“The loss of a gipsy family’s home with no immediate prospect of replacement was capable in law of being regarded as a very special factor within para 3.2 of the Planning Policy Guidance Note 2 issued by the Secretary of State to local planning authorities. It was a factor to be weighed in the balance when considering the value society attached to the protection of gipsy homes against the public value of the protection of the Green Belt.”
WLR Daily, 24th June 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.
Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Co SAL and Another (No 3)
Court of Appeal
“The English court had an ancillary power to grant an injunction restraining a foreign defendant, who had submitted to the court’s jurisdiction and against whom judgment had been awarded, from continuing proceedings abroad which attempted to relitigate issues determined in the English court.”
The Times, 25th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Court of Appeal
“Payments to a widow from a death in service benefit scheme and a trust fund established by an employer, were to be disregarded when assessing damages following an admission of liability.”
The Times, 25th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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IIG Capital llc v Van der Merwe
Court of Appeal
“Where shareholders of a company over which they had complete control borrowed money for the business, the question whether they guaranteed to repay the loan as principal or as secondary obligors had to be assessed in that context.”
The Times, 25th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“Singer Lee Ryan has been found guilty of punching a taxi driver in the head and fined £500.”
BBC News, 24th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“There were ruffled feathers and no small amount of flapping at the world’s most genteel tennis tournament yesterday after a threat of legal action from animal rights lobbyists over the culling of pigeons that had the temerity to bother some players.”
The Independent, 25th June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two Iraqis have been held without trial by the British Army for five years. Why is this any different from Guantanamo Bay?, asks Phil Shiner, of Public Interest Lawyers.”
The Independent, 25th June 2008
Source: www.indpendent.co.uk
“A woman who found her childhood sweetheart on Friends Reunited was charged with bigamy after marrying him illegally.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A motorist could escape a ban for speeding because the camera that caught him is sited on a road that may not officially exist, it was disclosed yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The British government lacks the political will to prosecute company executives who bribe foreign politicians and officials to win contracts, an anti-corruption group declared yesterday in a report.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“MPs’ expenses claims could be subject to stricter checks under plans to reform the system for parliamentary allowances being published this morning.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Boris Johnson is facing his first big policy obstacle as Mayor of London after the Information Commissioner objected to his plans to map crime in the capital street by street, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 25th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Ministers are determined to rush through emergency laws to halt the collapse of criminal cases throughout England and Wales after senior judges ruled that granting witnesses anonymity could make trials unfair.”
The Times, 25th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Ministers have reached an agreement with one of the main Labour rebels over the Planning Bill, undermining a potentially damaging Commons defeat.”
BBC News, 24th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former Derby supply teacher has been jailed for at least seven years for raping a five-year-old girl.”
BBC News, 24th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The driver of a coach who was drunk when it overturned at an M1 service station in Buckinghamshire injuring 33 people has been jailed for 10 months.”
BBC News, 24th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A student accused of not telling police of an alleged suicide-bomb plot has been released on conditional bail.”
BBC News, 24th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Nazi sympathiser who kept nail bombs under his bed was today found guilty of terror offences.”
The Independent, 24th June 2008
“More than 60 Labour MPs are threatening to derail plans to weaken people’s long-standing right to oppose the building of new nuclear power stations and airport runways in their own ‘backyards’.”
The Independent, 24th June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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