High Court (Patents Court)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
ABC & Ors v CDE & Ors [2009] EWHC 2718 (QB) (03 November 2009)
Winslet v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2009] EWHC 2735 (QB) (03 November 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
High Court (Chancery Division)
A1 Lofts Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2009] EWHC 2694 (Ch) (30 October 2009)
Sectorguard Plc v Dienne Plc [2009] EWHC 2693 (Ch) (03 November 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
Regina (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice and Another
Queen’s Bench Division
“An English court would not make a declaration that existing national legislation was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights where there was a ruling by a Scottish court in respect of the same or similar legislation and where the government was in the process of laying proposals before Parliament in response to a ruling of the European Court of Justice.”
The Times, 3rd November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Parents who ‘steal’ places for their children at the most popular schools should face tough new penalties, a report by a government adviser recommended yesterday.”
The Times, 3rd November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Supreme Court
Sigma Finance Corporation, Re [2009] UKSC 2 (29 October 2009)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Trustees Ltd v Papakyriacou & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 1089 (27 October 2009)
Petroleo Brasilieiro S.A v E.N.E Kos 1 Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1127 (30 October 2009)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Gibbon & Ors, R v [2009] EWCA Crim 2198 (16 October 2009)
Diamond, R v [2009] EWCA Crim 2193 (12 October 2009)
Britton, R v [2009] EWCA Crim 1915 (23 September 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
SG South Ltd. v King’s Head Cirencester LLP & Anor [2009] EWHC 2645 (TCC) (29 October 2009)
ROK Building Ltd v Celtic Composting Systems Ltd [2009] EWHC 2664 (TCC) (30 October 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
Earles v Barclays Bank plc [2009] EWHC 2500 (Mercantile); [2009] WLR (D) 309
“Although there was no duty on the parties to preserve documents prior to the commencement of proceedings, after proceedings had begun, the situation was radically different. That was particularly so in relation to electronic information stored by a bank.”
WLR Daily, 29th October 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“In proceedings concerning the alleged invalidity of a community trade mark, departments of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) are not bound by earlier final decisions in opposition proceedings, since no force of res judicata attaches to such decisions.”
WLR Daily, 29th October 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Court of Appeal
“The words ‘inform’ and ‘notify’ did not necessarily mean the same thing. In section 193(5) of the Housing Act 1996, ‘inform’ applied to the content of a notice and required more from a local authority than ‘notify’; it also included ‘make sure that it was understood’.”
The Times, 30th October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Joseph and Others v Spiller and Another
Court of Appeal
“Where terms in an agency contract were unlawfully contained in a separate document to the main contract, that breach did not necessarily operate to render the entire contract, or even the terms themselves, unenforceable.”
The Times, 30th October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Supreme Court
High Court (Chancery Division)
Bishops Wholesale Newsagency Ltd & Ors v Surridge Dawson Ltd [2009] EWHC 2578 (Ch) (28 October 2009)
Gaetano Ltd v Obertor Ltd [2009] EWHC 2653 (Ch) (29 October 2009)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Amsprop Ltd v ITW Ltd (t/a Hobart UK) [2009] EWHC 2689 (TCC) (29 October 2009)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Patents Court)
Boegli-Gravures SA v Darsail-Asp Ltd & Anor [2009] EWHC 2690 (Pat) (29 October 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
High Court (Chancery Division)
Quest Advisors Ltd v McFeely & Anor [2009] EWHC 2651 (Ch) (22 October 2009)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Sir John Fitzgerald Ltd v Macarthur [2009] EWHC 2659 (QB) (28 October 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
McAuley, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 2130 (08 October 2009)
Bradshaw, R. v [2009] EWCA Crim 2113 (09 October 2009)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
JSC BTA Bank v Ablyazov & Ors [2009] EWCA Civ 1125 (27 October 2009)
White v Withers Llp & Ors ] EWCA Civ 1122 (27 October 2009)
Charania v Harbour Estates Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1123 (27 October 2009)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Mayhaven Healthcare Ltd v Bothma & Anor (t/a DAB Builders) [2009] EWHC 2634 (TCC) (26 October 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
4 Eng Ltd v Harper and others (No 2) [2009] EWHC 2633 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 307
“Where it was established that the transferor had entered into a transaction at an undervalue for the purpose of defrauding creditors, the nature of any order and the extent of the relief granted by the court under ss 423(2) and 425 of the Insolvency Act 1986 should take into account the mental state of the transferee of property under a relevant transaction, or of any other person against whom an order was sought, and the degree of their involvement in the fraudulent scheme of the debtor/transferor to put assets out of the reach of his creditors.”
WLR Daily, 26th October 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Joseph and others v Spiller and another [2009] EWCA Civ 1075; [2009] WLR (D) 306
“Where a contract term was contained in a separate document to the principal contract, thereby contravening reg 14(2) of the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations 2003 (SI 2003/3319), that breach did not operate to render the term or the contract as a whole unenforceable.”
WLR Daily, 26th October 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Court of Appeal
“A person acquitted of rape did not have a cause of action in tort for malicious prosecution against the complainant, unless it could be shown that the complainant had deliberately manipulated the police and the Crown Prosecution Service into taking a course which they would not otherwise have taken.”
The Times, 28th October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal
Once an impermissible donation had been made to a registered political party and the party had not returned it then a magistrates court should, on an application by the Electoral Commission, order forfeiture of an amount equal to the value of the donation.
The Times, 28th October 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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