Day: 4 February 2014
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Heibner, R. v (Rev 1) [2014] EWCA Crim 102 (23 January 2014)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Emmett v Sisson [2014] EWCA Civ 64 (02 March 2014)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Pullan v Wilson & Ors [2014] EWHC 126 (Ch) (28 January 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Binder v Public Prosecutor’s Office, Memmingem, Germany [2014] EWHC 133 (Admin) (03 February 2014)
Mills v General Dental Council [2014] EWHC 89 (Admin) (24 January 2014)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Euroil Ltd v Cameroon Offshore Petroleum SARL [2014] EWHC 52 (Comm) (14 January 2014)
High Court (Patents Court)
Cooke v Watermist Ltd [2014] EWHC 125 (Pat) (03 February 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
Legal aid cuts could put Britain’s reputation for impartiality and fairness at risk – The Guardian
‘Britain’s international reputation for justice is not just a matter of pride: it also earns billions in exports.’
The Guardian, 4th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Keir Starmer’s call for a “Victims’ Law” – all heart and no substance – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
‘“From a victim’s point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose.. “What is needed is a fundamental rethink, leading to a specific and legally enforceable Victims’ Law, alongside a real and radical shift in attitude and approach.”
So wrote former DPP Sir Kier Starmer QC in an article for the Guardian yesterday in which he proposed a “Victims’ Law”.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 4th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexhange.co.uk
Ann Juliette Roberts loses police stop-and-search case – BBC News
‘A woman who was searched by police after refusing to pay a bus fare in London has had her appeal case over stop-and-search powers rejected.’
BBC News, 4th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Government of the Republic of South Africa v Dewani (No 2) – WLR Daily
‘A person who was currently unfit to plead, and might remain unfit to plead, was an accused person for the purposes of section 70(4)(a) of the Extradition Act 2003. It might be unjust and oppressive to order such a person’s extradition without considering whether an undertaking should be required from the requesting state to permit his return to the United Kingdom in the event it was found, after a reasonable time for further treatment in the requesting state, that he was likely to remain unfit.’
WLR Daily, 31st January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Das) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and others – WLR Daily
‘Where the Secretary of State for the Home Department intended to remove from the United Kingdom a person suffering from a mental illness, whether that illness fell within the definition in the Secretary of State’s immigration detention policy of a “serious mental illness” which could not be satisfactorily managed within detention, so that the person could not be detained absent very exceptional circumstances, did not depend on whether the mental illness was of a level of requiring in-patient medical attention or rendering the person liable to being sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983, but on whether in all the circumstances the person was “suffering” from the illness and the illness was serious enough to mean that it could not be satisfactorily managed in detention.’
WLR Daily, 28th January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
EVENT: The Bar Council – One Bar: one voice
‘An opportunity for the whole Bar to address the harmful effects of the Government’s changes to legal aid.
Speakers will include:
• Nicholas Lavender QC
Chairman of the Bar
• Nigel Lithman QC
Criminal Bar Association
•Timothy Fancourt QC
Chancery Bar Association
• Sarah Forshaw QC
South-Eastern Circuit.’
Date: 8th February 2014, 9.30am
Location: Great Hall, Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3TL
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
Finance and Divorce Update – Family Law Week
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published in January.’
Family Law Update, 2nd February 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Chilling’ Prestwich sex attacker is jailed – BBC News
‘A man who tried to rape a woman in a “chilling” attack while she was on the phone to police has been jailed.’
BBC News, 3rd February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Woman falls to death days after man accused of raping her is cleared – Daily Telegraph
‘The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to investigate the death of a woman who twice gave evidence in the trial of a man accused of raping her.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd February 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Whole life sentences – the issues before the Court of Appeal – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
‘On 24 January 2014, a five-judge Court of Appeal sat to hear the latest in the legal-political battle between London and Strasbourg.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 3rd February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Supreme Court to rule on deregistration of town and village greens – Local Government Lawyer
‘The Supreme Court is set to rule this week on two conjoined cases concerning whether it is just to de-register land registered as a town or village green when there was a legal error that led to the registration.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th February 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
Sex offenders freed from prison without treatment will ‘create more victims’ – The Independent
‘Prisons across England and Wales are routinely releasing dangerous sex offenders without putting them through treatment programmes because budget cuts have left places critically scarce.’
The Independent, 3rd February 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Thomas Baird trial: James Carbott guilty of murder and arson – BBC News
‘A man who beat and stabbed his ex-partner’s father before setting his body alight has been found guilty of murder and arson.’
BBC News, 3rd February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Revealed: Thousands of rape cases thrown out as charges fall following new CPS guidelines – The Independent
‘The Crown Prosecution Service is investigating whether thousands of suspected rape cases have been wrongly discontinued over the last two years because police forces or its own lawyers are misinterpreting official guidelines.’
The Independent, 4th February 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
