“A ban on the referral fees blamed for creating a ‘compensation culture’ will be difficult to police and may not even be effective, regulators have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The director of public prosecutions (DPP) stopped his staff dropping the case against Paul Chambers, author of the ‘Twitter joke’ about blowing up Robin Hood airport in South Yorkshire, it has been claimed.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Killers and rapists serving long jail terms could be released earlier following a High Court ruling that their strict parole terms may breach their human rights.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Motorists using prescribed painkillers such as morphine and codeine could be charged with ‘drug driving’ under a new law designed to keep dangerous hard drug users off British roads, doctors and campaigners have warned.”
The Independent, 29th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain has quietly agreed to measures that could increase the ability of the security services to intercept online communications, experts say.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There is general agreement among non-family lawyers that family procedures should be more transparent. But exactly what role should the media play in matters of family justice?”
Lecture by The Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Wall
Gresham College, 28th June 2012
Source: www.gresham.ac.uk
“Ofcom will set out a formal timetable for completing investigations into alleged breaches of competition law in the communications sector and will publish an explanation on its website if it fails to comply with its specified deadline, the regulator has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A campaign group has won a High Court battle over the agricultural use of Green Belt land formerly owned by broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby for intensive poultry farming.”
The Independent, 27th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Supreme Court has today delivered its Judgment in the case of T (children) [2012] UKSC 36 concerning the liability of a local authority to pay the costs of a party to care proceedings.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 25th July 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Two ‘notorious’ brothers from Wolverhampton have been jailed for their part in a £34m tax fraud.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Standard Chartered Bank v Ceylon Petroleum Corporation [2012] EWCA Civ 1049 (27 July 2012)
Alexander v Freshwater Properties Ltd & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 1048 (27 July 2012)
Rossetti Marketing Ltd & Anor v Diamond Sofa Company Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1021 (27 July 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
S v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWHC 1939 (QB) (16 July 2012)
Chambers v Director of Public Prosecutions [2012] EWHC 2157 (QB) (27 July 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Relfo Ltd v Jadvavarsani [2012] EWHC 2168 (Ch) (27 July 2012)
Bower Terrace Student Accommodation Ltd & Anor v Space Student Living Ltd [2012] EWHC 2206 (Ch) (27 July 2012)
Jackson v Dear & Anor [2012] EWHC 2060 (Ch) (25 July 2012)
Avrora Fine Arts Investment Ltd v Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd [2012] EWHC 2198 (Ch) (27 July 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Patents Court)
High Court (Family Division)
HH v BLW [2012] EWHC 2199 (Fam) (28 June 2012)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Turning Point Ltd v Norfolk County Council [2012] EWHC 2121 (TCC) (26 July 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A 52-year-old man has been jailed for 18 months for offences relating to indecent images of children.”
BBC News, 26th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Unused holiday entitlement by workers on long-term sick leave should be automatically transferred into the next leave year if a worker is unable to take that holiday due to his or her sickness, the Court of Appeal has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A teenager who throttled, punched and kicked a 10-year-old Teesside girl might never be released back into the community, a judge has said.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Kiaran Stapleton, the killer of Indian student Anuj Bidve, has been jailed for life with a minimum of 30 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A girl has been convicted of murdering a teenager who died five months after she was attacked with an Afro comb.”
BBC News, 27th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Paul Chambers’s conviction shows the law’s difficulties in discriminating between tones of voice in emails, tweets and texts.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The law of property, as it applies to cohabiting couples in England and Wales, continues to produce outcomes which many commentators regard as unfair. In the Scottish case of Gow v. Grant, a recent appeal under the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 Lady Hale calls for similar legislation to be introduced in England and Wales.”
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Zenith Chambers, 17th July 2012
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
“In Sulamerica Cia Nacional De Seguros S.A. v Enesa Engenharia S.A. [2012] EWCA Civ 638 the Court of Appeal explored (amongst other things) the question of how the law governing an arbitration agreement in the absence of express choice is to be determined.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 18th July 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
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