‘The mother of Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police provoked the 2011 riots, has lodged a legal challenge against the judge who presided over the inquest into her son’s death, which ended with a jury making a majority ruling that he was lawfully killed.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for four and a half years after killing a pedestrian with a punch to the head following a row with a cyclist about riding on the pavement.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
High Court (Chancery Division)
Constantin Medien AG v Ecclestone & Ors [2014] EWHC 387 (Ch) (20 February 2014)
Clutterbuck & Anor v Al Amoudi [2014] EWHC 383 (Ch) (20 February 2014)
Cometson & Anor v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2014] EWHC 419 (Ch) (21 February 2014)
High Court (Family Division)
K v B [2014] EWHC B7 (Fam) (31 January 2014)
SAB (A Child), Re [2014] EWHC 384 (Fam) (23 January 2014)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Regina v Price and another [2014] EWCA Crim 229; [2013] WLR (D) 86
‘The standard of care required to avoid the service offence of negligent performance of a duty, contrary to section 15(2) of the Armed Forces Act 2006, was to be measured against the standard to be expected of the reasonable serviceman having similar training, knowledge and experience as the accused. A subjective consideration of a defendant’s skills or weaknesses had no place in the objective judgment whether the defendant had reached the appropriate standard of care.’
WLR Daily, 21st February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A presumption that members of an alliance of states such as those which comprised the European Union would comply with their international obligations in regard to refugee protection did not extinguish the need to examine whether in fact those obligations would be fulfilled when evidence was presented that it was unlikely that they would be. The removal of a person from a member state of the European Union was forbidden if it were shown that there was a real risk that the person removed would suffer inhuman or degrading treatment in violation of article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. It did not need to be shown that the source of that risk was a systemic deficiency in the asylum and reception procedures of the state to which the person was being removed.’
WLR Daily, 19th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale were convicted of murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby last year. Sentencing was adjourned, however, until such time as the domestic courts had ruled on the legality of the whole life tariff following the Strasbourg ruling in Vinter v UK.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 25th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘Court of Appeal ruling gives high street landlords more protection in administrations’
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
British Telecommunications Plc v Luck & Ors [2014] EWHC 290 (QB) (17 February 2014)
Krause v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2014] EWHC 293 (QB) (19 February 2014)
Brownlie v Four Seasons Holdings Incorporated [2014] EWHC 273 (QB) (19 February 2014)
Donkers & Anor v Storm Aviation Ltd [2014] EWHC 241 (QB) (20 February 2014)
Leigh v London Ambulance Service NHS Trust [2014] EWHC 286 (QB) (20 February 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Dunham & Anor v and Government of the United States [2014] EWHC 334 (Admin) (19 February 2014)
Dusza & Anor v Powys Teaching Local Health Board [2014] EWHC 339 (Admin) (21 February 2014)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Savash v CIS General Insurance Ltd [2014] EWHC 375 (TCC) (20 February 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘A move by the government to block the release of letters from Prince of Wales to ministers are being challenged in the Court of Appeal.’
BBC News, 24th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The former BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis said he was living a nightmare after being told he will face a retrial over allegations he sexually assaulted two women.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘For law students who slept their way through their first Latin 101 lessons in ‘ultra vires’, public law and judicial review may have seemed very detached from the realities of everyday life; less relevant to the man on the Clapham Omnibus than the rigours of a good criminal defence or protection from eviction offered by landlord and tenant law.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th February 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A benefits cheat filmed riding an elephant in India, walking unaided and getting into a van while claiming he was too ill to work has been jailed.’
BBC News, 24th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A coroner’s ruling into the death of a soldier who said she had been raped and bullied has been unexpectedly delayed after lawyers for the military revealed they had uncovered new documents, including a reference to a diary and mobile phones the woman’s family say were never passed to them.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A victim of domestic violence has been awarded £2,350 from Gwent Police after she was arrested when she phoned for help.’
BBC News, 24th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘“White-collar crime is a crime like any other and should be prosecuted and punished as such”.
“Corrupt companies cannot buy their way out of trouble”
Statements like these have been the impetus behind “credible deterrence”, and the growth of high-profile investigations into the alleged criminal actions of corporate bodies.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 24th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘A judge has called for tougher sentences for people who keep fighting dogs as he said the current law prevented him from handing a more severe punishment to a man whose pit bull terrier savaged a toddler in the street.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Female prisoners in England and Wales have been coerced into having sex with staff in return for favours such as alcohol and cigarettes, a report says.’
BBC News, 25th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Crown Prosecution Service has cut the number of staff it employs to look after witnesses – some of whom are victims of crime – by more than half in just three years, an investigation has revealed.’
The Independent, 24th February 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The English Bridge Union loses legal challenge against HM Revenue and Customs aimed at reclaiming VAT on competition entry fees.’
Daily Telegraph, 24th February 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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