Child rapist jailed for 10 years – BBC News
“A former immigration officer from Kent has been jailed for 10 years after admitting 17 sex offences including the rape of a girl under the age of 13.”
BBC News, 28th July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Murder law shake-up ends ‘crime of passion’ – The Times
“The traditional crime of passion is to be swept away in the most radical overhaul of the murder laws in 50 years.”
The Times, 29th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Opinion: Anti-discrimination laws need to be made consistent – The Lawyer
“The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently gave judgment in Coleman v Attridge Law (2008). In so doing, it clarified the remit of the Framework Directive (2000/78/EC), which was adopted in November 2000 to combat discrimination in the workplace on grounds of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.”
The Lawyer, 28th July 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (Specified Organisations) Order 2008
The Freedom of Information (Parliament and National Assembly for Wales) Order 2008
The Finance Act 2008, Section 29 (Appointed Day) Order 2008
The Finance Act 2008, Section 30 (Appointed Day) Order 2008
The Finance Act 2008, Section 28 (Appointed Day) Order 2008
The Finance Act 2008, Section 27 (Appointed Day) Order 2008
The Finance Act 2008, Section 26 (Appointed Day) Order 2008
The Air Navigation (Dangerous Goods) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The A282 Trunk Road (Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Charging Scheme) Order 2008
The Health Act 2006 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2008
The Commons Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4 and Savings) (England) Order 2008
The Overseas Life Insurance Companies (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Insurance Companies (Taxation of Insurance Special Purpose Vehicles) Order 2008
The Financing-Arrangement-Funded Transfers to Shareholders Regulations 2008
The Stamp Duty Land Tax (Zero-Carbon Homes Relief) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Friendly Societies (Modification of the Corporation Tax Acts) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Insurance Companies (Taxation of Reinsurance Business) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Registered Pension Schemes (Transfer of Sums and Assets) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Tax Avoidance Schemes (Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Taxes (Fees for Payment by Telephone) Regulations 2008
The Insurance Accounts Directive (Lloyd’s Syndicate and Aggregate Accounts) Regulations 2008
The Dartmoor Commons (Authorised Severance) Order 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
FSA launches third insider trading case – The Times
“The financial watchdog has continued its crackdown on market manipulation with another prosecution.”
The Times, 28th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Crime maps online ‘by end 2008’ – BBC News
“New interactive maps which will allow every neighbourhood in England and Wales to access local crime information will be ready by the end of the year.”
BBC News, 28th July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court bans physical restraint methods used on children in custody – The Guardian
“Physical restraint methods on young people in secure training centres (STCs) – including pulling back thumbs – have been outlawed today by the Court of Appeal.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
No charges over reporter’s death – BBC News
“There is insufficient evidence to prosecute any US soldier over the death of ITN journalist Terry Lloyd in Iraq, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.”
BBC News, 28th July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
SRA kickstarts Clementi revolution with new LDP structures – The Lawyer
“The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is set to change its Code of Conduct in reaction to the regulatory demands of Legal Services Act 2007.”
The Lawyer, 28th July 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Katona wins substantial damages – BBC News
“TV personality Kerry Katona has been awarded substantial damages over newspaper claims she worked as a prostitute before she was famous.”
BBC News, 28th July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Basil Fawlty’ groper leaves handprints on victim – Daily Telegraph
“Peter Notridge had been working on his car moments before he fondled a woman in the street, covering her top with evidence.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Baby in mortuary since 1987 to be buried by council – The Guardian
“The remains of a baby boy that have been in a mortuary for more than 21 years because his parents refused to register his death are to be buried by a council without their consent.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Police demand action after pubs ditch drinking code – The Guardian
“The drinks industry has torn up a voluntary code banning aggressive happy-hour deals and other irresponsible drinks promotions in more than half of the UK’s 57,000 pubs.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Coleman v Attridge Law and another – WLR Daily
Coleman v Attridge Law and another (Case C-303/06); [2008] WLR (D) 257
“The person whose disability gave rise to direct discrimination against an employee, so as to constitute an infringement of Directive 2000/78 on equal treatment and occupation, could in principle be a disabled child of the employee, and was not limited to the employee himself, and the same was true of harassment of the employee.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 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 Sivaraman – WLR Daily
R v Sivaraman; [2008] WLR (D) 256
“There was no rule of law to the effect that, for the purposes of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, the amount of the benefit to each of the co-conspirators to a fraud must be taken as the whole amount of the loss attributable to the fraud: the amount of the benefit might vary as between the co-conspirators, and was to be determined on a common sense appreciation of the particular facts of the case.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 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.
Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd and another – WLR Daily
Shore v Sedgwick Financial Services Ltd and another [2008] EWCA Civ 863; [2008] WLR (D) 255
“Where a client, on the advice of a financial adviser, shifted his pension investment from a relatively safe occupational final salary pension scheme to a new more risky personal pension income withdrawal scheme, which later suffered in value owing to falling annuity rates, the client’s right to sue the adviser in negligence accrued on the date when the transfer was made and was not contingent upon the subsequent occurrence of loss in value or his even later discovery of such loss.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 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.
CTI Group Inc v Transclear SA – WLR Daily
CTI Group Inc v Transclear SA [2008] EWCA Civ 856; [2008] WLR (D) 254
“A contract for the sale by description of unascertained goods of a specified origin was not frustrated where although delivery of the goods remained physically and legally possible, the seller’s suppliers chose, for whatever reason, not to make them available.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 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.
NA v United Kingdom (Application No. 25904/07)- Times Law Reports
NA v United Kingdom (Application No. 25904/07)
European Court of Human Rights
” The level of risk of ill-treatment in returning failed asylum-seekers to Sri Lanka was indicated by the fact that since 2007 the European Court of Human Rights has granted interim measures preventing the return of 342 Tamil applicants from the United Kingdom.”
The Times, 28th July 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.
Equal pay: Unions face compensation claims of up to £100m – The Guardian
“Unions are facing the threat of a compensation bill for as much as £100m in the wake of an appeal court ruling that they broke the law by discriminating against women indirectly in the way they settled equal pay claims in local government.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Disabled youngsters forced into marriage to provide passports – The Independent
“Scores of young people with learning disabilities are being forced into marriages, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.”
The Independent, 27th July 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
