable, health and safety officials have said.”
BBC News, 23rd January 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two teenage brothers who started a fire at a derelict factory in which two homeless people died have been sentenced to six years in custody.”
BBC News, 23rd January 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The British computer hacker Gary McKinnon has today won permission to launch a fresh high court challenge against attempts to extradite him to America.”
The Guardian, 23rd January 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nigel Gresham sentenced for two years after his unsafe Land Rover plunged into river Witham in Lincolnshire.”
The Guardian, 23rd January 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Karen Matthews has been sentenced today to eight years in jail for kidnapping and imprisoning her nine-year-old daughter.”
The Times, 23rd January
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
R v Kousar [2008]; [2009] WLR (D) 16
“A wife who shared the matrimonial home with her husband, whom she knew was storing merchandise from his business at home, but acquiesced in it being there and did not demand he remove it, was not in control or possession of the goods within the meaning of s 92(1)(c) of the Trade Marks Act 1994.”
WLR Daily, 22nd January 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 (Low) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 35 (Admin); [2009] WLR (D) 15
“A worker, who was a national of a non member state, sent by a service provider exercising its freedom to provide services pursuant to art 49 EC, from one member state to another had to be lawfully resident in the sending member state in order to acquire any rights under art 49 EC.”
WLR Daily, 22nd January 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.
Jain and another v Trent Strategic Health Authority [2009] UKHL 4; [2009] WLR (D) 14
“There was no duty of care in negligence owed by a regulatory authority to the owners of a nursing home against whom the authority had made an ex parte application without notice to the magistrate for cancellation of registration of the nursing home pursuant to s 30 of the Registered Homes Act 1984 (now replaced by s 20 of the Care Standards Act 2000).”
WLR Daily, 22nd January 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.
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Ammah v Kuehne+Nagal Logistics Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 11 (22 January 2009)
Basildon District Council v McCarthy & Ors [2009] EWCA Civ 13 (22 January 2009)
High Court (Administrative Court)
A, R (on the application of) v Coventry City Council [2009] EWHC 34 (Admin) (22 January 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Family Division)
G v A [2009] EWHC 11 (Fam) (20 January 2009)
High Court (Patents Court)
Dyson Technology Ltd v Samsung Gwangju Electronics Co Ltd [2009] EWHC 55 (Pat) (22 January 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Manning v King’s College Hospital NHS Trust [2009] EWHC 75 (QB) (22 January 2009)
Lord-Castle v Director of Public Prosecutions [2009] EWHC 87 (QB) (23 January 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Energy Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1 and Savings) Order 2009
The A46 Trunk Road (Newark to Widmerpool Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2009
The A52 Trunk Road (A46 Newark to Widmerpool Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 2009
The A52 Trunk Road (A46 Newark to Widmerpool Improvement and Slip Roads) (Detrunking) Order 2009
The Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Queen’s Bench
“In the absence of any mechanism for review, placing an offender on the sex offenders register indefinitely was a disproportionate interference with the right to respect for private and family life.”
The Times, 23rd January 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.
Regina (Wright and Others) v Secretary of State for Health and Another
House of Lords
“The procedure of effectively banning care workers from working with vulnerable people, without giving them an opportunity to answer any allegations of unsuitability, was incompatible with the right to a fair hearing under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 23rd January 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co,uk
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“Justice Minister Lord Bach has made a statement announcing the UK’s participation in the European Community regulation on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I).”
Ministry of Justice, 22nd January 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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