“Social workers could not have foreseen the abduction of Shannon Matthews by her mother, a serious case review has concluded.”
The Guardian, 16th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Mr Justice Tugendhat today raised the bar for defamation claims in a High Court ruling that found the definition of defamation must include a qualification or threshold of seriousness.”
The Lawyer, 16th June 2010
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Supreme Court
Secretary of State for the Home Department v AP [2010] UKSC 24 (16 June 2010)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Lambert & Ors v Barratt Homes Ltd & Anor [2010] EWCA Civ 681 (16 June 2010)
Huscroft v P & O Ferries Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 628 (16 June 2010)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v ST (Eritrea) [2010] EWCA Civ 643 (09 June 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
AGC Chemicals Europe Ltd v Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty (SHAC) [2010] EWHC B10 (QB) (10 June 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Re Liberty International Plc [2010] EWHC 1060 (Ch) (16 June 2010)
Dhillon & Anor v Siddiqui & Ors [2010] EWHC 1400 (Ch) (16 June 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A terror suspect subject to a control order has won his appeal on the grounds that it breached his human rights.”
BBC News, 16th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A government-commissioned report has called for Britain’s drink driving laws to be toughened to a level that would mean some people would be over the legal limit after one drink.”
The Guardian, 16th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A company has been convicted of health and safety breaches in relation to the Buncefield oil depot explosion in Hertfordshire in December 2005.”
BBC News, 16th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Bank Mellat v HM Treasury [2010] EWHC 1332 (QB); [2010] WLR (D) 148
“The powers conferred on HM Treasury by Sch 7 to the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 to give directions by order to persons operating in the United Kingdom financial sector could be lawfully exercised without allowing persons likely to be adversely affected by the order an opportunity to make prior representations; and the test of proportionality applied by para 9(6) of Sch 7 to the requirements imposed by such a direction was to be interpreted consistently with the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, according to which the means used did not always have to be limited to the minimum necessary to accomplish the legislative objective.”
WLR Daily, 15th June 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The Government has paid off more than 1,000 innocent Iraqis hit by botched British military operations that resulted in deaths, injuries and major damage to property.”
The Independent, 16th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Measures to protect victims of people smuggling are ‘not fit for purpose’ and may be illegal, a report claimed today.”
The Independent, 16th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“As the Lord Chancellor considers ways of cutting the number of people in prison, Joshua Rozenberg asks if the judges should save money by changing the way they sentence offenders.”
BBC Law in Action, 15th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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