“The editor of the Daily Mail, Paul Dacre, has promised to re-examine the rules that prevent journalists hacking into computers to obtain personal information, to clarify and possibly tighten them, after becoming chairman of the body responsible for the editors’ code that governs newspapers and magazines.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A butler who is claiming over £200,000 for unfair dismissal from the widow of a wartime ambassador ‘screamed obscenities’ before smashing the crockery because he did not want to wash up, a tribunal has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Government’s hard line on the collection and use of information on travellers could isolate it within Europe and leave it with less information than other states, a parliamentary committee has warned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th June 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“A review of bail laws is to be launched later, following concern about crimes committed by suspects released while they await trial.”
BBC News, 17th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A shakeup of the youth justice system is being planned by ministers that would see a failing punitive policy replaced by a more welfare-oriented, early-intervention approach to dealing with children in trouble. As part of a youth crime action plan to be published this summer, the Home Office has recommended that responsibility and funding for tackling youth crime – including local youth offending teams – should be moved to new, local authority-run ‘children’s trusts’.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Ministry of Defence should be banned from hiring barristers to defend it at military inquests, the Conservatives will say on Tuesday.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A British man who allegedly hacked into the Pentagon’s computer network should not be extradited to America because US prosecutors tried to intimidate him into cooperating with them, the House of Lords was told today.”
The Guardian, 16th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The case of the Cynon Valley schoolgirl sent home for wearing a Sikh religious bracelet will be heard by a High Court judge in London later.”
BBC News, 17th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Church of England could face paying out millions of pounds in compensation to opponents of women bishops who quit their posts over the issue.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“City lawyers are split over the extension of the pre-charge detention period to 42 days which was narrowly passed in the House of Commons on Wednesday.”
The Lawyer, 13th June 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A school caretaker who was injured falling off a six-foot stepladder is suing his employer for £50,000 claiming he was not trained how to use it properly.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A fascinating survey of music consumption conducted for British Music Rights has good and bad news for the beleaguered music business.”
The Register, 16th June 2008
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
“A test case on age discrimination which goes to the European court of justice in Luxembourg early next month could open the way for employees in Britain to insist on working past 65.”
The Guardian, 16th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s best-known psychiatrist will appear before a disciplinary hearing today over allegations of plagiarism.”
The Guardian, 16th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Kiernan & Ors, R v [2008] EWCA Crim 972 (08 May 2008)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Crown Estate Commissioners v Roberts & Anor [2008] EWHC 1302 (Ch) (13 June 2008)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Bray v Deutsche Bank AG [2008] EWHC 1263 (QB) (12 June 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Associated British Ports v Ferryways NV & Anor [2008] EWHC 1265 (Comm) (13 June 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Assembly Learning Grants and Loans (Higher Education) (Wales) Regulations 2008
The Dee Estuary Cockle Fishery Order 2008
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment of section 323) Regulations 2008
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendments to Part 7) Regulations 2008
The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2008
The Multiplex Licence (Broadcasting of Programmes in Gaelic) Order 2008
The Television Multiplex Services (Reservation of Digital Capacity) Order 2008
The Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (Commencement) Order 2008
The Community Bus (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Motor Cycles Etc. (Single Vehicle Approval) (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Representation of the People (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008
The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Civil Penalty Code of Practice) Order 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Redknapp and Another v Commissioner of the City of London Police and Another
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“Reasons for seeking the issue of an search warrant had to be set out to make it valid. For its execution to be lawful, the occupier of the premises had to be shown and given a copy of the warrant. ”
The Times, 16th June 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.
Khan v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Court of Appeal
“Police powers to enter and search a premises without a warrant, could be used only where those premises were, in fact, occupied or controlled by a person under arrest, and not where the police had merely a reasonable belief that the suspect occupied or controlled the premises.”
The Times, 16th June 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.
Gibson v Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office [2008] EWCA Civ 645; [2008] WLR (D) 189
“The wife of a convicted drug dealer was entitled to keep her interest in the matrimonial home despite a finding in confiscation proceedings that she had guilty knowledge of the source of her husband’s wealth. The Drug Trafficking Act 1994 did not give the court power to bring her share of the equity in the matrimonial home within the confiscation order, since the assets were hers without any court order in her favour.”
WLR Daily, 12th 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.
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