“Two stars of the BBC’s Trawlermen series have been jailed and fined £370,000 after they landed fish illegally.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has upheld a complaint over the online advertising of two remedies, Duchy Herbals Echina-Relief Tincture and Duchy Herbals Hyperi-Lift Tincture, which are sold for £10 for 50ml in selected Boots and Waitrose stores.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Entitlement to good health care, education and freedom from poverty could be enshrined in law under the green paper to be published by Justice Minister Jack Straw.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The actor and comedian Rowan Atkinson and writer Andrew O’Hagan are heading a coalition of entertainers, writers, lawyers and journalists in a move today for the scrapping of an archaic law that allows people to be jailed for speaking out.”
The Times, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A former City lawyer is claiming £5m damages against a Catholic school over sexual abuse he alleges he suffered there during the 1970s.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Divsion)
Bracknell Forest Borough Council v Green & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 238 (20 March 2009)
Lambert v Clayton [2009] EWCA Civ 237 (20 March 2009)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Bailey & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWHC 562 (Admin) (20 March 2009)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AT & Anor [2009] EWHC 512 (Admin) (20 March 2009)
High Court (Patents Court)
MMI Research Ltd v Cellxion Ltd & Ors [2009] EWHC 418 (Pat) (11 March 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Toropdar v D [2009] EWHC 567 (QB) (20 March 2009)
Hutton v The Government of Australia [2009] EWHC 564 (QB) (20 March 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (Wales) Regulations 2009
The Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Control of Salmonella in Broiler Flocks (Wales) Order 2009
The Charter Trustees Regulations 2009
The Public Guardian (Fees, etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
The Plant Health (Forestry) (Amendment) Order 2009
The Family Procedure (Adoption) (Amendment) Rules 2009
The Buying Agency Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2009
The Health and Social Care (Financial Assistance) Regulations 2009
The Pensions Increase (Review) Order 2009
The Local Authorities’ Plans and Strategies (Disapplication) (England) (Amendment) Order 2009
The Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2009
The Tax Avoidance Schemes (Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Bovale Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Another
Court of Appeal
“While a judge had no power to alter the Civil Procedure Rules or vary any practice direction, either by a judgment or purported practice direction, he did have an inherent jurisdiction to include procedural directions of a general application where there was a gap in the rules or in the practice directions.”
The Times, 23rd March 2009
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.
Regina (BA)(Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“The right of appeal against the refusal by the Home Office to revoke a deportation order was exercisable from within the United Kingdom.”
The Times, 23rd March 2009
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 Aid Minister Lord Bach has given a speech on the legal aid reform programme at the Advice Services Alliance conference in which he has announced that more people will be eligible for civil legal aid.”
Ministry of Justice, 20th March 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Dozens of miscarriages of justice could occur in the next few months because the body that regulates expert witnesses in court is being shut down by the Government, senior scientists warned yesterday.”
The Independent, 22nd March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Laws intended for counter-terrorism are being misused in an increasingly heavy-handed approach to policing protests, a new parliamentary report warns today.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A quarter of all the largest public-sector database projects, including the ID cards register, are fundamentally flawed and clearly breach European data protection and rights laws, according to a report published today.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Energy companies will be banned from charging ‘unjustified’ prices under new rules proposed by the regulator Ofgem.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Sean Hodgson, who spent 27 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, has been given just £46 by the government with which to restart his life. The Prison Service has awarded the mentally ill former prisoner the equivalent of £1.70 for every year he was wrongly imprisoned.”
The Observer, 22nd March 2009
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
“Prime minister would not support proposal backed by more than 100 MPs to allow families to help terminally ill relatives to die.”
The Guardian, 20th March 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Parking companies will be subject to strict new limits on the penalties and fees they can charge, under government plans to drive rogue operators out of business.”
The Times, 20th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The High Court has ruled that oil company Total is liable for damages caused by the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot in Hertfordshire.”
BBC News, 20th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v Balshaw [2009] EWCA Crim 470; [2009] WLR (D) 102
“Where a person was convicted of an offence before the Crown Court, and was ordered to pay costs to the prosecutor, there was no principle that the order was proscribed where the costs were designed to compensate a third party.”
WLR Daily, 18th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in once of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
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