“The Tribunal Procedure Committee have commenced consultation on rules for the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 4th June 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Attorney General statement: knife crime.”
Attorney General’s Office, 5th June 2008
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“From today, anyone – including teenagers – caught carrying an illegal knife can face criminal charges.”
Home Office, 5th June 2008
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Dyfed-Powys Police is to be examined over claims it failed to properly look at allegations against a friend of former chief constable Terry Grange.”
BBC News, 5th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who suffered brain-damage when he washed out to sea during a day trip organised by his local authority has been awarded undisclosed compensation.”
BBC News, 5th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two companies have been fined a total of more than £52,000 after a giant TV screen put up to show World Cup games in the centre of Birmingham collapsed.”
BBC News, 5th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been given an anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) banning him from begging anywhere in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 5th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who left her two-year-old son alone for the weekend while she went out with her boyfriend has been found guilty of child cruelty.”
BBC News, 5th June 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Websites that encourage people to commit suicide could be shut down under changes to the law, it was disclosed today.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The plan to detain terror suspects for 42 days has become so convoluted and bureaucratic that police fear it will be almost unworkable, senior sources have told The Times.”
The Times, 6th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“For six years Virendra Rastogi posed as the highly successful and respectable chief executive of a multibillion-pound metal trading company. His home was in Mayfair, a short chauffeur-driven trip from his offices in Piccadilly, his children were at private school and his customers were dotted around the world. But all was not quite as it appeared. The business, backed by banks in Britain and the United States, was ‘propped up by dishonesty’, the customers were Rastogi’s accomplices and his customers’ addresses included a New Jersey launderette and a cowshed in India.”
The Times, 6th June 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Barclays is using controversial American anti-terrorism laws to shut down the personal bank accounts of British citizens who are working for Iranian-owned businesses …”
The Times, 6th June 2008
source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A consultation on the development of up to three 2,500-place Titan prisons was launched today by Prisons Minister David Hanson MP.”
Ministry of Justice, 5th June 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Daily Star has agreed to pay substantial damages and apologise for an article that made false allegations about Ozzy Osbourne’s role as a host of this year’s Brit Awards.”
The Guardian, 5th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
X and another v Hounslow London Borough Council [2008] EWHC 1168 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 180
“A local authority could be held to be under a duty of care to protect vulnerable adults from abuse by third parties.”
WLR Daily, 4th 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.
“A warrant authorising the entry and search of premises issued under s 8 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 was unlawful if the application did not identify which of the four conditions specified in s 8(3) of the Act was being relied on. Further, the execution of such a warrant was invalidated by a failure to satisfy the requirements of s 16(5) of the Act, which provided that when premises were occupied, the officer executing the warrant must not only produce the warrant to the person in occupation, but also supply him or her with a copy of it.”
WLR Daily, 4th 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.
Practice Direction (Administrative Court: Uncontested Proceedings); [2008] WLR(D) 178
“Guidance as to the procedure to be followed where proceedings in the Administrative Court were uncontested.”
WLR Daily, 4th 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.
BRB (Residuary) Ltd v Connex South Eastern Ltd [2008] EWHC 1172 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 177
“Where proceedings had been taken to the point of judgment against a person who had not been the correct defendant, that person might recover under the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 against the person who should have been the defendant.”
WLR Daily, 4th 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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