Technology and Construction Court Annual Report 2006/2007 – Judiciary of England & Wales
“Technology and Construction Court Annual Report 2006/2007.”
Judiciary of England & Wales, 5th March 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Response to paper on cohabitation and relationship breakdown – Ministry of Justice
“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.”
Ministry of Justice, 6th March 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Plan for ID cards announced – Home Office
“The Home Secretary has announced details of the plan for a system of national ID cards.”
Home Office, 6th March 2008
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Legal rights to cohabiting couples are shelved – The Times
“Plans to give two million cohabiting partners similar rights to married couples have been shelved by ministers.”
The Times, 7th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Jail for criminal with a four-barrel gun – The Times
“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.”
The Times, 7th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Widow, 65, humiliated by web page that painted her as a scarlet woman – The Times
“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.”
The Times, 7th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
MPs urge curb on restraint techniques in child jails – The Guardian
“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.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Spain drops extradition attempt against Guantánamo torture pair – The Guardian
“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.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Burrell refuses to return to witness box at Diana inquest – The Guardian
“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.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Killer of mother and two children jailed for 38 years – The Independent
“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.”
The Independent, 7th March 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Now Iranian lesbian who fled to Britain faces deportation – The Independent
“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.”
The Independent, 7th March 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Police take student’s DNA for £2.40 fare fine – Daily Telegraph
“A university student has been forced to give his DNA to police because he failed to buy a £2.40 rail fare.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Mother’s anger at son’s E.coli death – Daily Telegraph
“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.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
First details of ID card timetable revealed – The Independent
“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.”
The Independent, 6th March 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina v Rose (Kevin) – Times Law Reports
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
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 v Marchese – Times Law Reports
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
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.
Birkdale School, Sheffield v Revenue and Customs Commissioners – WLR Daily
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
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Hanchett-Stamford v Attorney General and another (Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd intervening) – WLR Daily
“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
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Battle for disturbed tycoon’s £10m leaves Tories with huge legal bill – The Times
“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.”
The Times, 6th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
£63,000 for mother’s time with baby – The Guardian
“A teenage mother whose baby was unlawfully removed from her within hours of his birth without a court order is to have a four-month residential assessment of her parenting skills which could cost the local authority nearly £100,000.”
The Guardian, 6th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
