“Mr Justice Ryder’s Sixth Update of the Family Justice Modernisation Programme has been published.”
Family Law Week, 6th July 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“The lawyer and founder of Reprieve on defending clients on death row, why the whole justice system is flawed – and his fear of appearing sanctimonious.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Content Services Ltd v Bundesarbeitskammer (Case C-49/11); [2012] WLR (D) 195
“Article 5(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 97/7/EC of 20 May 1997 on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts meant that a business practice which made the information referred to in that provision accessible to the consumer only via a hyperlink on a website did not meet the requirements of the Directive, since that information was neither ‘given’ by that undertaking nor ‘received’ by the consumer and was not a ‘durable medium’.”
WLR Daily, 5th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Article 7(1) of Parliament and Council Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time precluded national provisions under which a worker who became unfit for work during a period of paid annual leave was not entitled subsequently to the paid annual leave which coincided with the period of unfitness for work.”
WLR Daily, 21st June 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Bewley v R [2012] EWCA Crim 1457 (06 July 2012)
Mickevicius & Ors v R [2012] EWCA Crim 1477 (06 July 2012)
Joof & Ors v R [2012] EWCA Crim 1475 (04 July 2012)
Dawson v R [2012] EWCA Crim 1476 (05 July 2012)
Patel, Re defendant’s cost order [2012] EWCA Crim 1508 (06 July 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Fifteen people have been convicted of trying to steal £176m from the public purse in one of the largest and most complex mobile phone tax frauds yet uncovered.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This case about prisoner’s pay provides an interesting up to date analysis of the role of the doctrine of ‘margin of appreciation’ and its applicability in domestic courts.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The trial of John Terry for allegedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand will get under way on Monday.”
The Guardian, 9th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“All private investigators in England and Wales should be licensed or at least registered, a committee of MPs has recommended.”
BBC News, 6th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A theoretical physicist who sued the British science journal, Nature, had his case dismissed on Friday after a judge ruled that a news article that criticised him was responsible and honest journalism.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“When can a Local Authority refuse to accept an application as homeless? This was a judicial review of Birmingham City Council’s refusal to accept a homeless application by the Claimant, Ms May, ostensibly on the basis that there was no change in facts from her previous application(s).”
NearlyLegal, 7th July 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“Council tenants will go to the High Court later over proposals to place surface-to-air missiles on the roof of their tower block during the Olympics.”
BBC News, 9th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Pressure from former senior Labour figures, including Tony Blair and Jack Straw, as well as Whitehall mandarins, to ‘turn back the clock’ on freedom of information legislation has been decisively rejected by an all-party group of MPs.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska faces a rival billionaire in London’s High Court on Monday in one of the UK’s largest ever commercial disputes.”
BBC News, 9th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Tougher prison sentences reduce crime, particularly burglary, according to ground-breaking research.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who urinated on a plaque in a war memorial in South Gloucestershire and scratched the word “prick” into the pavement has been jailed for 11 weeks.”
The Independent, 6th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Legislation to change the funding of social care for elderly and disabled people in England could be introduced during this Parliament, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has said.”
BBC News, 7th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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