‘Judge Nicholas Francis QC says “untold misery” has resulted from the courtroom battle between Susan and Richard Shield and their children over who owns shares in the family’s RA Shield Holdings company’
Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A mother has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years for murdering her 11-month-old son.’
The Guardian, 24th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Several members of a family who attempted to kidnap their sister’s gay partner have been jailed.’
BBC News, 24th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The alleged sexual assault victim of MP Mike Hancock has won the right to see a full version of an independent QC’s report about her accusations.’
The Guardian, 25th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Home Office is caught up in a row over its refusal to name terror suspects who have gone missing while on control orders.’
Daily Telegraph, 25th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Prosecutors are due on Monday to defend their decision to keep secret the cause of a miscarriage of justice involving an undercover police officer who allegedly used his fictitious identity in a criminal trial to conceal his covert work.’
The Guardian, 26th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Hundreds of potentially unwell children in England and Wales have been placed in police cells after being detained under the Mental Health Act as officers had no place else to take them.’
The Independent, 26th January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A man who stabbed his wife to death during an argument at their home has been convicted of murder.’
BBC News, 24th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘England and Wales’s parole system is on the brink of a crisis that will result in reformed prisoners being detained months after they should have been released, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.’
The Independent, 26th January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Home Office is covertly targeting the most vulnerable asylum seekers – those considered mentally unfit, or victims of torture – for deportation as part of the government’s hardline stance on immigration, according to lawyers and charity workers.’
The Guardian, 25th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Businesses have become more willing to challenge tax decisions against them that appear to be unlawful, an expert has said, after a 31% increase in the number of judicial review applications made against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).’
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘In the first of two articles providing an introduction to surrogacy law, Bianca Jackson, a pupil barrister at Coram Chambers, considers the key statutes and regulations underpinning this growing area of family law practice.’
Family Law Week, 24th January 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Strasbourg court found that whole-life terms breached human rights of prisoners as they did not provide any review mechanism.’
The Guardian, 21st January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Haxton v Philips Electronics UK Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 4; [2014] WLR (D) 19
‘There was no reason of principle or policy why a claimant whose life expectancy had been reduced by the negligence of the defendant should not be able to recover damages compensating her for the consequent reduction in damages for loss of dependency which she was entitled to claim in a separate action against the same defendant under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 as a dependant of her late husband.’
WLR Daily, 22nd January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Taylor v Burton & Anor [2014] EWCA Civ 21 (23 January 2014)
IM v LM & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 37 (23 January 2014)
Reed Employment Ltd v Revenue And Customs [2014] EWCA Civ 32 (23 January 2014)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
C v North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust [2014] EWHC 61 (QB) (23 January 2014)
M (A Child) , Re [2014] EWHC 57 (QB) (23 January 2014)
Jones v Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust [2014] EWHC 42 (QB) (23 January 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Wales And West Utilities Ltd v PPS Pipeline Systems GmbH [2014] EWHC 54 (TCC) (23 January 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2014
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014
The Social Security (Graduated Retirement Benefit) (Married Same Sex Couples) Regulations 2014
The Non-Domestic Rating (Rates Retention) (Amendment) Regulations 2014
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
‘A brewing company was unable to prevent correspondence between itself and its bank and accountants from being disclosed during a dispute connected with the sale of its eastern European business, a High Court judge has ruled.
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd January 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The Death Penalty Project would like to invite you to a lecture by William Schabas, Professor of International Law, Middlesex University London.’
Date: 28th January 2014, 6.00pm
Location: Main Hall, Inner Temple, London EC4Y 7HL
RSVP nicola.goldfinch-palmers@smab.co.uk
‘I admit that SS v Birmingham CC [2013] UKUT 418 (AAC) has been on my to do list for a while and that, possibly, the main reason for finding the time to write it up is because I’m on a two hour strike (#fairpayinHE). But, it is a really quite important case about the application of the unreasonably high rent rule for “exempt accommodation” in Reg 13 and Sch 3 of the 2006 Housing Benefit regs. The principal question of law concerns the meaning of “suitable alternative accommodation” in those regs.’
NearlyLegal, 23rd January 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
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