“A judge condemned the Government’s failure to eradicate mixed-sex wards after jailing a man on Friday for a sex attack on an 82-year-old woman.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Britain could set up a national police agency for dealing with the growing demand for officers to work on high-profile, expensive and often politically sensitive overseas investigations, under plans being considered by the Home Office.”
Financial Times, 3rd February 2008
Source: www.ft.com
“A reclusive millionaire author was murdered by a man who stole his identity in order to plunder his wealth, the Old Bailey has heard.”
BBC News, 1st February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A husband who helped his wife to kill herself rather than watch her continue to suffer from a debilitating disease was given a 12-month suspended sentence yesterday.”
The Times, 2nd February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Questions about the legality of Tony Blair’s decision to join the US in invading Iraq will come under the spotlight before a rarely convened panel of nine law lords in Britain’s highest court next week.”
The Guardian, 4th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Scotland Yard’s antiterrorist squad secretly bugged a high-profile Labour Muslim MP during private meetings with one of his constituents.”
The Times, 3rd February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal had jurisdiction to entertain an application by, and to grant permission to, someone who had not been a party to the proceedings in the court below, to enable them to appeal against the decision of the court below. The word “appellant” as defined in CPR Pt 52 did not exclude someone who had not been a party to the proceedings below and the rule should be interpreted in order to meet the overriding objective of enabling the court to deal with cases justly.”
WLR Daily, 31st January 2008
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Ofulue and another v Bossert [2008] EWCA Civ 7; [2008] WLR (D) 22
“The Court of Appeal should follow a decision of the European Court of Human Rights that the law of adverse possession as it stood prior to the Land Registration Act 2002 did not violate the right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions, guaranteed by art 1 of Protocol No 1 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 31st January 2008
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Glaxo Group Ltd v Genentech Inc and another [2008] EWCA Civ 23; [2008] WLR (D) 21
“The approach to a stay in European patent cases differed from a stay in ordinary commercial litigation because the possibility of parallel validity proceedings in national courts and in the European Patent Office was inherent in the legal arrangements in the Convention under which the EPO was established.”
WLR Daily, 31st January 2008
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“A claim for damages for personal injuries caused by a sexual assault fell within s 11 of the Limitation Act 1980, allowing a limitation period of three years from the date when the claimant first considered the injury sufficiently serious to justify proceedings and the possibility of an extension beyond that if it was equitable to do so.”
WLR Daily, 31st January 2008
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Cinpres Gas Injection Ltd v Melea Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 9; [2008] WLR (D) 19
“Where an inventor who gave perjured evidence at the trial of his employer’s application for a patent had been more than a mere witness in those proceedings, his fraud should be treated as his employer’s fraud for the purposes of the fraud exception to the doctrine of res judicata.”
WLR Daily, 31st January 2008
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“The number of children murdered by their parents has risen by about one-third in the past year, from 24 to 33 victims, according to the latest Home Office homicide figures published yesterday. The figures reveal that this ‘hidden’ crime of parental child murder overshadows the highly publicised murders in which five under-16s were shot dead and a further four children were stabbed to death.”
The Guardian, 1st February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This briefing paper on the government’s prison policy provides an update on the prison building programme announced in December 2007, and outlines the further steps we are taking in the specific areas of drugs, prison work and alternatives to custody.”
Prison policy update – briefing paper (PDF)
Ministry of Justice, 31st Janaury 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“This consultation seeks responses on the draft court rules for the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007. It is primarily aimed at professional court users and those with knowledge of family court rules.”
Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 – Court Rules – consultation paper (PDF)
Questionnaire (Word)
Ministry of Justice, 31st January 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Hilali v Governor of Whitemoor Prison
House of Lords
“Where there was a right of appeal under Part 1 of the Extradition Act 2003 to appeal against an extradition order, habeas corpus was excluded by section 34; it would be contrary to the principle of mutual recognition to which the Act gave effect to grant habeas corpus on the ground of a change of circumstances.”
The Times, 1st February 2008
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Court of Appeal
The fact that a successful claimant had not been awarded the whole amount of damages he sought did not mean that the defendant had partially succeeded and the judge could not reduce the claimant’s costs.
The Times, 1st February 2008
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“Up to 100 children are dying every year from abuse and neglect in England because social workers and health professionals are too busy arguing over who is responsible for them, according to a report commissioned by the Government.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The role of the British-owned Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia in the detention of terror suspects remains unproven. There may be more to know, says Robert Verkaik, Law Editor.”
The Independent, 1st February 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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