“Some 98% of new laws introduced by the government in 2009 were brought in as statutory instruments without full parliamentary debate, research has revealed today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 26th April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Scottish National party will go to court today in an attempt to force the BBC to give its leader Alex Salmond a place in the final leaders’ debate later this week.”
The Guardian, 27th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Football fan Garry Mann’s hope of avoiding two years in a Portuguese jail rests with a ruling by human rights judges today.”
The Independent, 27th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A senior lawyer, Deidre Clark, sacked from a leading city firm after she wrote a sexually explicit online novel is suing her former employers for £3.5 million.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Police insisted today they are doing all they can to monitor sex offenders as it was revealed more than 300 are missing in the UK.”
The Independent, 26th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Jack Tweed, the widower of the reality TV star Jade Goody, was today cleared of raping a teenager he had met in a London nightclub.”
The Guardian, 26th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Media organisations are to challenge a reporting ban on a landmark hearing at which four politicians accused of fiddling their expenses will claim they cannot be brought to trial.”
The Times, 27th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
High Court (Chancery Division)
Dennard & Ors v Pricewaterhousecoopers Llp [2010] EWHC 812 (Ch) (23 April 2010)
Sel-Imperial Ltd v The British Standards Institution [2010] EWHC 854 (Ch) (23 April 2010)
Digicel (St. Lucia) Ltd & Ors v Cable & Wireless Plc & Ors [2010] EWHC 888 (Ch) (23 April 2010)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Michael Phillips Architects Ltd v Riklin & Anor [2010] EWHC 834 (TCC) (23 April 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A number of High Street chains has been ordered to pay up to £20m ($31m) to 2,000 people who received chemical burns from sofas.”
BBC News, 26th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Khatri v Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank BA [2010] EWCA Civ 397; [2010] WLR (D) 100
“Where an application for summary judgment turned on the terms of a written contract, it did not follow that the factual matrix of the contractual relationship could only be determined by a full trial with discovery, evidence and cross-examination of witnesses. If there was no conflict of evidence on a relevant point of background matrix, it was only when there really were reasonable grounds for supposing that a fuller investigation of the facts as to the background might make a difference to construction that the court should decline to construe the contract on a summary judgment (including a strike out) application.”
WLR Daily, 23rd April 2010
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 v Modjiri [2010] EWCA Crim 829; [2010] WLR (D) 99
“The concern of s 79(3) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 is limited to the valuation of property and does not extend to the realisation of property, so that it does not have to be assumed that a beneficial interest in property has to be sold separately from the property and, for the purposes of making a confiscation order, the correct basis on which to proceed is to take into account the due proportion of the proceeds which the defendant would receive on sale of the property.”
WLR Daily, 23rd April 2010
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.
“A former Cazenove partner serving a 21-month jail sentence for insider dealing should forfeit £956,863 in a confiscation and costs order, his prosecutors said yesterday.”
The Times, 24th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The prison population has hit a record 85,000 after Labour’s decision to end the 18-day early release scheme just before the election campaign got under way.”
The Guardian, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Much has already been said about Lord Justice Jackson’s proposals for success fees, after-the-event insurance, costs shifting and the like, but much less, if anything, about litigation processes, and their impact on costs. Yet it is surely unarguable that a streamlining or simplification of the litigation process would result in a reduction in costs.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 26th April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A teenager has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence for claiming a former colleague was one of James Bulger’s killers.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Suspected counterfeit goods being brought into the UK can be destroyed without going to court if the importer fails to object, according to new rules put in place by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th April 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“This is not the last we have heard from Sharon Shoesmith and her campaign to prove she was made a scapegoat over the tragic death of Baby Peter.”
The Independent, 24th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Four politicians accused of fiddling their expenses are to begin in private their landmark constitutional battle against being brought to trial, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 26th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A highly critical report into the death of Blair Peach, the anti-fascist campaigner widely believed to have been killed by police in 1979, is expected to be published on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
© Inner Temple Library 2024