“Serious and significant failings by the Office of Fair Trading led to the collapse of the trial of senior British Airways executives over allegations of price-fixing with Virgin Atlantic.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Michelle Young, 45, who is divorcing her husband Scot, is to give HM Revenue & Customs a computer disk containing hundreds of pages of emails and other documents outlining his dealings in property, shares and film companies over the past five years.”
The Sunday Times, 9th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A former partner at the Queen’s stockbroker Cazenove, who was jailed for insider trading, has been ordered to pay over half a million pounds in confiscation and costs or spend more time behind bars.”
The Times, 7th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, today [7th May] backed the saying of prayers before council meetings as a pressure group prepared to launch a legal battle on the issue.”
The Guardian, 7th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Laws which mean gay and lesbian asylum seekers can be returned to countries where they face persecution will be challenged tomorrow [10th May] in the UK’s highest court.”
The Guardian, 9th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An Algerian terror suspect has been allowed to stay in Britain because attempts to remove him have taken so long his children are now settled here.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Competition Commission has given the all clear to a merger between two live music companies for the second time. Its first decision in the case was quashed by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th May 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“In October 2005, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights decided that it is a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights for this country to disenfranchise all prisoners from voting in parliamentary and local elections. At today’s general election, four and a half years later, that absolute ban persists.”
The Times, 6th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“England football fan Garry Mann was left ‘devastated’ today as he lost his final legal battle against extradition to Portugal, where he faces a two-year jail sentence.”
The Independent, 7th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An obsessive smuggler of wild birds’ eggs has avoided jail, to the disappointment of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, whose staff helped to track down his hoard.”
The Guardian, 7th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Tullett Prebon Plc & Ors v BGC Brokers LP & Ors [2010] EWHC 989 (QB) (06 May 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
Regina (Clue) v Birmingham City Council and Others
Court of Appeal
“A local authority was not entitled to decide how the Secretary of State for the Home Department might dispose of an application for leave to remain in the United Kingdom.”
The Times, 7th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Al Rawi and Others v Security Service and Others
Court of Appeal
“The principle that a litigant should be able to see and hear all the evidence, seen and heard by a court determining his case, was so fundamental and so embedded in the common law, that, in the absence of parliamentary authority, it should not be overridden by a judge in an ordinary civil claim.”
The Times, 7th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Justice of the European Union
“European Union law did not prevent national health authorities from introducing financial incentive schemes aimed at replacing the prescription of certain medicines by other and cheaper named medicines in the same therapeutic class, provided certain conditions were satisfied.”
The Times, 7th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
NML Capital Ltd v Republic of Argentina
Court of Appeal
“An English Court had no jurisdiction to enforce a United States court judgment since there was no treaty between the two countries for the mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments; the appropriate way was to bring an action on the judgment in England to enforce it.”
The Times, 7th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The damages recoverable by a claimant whose investment fund had been depleted by fraud included not only the loss to the original amount invested during the period of the fraud and the profits that would have been made on it, but also the loss of those profits that would have would have been made from investment of the lost money in the period after the discovery of the fraud until the date of trial.”
WLR daily, 6th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Farstad Supply AS v Enviroco Ltd [2010] UKSC 18; [2010] WLR (D) 113
“A requirement in a charterparty for the owner to indemnify the charterer against claims resulting from loss or damage in relation to the vessel was not limited to a requirement for the owner to reimburse claims against the charterer by third parties but precluded the owner from recovering damages from the charterer in respect of the charterer’s own negligence. It followed that where it was alleged that the charterer and a third party had jointly caused damage to the vessel whilst it was berthed in Scotland and, because of the indemnity agreement, the owner sued only the third party in the Scots courts, the third party would not be able to claim a contribution under s 3(2) of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1940 from the charterer as a ‘person who, if sued, might also have been held liable’.”
WLR Daily, 6th May 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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