“A man who posted video on the internet of his stepmother dancing on seats in the lobby of a court in Cornwall has apologised to a judge.”
BBC News, 24th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Court injunctions that force internet service providers (ISPs) to filter and monitor user traffic in order to prevent illegal file-sharing are contrary to EU law and fundamental rights, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The police watchdog has said it was ‘disappointing’ members of a panel set up to oversee its inquiry into Mark Duggan’s shooting recently quit.”
BBC News, 24th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The 90 day minimum consultation period for collective redundancies may be restricting business and could be reduced as part of the most radical reform to employment law for decades, the Government has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A new code of conduct and central membership body for third party litigation funders has been launched in response to the increasing number of suppliers in the market.”
Legal Week, 24th November 2011
Source: www.legalweek.com
Schütz (UK) Ltd v Werit UK Ltd and another (No 3) [2011] EWCA Civ 1337; [2011] WLR (D) 338
“The ‘transaction’ which an exclusive licensee of a patent was required by section 68 of the Patents Act 1977 to have registered within six months if the court was to award him costs in proceedings for infringement of that patent was the first transaction that had made him an exclusive licensee.”
WLR Daily, 22nd November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Oldfield [2011] WLR (D) 337
“Where an application by a defendant to withdraw a plea of guilty involved a conflict between the defendant’s evidence and the evidence of his former counsel, the practice at many court centres by which a judge from elsewhere would be brought in to hear the application was to be commended.”
WLR Daily, 22nd November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Chaudhary v Yavuz [2011] EWCA Civ 1314; [2011] WLR (D) 336
“In the context of a sale of property, great care would be required before one could conclude that it was ‘unconscionable’ for a purchaser to deny a right whose existence he could have ascertained merely by inspecting the property.”
WLR Daily, 22nd November 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
“In the administrative court, the decisions of two local authorities to withdraw funding for library services were held to be unlawful.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th November 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“One of Europe’s largest banks, Société Générale, has begun defamation proceedings against Associated Newspapers over a Mail on Sunday article which falsely claimed the bank was in a ‘perilous’ state and on the ‘brink of disaster’.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Local authorities in the UK have collectively lost personal data on at least 1035 occasions in the past three years, a privacy group has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“England and Wales’s judicial system are to change their websites so that they end with the domain name judiciary.uk.”
BBC News, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Europe’s most powerful judge has publicly complained about ‘senior members’ of the UK government fostering hostility towards the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 2011
The Turks and Caicos Islands (Electoral District Boundary Commission) Order 2011
The Education (National Curriculum) (Specified Purpose) (England) Order 2011
The Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills Order 2011
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Woodbridge) Regulations 2011
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Taunton) Regulations 2011
The Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Taunton) (Revocation) Regulations 2011
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“A judge has praised the courage of a four-year-old boy for giving evidence in a trial which led to his ‘vicious’ attacker being jailed for 13 years.”
BBC News, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, has reprieved the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales (YJB) from abolition in advance of an expected House of Lords defeat over the move.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Migrants are denied the right of access to the court if they are given under 72 hours’ notice of their removal from the UK, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. The judgment frustrates the UK Border Agency’s aim to win permission for zero-notice removals.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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