“A woman from west London who falsely branded a neighbour a paedophile in an ‘unseemly outburst’ must pay £1,500 in compensation for slander.”
BBC News, 13th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“It was, according to the perpetrator, nothing more than a case of him ruffling a boy’s hair. But the gesture triggered a dispute that led all the way to the High Court.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Actor Sienna Miller accepted £100,000 compensation from News of the World on Friday after the paper accepted unconditional liability for all her phone-hacking claims.”
The Guardian, 13th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Software companies should be entitled to bigger damages for the use of copied software, industry lobby group the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th May 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Sienna Miller should be forced to accept damages of £100,000 in her phone hacking claim against the News of the World because the stories published about her private life were ‘not that hurtful’, a lawyer for the Sunday newspaper said yesterday.”
The Independent,13th May 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police has paid out more than £250,000 in damages to people arrested in connection with the G20 protests in London in 2009, the bulk of it to 66 activists held during a controversial raid on a squatted building.”
The Guardian, 9th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The family of a man who died in a pub fight after being attacked with an iron dumbbell have lost their latest legal bid to find his killer.”
BBC News, 18th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Moldovan woman who was a victim of sex trafficking and forced into prostitution has obtained substantial damages from the Home Office.”
BBC News, 11th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Richardson v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police [2011] EWHC 773 (QB); [2011] WLR (D) 116
“Before a police officer made an arrest, pursuant to section 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, he had to consider, in accordance with the requirements of section 24(4), whether arrest was necessary or whether voluntary attendance at a police station would achieve the objective that he wished to secure.”
WLR Daily, 29th March 2011
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Pritchard v Co-operative Group (CWS) Ltd[2011] EWCA Civ 329; [2011] WLR (D) 110
“Where a claimant sued a defendant for damages for the torts of assault and battery then, as a matter of law, the defendant could not assert that there had been contributory negligence on the part of the claimant such that any damages awarded in respect of the assault and battery could be reduced to take account of that contributory negligence.”
WLR Daily,28th March 2011
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“The court would not award compensation under a cross-undertaking for the loss sustained by an unlawful business or where the beneficiary of the cross-undertaking had to rely to a substantial extent upon his own illegality in order to establish the loss, provided the unlawfulness was sufficiently serious to engage the ex turpi causa rule. What was sufficiently serious depended on the circumstances of the case, and in particular the state of knowledge of the claimant under the cross-undertaking at the relevant time; but the claimant’s conduct had to be assessed having regard to the fact that the claim was for compensation under a cross-undertaking.”
WLR Daily, 29th March 2011
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“The unlawful exercise by the Secretary of State of the power to detain foreign national prisoners gave rise to a private law action for the tort of false imprisonment without the need for proof of damage on the part of the prisoners, even though it could be demonstrated that they could and would still have been detained if the power had been lawfully exercised. However, in those circumstances the prisoners had suffered no loss or damage and were entitled to no more than nominal damages.”
WLR Daily, 23rd March 2011
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“Lily Allen has won damages from Associated Newspapers in a privacy and copyright action relating to pictures of her home published by Mail Online.”
The Guardian, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the Home Office unlawfully imprisoned two foreign national prisoners in a ‘serious abuse of power’.”
BBC News, 23rd March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A High Court judge has ruled that the Tchenguiz brothers can sue Kaupthing Bank for £1bn ($1.6bn) damages.”
BBC News, 16th March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Welsh councillor has been ordered to pay damages in what is believed to be the first libel action resulting from comments posted on Twitter.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 15th March 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The family of a miner who died years after an experiment with asbestos coating in a pit have won compensation three years after his death.”
BBC News, 10th March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two beauty therapists who suffered repetitive strain injury after giving hours of massages to Virgin Atlantic passengers have been awarded damages.”
BBC News, 10th March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A plumber who was hurt when he slipped on a wet bin bag while working in a college library has won £5,217 from the University of East Anglia.”
BBC News, 3rd March 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has condemned the owner of the Solicitors from Hell website for his conduct when committing a serious libel against a young solicitor.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th February 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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