Category: law reports

In re Leeds United Association Football Club Ltd – Times Law Reports

Posted September 4th, 2007 in contract of employment, damages, dismissal, insolvency, law reports by sally

No priority for liability to dismissal damages

In re Leeds United Association Football Club Ltd

“Where administrators adopted the contracts of employment of a company and the company subsequently become liable to pay damages for the wrongful termination of those contracts, the damages were not payable in priority to other expenses since that liability was not within the words ‘wages or salary’.”

The Times, 4th September 2007

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Christie v Department for Constitutional Affairs and Another – Times Law Reports

Posted September 4th, 2007 in law reports, pensions, tribunals by sally

No pension entitlement for fee-paid part-time chairmen

Christie v Department for Constitutional Affairs and Another

“Part-time fee-paid tribunal chairmen were not workers and were not entitled to a pension.”

The Times, 4th September 2007

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BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted August 31st, 2007 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Sunrock Aircraft Corporation Ltd v Scandinavian Airlines System Denmark-Norway-Sweden [2007] EWCA Civ 882 (24 August 2007)

F & H (children), Re [2007] EWCA Civ 880 (24 August 2007)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Goodyer and Gomes v Government of Trinidad and Tobago [2007] EWHC 2012 (Admin) (22 August 2007)

Breckon v DPP [2007] EWHC 2013 (Admin) (22 August 2007)

High Court (Technology and Construction Court)

Dobson & Ors v Thames Water Utilities Ltd & Anor [2007] EWHC 2021 (TCC) (24 August 2007)

Source: www.bailii.org

David Truex (a Firm) v Kitchin – Times Law Reports

Posted August 29th, 2007 in law reports, legal aid, solicitors by sally

Solicitor’s legal aid duty

David Truex (a Firm) v Kitchin

Court of Appeal

“A solicitor should not take instructions and incur costs gathering information relating to contemplated proceedings and only when that information suggested that the client was eligible for public funding advise that a different firm could become involved.”

The Times, 29th August 2007

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Regina (NA (Iraq)) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Others – Times Law Reports

Posted August 29th, 2007 in immigration, law reports, passports by sally

Policy restricted powers

Regina (NA (Iraq)) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Others

Court of Appeal

“Instructions to entry clearance officers that S-series passports were no longer acceptable as evidence of identity and nationality amounted to an unlawful restriction on their powers to decide in individual cases whether such a passport met requirements.”

The Times, 29th August 2007

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Veitch and Another v Avery – Times Law Reports

Posted August 29th, 2007 in law reports, negligence, solicitors by sally

Business doomed to failure

Veitch and Another v Avery

Court of Appeal

“Any loss caused by a solicitor’s negligence in wrongly advising his client that he was in default under a loan agreement with his bank was to be assessed on the date of the breach of duty. A claimant client who had no chance, on the facts, of trading himself out of his difficulties even had the solicitor not behaved negligently, was not entitled to more than nominal damages against the solicitor.”

The Times, 29th August 2007

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Regina (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – Times Law Reports

Posted August 28th, 2007 in animals, experiments, law reports, licensing, vivisection by sally

Death not ‘adverse effect’

Regina (British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Queen’s Bench Division

“The death of an animal used in a regulated procedure for scientific experimentation was not an adverse effect which needed to be taken into account when deciding whether to grant a licence for such experiments. Rather, the statutory scheme governing such licences was concerned with the pain and suffering which animals might experience before death.”

The Times, 27th August 2007

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Regina (Madan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Regina (Kapoor) v Same – Times Law Reports

Posted August 28th, 2007 in deportation, judicial review, law reports by sally

Challenging deportation decisions quickly

Regina (Madan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Regina (Kapoor) v Same

Court of Appeal

“Applications for judicial review of deportation decisions had to be made promptly. The Court of Appeal so stated in a reserved judgment following a hearing of applications in judicial review proceedings by Harmit Singh Madan and Barat Kapoor for permission to appeal against the refusal by Mr Justice Mitting on June 26, 2007 to grant injunctions to prevent their removal to Afghanistan.”

The Times, 27th August 2007

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Regina (F (Mongolia)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – Times Law Reports

Posted August 28th, 2007 in immigration, judicial review, law reports by sally

Judicial review not available

Regina (F (Mongolia)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department

Court of Appeal

“Judicial review was not available to challenge a refusal by the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal to grant permission to appeal against an immigration judge’s decision. ”

The Times, 28th August 2007

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Lewisham London Borough Council v Malcolm – Times Law Reports

Posted August 28th, 2007 in disability discrimination, landlord & tenant, law reports by sally

Landlord discriminated against disabled tenant

Lewisham London Borough Council v Malcolm

Court of Appeal

“A landlord who served a notice to quit on a secure tenant who had unlawfully sublet his premises and who was a disabled person unlawfully discriminated against the tenant.”

