“The high-profile parliamentary committee examining controversial proposals to overhaul the UK’s ailing legal aid system has branded the Government’s proposals ‘unwise’ and called on Whitehall to rethink its under-fire reforms.”
Legal Week, 1st May 2007
Source: www.legalweek.com
“Information Commissioner Richard Thomas will demand new powers from Parliament today. Thomas will tell a Parliamentary committee that an increase in his authority is essential to stop the UK becoming a surveillance society.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st May 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“A printing firm has successfully won compensation for the wasted time of a company executive in a construction dispute. Bridge Communications was awarded £4,800 for the time which a senior executive spent dealing with the dispute.”
OUT-LAW.com, 1st May 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
Overpaid benefit not recoverable
Regina (Balding) v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“Liability to repay overpaid social security benefit occurring prior to a bankruptcy was a bankruptcy debt. Discharge from bankruptcy released the debtor from liability for recovery of the overpaid benefit.”
The Times, 1st May 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.
Sex shop objections can be considered out of time
Belfast City Council v. Miss Behavin’ Ltd.
House of Lords
“In refusing an application for a sex shop licence, a local authority was entitled to take into account objections to the application received after the expiry of the prescribed period.”
The Times, 1st May 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.
British Broadcasting Corporation v. Sugar [2007] EWHC 905 (Admin)
“It was only in respect of information held by the British Broadcasting Corporation otherwise than for the purposes of journalism, art or literature that the BBC was a public authority subject to the requirements of Pts I to IV of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.”
WLR Daily, 27th April 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.
Crown Prosecution Service v. P [2007] EWHC 946 (Admin)
“The effect of s 34 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 was to abolish the presumption that a child was doli incapax, but not the defence itself.”
WLR Daily, 27th April 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.
Regina v. M and others (No. 2)
“Where a ruling made at a preparatory hearing was overturned on appeal and the Court of Appeal differently constituted in a subsequent case held that the earlier case had been decided per incuriam the judge was bound to follow the later decision in the interests of justice as a whole and on the basis that any rulings of law made at preparatory hearings had correctly to reflect the law which would govern the trial.”
WLR Daily, 27th April 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.
WWF European Policy Programme v. Council of the European Union (supported by Commission of the European Communities, intervener) (Case T-264/04)
“The public right of access to documents of the EC institutions entailed in principle an obligation on the part of the institutions to document their activities.”
WLR Daily, 25th April 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 Operation Crevice trial was the longest and most expensive criminal case in Britain – costing £50 million, lasting more than a year and illustrating graphically the growing problems in the courts system.”
The Times, 1st May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Rapists whose victims withdrew their consent to sexual activity at the last moment may receive lighter sentences under guidelines published yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st May 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A law that was intended to improve road safety by targeting reckless young drivers has had the opposite effect, a study has found.”
The Times, 1st May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The first British soldier ever to be convicted of a war crime was yesterday jailed for a year and dismissed from the army.”
The Guardian, 1st May 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Lord Chancellor faces renewed pressure to drop or delay plans for overhauling the legal aid scheme with a damning report today from MPs.”
The Times, 1st May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Elderly patients placed by the Government in private care homes should receive the same protection from human rights laws as they would in public facilities, the House of Lords heard today.”
The Times, 30th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“London’s status as a leading financial centre could be diminished unless the UK reforms its insolvency regime ahead of the next economic downturn, according to an influential group of restructuring professionals.”
Financial Times, 30th April 2007
Source: www.ft.com
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