Practice Direction (Court Dress) (No 5)
Supreme Court
“Judges in civil cases would wear a new civil robe, without a wig, as from October 1, 2008, and would be distinguishable by different coloured tabs.”
The Times, 19th August 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 if publication.
“Police have confirmed that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute a man arrested over the disappearance of Genette Tate in 1978.”
BBC News, 18th August 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“British ministers have been challenged in the High Court to intervene in the child abuse investigation in Jersey.”
Daily Telegraph,
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A British woman who put a game on a file-sharing network has been ordered to pay damages to the game’s creator.”
BBC News, 19th August 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Law firm employees are working the equivalent of an extra day a week compared to the start of the year, with many firms failing to fill spaces left by departing staff members.”
The Lawyer, 18th August 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A paedophile who acted as a ‘librarian’ for a global internet child abuse ring was handed an indefinite jail term yesterday after one of the biggest undercover police investigations into online child abuse.”
The Guardian, 19th August 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A college lecturer whose course includes lessons on understanding crime has been fined by a judge for ‘drunken, violent behaviour’ towards a member of a hotel’s security staff.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th August 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A schoolboy recruited into a cell engaged in a ‘worldwide conspiracy’ to kill non-Muslims yesterday became Britain’s youngest convicted terrorist.”
The Guardian, 19th August 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
” Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is taking easyJet, the airline that he founded, to the High Court to try to limit its ability to make money from activities that may clash with his other ventures. The surprising spat between the budget carrier and its founder stunned the City yesterday and threatens to limit the airline’s ability to raise revenues.”
The Times, 18th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Cobbe v Yeoman’s Row Management Ltd and another [2008] UKHL 55; [2008] WLR (D) 293
“A claimant who had entered into an oral agreement with the defendants in respect of the redevelopment of a property had no claim against them in proprietary estoppel or constructive trust based on their unconscionable withdrawal from the agreement, but was entitled to a quantum meruit in respect of money and services which he had provided.”
WLR Daily, 15th August 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICRL series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Roberts v Gill & Co (a Firm) and Another
Court of Appeal
“When the court gave permission for a personal claim, brought by a beneficiary of an estate in his personal capacity, to be continued as a derivative claim on behalf of the estate, the personal representative or administrator had to be joined as a party to those proceedings.”
The Times, 18th August 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.
Serious Fraud Office v Lexi Holdings plc (in Administration) and Another
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“A restraint order should not be varied to allow for the payment of a debt to an unsecured creditor.”
The Times, 18th August 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.
“The father of a 19-year-old woman who died in a motorway crash welcomes a change in the law which comes into force on Monday to jail careless drivers.”
BBC News, 18th August 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
K, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1900 (14 August 2008)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v TB (Jamaica) [2008] EWCA Civ 977 (14 August 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Rideh v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 2019 (Admin) (15 August 2008)
Beckett v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 2002 (Admin) (15 August 2008)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
CJP Builders Ltd v William Verry Ltd [2008] EWHC 2025 (TCC) (15 August 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Britain’s most senior Asian policeman was illegally bugged and spied on in a clandestine operation sanctioned by Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, according to leaked Scotland Yard documents.”
The Times, 17th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2008
The Private Dentistry (Wales) Regulations 2008
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (Variation of Schedule 5) (Wales) Order 2008
The School Curriculum in Wales (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008
The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (City and County of Swansea) Designation Order 2008
The School Budget Shares (Prescribed Purposes and Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“A solicitor is being questioned by the legal profession’s watchdog as part of an investigation into a huge fraud allegedly involving one of Britain’s biggest property-law firms.”
The Times, 17th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Moors murderer Ian Brady has complained about low wages and poor treatment at the top-security hospital where he is held, in a wide-ranging letter in which he also claims that people do not feel safe walking the streets.”
The Guardian, 17th August 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A campaign has been launched to stress to cohabiting partners that they do not have the same rights as married couples if they separate or one of them dies.”
BBC News, 15th August 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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