“Farmers said on Friday they would launch a legal challenge if the farm ministry rejected as expected next week a badger cull to help tackle bovine tuberculosis in cattle.”
Reuters, 4th July 2008
Source: www.reuters.com
“Solicitors for Paul Burrell, the former butler to Princess Diana, have written a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission claiming a News of the World story alleging Burrell claimed he had sex with Princess Diana was untrue.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fans of Pringles are savouring a court ruling that the snack is not a potato crisp.”
Reuters, 4th July 2008
Source: www.reuters.com
“The justice reinvestment inquiry has been set up to examine whether the resources currently given to the criminal justice system are being used effectively or whether there are alternative strategies which would give a better return for society than traditional methods of dealing with offenders.”
Youth Justice Board, 4th July 2008
Source: www.yjb.gov.uk
“Government plans to extend pre-charge detention for terror suspects to 42 days are ‘unnecessary, disproportionate and counter-productive’ and should be rejected when they come before the House of Lords next week, an international human rights group said today. ”
The Guardian, 4th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Linklaters has followed its rivals in announcing a record turnover today, although it narrowly missed overtaking Clifford Chance as the world’s biggest firm. ”
The Times, 4th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoI) continues to surprise and baffle public sector information managers and lawyers. Every month there are an average of 20 decisions made by the information commissioner and eight by the Information Tribunal.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd July 2008
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Lawyers and pressure groups alike know an apology can avert legal actions against the medical profession. So why is it still so hard to apologise?”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd July 2008
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
The Armed Forces (Service Complaints) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008
The Armed Forces (Alignment of Service Discipline Acts) Order 2008
The Cross-border Railway Services (Working Time) Regulations 2008
The Armed Forces (Entry, Search and Seizure) (Amendment) Order 2008
The Courts-Martial (Amendment) Rules 2008
The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Estate Agents (Redress Scheme) Order 2008
The Estate Agents (Redress Scheme) (Penalty Charge) Regulations 2008
The Eggs and Chicks (England) Regulations 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Ministry of Defence v Griffin [2008] EWHC 1542 (QB) (03 July 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
E v The Governing Body of JFS & Anor [2008] EWHC 1535 (Admin) (03 July 2008)
Obienna v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWHC 1476 (Admin) (27 June 2008)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Cherney v Deripaska [2008] EWHC 1530 (Comm) (03 July 2008)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Equality before the Law (PDF)
Speech by Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
East London Muslim Centre, 3rd July 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Justice Secretary Jack Straw today marked the one-year anniversary of the government’s constitutional change programme and said the progress made was a major step forward in renewing Britain’s democracy.”
Ministry of Justice, 3rd July 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Witness and Victim Experience Survey is a national telephone survey that explores victims’ and witnesses’ experiences of the criminal justice system in England and Wales in cases that have resulted in criminal charges.
This report explores the provision of information and services to victims and witnesses in cases closed between February 2005 to January 2006, and of the progress made at a local and national level against key criminal justice system initiatives.”
Early findings from the Witness and Victim Experience Survey: information and service provision (PDF)
Ministry of Justice, 3rd July 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The hiding place of a leading terror suspect was inadvertently released by Justice Ministry officials last night after he was freed from jail under unprecedented bail conditions. The man, who can be identified only as U, was released from Long Lartin, Worcestershire, after the appeal court ruled there was no reason to hold him indefinitely as he could not be deported to his native Algeria.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A white actor ‘blacked-up’ to play an African government official in a role-play exercise staged by the elite squad leading the fight against organised crime, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 4th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Thorner v Major and others [2008] EWCA Civ 232; [2008] WLR (D) 222
“A dedicated help and service in reliance upon a statement did not bind his estate by conscience to create a proprietary estoppel to confer the farm to the claimant even if the deceased had given the farm to the claimant by a will which he subsequently revoked to deny an interest to a third person.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2008
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.
R (Compton) v Wiltshire Primary Care Trust [2008] EWCA Civ 749; [2008] WLR (D) 221
“The Court of Appeal set down the appropriate procedure to deal with protective costs orders in the Court of Appeal.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2008
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.
Franbar Holdings Ltd v Patel and others [2008] EWHC 1534 (Ch); [2008] WLR (D) 220
“Where the question of ratification arose in the context of an application to continue a derivative claim, under s 261 of the Companies Act 2006, the court should ask itself whether the ratification had the effect that the claimant was being improperly prevented from bringing the claim on behalf of the company. That also applied where the connected person provisions in s 239 were not satisfied but there was still actual wrongdoer control by which there had been a diversion of assets to persons associated with the wrongdoer, albeit not connected in the sense provided by s 239(4).”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2008
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.
Environment Agency v Thorn International UK Ltd; [2008] WLR (D) 219
“A used electrical product, such as a refrigerator or a computer monitor, which had been taken back from its original owner on purchase of a replacement model, and then bought by a company for repair or refurbishment prior to re-sale, was not, while awaiting such repairs, ‘waste’ within the meaning of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and Council Directive 75/442/EEC.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2008
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.
Court of Justice of the European Communities
“There was no principle that the Council of the European Union was entitled automatically to refuse access to opinions of its legal service relating to a legislative process.”
The Times, 4th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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