High Court (Commercial Court)
HLB Kidsons (a firm) v Lloyds Underwriters (Policy No 621/PKID00101) & Ors
Sanhe Hope Full Grain Oil Foods Production Co Ltd v Toepfer International Asia Pte Ltd
High Court (Patents Court)
Anning, Re Decision of Comptroller-General of Patents
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Duarte v The Black and Decker Corporation & Anor
Prince Radu of Hohenzollern v Houston & Anor
“An interim report into how two discs containing the personal details of 25 million people went missing, is expected in December, the chancellor has said.”
BBC News, 29th November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Jain and Another v Trent Strategic Health Authority
Court of Appeal
“The risk of harm to the residents of registered homes outweighed the economic interests of the registered home proprietor.”
The Times, 30th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Kensington International Ltd v Republic of Congo and Others
Court of Appeal
“The defence of self-incrimination was not available against an order requiring disclosure of documents concerning alleged payment of bribes.”
The Times, 30th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“Council publishes advice to sentencers on bail offences.”
Sentencing Guidelines Council, 29th November 2007
“A Picasso portrait worth an estimated £33m is the subject of an intense legal battle between Andrew Lloyd Webber’s art foundation and a German-Jewish professor who claims it was looted from his family by the Nazis in the 1930s.”
The Independent, 30th November 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Suspects who deliberately fail to turn up in court should be jailed, according to guidelines announced yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Stiles and kissing gates may have to be replaced for fear that they are in breach of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“New guidance will be drawn up to clamp down on late abortions of foetuses with a cleft lip and palette, it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th November 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government has launched a root-and-branch review of prostitution laws, which will examine the effects of Sweden’s policy of prosecuting men for buying sex.”
The Guardian, 30th November 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A student was jailed for life yesterday for stabbing her lover’s pregnant wife to death after the breakdown of her affair.”
The Times, 30th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A publican convicted of breaking the law by using a Greek satellite decoder to screen English Premier League football matches asked the High Court yesterday to rule in a test case that she did not commit a crime.”
TheTimes, 30th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A doctor convicted of killing a patient through gross negligence has been told that he can return to work in the NHS.”
The Times, 30th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Morrissey is suing the NME and its editor for defamation after the music magazine quoted him on its cover this week as saying: ‘The Gates of England are flooded. The country’s been thrown away.’ ”
The Times, 30th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Jack Straw has begun an urgent inquiry into allegations that hundreds of criminals, including sex offenders, have escaped prosecution because warrants were not issued when they failed to turn up at court.”
The Times, 30th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Out-of-court punishments accounted for more than half of all offences dealt with by the justice system last year, for the first time in modern criminal history, according to figures published yesterday.”
The Times, 30th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Almost half a century ago Anthony Hall told an inquest that he had nothing to do with the murder of a 15-year-old girl whose body was found lying in a Birmingham allotment.
Yesterday Mr Hall, 70, stood in the dock at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court, charged with killing the teenager, Jacqueline Thomas, who is believed to have been sexually assaulted and strangled. It is one of the oldest cases to reach court.”
The Times, 30th November 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Gordon Brown was facing a full police investigation into Labour’s donations scandal as his campaign team admitted yesterday that it had links with David Abrahams.”
The Times, 30th November 2007
SOurce: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Where a person solicited another to commit murder as a secondary, as opposed to principal, party, he was guilty of an offence of soliciting another to murder, contrary to s 4 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.”
WLR Daily, 29th November 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group plc and others [2007] EWCA Civ 1260
“Where a party in complex commercial multi-party litigation wished to pursue other proceedings whilst reserving a right in existing proceedings, that issue should be raised with the court so that the court could express its view as part of the case management as to the proper use of its resources and the efficient and economic conduct of the litigation.”
WLR Daily, 29th November 2007
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