The Times, 28th August 2007

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Tasarruf Mevduati Sigorta Fonu v. Demirel and Another – Times Law Reports

Posted August 24th, 2007 in civil procedure rules, law reports, service out of jurisdiction by sally

Foreign judgment claim

Tasarruf Mevduati Sigorta Fonu v. Demirel and Another

Court of Appeal

“A claimant did not have to establish that a defendant had assets within the jurisdiction in order to obtain permission to serve a claim out of the jurisdiction to enforce a foreign judgment.”

The Times, 24th August 2007

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Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v. Morina; Same v. Borrowdale – Times Law Reports

Posted August 24th, 2007 in jurisdiction, law reports, social security by sally

Court can hear appeal on jurisdiction point

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v. Morina; Same v Borrowdale

Court of Appeal

“The Court of Appeal could determine an appeal by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the Social Security Commissioner’s jurisdiction to hear an appeal from a legally qualified panel member of the Social Security Appeal Tribunal where the commissioner had accepted jurisdiction but had dismissed the appeal on the merits.”

The Times, 24th August 2007

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Raja v. Van Hoogstraten (No 9) – Times Law Reports

Posted August 23rd, 2007 in law reports, sequestration, setting aside by sally

Prejudiced party can make claim

Raja v Van Hoogstraten (No 9)

Chancery Division

“Where the court had set aside an irregularly made order, but on grounds other than that the order had been irregularly obtained, it was open to a party prejudiced by the making of the order to claim, at a later stage, that the order had been irregularly obtained.”

The Times, 23rd August 2007

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Regina (Donnachie) v. Cardiff Magistrates’ Court – Times Law Reports

Posted August 22nd, 2007 in case stated, judicial review, law reports, trade descriptions by sally

Final determination can be challenged

Regina (Donnachie) v. Cardiff Magistrates’ Court

Queen’s Bench Divisional Court

“A ruling on a preliminary issue on jurisdiction by a district judge was a final determination that could be challenged by case stated or by judicial review.”

The Times, 22nd August 2007

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Turner and Another v. Avis – Times Law Reports

Posted August 22nd, 2007 in bankruptcy, law reports, matrimonial home by sally

Trustee gets former wife’s home

Turner and Another v. Avis

Court of Appeal

“Equity jurisdiction enabled a trustee in bankruptcy to enforce a trust for sale of a matrimonial home held jointly by the bankrupt and his former wife under a property adjustment order made more than twenty years ago.”

The Times, 22nd August 2007

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Paterson v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis – Times Law Reports

Posted August 22nd, 2007 in disability discrimination, dyslexia, law reports by sally

Dyslexia means that chief inspector of police is disabled

Paterson v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

Employment Appeal Tribunal

“A chief inspector of police who was dyslexic and who was found by an employment tribunal to have been disadvantaged in comparison with his work colleagues in examinations for promotion, was disabled within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.”

The Times, 22nd August 2007

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In re St Peter and St Paul, Chingford – WLR Daily

Posted August 22nd, 2007 in ecclesiastical law, faculties, law reports, telecommunications by sally

In re St Peter and St Paul, Chingford

“In carrying out the balancing exercise necessary in considering whether or not to grant a faculty for the installation of telecommunications equipment it was necessary to differentiate between the effect of the installation of equipment on children and the effect on adults. Mobile phone operators had to ensure a reasonable response to countering the risk to children from pornography over the mobile phone network. In respect of the risk to adults, to bar something which would be of benefit to the public generally because there was a risk that some adults would be able privately to access material which many Christians and others deplored was to take an unbalanced approach.”

WLR Daily, 21st August 2007

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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

Posted August 21st, 2007 in law reports by sally

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)

Staffordshire County Council v Challinor & Anor [2007] EWCA Civ 864 (17 August 2007)

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

Hamilton, R v [2007] EWCA Crim 2062 (16 August 2007)

High Court (Administrative Court)

Secretary of State for the Home Department v AL [2007] EWHC 1970 (Admin) (17 August 2007)

High Court (Chancery Division)

Hammonds (a firm) v Pro-Fit USA Ltd [2007] EWHC 1998 (Ch) (17 August 2007)

Source: www.bailii.org

Ellis v Bristol City Council – Times Law Reports

Posted August 21st, 2007 in codes of practice, health & safety, law reports by sally

Whether place of work unsafe

Ellis v Bristol City Council

Court of Appeal

“A judge should consider the Code of Practice issued by the Health and Safety Commission when deciding whether a place of work was unsafe.”

The Times, 21st August 2007

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Director of Assets Recovery Agency v Szepietowski and Others (No 2) – Times Law Reports

Posted August 21st, 2007 in assets recovery, law reports, proceeds of crime by sally

Proving assets obtained by unlawful conduct

Director of Assets Recovery Agency v Szepietowski and Others (No 2)

Court of Appeal

“On an application for an interim receiving order, the Director of the Assets Recovery Agency had to show that a criminal offence was committed and the property to be recovered was obtained by it or in return for it. It was not necessary to prove that a particular person committed a particular offence on a particular day.”

The Times, 21st August 2007

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