High Court (Chancery Division)
London Strategic Health Authority v Pandya & Ors [2008] EWHC 967 (Ch) (09 May 2008)
High Court (Family Division)
SK, Re [2007] EWHC 3289 (Fam) (12 December 2007)
Lancashire County Council v D & E [2008] EWHC 832 (Fam) (14 March 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Financial Assistance For Industry (Increase of Limit) Order 2008
The Freedom of Information (Additional Public Authorities) Order 2008
The Measuring Instruments (EC Requirements) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Offender Management Act 2007 (Approved Premises) Regulations 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“A convicted shoplifter is believed to be the first person to have requested her own Asbo, police have said.”
BBC News, 13th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Alton and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“An organisation that had no capacity to carry on terrorist activities and was taking no steps to acquire such capacity or otherwise to promote or encourage terrorist activities could not be said to be concerned in terrorism simply because its leaders had the contingent intention to resort to terrorism in the future.”
The Times, 13th May 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.
Regina (A) v West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Queen’s Bench Division
“A failed asylum seeker could become ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom so as to be eligible for free treatment by the National Health Service.”
The Times, 13th May 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.
Gregson v HAE Trustees Ltd and Others [2008] EWHC 1006 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 146
“The duty in s 4(2) of the Trustee Act 2000 (‘the Act’) was a separate and independent duty, which was not restricted to exercises of the power of investment.”
WLR Daily, 12th May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
King v Serious Fraud Office [2008] EWCA Crim 530; [2008] WLR (D) 147
“Arts 6, 7 and 8 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Requests and Orders) Order 2005, read as a whole, provided a scheme to make a restraint order in response to an external request only in respect of property in England and Wales. There was no power to make a restraint order in respect of property outside the jurisdiction.”
WLR Daily 12th May 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.
Moulai v Deputy Public Prosecutor in Creteil, France [2008] EWHC 1024 (Admin); [2008] WLR (D) 148
“Late service of a copy of a duly filed appeal notice was not a fatal bar to an appeal against an order extraditing (or not extraditing) a person.”
WLR Daily 12th May 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.
“Where a defendant had been convicted by a jury which had been empanelled from an array which did not meet the requirements laid down by statute his conviction should not be overturned and a retrial ordered unless the statutory language and intent so required or there was reason to think his trial had been unfair.”
WLR Daily 12th May 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.
The Second Civil Mediation Council National Conference: The Future of Civil Mediation (PDF)
Speech by Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls
The Second Civil Mediation Council National Conference, 8th May 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“A project to review the law and practice on how housing disputes are resolved, with the aim of reforming it to make it simple, effective, fair and proportionate.”
Law Commission, 12th May 2008
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
“The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has teamed up with a private pension scheme that manages the retirement savings of Ford, Jaguar and Land Rover workers to bring a £300 million legal challenge against the Government’s policy of charging VAT on investment management fees. ”
The Times, 12th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“For 300 years the wig and gown have symbolised the authority of the court. All that will change in October, when judges in civil and family cases will ditch their horsehair wigs and instead be dressed by a designer whose trademark is ‘funky British clothes for aspiring funky British girls’.”
The Times, 13th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Criminals convicted of carrying knives are likely to escape jail under sentencing guidelines issued on Monday.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th May 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A severely disabled woman has taken her campaign to save her local post office to the High Court.”
BBC News, 12th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
” A woman who tried repeatedly to kill her disabled husband was spared a prison sentence after a court accepted that she had been unable to cope with the strain of caring for him.”
The Times, 13th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“MPs were deeply split last night over embryo research and abortion as they began debating hugely contentious reforms to the way the practices are regulated.”
The Independent, 13th May 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain’s largest law firms are reducing the number of junior lawyers they are hiring amid concerns that debt finance and corporate takeover work both in London and overseas has largely dried up.”
The Times, 13th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner has been given the ability to fine organisations if their operational procedures cause a gross breach of data protection principles. The move, which had not been expected by privacy experts, follows a Government defeat in the House of Lords.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th May 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
“The government may take legal action against the directors and accountants behind Farepak, the Christmas savings club which collapsed leaving 150,000 people short of almost £40m in savings.”
The Guardian, 13th May 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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