“An 81-year-old man from Bedfordshire who admitted attempting to rape a 92-year-old woman in her home in 2000 has been jailed for five-and-a-half-years.”
BBC News, 14th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers have launched a legal challenge to the police tactic of kettling during recent student demonstrations, claiming a breach of human rights.”
The Guardian, 14th December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Campaigners who planned to shut down coal-fired power station convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass.”
The Guardian, 14th December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two companies and a manager have been fined a total of £440,000 after a Flintshire scrap yard worker died after suffering 90% burns in an explosion.”
BBC News, 13th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The money Pembrokeshire council pays care homes to look after residents will be challenged in the High Court later.”
BBC News, 14th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“City firm Devonshires has successfully fought off a victimisation claim brought by a former secretary in the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT).”
The Lawyer, 9th December 2010
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Pink Floyd Music Ltd & Anor v EMI Records Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 1429 (14 December 2010)
Gill v Woodall & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 1430 (14 December 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Jessop v Nixon [2010] EWHC 3211 (QB) (14 December 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org.
“Liabilities arising from the financial support direction (‘FSD’) regime created by the Pensions Act 2004 upon companies in administration or liquidation were payable as a liquidation or administration expense.”
WLR Daily, 13th December 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
Paponette and others v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [2010] UKPC 32; [2010] WLR (D) 323
“A court could not infer from the bare fact that a public body had acted in breach of a legitimate expectation that it must have done so to further some overriding public interest.”
WLR Daily, 13th December 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.
“A man who murdered a chef following a classical music concert in Essex has been jailed for at least 23 years.”
BBC News, 13th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A gay couple from Bristol have appeared in court alleging sexual-orientation discrimination after they were refused a double room at a Cornish B&B.”
BBC News, 13th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Following the sentencing at Reading Crown Court, Andrew Penhale, Unit Head of the Crown Prosecution Service Organised Crime Division in the North said: ‘The significance of this prosecution is that it involves a defendant running an apparently legitimate, internet-based chemical business, which actually facilitated the wholesale trafficking of Class A drugs and the sale of other illegitimate chemicals.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 10th December 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Ahead of Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke QC MP’s appearance before the Justice Select Committee tomorrow, the Family Law Bar Association (FLBA), which represents family barristers in England and Wales, has warned of the potentially dangerous consequences of the planned cuts to civil legal aid.”
The Bar Council, 14th December 2010
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The European arrest warrant is being used to have thousands of people flown out to face charges that wouldn’t stick in the UK.”
The Guardian, 14th December 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Court decision against closed hearings for parts of the London bombings inquest will not be challenged.”
Home Office, 10th December 2010
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Three people have been sentenced to a total of eighteen and a half years for setting up bogus colleges to help illegal immigrants remain in the UK.”
Home Office, 13th December 2010
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A ruling that a sailor missed out on promotion due to her gender is to be reviewed.”
BBC news, 10th December 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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