“Court hears 23,000 often harrowing cases a year, making decisions for people unable to manage their own affairs.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The battle for Wayne Rooney reached its climax in October 2006.”
BBC News, 7th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Thousands of unpaid interns could be entitled to compensation after government legal advice emerged suggesting employers are breaking the law by not following national minimum wage rules.”
The Guardian, 4th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Theresa May will come under pressure on Monday to disclose whether any terror suspects are believed to have entered the country when border controls were secretly relaxed this summer.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Euro MP must pay £575 after refusing to pay her TV licence fee. Jill Evans’ refusal to pay was part of a campaign by the Welsh Language Society over changes to the way S4C is run and cuts to its funding.”
BBC News, 4th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers and judges have welcomed proposals to end the ‘culture of delay’ in the family justice system, published in the Family Justice Review’s final report.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Badly-maintained points were to blame for causing the death of an elderly woman in the Grayrigg train crash in Cumbria, an inquest jury has found.”
BBC News, 4th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two peers convicted of expenses fraud should be suspended from the House of Lords, a key committee has said.”
BBC News, 4th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An illegal immigrant has been awarded £17,360 at the High Court for being wrongly imprisoned.”
BBC News, 4th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
” A nanny who stole more than £6,000 from an heiress has avoided an immediate jail sentence.”
The Independent, 4th November 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into an Asian radio station after it withheld tens of thousands of pounds in listener donations from those in need.”
The Guardian, 4th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Right to follow bees and to check for German enemy property are among the hundreds of rules on entering private homes that may be simplified.”
The Guardian, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The 700-year-old ‘veil of secrecy’ covering the workings of the Prince of Wales’s Duchy of Cornwall estate will be partially lifted after a landmark legal ruling that could open up the Royal family to far greater public scrutiny.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A motorcyclist who filmed himself speeding at 150mph and put the footage on the internet has been sentenced to 51 weeks jail, suspended for two years.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“People taking part in demonstrations must accept they could be searched by police, a court has ruled.”
BBC News, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal Civil Division)
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council v Yerrakalva [2011] EWCA Civ 1255 (03 November 2011)
Smithurst v Sealant Construction Services Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1277 (03 November 2011)
Dance v Savery & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 1250 (03 November 2011)
Drake & Anor v Fripp [2011] EWCA Civ 1279 (03 November 2011)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Shamsian v General Medical Council [2011] EWHC 2885 (Admin) (04 November 2011)
Belal v General Medical Council [2011] EWHC 2859 (Admin) (03 November 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Fenland District Council v Sheppard & Ors [2011] EWHC 2829 (Ch) (03 November 2011)
High Court Queen’s Bench Division)
Howarth v Gwent Constabulary & Anor [2011] EWHC 2836 (QB) (01 November 2011)
Cox v Ergo Versicherung AG (Formerly Known As Victoria) [2011] EWHC 2806 (QB) (28 October 2011)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Edmonds v Lawson & Anor (t/a Lawson Developments) [2011] EWHC 2867 (TCC) (03 November 2011)
NAP Anglia Ltd v Sun -Land Development Co Ltd [2011] EWHC 2846 (TCC) (03 November 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org.uk
Smith and another v Jafton Properties Ltd; [2011] EWCA Civ 1251; [2011] WLR (D) 314
“At common law an assignment of part of a leased property by which the leased property was physically severed had the effect that the holder of each severed part had privity of estate with the landlord only in respect of that severed part. In short, as a holder only of part of the land, he was the tenant of that severed part only.”
WLR Daily, 2nd November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“When exercising its discretion under rule 40 of Schedule 1 to the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004 to order costs against a party who had acted unreasonably in bringing or conducting proceedings, it was vital that the employment tribual looked at the whole picture of what happened in the case.”
WLR Daily, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Eli Lilly & Co v Human Genome Sciences Inc [2011] UKSC 51; [2011] WLR (D) 312
“Since the Technical Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office had adopted a consistent approach to patents for biological material, the English courts should follow the principles of law set out in its decisions. Accordingly, in deciding whether a patent disclosing a new protein and its encoding gene was susceptible to industrial application the question was whether, taking the common general knowledge into account, it had been plausibly shown that it was usable.”
WLR Daily, 2nd November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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