“The right to keep correspondence and documents relating to legal advice secret does not exist when the person giving the advice is an accountant, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th October 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Serious Organised Crime Agency v Szepietowski & Ors [2010] EWHC 2570 (Ch) (15 October 2010)
High Court (Family Division)
A County Council v SB & Ors [2010] EWHC 2528 (Fam) (15 October 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
REC Wafer Norway AS v Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd [2010] EWHC 2581 (Comm) (15 October 2010)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Cooperative Group Ltd v John Allen Associates Ltd [2010] EWHC 2300 (TCC) (14 September 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Scottish Parliament (Disqualification) Order 2010
The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2010
The Income Tax (Construction Industry Scheme) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2010
The Statutory Payment Schemes (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Social Security (Contributions) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations 2010
The Statutory Payment Schemes (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“Lord Young’s health and safety report shows that balancing the rights of defendants and claimants is a delicate business.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government pledged today to tackle the UK’s ‘damaging’ compensation culture with a shakeup of health and safety measures, including an end to ‘senseless’ rules and regulations.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Considerations that the institution of proceedings for relief under s 244 of the Insolvency Act 1986 in respect of a transaction to which the company was a party was extortionate when the issue was only triable and the consequences of thereby rescuing the company less than reasonably practicable were relevant to the existence or otherwise of good reason to remove the administrators under para 88 of Sch B1 to the Act but were not themselves sufficient to preclude good or sufficient reason.”
WLR Daily, 14th October 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.
Laws v Metropolitan Police Authority and another [2010] EWCA Civ 1099; [2010] WLR (D) 254
“By reg 37(1) of the Police (Injury Benefit) Regulations 2006, on a review of an injury pension payable under those regulations, the only duty of the police authority was to consider whether, since any previous review, the degree of pension disablement had substantially altered, and it was not open to the authority to reduce or increase a pension on such a review by virtue of a conclusion that the clinical basis of an earlier assessment had been wrong.”
WLR Daily, 14th October 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.
Dorset County Council v House [2010] EWCA Crim 2270; [2010] WLR (D) 253
“Criminal liability under the Cattle Identification Regulations 1998 and the Cattle Database Regulations 1998 was expressly and exclusively defined in terms of a failure to carry out an obligation under Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97, so there was no criminal offence in respect of conduct after 20 July 2000 when Regulation 820/97 was repealed and replaced.”
WLR Daily, 14th October 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 use of commercial aircraft to transport deportees has been called into question by a British Airways pilot following the death of Jimmy Mubenga.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Reality television shows face curbs on their use of children amid concerns that young participants are being exploited by programme-makers.”
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Black people are 26 times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police in England and Wales, the most glaring example of ‘racial profiling’ researchers have seen, according to an international report.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers will be kept out of thousands of family dispute cases every year in a shake-up of divorce laws.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Prenuptial agreements could finally become legally binding in England and Wales if the supreme court rules against the disgruntled ex-husband of a German heiress on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Disgraced former police officer Ali Dizaei paid just £750 towards the five-figure cost of putting him on trial, it can be disclosed today.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The old, ill, mute and frail will be deemed expendable if assisted suicide is legalised, a thinktank says today. Society’s most vulnerable risk being bullied into an early death by greedy or uncaring relatives or bureaucrats, according to a study published by the Centre for Policy Studies.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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