“A man whose teacher admitted abusing him over six years was told that his claim for government compensation should be kept at the lowest level because his experience was a ‘one-off incident’ and ‘consensual’, the Guardian can reveal.”
The Guardian, 6th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Gomez & Ors v Vives [2008] EWCA Civ 1065 (03 October 2008)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Hutchison & Ors v B & DF Ltd [2008] EWHC 2286 (Ch) (03 October 2008)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Vitpol Building Service v Samen [2008] EWHC 2283 (TCC) (16 September 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Incarcerating more and more offenders is supposedly not the point of new supersize prisons. Anna Bawden inspects plans to make them centres of learning.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A father who murdered his disabled daughter and young son in their bedrooms after struggling with the breakdown of his marriage has been jailed for life.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Stephen Cooper v Attorney General [2008] EWHC 2285 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 303
“A judicial error in the application of European Community law must be a manifest infringement of the applicable law in order to create liability for damages.”
WLR Daily, 2nd October 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.
Regina (Liverpool City Council) v Hillingdon London Borough Council
Queen’s Bench Division
“An asylum-seeker who turned out to be a child in need had to be looked after by the first local authority where he lived when he made his application and not the second one into whose care he had been temporarily released.”
The Times, 3rd October 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.
Regina v Mehta; Regina v Sharman; Regina v Reardon; Regina v Ratcliff
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“Money-launderers who offered a service to numerous criminals via bureaux de change or hawala banking were often as culpable as the criminals generating the money, if not more so, and often more culpable than those who handled the proceeds of a particular fraud.”
The Times, 3rd October 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.
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“On an application by the prosecution for leave to appeal from a ruling of a trial judge in the crown court, the Court of Appeal should not simply consider whether the appeal had a realistic prospect of success because even if the judge’s ruling was wrong it would only be if it were in the interests of justice that the trial should be resumed or started afresh.”
The Times, 3rd October 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.
Source: www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk
Please note only the current day’s cause list will be accessible
High Court (Family Division)
D v S [2008] EWHC 363 (Fam) (19 March 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Syska v Vivendi Universal SA & Ors [2008] EWHC 2155 (Comm) (02 October 2008)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A fraudster has been jailed for six years for bouncing cheques worth £2m in Europe’s top auction houses.”
BBC News, 2nd October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Why are we asking this now?
Because yesterday a British think-tank published a report for next year’s United Nations Strategic Drug Policy Review, suggesting that a decriminalised, regulated market in cannabis would cause less harm than the prohibition of the drug currently in force across most of the world.”
The Independent, 3rd October 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government is updating its counter-terrorism strategy to focus more on preventing the radicalisation of Muslims, the BBC has learned.”
BBC News, 3rd October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman suffering from multiple sclerosis is facing the ‘dilemma’ of when to take steps to kill herself or whether to wait until she needs help from her husband and risk his prosecution, the High Court was told yesterday. ”
The Times, 3rd October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Former minister Keith Vaz is to face an official inquiry into allegations that he tried to interfere in a court case and breached the MPs’ code of conduct.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A civil servant is being prosecuted over an internet blog which detailed the kidnap, torture and murder of the pop group Girls Aloud.”
BBC News, 2nd October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The widow of a film maker who died of a heart attack after being misdiagnosed by three GPs, has won substantial damages at the High Court.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Assisted suicide is outlawed in the UK, with the 1961 Suicide Act making it illegal to ‘aid, abet, counsel or procure the suicide of another’. Helping somebody to die carries a prison sentence of up to 14 years.”
The Guardian, 2nd October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Source: www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk
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