Failure to surrender to bail- Sentencing Guidelines Council
“Council publishes advice to sentencers on bail offences.”
Sentencing Guidelines Council, 29th November 2007
Lloyd Webber charity fights for right to sell £33m Picasso portrait – The Independent
“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
Bail-jumpers face tougher sentences – Daily Telegraph
“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
Kissing gates and stiles “breach Act” – Daily Telegraph
“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
Tighter controls over abortions for disability – Daily Telegraph
“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
Ban on paying for sex comes a step nearer – The Guardian
“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
Jail for jilted student who killed lover’s pregnant wife in frenzied knife attack – The Times
“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
Publican appeals over right to pick her football satellite – The Times
“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
Doctor who killed is free to work – The Times
“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 sues as racism row ends NME love-hate affair – The Times
“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
Warrant failure “let hundreds of suspects go free” – The Times
“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
More than half of criminals now punished without going to court – The Times
“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
46 years after inquest, witness is charged with teenager’s murder – The Times
“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
Brown faces full police enquiry after admitting links to donor – The Times
“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
R v Winter – WLR Daily
“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
Please note: once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group plc and others – WLR Daily
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
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.
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Contex Drouzhba Lrtd v Wiseman & Anor
Regent Security Services Ltd v Power
Cawsand Fort Management Company Ltd v Stafford & Ors
M, R v Sutton London Borough Council
Hoddinott & Ors v Persimmon Homes (Wessex) Ltd
Able (UK) Ltd. v Revenue & Customs
Jain & Anor v Trent Strategic Health Authority
AIG Europe (Ireland) Ltd v Faraday Capital Ltd
Rolls Royce Industrial Power (India) Ltd v Cox
C (A child) v XYZ County Council & Anor
EE & Brian Smith (1928) Ltd v Hodson & Ors
Fairfax Gerrard Holdings Ltd & Ors v Capital Bank Plc
Centrica Plc & Anor v Premier Power Ltd
Aldi Stores Ltd v WSP Group Plc & Ors
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Slee v Secretary of State for Justice
Hasan v Secretary of State for Tarde & Industry
Paul & Anor v Assistant Deputy Coroner of Inner West London
Centro v Secretary of State for Transport & Anor
Krzyzowski v Circuit Court In Gliwice, Poland
Winchester College, Warden & Fellows Of & Anor v Food & Rural Affairs
Reforming the law on bribery- Law Commission
“Our review considers the full range of structural options for a scheme of bribery offences. ”
Law Commission, 29th November 2007
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
The changing judicial role: human rights, community law and the intention of Parliament – the Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden
“Lecture by the Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden at the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 28th November 2007
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Regina (Countryside Alliance and Others) v Attorney-General and Another Regina (Derwin and Others) v Same – Times Law Reports
House of Lords
“The prohibition of hunting wild animals with dogs and hare coursing imposed by the Hunting Act 2004 was not incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights or inconsistent with the treaty establishing the European Union.”
The Times, 29th November 2007
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
