“Three leading health and fitness operators have been forced to improve their contracts for customers after an investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).”
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“British manufacturer Dyson is suing Samsung over claims that the South Korean firm ‘ripped off’ one of its inventions.”
BBC News, 10th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Use of stun guns by police officers in England and Wales has more than doubled over two years, according to official figures.”
The Independent, 10th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Asian girls are the hidden victims of child grooming gangs, dipping under the radar of police or social services, according to a report released on Tuesday. Vulnerable girls and some boys are being sexually exploited by gangs of men but are being missed by the authorities because agencies are too focused on a model of grooming involving white victims, according to research from the Muslim Women’s Network UK.”
The Guardian, 10th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) should review the necessity of asking mortgage providers to provide it with additional personal information about customers in order to ensure those individuals’ privacy rights are respected, a data protection watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th September 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A term was not to be implied into a mezzanine lending agreement that a bank, which had acted as agent for two special purpose vehicles (‘SPVs’) when they participated as junior lenders in such structured lending to a property company which subsequently collapsed, was obliged to disclose to the SPVs material financial information in its possession as to the declining health of the company.”
WLR Daily, 3rd September 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
The Tonnage Tax (Training Requirement) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2013
The Children Act 2004 (Commencement No. 9) (Wales) Order 2013
The Recovery of Costs (Remand to Youth Detention Accommodation) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Value Added Tax (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2013
The Contaminants in Food (England) Regulations 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“A Planning Inspector was wrong to use Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) figures as a base for a Council’s projected housing need, a High Court judge has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th September 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK’s data protection watchdog has urged the Home Affairs Select Committee
not to follow through on its promise to publish the names of companies and
individuals that allegedly hired private investigators convicted of data
‘blagging’ offences.”
OUT-LAW.com, 9th September 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Mr. Justice Birss summarized the issues in Fenty and Others v Arcadia Group Brands Ltd (t/a Topshop) and Another [2013] EWHC 2310 (Ch), [2013] WLR(D) 310 admirably in paragraph [1] of his judgment in that case: ‘Topshop is a well known fashion retailer. Rihanna is a famous pop star. In March 2012 Topshop started selling a t-shirt with an image of Rihanna on it. The image was a photograph taken by an independent photographer. Topshop had a licence from the photographer but no licence from Rihanna. Rihanna contends that the sale of this t-shirt without her permission infringes her rights. Topshop does not agree. This action is the result.’ ”
NIPC Law, 10th September 2013
Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
“The Legal Services Board wants to set in motion plans for a single, independent regulator that will cover the entire legal profession.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 10th September 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A GP who sexually assaulted and took intimate pictures of women and child patients has been jailed for six years.”
BBC News, 9th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Re A (a child) [2013] EWCA Civ 1104. Appellate judges are obliged to review systemic failings in the family justice system as a whole, not just the merits of the trial judge’s determination, particularly where the process has deprived the parties of their rights to procedural fairness under Articles 6 and 8. Whilst this particular appeal was not ‘a fitting vehicle to enable a root and branch appraisal of the procedural history of this protracted case’, McFarlane LJ has taken the opportunity to give full voice to the ‘profound feeling of failure’ felt by Court on the part of the Family Justice system.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th September 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Dog owners will be safe from prosecution under revised dangerous dogs laws if their pet attacks someone trespassing in their home – even if the ‘intruder’ is doing a good turn.”
BBC News, 9th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An inquest into the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha following a prank phone call last year by two Australian radio hosts has been postponed for a second time.”
The Guardian, 10th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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