‘Royal Marine filmed executing injured Taliban insurgent in cold blood is given ten year minimum jail sentence, as judge tells him: “You have betrayed all British service personnel. ” ‘
Daily Telegraph, 6th December 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Acting Detective Constable Hannah Notley never submitted papers on the case to the Crown Prosecution Service.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th December 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A glue manufacturer has been fined more than £173,000 after a worker died when he was impaled on the prongs of a forklift truck.’
BBC News, 6th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
’25-year-old had claimed his injury in June 2009 was caused by a breach of duty of care or negligence on the part of Rose Bruford College in Sidcup.’
The Independent, 6th December 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Sufferers of a deadly industrial disease are central to new plans to improve the way they claim compensation, Courts Minister Shailesh Vara announced today.’
Ministry of Justice, 4th December 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘The government has responded to widespread pressure and scrapped plans to impose an insurance industry-devised mesothelioma pre-action protocol (PAP) and the fixed recoverable costs regime (FRC) that underpinned it.’
Litigtaiton Futures, 5th December 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The attorney general is to publish guidance on Twitter to help prevent social media users from committing contempt of court when commenting on legal cases.’
BBC News, 4th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Companies seeking to recover large sums through the civil courts could be charged up to £20,000 in fees under proposals put forward by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).’
OUT-LAW.com, 6th December 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Ms Eweida, you may recall, is the British Airways employee who wanted to wear a cross on a necklace over her uniform so that others could see it. She considered that that was a religious belief. Over-simplifying, doing what she wanted to do meant a breach of her employer’s dress code. Ms Eweida complained that, amongst other things, she was the victim of an act of indirect discrimination.’
Employment Law Blog, 5th December 2013
Source: www.employment11kbw.com
HTC Corpn v Nokia Corpn: [2013] EWHC 3778 (Pat); [2013] WLR (D) 468
‘The criteria to be applied in deciding whether or not to grant an injunction for infringement of intellectual property rights were those of efficacy, proportionality, dissuasiveness, the avoidance of creating barriers to legitimate trade and the provision of safeguards against abuse as set out in article 3(2) of Parliament and Council Directive 2004/48/EC.’
WLR Daily, 3rd December 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Rayner v Legal Services Commission: [2013] WLR (D) 467
‘On a proper reading of the words “attributable to” in paragraph 5(4) of the Community Legal Service (Cost Protection) Regulations 2000 the non-funded party could recover costs outside the funded period, provided that the causal link was established.’
WLR Daily, 2nd December 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Mitchell v News Group Newspapers Ltd: [2013] EWCA Civ 1537; [2013] WLR (D) 466
‘In the context of the court’s case management powers in respect of a party’s claim, the failure by the party to file a costs budget on time would not normally attract relief from the sanction imposed by CPR r 3.14 unless the default were trivial or there were a good reason for it.’
WLR Daily, 27th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court
KL (A Child), Re [2013] UKSC 75 (4 December 2013)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Pokhriyal v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1568 (05 December 2013)
IM (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1561 (05 December 2013)
Chandra & Anor v Brooke North (a firm) & Anor [2013] EWCA Civ 1559 (05 December 2013)
Smith v Secretary of State for Energy And Climate Change [2013] EWCA Civ 1585 (05 December 2013)
MBA v London Borough of Merton [2013] EWCA Civ 1562 (05 December 2013)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
J & Ors, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 2287 (05 December 2013)
G & Anor, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 2237 (05 December 2013)
Scully, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 2288 (05 December 2013)
Matthews, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 2238 (05 December 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Lee & Ors v Solihull Magistrates Court & Anor [2013] EWHC 3779 (Admin) (05 December 2013)
Hussain v General Medical Council [2013] EWHC 3865 (Admin) (05 December 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
WH Newson Holding Ltd & Ors v IMI Plc & Ors [2013] EWHC 3788 (Ch) (04 December 2013)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Family Division)
Asaad v Kurter [2013] EWHC 3852 (Fam) (05 December 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘The Times newspaper’s former legal director is to be suspended from practising for six months from 16 December after a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal hearing ruled that he had knowingly allowed a court to be misled through his “win at all costs” approach.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th December 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs v Assistant Deputy Coroner for Inner North London [2013] EWHC 3724 (Admin). The Foreign Secretary successfully appealed against an order for disclosure of secret documents to the Inquest for the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 5th December 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Asylum seeker who was returned to UK in a failed deportation attempt will stay in the country pending judicial review.’
The Guardian, 5th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A primary school teacher who molested his pupils and filmed children’s genitals as they changed for swimming lessons has seen his six-month jail sentence more than doubled.’
The Guardian, 5th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A male escort has been jailed for life for the “cold and calculated” murder of an antiques dealer.’
BBC News, 5th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The first grim details published about Alessandra Pacchieri’s brief stay in Britain were, as one commentator put it, “the stuff of nightmares”.
Over the past few days, however, a different story has emerged. Transcripts of judgments relating to the case have now been made public and they reveal the nuances behind the apparently callous decisions of judges.’
The Independent, 6th December 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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