Web business closed after site fails to appear – OUT-LAW.com
“A company behind a non-existent crime awareness website has been closed after a Government investigation into its business.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th March 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Free law pioneer will publish vital precedents free for the first time – OUT-LAW.com
“A free law publication charity will publish the UK’s 3,000 most important legal decisions freely for the first time by June. The project will involve publishing vital rulings, dating back to the nineteenth century, on which UK common law is based.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th March 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Care proceedings reforms – Ministry of Justice
“The government is implementing key reforms to the child care proceedings system in England and Wales, following a review of the system completed in 2006.”
Ministry of Justice, 19th March 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Review of the use of restraint in juvenile secure settings – Ministry of Justice
“Justice Minister David Hanson has made a written ministerial statement on the review of the use of restraint in juvenile secure settings.”
Ministry of Justice, 20th March 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Solicitor General speech: CPS – racist and religious crimes – Attorney General’s Office
“Speech by Vera Baird, Solicitor General, for the CPS Racist and Religious Crimes Policy Refresh, at the Mermaid Conference and Event Centre, London 19 March 2008.”
Attorney General’s Office, 19th March 2008
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Prosecutors’ Investigation Code of Practice – Attorney General’s Office
“The purpose of this paper is to seek stakeholder views on the proposed Code of Practice which provides guidance to the specified prosecuting authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on the use of the powers of investigation which are provided by POCA.”
Attorney General’s Office, 19th March 2008
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
R v Ngyuen – WLR Daily
R v Ngyuen [2008] EWCA Crim 585; [2008] WLR (D) 94
“The mere fact that the Crown chose to rely on bad character evidence which it had decided not to make the subject of a criminal charge could not of itself have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings that the court ought not to admit that evidence.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Lichter & Schwarz (a partnership) v Rubin – WLR Daily
Lichter & Schwarz (a partnership) v Rubin [2008] EWHC 450 (Ch D); [2008] WLR (D) 93
“On an interim application for the disclosure of ‘information about relevant property or assets which are or may be the subject of an application for a freezing injunction’ pursuant to CPR r 25.1(1)(g), it was only necessary to show that a freezing order could be applied for and whether or not that application would be successful was not a matter on which the court could form a view at that stage; it need only be satisfied that there were credible grounds for making an application if so advised.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Westminster City Council v IC (a protected party by his litigation friend) and others – WLR Daily
“A judge did not have jurisdiction to make a declaration that a marriage based on lack of consent was not valid under English law, since such a marriage was voidable and not void ab intitio. The judge should have declared that the marriage was not recognised as a valid marriage in this jurisdiction.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Wakefield Metropolitan District Council v T – WLR Daily
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council v T [2008] EWCA Civ 199; [2008] WLR (D) 91
“A supervision order made pursuant to s 31 of and para 6 of Sch 3 to the Children Act 1989 had an initial life of 12 months and could be extended for a further two years maximum.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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B v B – WLR Daily
B v B [2008] EWCA Civ 543; [2008] WLR (D) 90
“In ancillary relief cases the source and origin of assets was one of the factors that had to be taken into account in determining distribution since the primary objectives of the exercise were fairness and an absence of discrimination between the parties.”
WLR Daily, 20th March 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Halabi (a Bankrupt) v Camden London Borough Council and Another – Times Law Reports
Halabi (a Bankrupt) v Camden London Borough Council and Another
Chancery Division
“The current practice in some county courts of annulling a bankruptcy order, on the basis of an undertaking from the bankrupt’s solicitor to pay the debts, costs and expenses of the bankruptcy, was not within the jurisdiction of the court.”
The Times, 25th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Omar v Westminster City Council – Times Law Reports
Omar v Westminster City Council
Court of Appeal
“An officer reviewing a local authority decision that it had discharged its housing duty by offering suitable acccommodation had to examine the facts as they appeared at the date of that decision.”
The Times, 25th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Giles v Rhind and Another (No 2) – Times Law Reports
Giles v Rhind and Another (No 2)
Court of Appeal
“The court had power to extend the limitation period where a party, allegedly in breach of duty, had entered into a transaction defrauding creditors.”
The Times, 25th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Drake v Harbour – Times Law Reports
Court of Appeal
“Where a claimant proved both that a defendant was negligent and that loss ensued which was of a kind likely to have resulted from such negligence, that would ordinarily be enough to enable a court to infer that it was probably so caused, even if the claimant was unable to prove positively the precise mechanism.”
The Times, 24th March 2008
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EB (Togo) and Another v Secretary of State for the Home Department – Times Law Reports
EB (Togo) and Another v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“Very lengthy delay in processing an application for indefinite leave to remain by a National Health Service employee who had returned to the UK despite a deportation order did not invalidate the order.”
The Times, 24th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Smith (Jean) v Northamptonshire County Council – Times Law Reports
Smith (Jean) v Northamptonshire County Council
Court of Appeal
“A council which had no control over a ramp not on its property was not strictly liable to an employee who was injured on it.”
The Times, 24th March 2008
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Britain and France join forces on immigration – The Independent
“Plans for a joint drive by Britain and France against illegal immigration could backfire by forcing ‘soft targets’ to return to dangerous countries, refugee groups have warned.”
The Independent, 25th March 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Family complains after patient was ‘left to die’ – Daily Telegraph
“An elderly woman was left to die in hospital after doctors made an order not to resuscitate her without her family’s knowledge, it has been claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
