EastEnders cleared over baby swap storyline – BBC News
“EastEnders’ controversial cot death and baby swap storyline has been cleared by media regulator Ofcom after thousands of complaints.”
BBC News, 1st August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Day: 1 August 2011
Bridge Trustees Ltd v Yates and others (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions intervening) – WLR Daily
“Equilibrium of assets and liabilities was not a requirement of the definition of a money purchase pension scheme under section 181 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Hashwani v Jivraj (London Court of International Arbitration and others intervening) – WLR daily
“An arbitration agreement could lawfully require that the arbitrators appointed had to be members of a particular religious community since the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003, which prohibited employers from discriminating on religious grounds, did not apply to the selection or appointment of arbitrators, who were not employees of the arbitrating parties appearing before them. An arbitration clause in a commercial agreement between two members of the Ismaili community requiring that, in the event of a dispute between them, any arbitrators they appointed had to be members of the Ismaili faith was therefore valid and precluded the appointment by one of the parties of a non-Ismaili.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Newtown sex offender Anthony Milsom has sentence cut – BBC News
“A ‘manipulative and predatory’ sex offender who was jailed indefinitely for public protection has had his sentence cut to three-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 29th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Cambridgeshire man jailed for sex assaults on girls – BBC News
“A man who sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl and raped a teenager 20 years ago has been jailed for 12 years.”
BBC News, 29th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Former Livingston MP Jim Devine leaves prison – BBC News
“Former Labour MP Jim Devine has been released from prison after serving a quarter of his 16-month sentence for expenses fraud.”
BBC News, 1st August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mother who left children in 40C car spared jail – BBC News
“A mother who left her three children in a hot car for 45 minutes in Carlisle has been spared jail.”
BBC New, 1st August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Faith Stewart v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2011] EWCA Civ 907 (29 July 2011)
Iqbal v Ahmed [2011] EWCA Civ 900 (29 July 2011)
Hayes v Merseyside Police [2011] EWCA Civ 911 (29 July 2011)
Austin & Ors v Miller Argent (South Wales) Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 928 (29 July 2011)
Modi & Anor v Clarke [2011] EWCA Civ 937 (29 July 2011)
Thornhill & Ors v Nationwide Metal Recycling Ltd & Anor [2011] EWCA Civ 919 (29 July 2011)
Purely Creative Ltd & Ors v The Office of Fair Trading [2011] EWCA Civ 920 (29 July 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
HM Attorney-General v MGN Ltd & Anor [2011] EWHC 2074 (Admin) (29 July 2011)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v CD [2011] EWHC 2087 (Admin) (29 July 2011)
Coates v Crown Prosecution Service [2011] EWHC 2032 (Admin) (29 July 2011)
Bat v The Investigating Judge of the German Federal Court [2011] EWHC 2029 (Admin) (29 July 2011)
Rahmatullah v Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs & Anor [2011] EWHC 2008 (Admin) (29 July 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Payless Cash & Carry Ltd v Patel & Ors [2011] EWHC 2112 (Ch) (29 July 2011)
Space Airconditioning Plc v Guy Smith Brothers Stores Ltd [2011] EWHC 2107 (Ch) (29 July 2011)
Claridge, Re The Trustee In Bankruptcy of [2011] EWHC 2047 (Ch) (29 July 2011)
LB Re Financing No. 3 Ltd v Excalibur Funding No.1 Plc & Ors [2011] EWHC 2111 (Ch) (29 July 2011)
Multi Veste 226 BV v Ni Summer Row Unitholder BV & Ors [2011] EWHC 2026 (Ch) (29 July 2011)
Winnetka Trading Corp v (Julius Baer International Ltd & Anor [2011] EWHC 2030 (Ch) (29 July 2011)
Favor Easy Management Ltd & Anor v Wu (aka Lisa Wu) & Ors [2011] EWHC 2017 (Ch) (29 July 2011)
Humber Oil Terminals Trustee Ltd v Associated British Ports [2011] EWHC 2043 (Ch) (29 July 2011)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Mitton & Ors v Benefield & Anor [2011] EWHC 2098 (QB) (01 August 2011)
Al- Amoudi v Kifle [2011] EWHC 2037 (QB) (29 July 2011)
The Lord Chancellor v Alexander Johnson & Co Solicitors & Anor [2011] EWHC 2113 (QB) (29 July 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
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K/S Victoria Street v House of Fraser (Stores Management) Ltd and others – WLR Daily
“Any contractual arrangement contained in a tenancy (or a prior agreement ), which imposed an obligation on an existing or prospective guarantor of the tenant’s liabilities to guarantee the liabilities of a future assignee, would be void by reason of section 25(1) of the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 because it frustrated the operation of section 24(2) of that Act, by which the original tenant’s guarantor was released from his obligation on the assignment of the tenancy. Similarly, a contractual arrangement contained in a later document, for instance, a renewal obligation imposed on a guarantor of an assignee’s liabilities in an assignment or a licence to assign, would be invalid.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Brownbill and others v St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – WLR Daily
“Once an employment tribunal had found that there were terms in women’s contracts and terms in men’s contracts that were susceptible to comparison and that each of the terms was a distinct provision with sufficient content to make it possible to compare them so that the benefits conferred by the provision could be contrasted, it should proceed to compare them focusing on the equality of terms not of total pay actually received.”
WLR Daily, 28th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (Amendment) Order 2011
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2011
The Dentists Act 1984 (Medical Authorities) Order 2011
The Disclosure of State Pension Credit Information (Warm Home Discount) Regulations 2011
The Disclosure of State Pension Credit Information (Warm Home Discount) Regulations 2011
The River Humber (The Deep Tidal Stream Generator) Order 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
The Family Courts: Media Access & Reporting – Judiciary of England and Wales
“A joint publication of The President of the Family Division, the Judicial College and the Society of Editors.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 29th July 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
CPS statement on Bilal Ahmad – Crown Prosecution Service
“Bilal Ahmad was today sentenced for encouraging violent extremism and attempting to stir up hatred on the internet.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 29th July 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
Newspapers guilty of contempt during murder investigation – Attorney General’s Office
“Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd and News Group Newspapers Ltd have been found guilty of contempt of court for publishing potentially prejudicial coverage of a former suspect in the Joanna Yeates murder investigation at the start of this year which had the potential to impede the course of justice.”
Attorney General’s Office, 29th July 2011
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
My libel victory underlines the need for journalists to check their facts – The Guardian
“A critic is free to hate a book but this ruling found Lynn Barber had a reckless disregard for the truth.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judge tells teacher sex offender: ‘I don’t criticise you for being attracted to children’ – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has been condemned for telling a teacher convicted of child porn offences that she did not criticise him for being attracted to children.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Viper in our midst’ jailed for threatening MPs – Daily Telegraph
“A Muslim extremist who posted a call for attacks on MPs who supported the Iraq war on a radical website, along with where to buy a knife, has been jailed for 12 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Negligence claims against GPs rising – The Guardian
“Payouts to patients or their families hit unprecedented levels according to Medical Defence Union.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Teacher who attacked pupil with dumbbell banned for life – The Guardian
“A science teacher who attacked a 14-year-old pupil with a dumbbell has been banned from teaching for life.
Peter Harvey, now 51, had been provoked by pupils during a lesson in July 2009 when they called him a ‘psycho’ and ‘bald-headed bastard’. He lost control and hit the teenager about the head with the 3kg weight while shouting ‘die, die, die’.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
