X and another v Hounslow London Borough Council [2008] EWHC 1168 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 180
“A local authority could be held to be under a duty of care to protect vulnerable adults from abuse by third parties.”
WLR Daily, 4th June 2008
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“A warrant authorising the entry and search of premises issued under s 8 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 was unlawful if the application did not identify which of the four conditions specified in s 8(3) of the Act was being relied on. Further, the execution of such a warrant was invalidated by a failure to satisfy the requirements of s 16(5) of the Act, which provided that when premises were occupied, the officer executing the warrant must not only produce the warrant to the person in occupation, but also supply him or her with a copy of it.”
WLR Daily, 4th June 2008
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Practice Direction (Administrative Court: Uncontested Proceedings); [2008] WLR(D) 178
“Guidance as to the procedure to be followed where proceedings in the Administrative Court were uncontested.”
WLR Daily, 4th June 2008
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BRB (Residuary) Ltd v Connex South Eastern Ltd [2008] EWHC 1172 (QB); [2008] WLR (D) 177
“Where proceedings had been taken to the point of judgment against a person who had not been the correct defendant, that person might recover under the Civil Liability (Contribution) Act 1978 against the person who should have been the defendant.”
WLR Daily, 4th June 2008
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Actavis UK Ltd v Merck and Co Inc
Court of Appeal
“Unlike human rights law, where the Court of Appeal had to refer to the House of Lords a case involving a decision of the European Court of Human Rights which conflicted with an earlier Court of Appeal decision, since patent law was much more specialist than human rights law, the Court of Appeal was free to depart from its own previous decision where it was satisfied that the European Patent Office Boards of Appeal had formed a settled view of European patent law which was inconsistent with that earlier decision.”
The Times, 5th June 2008
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Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
HM Revenue & Customs v Epson Telford Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 576 (22 May 2008)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Cunningham v Nokia Corporation [2008] EWHC 1174 (Ch) (09 May 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Bedfordshire County Council v Haslam & Anor [2008] EWHC 1070 (Admin) (15 May 2008)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Haden Young Ltd v Laing O’Rourke Midlands Ltd [2008] EWHC 1016 (TCC) (08 May 2008)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
Mason v Satelcom Ltd and Another
Court of Appeal
“The owner of a room in which a workman fell from a ladder which he happened to find there was not liable to contribute to his damages even though the ladder was under the owner’s control.”
The Times, 4th June 2008
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Court of Appeal
“Where a claimant had obtained judgment as to liability and had been awarded damages exceeding an earlier payment-in, the judge was none the less empowered to award costs in favour of the losing party or to make no order for costs.”
The Times, 4th June 2008
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Gichura v Home Office and Another
Court of Appeal
“Fulfilling a public duty and providing services could occur at the same time.”
The Times, 4th June 2008
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High Court (Chancery Division)
Transview Properties Ltd v City Site Properties Ltd [2008] EWHC 1221 (Ch) (03 June 2008)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Nicholson v Knox Ukiwa & Co (a firm) & Anor [2008] EWHC 1222 (QB) (02 June 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Owners were in breach of time charters because the vessels chartered did not comply with the amended Marine Pollution Convention as warranted with the result that the vessels could not carry to all specified ports the full range of petroleum products set out in the charterparty.”
WLR Daily, 2nd June 2008
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Kapur v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks
Chancery Division
“The exclusion within section 1(2)(c) of the Patents Act 1977 stating that schemes rules and methods for performing mental acts were not to be regarded as inventions should be construed narrowly. What should be considered was whether a claim actually covered a purely mental implementation of a claimed invention.”
The Times, 3rd June 2008
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Romantiek Transport BVBA and Others v Vehicle and Operator Services Agency
Court of Appeal
“A Belgian road haulier’s licence empowered a licensed haulier to engage in temporary road haulage in the United Kingdom but any full-time operation in the UK was illegal without a current licence granted by the UK licensing authority.”
The Times, 3rd June 2008
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Moulai v Deputy Public Prosecutor, Creteil
Queen’s Bench Divisional Court
“Late service of a copy of a duly filed appeal notice was not a fatal bar to an appeal against an extradition order.”
The Times, 2nd June 2008
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Enfield Technical Services Ltd v Payne Grace v B. F. Components Ltd
Court of Appeal
“Where an employee had been treated as self-employed but was later found to have been employed, he was not necessarily precluded from claiming unfair dismissal on the ground of illegality, since in order for a contract of employment to be unlawfully performed there had to be some form of misrepresentation as to the facts.”
The Times, 2nd June 2008
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MO (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for Home Department
Court of Appeal
“Where no transitional provisions existed, applications made under a previous regime of rules would be adjudged under the current replacement rules.”
The Times, 2nd June 2008
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Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Mankowski, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1109 (01 May 2008)
Lockwood, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1099 (01 May 2008)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Scammell & Anor v Farmer [2008] EWHC 1100 (Ch) (22 May 2008)
High Court (Family Division)
BT v JRT [2008] EWHC 1169 (Fam) (22 May 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
Regina (Smith) v Assistant Deputy Coroner for Oxfordshire; Secretary of State for Defence v Same
Queen’s Bench Division
“The right to life, protected by article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights, could extend to members of the Armed Forces, wherever they might be; whether it did so would depend on the circumstances of the particular case.”
The Times, 30th May 2008
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High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Adorian v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2008] EWHC 1081 (QB) (19 May 2008)
P & Ors v Quigley [2008] EWHC 1051 (QB) (16 May 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Focus (DIY) Ltd v London Borough of Hillingdon [2008] EWHC 1152 (Admin) (09 May 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
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