“The European Commission will pursue a case against the UK Government through the European Court of Justice (ECJ) if it does not strengthen privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner’s powers within two months.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“The BBC does not have to publish a report into its Middle East coverage, the Court of Appeal has ruled. A Freedom of Information (FOI) Act exemption for journalism applies to material even if it is held for other purposes, said the Court.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A sex attacker caught after a cold case review has been jailed for 10 years.”
BBC News, 25th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man serving a life sentence for the ‘Essex Boys’ gangland murders has won £44,500 damages from the Home Office for negligent dental care.”
BBC News, 25th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, has today said that while there is sufficient evidence to prosecute Alan Cutkelvin Rees and Dr Michael Irwin in relation to the death of Raymond Cutkelvin at a Dignitas clinic in Switzerland in February 2007, such a prosecution would not be in the public interest and no further action should be taken against them.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 25th June 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Eighty football fans have shared nearly £200,000 in compensation and won an apology from police who trapped them in a pub before a Manchester United game.”
BBC News, 25th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former GP and right-to-die campaigner who took a man to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland will not be prosecuted.”
BBC News, 25th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An anti-war activist today won ‘a partial victory’ in her High Court challenge over Britain’s policy of transferring captured Taliban suspects to the Afghan authorities.”
The Independent, 25th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Road rage killer Kenneth Noye failed today in his bid to have the minimum life term he must serve for murder reduced.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th June 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Candy Brothers have won their High Court bid to prove Qatari architects were wrong to withdraw plans for the redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks following an intervention by the Prince of Wales.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th June 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Teesside woman who had sex with a 12-year-old boy has been told she deserved every day of her nine-year jail term.”
BBC News, 24th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man filmed trapping wild birds has received a suspended jail sentence.”
BBC News, 24th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Chrysostomou, R v [2010] EWCA Crim 1403 (24 June 2010)
Attorney Generals Reference No 114 – 115 of 2009 [2010] EWCA Crim 1459 (24 June 2010)
Lee, R v [2010] EWCA Crim 1404 (24 June 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Lexi Holdings (In Administration) v Pannone & Partners [2010] EWHC 1416 (Ch) (18 June 2010)
HIgh Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Montpellier Estates Ltd v Leeds City Council [2010] EWHC 1543 (QB) (24 June 2010)
Horlick v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2010] EWHC 1544 (QB) (24 June 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The immigration rules could not lawfully incorporate provisions set out in another document which had not itself been laid before Parliament and was able to be altered after the rule had been laid before Parliament.”
WLR Daily, 24th June 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.
British Broadcasting Corporation and another v Sugar (No 2) [2010] EWCA Civ 715; [2010] WLR (D) 157
“Once it was established that information, requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, was held by the BBC as a public authority for the purposes of journalism (a word that was to be given its natural meaning), it was effectively exempt from production under the 2000 Act, even if the information was also held by the authority for other purposes.”
WLR Daily, 24th June 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.
Austin v Southwark London Borough Council [2010] UKSC 28; [2010] WLR (D) 156
“The right of a ‘tolerated trespasser’, a person continuing to occupy his rented home following a breach of the terms of a conditional suspended possession order, to apply to the court for postponement of the date for possession to enable him to remedy the default and revive the secure tenancy, under s 85(2) of the Housing Act 1985, survived his death and could, consequently, be exercised by his personal representative.”
WLR Daily, 24th June 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.
“The policing and criminal justice minister has laid out government plans for creating a system shaped by the principles of freedom, fairness and responsibility.”
Ministry of Justice, 24th June 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Guideline hourly rates finalised.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 24th June 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said that an ad which might have been unsuitable for children could be shown in an on-demand showing of a family programme because few children watched the show.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th June 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
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