“This is an edited version of Stop the Clock?, a research report on value and fees in legal services produced by the Commerce & Industry Group and accountants and business advisers BDO Stoy Hayward.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 11th October 2007
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Related link: Stop the clock? (PDF) – Commerce & Industry Group
“Lawyers are using email to send sensitive information even though they think it is one of the least safe ways of communicating, according to a recent poll.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 11th October 2007
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A man promised a court that he would shave off his Edwardian-style, dandy moustache as a way of making amends for a charge of common assault.”
The Times, 12th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Beresfords, a tiny firm of solicitors in Doncaster, has received £123m from the taxpayer by winning compensation claims on behalf of coal miners for work-related diseases, new government figures show.”
The Guardian, 12th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A verdict of unlawful killing has been recorded on the first British Muslim soldier to be killed during the conflict in Afghanistan.”
BBC News, 11th October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A journalist who suggested that a former police officer may be corrupt was cleared of libel in the Court of Appeal yesterday.”
The Times, 12th October 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Gordon Brown’s efforts to protect Britain’s opt-outs on the new EU treaty at next week’s summit in Lisbon came under fresh pressure yesterday when a Labour-dominated committee of MPs claimed the latest draft of the treaty presented fresh threats to British sovereignty.”
The Guardian, 12th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The setting up of a government agency to seize criminals’ wealth was ill-planned and unrealistic, an influential group of MPs has said.”
BBC News, 11th October 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former British diplomat yesterday denounced a lifetime confidentiality agreement demanded by the Foreign Office as ‘unworkable and draconian’, and has refused to sign it.”
The Guardian, 12th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“When Lord Justice Scott Baker walked into the Paris Ritz hotel this week, with the jurors from the Diana, Princess of Wales, inquest, he would have experienced a sharp sense of deja vu.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th October 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The most seriously injured troops are to receive more cash under reforms to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme announced today.”
The Independent, 11th October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Related link: Injury table and payments – Daily Telegraph, 12th October 2007
“The long-running cash-for-honours controversy threatens to come back and haunt Gordon Brown today when MPs resume their inquiry into the affair.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“On the day last month that BPP was granted degree-awarding powers, its share price jumped 13 per cent. These two events summed up the fact that Britain’s newest higher education institution is not your average university.”
The Independent, 11th October 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A case management decision refusing to order an adjournment before trial or indeed at any time before the start of the summing up could constitute a terminating ruling against which a prosecutor could appeal.”
WLR Daily, 10th 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.
O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 939
“A party could be substituted under s 35 of the Limitation Act 1980 where the ten-year limitation period for making a claim for damage caused by a defective product had expired, even where the correct party was known to the claimant before the limitation period expired, if the claimant had made a mistake about the name of the defendant and substitution was necessary for the purpose of determining the original action.”
WLR Daily, 10th 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.
“A project to reform the law governing the criminal liability of those who agree to or attempt to commit offences.”
Law Commission, 10th October 2007
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
Law reports in appeal papers
Employment Appeal Tribunal
“When lodging copies of authorities for the purposes of an appeal to the appeal tribunal, parties should ensure that where cases had been reported, those reports were copied in the bundle of authorities.”
The Times, 11th 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.
Tax relief breaks EU law
Schwarz and Another v Finanzamt Bergisch Gladbach
Court of Justice of the European Communities
“The German law whereby tax relief on private school fees was available only for German schools was contrary to Community law.”
The Times, 11th 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.
R (Lawson) v Stafford Magistrates’ Court
R (Hadfield) v Manchester Crown Court
Stenson & Others v West Dunbartonshire Council
R (Walton) v Commission for Social Care Inspection
Daily Telegraph, 11th October 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Please note the Daily Telegraph Law Reports are only available online for one week.
“The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act introduces a new offence, across the UK, for prosecuting companies and other organisations where there has been a gross failing, throughout the organisation, in the management of health and safety with fatal consequences.”
Ministry of Justice, 11th October 2007
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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