“The husband of a woman left brain damaged by a delay in treating a tumour has said a £4.5m compensation pay-out cannot make up for what she has lost.”
BBC News, 18th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Controversial plan to bring back police ‘sus’ stop-and-search laws targeting black and Asian people axed by Theresa May.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A plant nursery has has been fined £10,000 after polluting five miles of a stream in Norfolk.”
BBC News, 18th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenage girl who vandalised a city’s cenotaph has been told her actions were ‘despicable’.”
BBC News, 18th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Governments should be forced to report on the impact of laws which affect citizens’ privacy after they have come into force, telling Parliament whether those laws have worked and what privacy rights have been infringed, the UK’s privacy watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th November 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A company is responsible for ‘making available’ internet-hosted material in the country where its host server is based, not in the country where the material is read or used, the High Court has said.”
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OUT-LAW.com, 18th November 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Whitney v Monster Worldwide Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 1312 (18 November 2010)
Emerald Supplies Ltd & Anor v British Airways Plc [2010] EWCA Civ 1284 (18 November 2010)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Ali v The Crown [2010] EWCA Crim 2665 (18 November 2010)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Flattery & Anor v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government & Anor [2010] EWHC 2868 (Admin) (18 November 2010)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Stellar Shipping Co Llc v Hudson Shipping Lines [2010] EWHC 2985 (Comm) (18 November 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Fallon (A Child) v Wilson [2010] EWHC 2978 (QB) (18 November 2010)
Silver Queen Maritime Ltd v Persia Petroleum Services Plc [2010] EWHC 2867 (QB) (18 November 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The coalition government has scrapped plans to reform controversial employment regulations in an apparent U-turn by the Conservatives, it has emerged.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 18th November 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The act of making available to the public all or a substantial part of the contents of a database by online transmission within the meaning of art 7(2)(b) of Parliament and Council Directive 96/9/EC on the Legal Protection of Databases was committed and committed only where the transmission took place.”
WLR Daily, 18th November 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.
C v D and another [2010] EWHC 2940 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 292
“A time-limited offer was not capable of being an offer within the meaning of CPR Pt 36, which established that an offer must be capable of acceptance unless and until withdrawn by service of a notice within CPR r 36.9(2).”
WLR Daily, 18th November 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.
“Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to rights and freedoms in the UK and to the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Ministry of Justice, 18th November 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“We have published a summary of the responses to our Issues Paper 6 (Damages for Late Payment and the Insurer’s Duty of Good Faith).”
Law Commission, 18th November 2010
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
“Expert Evidence in Criminal Courts – the Problem – Speech by Lord Justice Leveson – Forensic Science Society, 18th November 2010.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 18th November 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“New proposals laid in parliament today will save an estimated 800,000 hours of police time each year.”
Home Office, 17th November 2010
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Four men have been jailed after counterfeit bank notes worth more than £1m were uncovered by police.”
BBC news, 17th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who murdered a policewoman during a bungled robbery has started an appeal against his conviction on the eve of the fifth anniversary of her death.”
BBC News, 17th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man was jailed for life today for the murder of his girlfriend’s toddler, whom he viciously attacked after her crying interrupted him playing on his Xbox computer game.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A lorry driver who crushed a cyclist while chatting on his mobile phone with ‘the most godawful hangover’ was today jailed for seven years and disqualified from driving for life.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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