“Britain’s most senior law officer has appeared to undermine the government’s own argument that any inquiry into the current banking scandal needed to happen as quickly as possible.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Today I am talking to Giles Peaker, a solicitor at Anthony Gold Solicitors and founder of the Nearly Legal blog – a specialist housing blog which has grown with Giles since he became ‘fully legal’ and started working with ten barrister and solicitor contributors.”
Charon QC, 5th July 2012
Source: www.charonqc.wordpress.com
“Charon QC” is the blogging pseudonym of Mike Semple Piggot, editor of insitelaw newswire.
“OPINION: The UK Government is considering reform of copyright laws in the wake of the Hargreaves Review. One change that it must make when reforming copyright law is to make it clear that the act of web browsing does not require permission from copyright holders.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The computer hacker Gary McKinnon has been given one last chance to convince the Home Secretary he is not fit to be extradited to face trial in America.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Attorney General’s Office has today released its unduly lenient sentence statistics for 2011. 117 sentences, from 78 cases, were referred to the Court of Appeal by the Law Officers. The Court considered 97 of them were unduly lenient (83%) and 94 sentences were increased (80% of the 117 referred).”
Attorney General’s Office, 5th July 2012
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
Related link: Judicial response to the publication of the Attorney General’s unduly lenient referral statistics
“In Gow v Grant [2012] UKSC 29, a Scottish cohabitation case, heard in the Supreme Court, Barnoness Hale has said that lessons can be learned in England and Wales from the practicability and fairness provided by Scottish legislation.”
Family Law Week, 5th July 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
Phillips v News Group Newspapers Ltd and another [2012] UKSC 28 ; [2012] WLR (D) 193
“The privilege against self-incrimination did not entitle a private investigator to refuse to comply with an order in civil proceedings requiring him to disclose the identity of those who had instructed him to intercept mobile phone voicemail messages containing confidential information of a commercial nature.”
WLR Daily, 4th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Usedsoft GmbH v Oracle International Corp (Case C-128/11); [2012] WLR (D) 192
“Article 4(2) of Parliament and Council Directive 2009/24/EC meant that the right of distribution of a copy of a computer program was exhausted if the copyright holder who had authorised, even free of charge, the downloading of that copy from the Internet onto a data carrier had also conferred, in return for payment of a fee intended to enable him to obtain a remuneration corresponding to the economic value of the copy of the work of which he was the proprietor, a right to use that copy for an unlimited period. In the event of the resale of a user licence, the second acquirer of the licence, as well as any subsequent acquirer of it, was able to rely on the exhaustion of the distribution right under article 4(2), and hence be regarded as lawful acquirers of a copy of a computer program within the meaning of article 5(1) and benefit from the right of reproduction provided for in that provision.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Guidance in prison service instructions as to the approach to be followed by prison governors when exercising their discretion to make deductions from prisoners’ earnings to raise funds to support victims of crime was not unlawful.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Budéjovický Budvar, národní podnik v Anheuser-Busch Inc [2012] EWCA Civ 880; [2012] WLR (D) 190
“Where a longstanding situation of honest concurrent user of the same mark for goods had come about, each user could register its mark, and each could stop third parties from using it, but neither could stop the other.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court
Gow v Grant (Scotland) [2012] UKSC 29 (24 May 2012)
Phillips v Mulcaire (Rev 1) [2012] UKSC 28 (24 May 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
G1 v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 867 (04 July 2012)
Daejan Properties Ltd v Campbell [2012] EWCA Civ 875 (19 June 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Ampurius NU Homes Holdings Ltd v Telford Homes (Creekside) Ltd [2012] EWHC 1820 (Ch) (04 July 2012)
Starbucks (UK) Ltd v British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc & Ors [2012] EWHC 1842 (Ch) (29 June 2012)
Interflora Inc & Anor v Marks and Spencer Plc & Anor [2012] EWHC 1722 (Ch) (20 June 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
S, R (on the application of) v First-Tier Tribunal [2012] EWHC 1815 (Admin) (04 July 2012)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Odedra v Ball [2012] EWHC 1790 (TCC) (4 July 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov & Ors [2012] EWHC 1819 (Comm) (04 July 2012)
High Court (Patents Court)
HTC Europe Co Ltd v Apple Inc [2012] EWHC 1789 (Pat) (04 July 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Families of victims will be consulted on whether rape charges linked to murder should be prosecuted, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC has announced in guidance to prosecutors issued today.
Crown Prosecution Service, 5th July 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Apple lost a key patent battle against smartphone rival HTC in the high court in London today, meaning that the Silicon Valley company cannot ban certain of the Taiwanese firm’s products in Britain.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“People who are detained under the Mental Health Act, or subject to a community treatment order (CTO) have a legal right to access someone who can stand alongside them and help them speak up; an independent mental health advocate (IMHA).”
The Guardian, 4th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Businesses and public bodies that want to make use of so-called ‘orphan’ works will have to pay to do so under new plans unveiled by the Government.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Anti-piracy agreement rejected by European Parliament, but Acta could be revived by European Commission.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge has banned publication of details of a divorce case on human rights grounds after the father of the husband claimed it risked causing him embarrassment and ruining his career.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Cases of rape linked to murder should be prosecuted rather than being left on file, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is set to announce.”
BBC News, 5th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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