Counsel should seek reasons
In re A (a Child) (Duty to seek reasons)
Court of Appeal
“Before filing a notice of appeal, in cases of doubt, counsel had to ask the judge for amplification of his reasons, where that could solve an issue.”
The Times, 16th October 2007
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.
Paying other party’s costs
SES Contracting Ltd and Another v UK Coal plc and Others
Court of Appeal
“On an application for disclosure before commencement of proceedings a respondent was ordinarily awarded his costs. A costs order requiring him to pay all the applicant’s costs could be made only where it was clearly unreasonable to oppose the application or where the manner of opposition was so unreasonable as to make it appropriate to bear all of both parties’ costs.”
The Times, 16th October 2007
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.
Elements of outraging public decency
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“The two-person rule applicable to the common-law offence of outraging public decency was capable of being satisfied if there were two or more persons present who were capable of seeing the nature of the act even if they did not actually see it.”
The Times, 16th October 2007
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.
“Black and Muslim solicitors have accused Britain’s legal watchdog of racial discrimination and want to break away to establish their own watchdog body.”
The Times, 16th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A serial sex attacker who remained free to terrorise women for four years because of a police DNA blunder was jailed for life yesterday. Mark Campbell, 38, from Chichester, West Sussex, was convicted of six attacks, including two rapes, which began in February 1998 and ended in August 2004.”
The Guardian, 16th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge has branded Government policy to give thieves on-the-spot fixed penalties as ‘stupidity in practice’.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th October 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A team of leading UK lawyers has intervened to halt the execution by lethal injection this week of America’s longest-serving prisoner on ‘death row’ — pending a US Supreme Court decision on whether the method is ‘cruel or unnecessary’. ”
The Times, 15th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills are the latest celebrity couple to find out the hard way that divorce often ends in a long, acrimonious and expensive court battle. But many costly annulments could be avoided if alternative and less hostile means of separation were explored first, new research suggests.”
The Independent, 16th October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
The Seed (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2007
The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2007
The Criminal Defence Service (Financial Eligibility) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007
The Criminal Defence Service (General) (No. 2) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2007
The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 6) Regulations 2007
The Toot Hill School (School Day and School Year Regulations) Order 2007
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“The children’s tsar today attacked the government’s youth justice policy, which he warned is enraging and alienating young people.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Conservatives today lost a High Court battle over a multimillion pound bequest from a mentally deluded man who believed that only Margaret Thatcher could save him from an international satanic conspiracy.”
The Times, 15th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Rampion and another v Franfinance SA and another (Case C-429/05)
“A consumer’s right under certain conditions, under art 11(2) of Directive 87/102 on consumer credit, to pursue remedies against the provider of finance to him under a credit agreement, applied to a credit facility allowing credit on a number of occasions as well as credit for a single transaction, and the right could not be made conditional on the prior offer of credit naming the goods or services being financed.”
WLR Daily, 4th October 2007
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.
The General Teaching Council for Wales (Additional Functions) (Amendment) Order 2007
The Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Wales) Order 2007
The Zoonoses (Monitoring) (Wales) Regulations 2007
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2007
The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Nomination) (Amendment) Order 2007
The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 9) Regulations 2007
The Diseases of Animals (Approved Disinfectants) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2007
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Regulatory work has become an increasingly significant stream of work for the litigation departments of UK and US firms over the last year, according to new research.”
Legal Week, 15th October 2007
Source: www.legalweek.com
“A five-judge panel in the Court of Appeal is to be asked to decide whether a man who admitted 20 charges of making and possessing indecent pictures of children should have his identity protected because his two daughters might be harassed or bullied at school.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An influential inquiry into the future of Britain’s abortion laws will begin today amid controversy over an apparent attempt by faith-based organisations to skew the balance of evidence presented to the committee of MPs.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Almost 35,000 single parents have been waiting more than five years for the Child Support Agency to resolve their claims, it has emerged.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Plans for a shake-up of the legal profession, to be debated by MPs today, could lead to another fiasco like the miners’ compensation scheme, because trade unions would be exempt from consumer safeguards, Conservative MPs say.”
The Times, 15th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“One of Britain’s most senior police officers is to call for all drugs – including heroin and cocaine – to be legalised and urges the Government to declare an end to the ‘failed’ war on illegal narcotics.”
The Independent, 15th October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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