“Seven firms of solicitors joined together today to launch a High Court challenge to the abolition of a discretionary compensation scheme for victims of miscarriages of justice.”
The Times, 10th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Government today pledged its support for legislation aimed at protecting the victims of forced marriages and preventing them from taking place.”
Ministry of Justice, 10th May 2007
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
TNT Global Spa &Anr v. Denfleet International Ltd. & Anr
Curistan v. Times Newspapers Ltd.
Melville Dundas Ltd. (in receivership) & Others v. Wimpey UK Ltd. & Others
Daily Telegraph, 10th May 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Please note the Daily Telegraph Law Reports are only available online for one week.
No power to add late libel claim
Adelson and Another v. Associated Newspapers Ltd.
Queen’s Bench Division
“Where the libel limitation period had expired, there was no jurisdiction to grant an application to amend pleadings by the addition of new claimants.”
The Times, 10th 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.
Privilege survives extra material
Curistan v. Times Newspapers Ltd.
Queen’s Bench Division
“Where extraneous non-privileged material was contained in an article or report which also contained a report of parliamentary proceedings, that privilege which attached to fair and accurate reports of parliamentary proceedings was not necessarily lost.”
The Times, 10th 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.
Police failed to protect life of prosecution witness at risk
Van Colle and Another v. Chief Constable of Hertfordshire Constabulary
Court of Appeal
“Police who failed to take appropriate action to protect a vulnerable prosecution witness, when they should have known there was a risk to his life, were in breach of their duty for which they were liable in damages.”
The Times, 10th 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.
Hill and another v. Haines [2007] EWHC 1012 (Ch)
“Since an applicant for ancillary relief under ss 23 to 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 did not give consideration in “money or money’s worth” within the meaning of s 339(3)(c) of the Insolvency Act 1986 for relief obtained, any transfer of property made by a bankrupt ex-spouse pursuant to either a court order made in the ancillary proceedings, or a settlement agreement, was a transaction at an undervalue and would be set aside on application by the trustees in bankruptcy.”
WLR Daily, 3rd May 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 chief inspector of prisons warns today that offenders are being forced to “queue” for jail cells despite an assurance yesterday from the new justice minister, Lord Falconer, that the system can cope with the immediate crisis in prisoner numbers.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Damages for patent infringement awarded by a UK court must not be paid back even if the patent is later declared invalid by the European Patent Office (EPO), the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th May 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“Someone cannot be sued for inducing another person to breach a contract unless it can be shown that the inducement was deliberate, the House of Lords has ruled in a decision which could have a significant impact on employment law.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th May 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“Gina Ford, the controversial childcare guru, yesterday dropped her bitter legal battle against a popular parenting website that mocked her rigorous methods.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th May 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A devoted husband who killed his wife after she begged him to help her die was convicted of murder yesterday. Retired accountant Frank Lund, 58, admitted suffocating his wife Patricia, 65, with a plastic bag and a pillow at their home in New Brighton, Merseyside, in September.”
The Independent, 10th May 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A civil servant and an MP’s researcher were today found guilty of leaking a secret memo detailing talks between George Bush and Tony Blair on the Iraq war.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Thousands of divorcees risk seeing their assets plundered to meet their former spouses’ debts after a landmark ruling that they are no longer protected from his or her creditors when they split.”
The Times, 10th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Thousands of petty criminals and thieves will avoid jail under Government plans proposed yesterday to ease the overcrowding crisis engulfing prisons.”
The Times, 10th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Large-scale corporate litigation usually means a blizzard of documentation. With the increasingly complex nature of globalised business, this can mean hundreds of thousands of documents and millions of pages. But fortunately – just as things seemed to be becoming unmanageable – salvation appeared in the shape of technology to enable lawyers to store, sort and select what was relevant.”
The Times, 9th May 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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