Immigration rule change ‘illegal’ – BBC News
“The government acted unlawfully in changing immigration rules for highly skilled workers who want to stay in the UK, the High Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 8th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Search engines must delete data after six months, say watchdogs – OUT-LAW.com
“Search engines must delete search logs after six months if they are to comply with data protection laws, according to a committee of EU countries’ privacy watchdogs. Google has said that the findings do not take account of commercial reality.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Omagh bomb relatives launch action in high court – The Guardian
“The civil action by relatives of the Omagh bomb victims against the Real IRA is an attack on terrorists unprecedented anywhere in the world, the lawyer representing the families said yesterday. On the opening day of a case brought by some of the relatives of those who were killed or injured in the 1998 atrocity, Lord Brennan QC said: ‘For the first time the victims of terrorism are suing the alleged perpetrators … private citizens are confronting terrorists in our courts.'”
The Guardian, 8th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Masri v Consolidated Contractors International UK Ltd and others (No 2) – WLR Daily
“There was no reason why the court should not exercise a power to appoint a receiver by way of equitable execution over future receipts from a defined asset. Applications for the appointment of a receiver over foreign debts and ancillary orders did not constitute proceedings concerned with the enforcement of judgments within the meaning of article 22(5) of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 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.
Whitehead and another v Hibbert Pownall & Newton ( a firm) – WLR Daily
Whitehead and another v Hibbert Pownall & Newton ( a firm); [2008] WLR (D) 96
“Solicitors who had negligently failed to prosecute a claim for damages for clinical negligence, including a claim for future loss, with the result that the claim had been set down at the date of the original claimant’s death were not liable for failing to secure for the deceased’s estate what, on the full facts, would have amounted a an uncovenanted windfall. The estate, standing in the deceased’s shoes, could not recover sums referable to a period after her death since she would only have been entitled to recover losses incurred or to be incurred in her lifetime.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 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.
R v R (Video Recording: Admissibility) – WLR Daily
R v R (Video Recording: Admissibility) [2008] EWCA Crim 678; [2008] WLR (D) 95
“A video recording of an interview given had been was properly admitted as evidence in chief at a criminal trial pursuant to a special measures direction made under s27 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, notwithstanding that no notification had been given by the Secretary of State under s18(2) of the Act that such measures were available.”
WLR Daily, 7th April 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.
Family Life – Family Justice – Fairness – Speech by Mr Justice Coleridge
Family Life – Family Justice – Fairness
Speech by Mr Justice Coleridge
Resolution National Conference, 5th April 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
High Court (Administrative Court)
Slivka v District Court of Prague [2008] EWHC 595 (Admin) (12 March 2008)
Secretary of State for Justice, R (on the application of) v Mental Health Review Tribunal & Anor [2008] EWHC 598 (Admin) (05 March 2008)
D, R (on the application of) v Sheffield Youth Court [2008] EWHC 601 (Admin) (06 March 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Bluetongue Regulations 2008
The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2008
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2008
The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008
The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) (Taxes and National Insurance) Order 2008
The Legislative Reform (Health and Safety Executive) Order 2008
The Sex Discrimination (Amendment of Legislation) Regulations 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Sir Ken Macdonald: ‘We are determined to do more ourselves’ – The Times
“It is a classic case of poacher- turned-gamekeeper — or in the case of Sir Ken Macdonald, perhaps the other way round. The Director of Public Prosecutions has embarked on a programme of taking on Crown Court trials — the stomping ground of his profession, the Bar. Instead of paying millions a year to private practice barristers, he wants more CPS advocates to take their own cases to court.”
The Times,
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Government changes mind on contract rules – OUT-LAW.com
“The UK Government wants to sign up to a European Regulation which would standardise how the law is applied in cross-border contractual disputes, it has said. The Regulation, known as Rome I, replaces existing rules governing such disputes.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Lawyer took paralysed client’s £1.2m payout – The Times
“A solicitor who stole £1.25 million from a client left paralysed by a traffic accident was jailed yesterday for ten years for what the judge described as the ‘very worst breach of trust for a professional man’.”
The Times, 8th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
‘Sin bins’ fail to improve anti-social families – Daily Telegraph
“Plans to put disruptive families through expensive so-called sin bin programmes to improve their behaviour are proving a costly failure, it has been claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Jail threat for data thieves recedes – OUT-LAW.com
“Plans to jail personal data thieves have been shelved due to a surprise amendment to a proposed new law. The new law will contain a clause threatening jail, but that clause will not be implemented.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th April 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
Rastafarian temple drugs trial collapses – The Guardian
“A £100,000 cannabis-dealing trial, launched following a high-profile police raid on a Rastafarian temple in south London, has collapsed in legal confusion.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Chauffeur and paparazzi to blame for Diana death, jury finds – The Guardian
“Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed were unlawfully killed by the reckless driving of their chauffeur, Henri Paul, and the paparazzi who chased them, jurors in the inquest into their deaths decided today.”
The Guardian, 7th April 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Mother kept boy in wheelchair for five years – Daily Telegraph
“A mother who kept her son in a wheelchair for five years and convinced him and doctors that he could not walk has been jailed for four years.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Views sought on proposed changes to Criminal Procedure Rules – Ministry of Justice
“The Criminal Procedure Rule Committee is asking for views on proposed changes to the rules on starting a criminal case in a magistrates’ court.”
Ministry of Justice, 7th April 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Killer lawyer gets early release – BBC News
“A lawyer who stabbed his wife to death after she told him she was leaving him has been released after serving less than half of his sentence.”
BBC News, 7th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
