Daily Cause List, 18th November 2008
Source: www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk
Please note only the current day’s cause list will be accessible
Judge orders Total to make ‘generous’ offer to Buncefield victims – The Times
“Hundreds of victims of the Buncefield fire moved closer to an initial payout today after a judge instructed the oil depot’s operator to make them a ‘sensible and generous’ offer.”
The Times, 17th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Mother to get answers over daughter’s rape and murder – Daily Telegraph
“An inquest is to be opened into the death of a woman murdered by a convicted rapist who had used the Human Rights Act to convince a panel he should be freed from jail.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Warning over fixed penalty notices for violent crimes – The Times
“Magistrates gave warning yesterday that the criminal justice system is being ‘undermined’ because thousands of serious offences are being processed by police using fixed penalty notices away from public scrutiny.”
The Times, 17th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Senior judge wants top court to avoid crime – Daily Telegraph
“A member of the Court of Appeal has argued that only rare or occasional criminal cases should be heard by the new Supreme Court because its judges are too out of touch.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Judges’ report backs US-style plan that give lawyers a cut of damages – The Times
“A report seen by The Times supports the adoption of US-style contingency deals in which lawyers take their fees out of damages won for clients.”
The Times, 18th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Met defends stop-and-search tactics as it claims limited success in reducing knife crime – The Guardian
“The Metropolitan police yesterday claimed a limited success in the fight against knife crime, citing a 12% fall in incidents since May, but at the price of long-term resentment over the widespread use of stop-and-search needed to achieve it.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court cuts ‘compromising judges’ – BBC News
“A leading judge has told the BBC he fears a conflict of interest as courts increasingly depend on income from fines and confiscations to operate.”
BBC News, 18th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Solicitors accused over ‘dubious deals’ with union official that cost sick miners thousands – The Times
“Britain’s highest-earning solicitor acted dishonestly and with ‘conscious impropriety’ in dealings with a mining union that led to his firm handling thousands of industrial disease compensation claims, a tribunal heard yesterday.”
The Times, 18th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Iraq war legal advice flawed, says ex-law lord – The
“Legal advice given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq was fundamentally ‘flawed’, a former senior law lord said today.”
The Independent, 18th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Kerplunk’ sculptor agrees £1.7m court settlement – Daily Telegraph
“The award-winning designer of the troubled B of the Bang sculpture has agreed to pay back £1.7 million of taxpayers’ money.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Solicitors ‘misled’ sick miners – BBC News
“Two solicitors who won personal injury claims for thousands of miners have appeared before a tribunal accused of taking cuts from compensation pay-outs.”
BBC News, 17th November 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mother sues barrister daughter for libel over ‘neglect memoir’ – Daily Telegraph
“A mother is suing her barrister daughter for libel over a book which accused her of childhood abuse and neglect.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
Brown may press ahead with organ donor law, despite ruling of advisers – The Times
“Gordon Brown has refused to rule out a change in the law that may see everyone considered as a potential organ donor, despite the recommendations of his advisers today.”
The Times, 17th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Privacy watchdog issues guidance on FOI exemptions – OUT-LAW.com
“Public authorities who want to keep information secret to protect the commercial interests of companies they work with must explain exactly what damage will be done by disclosure, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th November 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Ministers urged to act on race inequality in criminal justice system – The Guardian
“The government must take a fresh look at policy if over-representation of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities in the criminal justice system is to be addressed, according to a new study published today.”
The Guardian, 17th November 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Randhawa & Anor, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 2599 (22 October 2008)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Wandsworth v Whibley [2008] EWCA Civ 1259 (14 November 2008)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Farraj & Anor v King’s Healthcare NHS Trust & Anor [2008] EWHC 2468 (QB) (17 October 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Muscat v Health Professions Council [2008] EWHC 2798 (Admin) (14 November 2008)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AR & Ors [2008] EWHC 2789 (Admin) (14 November 2008)
Azzam v The General Medical Council [2008] EWHC 2711 (Admin) (12 November 2008)
High Court (Commercial Court)
CMA CGM SA v Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co Ltd [2008] EWHC 2791 (Comm) (14 November 2008)
High Court (Patents Court)
Armour Group Plc v Leisuretech Electronics Pty Ltd [2008] EWHC 2797 (Pat) (14 November 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
Spirerose Ltd (In Administration) v Transport for London – WLR Daily
Spirerose Ltd (In Administration) v Transport for London [2008] EWCA Civ 1230; [2008] WLR (D) 358
“In concluding that a valuation of the claimant’s land on the basis that at the date of valuation there would have been a determined planning application granting permission , the Lands Tribunal had not erred. In the absence of an actual planning permission or a permission that was required to be assumed under the Land Compensation Act 1961, the tribunal was not limited to assessing the value by reference to the view that the market would have taken as to the prospects of achieving planning permission, the hope value.”
WLR Daily, 14th 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.
