Regina (Noone) v Governor of Drake Hall Prison and Another – Times Law Reports
Regina (Noone) v Governor of Drake Hall Prison and Another
Court of Appeal
“Where a sentence of differing terms of imprisonment was passed in respect of a number of offences, some under the Criminal Justice Act 1991 and others under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, any terms imposed for less than 12 months would be governed by the 1991 Act, but for those over 12 months the governing statute would depend on whether the offence was committed before or after April 4, 2005.”
The Times, 10th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform v Aaron and Others – Times Law Reports
Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform v Aaron and Others
Court of Appeal
“In company director disqualification proceedings, the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform could not rely on findings of fact by the Financial Ombudsman Service but he could rely on facts and opinions expressed by the Financial Services Authority.”
The Times, 10th November 2008
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.
R (Hillingdon London Borough Council and others) v Lord Chancellor and another – WLR Daily
WLR DAily, 7th November 2008
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.
Practice Direction: Enforcement of Children Act 1989 contact orders: disclosure of information to officers of the national probation service – WLR Daily
“In order to ensure that an officer of the Service or a Welsh family proceedings officer would not be in contempt of court by virtue of disclosing information to an officer of the National Probation Service when a request was made under s 11L(5) or s 11M of the Children Act 1989 the court should give leave to the officer to make such disclosure.”
WLR Daily, 7th November 2008
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.
Practice Direction: Applications in the magistrates’ court to enforce contact orders – WLR Daily
“Applications to enforce contact orders made in the magistrates’ courts are to be considered by family proceedings courts.”
WLR Daily, 7th November 2008
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.
Practice Direction – Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008 – Judiciary of England and Wales
“Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 6th November 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
MPs seek to censor the media – The Independent
“Britain’s security agencies and police would be given unprecedented and legally binding powers to ban the media from reporting matters of national security, under proposals being discussed in Whitehall.”
The Independent, 10th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Academics balk at ‘spying’ on students to nail migrant scams – The Guardian
“Universities are being asked to set up surveillance units to monitor the movements of international students in a government-led crackdown on bogus student immigration scams, academics say.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Challenge to attorney’s powers by family of student killed in Germany – The Guardian
“The power of the attorney general to make decisions free from the scrutiny of courts came under renewed attack last week, in a challenge by the family of Jeremiah Duggan, a British student whose death in Germany five years ago has been described by lawyers as ‘disturbing and bizarre’.”
The Guardian, 10th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Home Office bars Thaksin Shinawatra from returning to Britain – The Times
“Thaksin Shinawatra, the deposed Thai Prime Minister and former owner of Manchester City Football Club, has had his visa revoked by the British Government, two years after he fled to exile in London following a military coup.”
The Times, 10th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Council homes for life ‘to be scrapped’ – The Times
“People living in council houses will no longer be entitled to a subsidised tenancy for life under Whitehall proposals to address waiting lists.
The measures are being considered by Margaret Beckett, the new Housing Minister, in the most radical shake-up of the social housing system for decades to ensure that those who deserve council homes get them.”
The Times, 11th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Mail editor accuses Mosley judge – BBC News
“Daily Mail editor-in-chief Paul Dacre has launched an attack on a High Court judge, accusing him of bringing in a privacy law by the back door.”
BBC News, 9th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Ban on votes for prisoners is illegal, says EU – The Observer
“The government must give prisoners the right to vote or the next general election will be illegal under European law, ministers have been warned by parliament’s influential Joint Committee on Human Rights.”
The Observer, 9th November 2008
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
Harman and Law Lord clash over wife killers – The Observer
“Minister says the defence of ‘provocation’ lets men get away with murder.”
The Observer, 9th November 2008
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
JD, R v [2008] EWCA Crim 2557 (24 October 2008)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Ali v Birmingham City Council [2008] EWCA Civ 1228 (07 November 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Porn surf nurse struck off – The Independent
“A nurse on an old people’s ward who used a hospital computer to look at sexually explicit images of an elderly woman was struck off today.”
The Independent, 7th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Man ‘shopped’ by mother is jailed – BBC News
“A man whose mother shopped him to police after he admitted killing a man has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to manslaughter.”
BBC News, 7th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Men will suffer from new laws on sex discrimination, academic warns – Daily Telegraph
“Men will become the new victims of sex discrimination if workplace equality laws are strengthened further, according to a female academic.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Asian employee superimposed on to bin Laden cave picture sues company – Daily Telegraph
“Vinod Rajdev claims that colleagues at software provider Civica routinely taunted him and joked that he was an al-Qaeda terrorist ‘mastermind’.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk