Regina (AM) (Cameroon) v Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (No 2) – Times Law Reports

Posted March 7th, 2008 in immigration, judicial review, law reports by sally

Regina (AM) (Cameroon) v Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (No 2)

Court of Appeal

“Where a listing mistake meant a statutory review of an immigration appeal went ahead, resulting in a final determination, before a judicial review application had been heard, the judicial review should be heard and the final determination set aside; otherwise the applicant would suffer serious injustice for which there was no other remedy.”

The Times, 7th March 2008

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Technology and Construction Court Annual Report 2006/2007 – Judiciary of England & Wales

Posted March 7th, 2008 in courts, reports by sally

“Technology and Construction Court Annual Report 2006/2007.”

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Judiciary of England & Wales, 5th March 2008

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Response to paper on cohabitation and relationship breakdown – Ministry of Justice

Posted March 7th, 2008 in cohabitation, press releases by sally

“Justice Minister Bridget Prentice has made a written ministerial statement announcing the government’s response to the Law Commission’s paper on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown for cohabiting couples.”

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Ministry of Justice, 6th March 2008

Source: www.justice.gov.uk

Plan for ID cards announced – Home Office

Posted March 7th, 2008 in identity cards, press releases by sally

“The Home Secretary has announced details of the plan for a system of national ID cards.”

Press release

Home Office, 6th March 2008

Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk

Legal rights to cohabiting couples are shelved – The Times

Posted March 7th, 2008 in cohabitation, news by sally

“Plans to give two million cohabiting partners similar rights to married couples have been shelved by ministers.”

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The Times, 7th March 2008

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Jail for criminal with a four-barrel gun – The Times

Posted March 7th, 2008 in firearms, news, sentencing by sally

“An underworld gun dealer has been jailed for 15 years after being caught with an arsenal of firearms that included a handgun with four barrels capable of firing at once.”

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The Times, 7th March 2008

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Widow, 65, humiliated by web page that painted her as a scarlet woman – The Times

Posted March 7th, 2008 in defamation, internet, news by sally

“A woman aged 65 who became the victim of an online smear campaign that she says made her ‘look like a sexual predator’ called yesterday for stricter controls on social networking websites.”

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The Times, 7th March 2008

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MPs urge curb on restraint techniques in child jails – The Guardian

Posted March 7th, 2008 in children, news, prisons, restraint by sally

“The use of restraint techniques involving deliberate physical pain in privately run child prisons should be abolished without delay, according to a report from MPs and peers published today.”

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The Guardian, 7th March 2008

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Spain drops extradition attempt against Guantánamo torture pair – The Guardian

Posted March 7th, 2008 in extradition, news, terrorism, torture by sally

“Spain yesterday dropped its attempt to extradite two British residents who had been freed from Guantánamo Bay, after accepting that torture they suffered during five years of American custody had left them too weak to stand trial.”

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The Guardian, 7th March 2008

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Burrell refuses to return to witness box at Diana inquest – The Guardian

Posted March 7th, 2008 in inquests, news by sally

“Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s former butler, has refused to return from the US to explain a statement he made to an undercover reporter that he had not told the whole truth when he gave evidence at the inquest into her death.”

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The Guardian, 7th March 2008

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Killer of mother and two children jailed for 38 years – The Independent

Posted March 7th, 2008 in murder, news, sentencing by sally

“A man has been ordered to serve at least 38 years in prison for bludgeoning to death a woman and her two children with a hammer.”

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The Independent, 7th March 2008

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Now Iranian lesbian who fled to Britain faces deportation – The Independent

Posted March 7th, 2008 in asylum, deportation, homosexuality, special report by sally

“An Iranian lesbian who fled to Britain after her girlfriend was arrested and sentenced to death faces being forcibly returned after losing the latest round in her battle to be granted asylum.”

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The Independent, 7th March 2008

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Police take student’s DNA for £2.40 fare fine – Daily Telegraph

Posted March 7th, 2008 in DNA, news, police by sally

“A university student has been forced to give his DNA to police because he failed to buy a £2.40 rail fare.”

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Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008

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Mother’s anger at son’s E.coli death – Daily Telegraph

Posted March 7th, 2008 in food, health & safety, news by sally

“The mother of a five-year-old boy who died during an E.coli outbreak has told an inquiry of the anger she felt towards the butcher who supplied the contaminated meat.”

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Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008

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First details of ID card timetable revealed – The Independent

Posted March 6th, 2008 in identity cards, news by sally

“Foreign nationals will be required to give their biometric details from this year, and from next year the ID cards scheme will extend to British people working in high-risk areas such as airports, said the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.”

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The Independent, 6th March 2008

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Regina v Rose (Kevin) – Times Law Reports

Posted March 6th, 2008 in law reports, proceeds of crime, valuation by sally

Regina v Rose (Kevin)

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

“When calculating the benefit to a thief or handler of his acquisition or possession of criminal property, the market value of it was the amount it would have cost him to obtain the property legitimately, or the economic value to the loser, rather than what the thief or handler could get for the property if he sold it.”

The Times, 6th March 2008

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Regina v Marchese – Times Law Reports

Posted March 6th, 2008 in indictments, law reports by sally

Regina v Marchese

Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)

“The fact that a count in an indictment was duplicitous would not lead to the quashing of a conviction if, on the facts, the duplicity had not caused any injustice to the defendant. ”

The Times, 6th March 2008

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Birkdale School, Sheffield v Revenue and Customs Commissioners – WLR Daily

Posted March 6th, 2008 in education, fees, law reports, VAT by sally

Birkdale School, Sheffield v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2008] EWHC 409 (Ch); WLR (D) 74

“Value added tax was not payable by independent schools on charges made to parents for participation in optional fees refund arrangements. There was a single supply of educational services to parents when they participated in such schemes.”

WLR Daily, 5th March 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Hanchett-Stamford v Attorney General and another (Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted March 6th, 2008 in bona vacantia, law reports, unincorporated associations by sally

Hanchett-Stamford v Attorney General and another (Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd intervening) [2008] EWHC 330 (Ch); WLR (D) 73

“The assets of an unincorporated association, which was not a charity and which had ceased to exist due to the fall in its membership to below two, did not pass to the Crown as bona vacantia but vested in the sole surviving member of the association.”

WLR Daily, 5th March 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Battle for disturbed tycoon’s £10m leaves Tories with huge legal bill – The Times

Posted March 6th, 2008 in mental health, news, political parties, wills by sally

“The Tories are facing a £700,000 legal bill for trying to hold on to a £10 million bequest from a mentally unfit tycoon who believed Margaret Thatcher could save the world from Satan.”

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The Times, 6th March 2008

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