“A juror on a rape trial who smoked a cannabis joint in his lunch hour was today fined £450 after admitting contempt of court.”
The Independent, 18th May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Campaigners want to overturn laws targeting “insulting words and behaviour”. Just how safe is it to scorn others?”
BBC News, 18th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Maswaku v Westminster City Council [2012] EWCA Civ 669 (18 May 2012)
El Goure v The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea [2012] EWCA Civ 670 (18 May 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Wolman v Weller [2012] EWHC 1292 (QB) (18 May 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Imagine that and you are 17-years-old and wrongly convicted! Yesterday, the Court of Appeal quashed Sam Hallam’s conviction for murder by joint enterprise after he had served seven years of a life sentence. He is now 24. He has been inside since before Take That announced they would reform and before Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire became the highest grossing film of 2005. He has missed the 2008 Olympics and Diversity winning #BGT. He will not have been Facebooking his mates or hanging out with girls. He has no employment history, no iPhone and his Dad committed suicide whilst he was imprisoned.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 18th May 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Education Secretary Michael Gove has lost a High Court battle with Essex County Council over government cuts to nursery funding.”
BBC News, 17th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The buyer of a business will be liable for certain early retirement pension rights under the original owner’s occupational pension scheme if the transfer takes place under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (TUPE) Regulations, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th May 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Where a commercial contract contained a choice of law clause exclusively in favour of one country and a jurisdiction clause giving the courts of the same country exclusive jurisdiction, but an arbitration clause by which the seat of the arbitration was to be in a different country, the issue of the proper law of the arbitration clause was a matter of contractual interpretation. The proper law depended on all the terms of the particular contract, when read in the light of the surrounding circumstances and commercial common sense.”
WLR Daily, 16th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Arrears of rent due during the provisional liquidation period were to be treated as an expense of the liquidation and payable in priority to most other liquidation expenses.”
WLR Daily, 16th May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
The Good Constitution (PDF)
Speech by Lord Justice Laws
Sir David Williams Lecture, 4th May 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Sex offenders, kidnappers and burglars are among criminals who have been given cautions or warnings instead of being taken to court, the BBC has found.”
BBC News, 18th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The size of cages holding beagles awaiting experiments could be reduced under new Government proposals, animal welfare campaigners warned yesterday.”
The Independent, 18th May 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A Court of Appeal judge has criticised a defendant for rejecting mediation offered at a previous hearing – warning it will be a costly decision.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th May 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A person’s entitlement to Child Tax Credit (CTC) is a ‘possession’ for the purposes of article 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th May 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A Twitter user has promised to stop posting ‘fantasy information’ about an oil company on the site after the firm took legal action.”
The Guardian, 17th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Ghaith v Indesit Company UK Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 642 (17 May 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
McKillen v Misland (Cyprus) Investments Ltd & Ors [2012] EWHC 1158 (Ch) (26 April 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A man has been jailed for at least 16 years after stabbing his girlfriend to death at a Bedfordshire house where eight children were playing.”
BBC News, 17th May 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Sympathy with victims of sexual abuse should not be grounds for courts to extend the law on compensation ‘infinitely’ and impose extra liabilities on employers, the court of appeal has been told.”
The Guardian, 17th May 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Local Justice Areas Order 2012
The Magistrates’ Courts (Detention and Forfeiture of Cash) (Amendment) Rules 2012
The Mink Keeping (Prohibition) (Wales) Order 2012
The Guinea-Bissau (Asset-Freezing) Regulations 2012
The Burma/Myanmar (Financial Restrictions) (Suspension) Regulations 2012
The Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provisions) Order 2012
The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (County of Ceredigion) Designation Order 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
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