“This consultation paper seeks views on proposals to simplify the rules in Part 6 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 on service of documents within the jurisdiction and for service out of the jurisdiction.”
Review of Part 6 of the Civil Procedure Rules: service of documents
Ministry of Justice, 9th July 2007
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A legal bid to lift the secrecy surrounding children taken from parents and put up for adoption has been launched by an MP.”
The Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2007
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“One of the legal world’s most eagerly awaited spectacles for years is to start at an employment tribunal today when a senior City lawyer accuses his former partners of age discrimination. Peter Bloxham, the 54-year-old former head of restructuring for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, will take the stand at the London Central Employment Tribunal to give evidence against former colleagues in the elite City of London law firm.”
The Times, 9th July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Church of England yesterday bowed to pleas from two archbishops to help draw up a disciplinary covenant for the worldwide Anglican communion, despite fears that it will led to the expulsion of liberal believers.”
The Guardian, 9th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jack Straw will face his first court challenge as Lord Chancellor next week when the Law Society, the Commission for Racial Equality and ethnic minority lawyers go to the High Court to try to halt the government’s controversial shake-up of legal aid.”
The Guardian, 9th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A pensioner aged 84 is suing an NHS trust over its refusal to pay for drugs to save his sight in the first such case to be backed by Britain’s leading charity for the blind.”
The Independent, 9th July 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An internet service provider in Belgium must screen traffic for music piracy, a court has ruled in a decision which overturns conventional thinking on how two major European directives relate to one another.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th July 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Crown Prosecution Service said today it had ‘all the evidence we need to make a decision’ on whether to bring charges in the cash-for-honours affair.”
Guardian, 6th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Ellis v Bristol City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 685
“The Code of Practice issued by the Health and Safety Commission was aimed to give guidance to the construction of health and safety regulations; a judge in construing the meaning of a regulation, should have regard to its meaning and purpose, any relevant judicial authority and also the Code of Practice when considering whether a place of work was unsafe for the employees working there.”
WLR Daily, 6th July 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“When considering applications made by EU and EEA nationals living in the United Kingdom for social security benefits who were neither economically active nor self-sufficient, lawful presence in the United Kingdom was not to be equated with a right to reside within the meaning of reg 21(3G) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 for the purposes of entitlement to social security benefits.”
WLR Daily, 6th July 2007
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A man who stored up what police called a ‘vast library of terrorist material’ has been jailed for nine years.”
BBC News, 6th July 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge today limited the compensation claim of a Paddington train crash survivor who said he had been turned into a killer by post-traumatic stress disorder.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The retention of search engine query data is a security matter and not one for Europe’s data protection officials, according to Google’s global privacy chief. Peter Fleischer said that its retention of user search data was ‘just not their field.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th July 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
Waste Directive does not cover old lubricating oil used as fuel
R (OSS Group Ltd) v. Environment Agency
Court of Appeal
“Lubricating oil collected after use and processed into fuel oil for burning could cease to be waste before it was burnt.”
The Times, 6th July 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
No duty of care owed over child support
R (Rowley and others) v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Court of Appeal
“The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions did not owe a common law duty of care in discharging his functions under the Child Support Act 1991”
The Times, 6th July 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
Councils must not shelter behind doctors
Shala v. Birmingham City Council
Court of Appeal
“Local authorities had to take care not to appear to be using professional medical advisers simply to provide or shore up their reasons to refuse applicants’ applications for housing as persons in priority need.”
The Times, 6th July 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
“Legal professionals fear that alternative business structures (ABSs) – the key element of the Legal Services Bill – will compromise the quality of legal advice, according to a report to be published this week.”
Law Society Gazette, 5th July 2007
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The City of London breathed a collective sigh of relief this afternoon as the High Court confirmed that despite major technological advancements and cultural changes, the principle of ‘my word is my bond’ was still relevant in the modern world. In the first case of its kind, a judge ruled that an investment fund could not pull out of a financial transaction after circumstances made the deal substantially less attractive. ”
The Times, 6th July 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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