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Laskar v Laskar – WLR Daily

Posted February 11th, 2008 in cohabitation, law reports, mortgages by sally

Laskar v Laskar; [2008] WLR (D) 39

“The presumption that the legal and beneficial interests of a domestic property conveyed into joint names were, in the absence of an agreement between the parties, joint and equal applied to a family home occupied by cohabitants. The presumption did not apply to commercial properties or to property purchased as an investment even where the purchasers belonged to the same family.”

WLR Daily, 8th February 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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R (Bradley and others) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others – WLR Daily

Posted February 11th, 2008 in government departments, law reports, maladministration, pensions by sally

R (Bradley and others) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and others; [2008] WLR (D) 38

“Where the Parliamentary Commissioner had found maladministration in a ministerial department, the Secretary of State, although not bound by the Commissioner’s decision, was not entitled to reject the Commissioner’s finding on the basis that he preferred another view which could not be categorised as irrational.”

WLR Daily, 8th February 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Betterment Properties (Weymouth) Ltd v Dorset County Council – WLR Daily

Posted February 11th, 2008 in commons, evidence, law reports by sally

Betterment Properties (Weymouth) Ltd v Dorset County Council [2008] EWCA Civ 22; [2008] WLR (D) 37

“On an application to the High Court to remove land from the register of town and village greens, the parties could adduce whatever evidence they wished, subject to the court’s exercise of its case management powers.”

WLR Daily, 8th February 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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R (Aweys and others) v Birmingham City Council – WLR Daily

Posted February 11th, 2008 in homelessness, housing, law reports by sally

R (Aweys and others) v Birmingham City Council [2008] EWCA Civ 48; [2008] WLR (D) 36

“In the case of the homeless in priority need it was not lawful, for the purposes of the duty to secure accommodation pursuant to s193 (2) of the Housing Act 1996, for a local housing authority, pending permanent re-housing, to leave those found to be homeless but not on the streets within the very accommodation found to be unsuitable for accommodation.”

WLR Daily, 8th February 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Heather Mills set to question Sir Paul McCartney in court – The Times

Posted February 11th, 2008 in divorce, news by sally

“Heather Mills will be able to cross-examine Sir Paul McCartney personally over his multimillion-pound earnings when the estranged couple go to court today to hammer out a final divorce settlement.”