Poison coroner slams government – BBC News
“A coroner has criticised the government after he was forced to adjourn an inquest involving a major water poisoning incident.”
BBC News, 5th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Why do women solicitors earn less than men? – Law Society’s Gazette
“When Fiona Fitzgerald, chair of the Association of Women Solicitors, was preparing to launch the joint campaign with the Law Society on equal pay, she first checked her own firm’s record.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th September 2008
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
esure Insurance Ltd v Direct Line Insurance plc – Times Law Reports
esure Insurance Ltd v Direct Line Insurance plc
Court of Appeal
“An expert’s report was of little value in evaluating the likelihood of trade-mark confusion from the standpoint of a consumer.”
The Times, 5th September 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 (M) v Slough Borough Council – Times Law Reports
Regina (M) v Slough Borough Council
House of Lords
“A person’s need for a refrigerator in which to keep his medication was not sufficient to entitle him to residential accommodation.”
The Times, 5th September 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.
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
Plan to phase out complex police forms by end of 2009 – The Independent
“Controversial forms which police have to fill in every time they stop someone in the street should be phased out by the end of next year, a Home Office minister said today.”
The Independent, 4th September 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Half of all criminals re-offend within a year – Daily Telegraph
“Nearly half of all criminals released from jail reoffended within a year of being let out, figures have disclosed.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Top law firms excel in sexual diversity index – Legal Week
“Clifford Chance, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and White & Case are among 64 law firms to receive a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2009 Corporate Equality Index, writes the Am Law Daily.”
Legal Week, 4th September 2008
Source: www.legalweek.com
Teenagers given life for drowning student – The Independent
“Two teenagers who murdered a student by pushing him into a fast-flowing river were jailed for life yesterday.”
The Independent, 5th September 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Marks & Spencer demand 7-year-old boy’s permission to deal with mother’s complaint – Daily Telegraph
“A mother who complained to shop staff that her seven-year-old son’s Superman playsuit was faulty was told data protection laws meant they could only deal with him.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
FSA challenged over insider trading case – The Times
“A father and son accused of insider trading today asked for the case against them to be dismissed on procedural grounds.”
The Times, 4th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Cherie Booth tells politicians to stop ‘hysterically’ hyping crime – The Independent
“The ‘hysterical rhetoric of politicians attempting to ride the tiger of public opinion’ is fuelling the fear of crime, according to a commission headed by Cherie Booth. The Commission on English Prisons Today, led by the wife of the former prime minister, protested over the record prison population reached under the government led until last year by Tony Blair.”
The Independent, 5th September 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Unpaid servant lived in cupboard – BBC News
“A woman who smuggled an unpaid servant into the UK and forced her to sleep in a cupboard has been jailed for two and a half years at Harrow Crown Court.”
BBC News, 4th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Phone phishers hop on filesharing legal threats bandwagon – The Register
“Fraudsters have begun cold-calling householders to accuse them of copyright infringement online and threaten them with court action, an ISP has reported.”
The Register, 4th September 2008
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
RL & Anor, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1970 (28 August 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Patents Court)
Zipher Ltd v Markem Systems Ltd & Anor [2008] EWHC 2078 (Pat) (01 September 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
Rhys case legal aid row resolved – BBC News
“The legal aid dispute which threatened to delay the start of the trial of a 17-year-old accused of murdering Rhys Jones in Liverpool has been settled.”
BBC News, 4th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Iraq dossier memos ‘must be released’ – Daily Telegraph
“Memos and emails showing how the Government’s Iraq war dossier was ‘sexed up’ must be released, the information commissioner has ordered.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
R (Binyan Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2) – WLR Daily
“In performing the necessary balancing exercise in relation to public interest immunity and the exercise of the court’s discretion to order disclosure, it was incumbent on the court to have regard to the absence of a relevant consideration in the PII certificate and schedule, namely, in the light of the allegations made by the claimant, the abhorrence and condemnation accorded to torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, an issue which the court considered was not addressed either expressly or implicitly.”
WLR Daily, 2nd September 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.
R v RL and JF – WLR Daily
R v RL and JF [2008] EWCA Crim 1970; [2008] WLR (D) 299
“A prosecution for the strict liability offence of causing polluting matter to enter controlled waters could be brought against either a club, as an unincorporated association, in its own name or against individual members.”
WLR Daily, 2nd September 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.
