“Reforms of income tax and vehicle tax will come under further scrutiny this week, to the embarrassment of the Government, as backbenchers and opposition MPs push for significant amendments.”
The Times, 30th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Plans for an American-style sentencing ‘grid’ to control prison numbers appear doomed because of overwhelming opposition from the judiciary.”
The Times, 30th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A psychiatrist is suing her employer for £300,000 compensation because she was ‘humiliated’ and made to stop work after she released a mental patient who fatally stabbed a retired banker the next day.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Anwoir & Ors, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1354 (27 June 2008)
High Court (Chancey Division)
Astall & Anor v Revenue & Customs [2008] EWHC 1471 (Ch) (27 June 2008)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Buckley & Ors v Yates Wine Lodges Ltd & Anor [2008] EWHC 1408 (QB) (27 June 2008)
Green v Westleigh Properties Limits [2008] EWHC 1474 (QB) (27 June 2008)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
TJ Brent Ltd & Anor v Black & Veatch Consulting Ltd [2008] EWHC 1497 (TCC) (13 June 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Commissioner for Older People in Wales (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The European Parliament (House of Lords Disqualification) Regulations 2008
The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (No.2) Order 2008
The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Collective Investment Schemes) (Amendment) Order 2008
The Industrial Training Levy (Reasonable Steps) Regulations 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Animal welfare activists have complained to Wimbledon organisers and the police over the culling of pigeons. Is it against the law for marksmen to take out the feral birds?”
BBC News Magazine, 26th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who left her two-year-old son alone for the weekend has been jailed for 18 months.”
BBC News, 27th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge today questioned a decision by prosecutors not to pursue a murder charge against a mother who left her three-year-old daughter to die from malnutrition in her bedroom.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Midwives and maternity groups are urging the Government to extend a new law to give mothers the legal right to breastfeed babies more than six months old in public.”
The Independent, 28th June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Police last night criticised prosecutors for failing to charge a crack addict accused of rape who went on to sexually assault and murder a woman a week after being released from custody.”
The Guardian, 28th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The High Court’s Queen’s Bench Division (QBD) is in turmoil after being branded ‘chaotic’ by a raft of judges, some of whom claim not to have had a break in the past 10 months.”
The Lawyer, 28th June 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Policies on gun crime are flawed because ministers overlook its root causes – poverty and inequality, a report by criminologists claims.”
BBC News, 28th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A school caretaker has successfully sued Hampshire County Council after he was injured falling off a stepladder.”
BBC News, 27th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Freelance journalist Shiv Malik must hand over his source material for a book on terrorism to Greater Manchester Police within seven days and pay legal costs, a judicial review of the case ruled yesterday.”
The Guardian, 27th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“New coroners’ powers to help prevent avoidable deaths were announced today (26 June) by Justice Minister Bridget Prentice in response to views expressed by bereaved families.”
Ministry of Justice, 26th June 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Response on behalf of the Council of Her Majesty’s Circuit Judges (PDF) and Postscript (PDF)
Response on behalf of the Magistrates Association (Word)
Judiciary of England and Wales, 26th June 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
R v Kenning; R v Blackshaw; R v Fenwick; [2008] WLR (D) 212
“An agreement to aid and abet an offence was not capable of constituting a criminal conspiracy.”
WLR Daily, 26th June 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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R v Higgs [2008] EWCA Crim 1324; [2008] WLR (D) 211
“To establish the offence of selling a device which is primarily designed, produced, or adapted for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effective technological measures, it must be shown that the technological measure concerned physically prevents infringement of copyright, and is not merely a discouragement or commercial hindrance to copyright infringement.The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) so held in allowing an appeal by the defendant, Neil Stanley Higgs, against his conviction on 19 October 2007 in the Crown Court at Bristol before Her Honour Judge Hagen of 26 offences contrary to s 296ZB of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.”
WLR Daily, 26th June 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and another [2008] EWCA Civ 713; [2008] WLR (D) 210
“A claim in negligence was not defeated by public policy unless the claim or a head of claim was inextricably bound up with or linked to the claimant’s criminal conduct. Where the depression the claimant suffered as a result of the defendant’s negligence led him to kill, he could recover damages for loss of earnings after he committed manslaughter if his claim was not inextricably connected with his criminal activity.”
WLR Daily, 26th June 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Beoku-Betts v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] UKHL 39; [2008] WLR (D) 209
“S 65 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 required an adjudicator, in determining an alleged breach of a claimant’s right to respect for his family life under art 8 of the European Convention, as scheduled to the Human Rights Act 1998, to take account of the family unit as a whole, and if, overall, removal would be a disproportionate interference, all affected family members were to be included as victims.”
WLR Daily, 26th June 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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