Charge against ‘gay sin’ preacher dropped – BBC News
“Charges have been dropped against a Christian preacher who told a police officer homosexuality was ‘a sin’.”
BBC News, 17th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Day: 17 May 2010
Man jailed for life killing Asperger’s suffering neighbour – The Independent
“A man was jailed for life today for stabbing to death his vulnerable neighbour, who suffered from Asperger’s syndrome, after making fun of him.”
The Independent, 17th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI
The Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (Commencement No. 4) (Wales) Order 2010
The Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Gower College Swansea (Incorporation) Order 2010
The Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2010
The Food (Jelly Mini-Cups) (Emergency Control) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Adris & Ors v The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc [2010] EWHC 941 (QB) (29 April 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
ZN and Others (Afghanistan) v Entry Clearance Officer – Times Law Reports
ZN and Others (Afghanistan) v Entry Clearance Officer
Supreme Court
“Family members who applied to enter the United Kingdom to join a sponsor who had been granted asylum did not have to meet the maintenance and accommodation requirements imposed by the ordinary rules relating to applications by family members, even if the sponsor had, by then, obtained British citizenship.”
The Times, 17th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Mobilx Ltd ( in administration) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners; Blue Sphere Global Ltd v Same; Calltel Telecom Ltd and another v Same – WLR Daily
“Where a trader had means of knowing that by his purchase he was participating in a transaction connected with fraudulent evasion of VAT he lost his right to deduct input tax but only when he knew or should have known that the transaction was connected to fraud. To lose his entitlement it was not sufficient that the taxpayer knew or should have known that it was more likely than not that his purchase was connected to fraud.”
WLR Daily, 14th May 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.
Mother who beat toddler son to death is jailed for a minimum of 16 years – The Independent
“A mother has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years after being convicted yesterday of murdering her young son.”
The Independent, 15th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Work starts to reverse ban on using intercept evidence in criminal trials – The Guardian
“The government will attempt to make intercept evidence admissible in court, the Guardian has learned, in a move likely to bring ministers into conflict with the intelligence services.”
The Guardian, 16th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
White supremacist jailed over chemical weapon – The Independent
“A white supremacist who became the first person to be sentenced for producing a chemical weapon was jailed for 10 years today.”
The Independent, 14th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Judge replaced in Chelsea barracks case – Daily Telegraph
“The case has caused a stir because correspondence from the Prince of Wales will be used as evidence, in what has become a row over the most expensive piece of land in Britain and an argument between modernist and traditional architects.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th May 2010
Sourc: www.telegraph.co.uk
Gary McKinnon: a test case for principles – The Guardian
“The first acid test for Britain’s new government is not the economy, but whether it is capable of an act of simple humanity. Can Theresa May deliver on the repeated promise of Tory and Lib Dem leaders to end the torment inflicted by the state on Gary McKinnon, the hacker with Asperger’s syndrome, whom the Home Office wants to send to lengthy imprisonment and likely suicide in a US jail? His courtroom cruelty is scheduled to begin again on 24 May: the time has come to end it, once and for all.”
The Guardian, 16th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Gary McKinnon: Theresa May urged to block extradition order – The Guardian
“Campaigners for the computer hacker Gary McKinnon have called for support from the new coalition government in their latest bid to overturn a decision to allow him to be extradited to the US.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
