‘Supermarkets may have to pay millions of pounds in higher wages and back pay to store staff, mainly women, if test cases for equal pay being brought by 400 workers are successful.’
The Guardian, 11th April 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Three teenagers have been given life sentences for murdering a grandfather in a gold and cash raid.’
BBC News, 11th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man is handed a prison sentence for aiding and abetting dangerous driving after police discovered a video of him being towed along a road at 70mph on roller skates.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘This is a slightly surprising case involving a judicial review of refusal of permission to appeal.’
NearlyLegal, 11th April 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor, and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law, both of Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published in March.’
Family Law Week, 11th April 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Nicholas Phillips on the problems posed by the use of secret evidence.’
London Review of Books, 17th April 2014
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Pershad, R. v [2014] EWCA Crim 692 (10 April 2014)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Valilas v Januzaj [2014] EWCA Civ 436 (08 April 2014)
Lewis v Lewis [2014] EWCA Civ 412 (08 April 2014)
G (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 432 (08 April 2014)
NYK Bulkship (Atlantic) N.V. v Cargill International S.A. [2014] EWCA Civ 403 (08 April 2014)
Magmatic Ltd v PMS International Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 408 (10 April 2014)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
JC & Anor v The Central Criminal Court [2014] EWHC 1041 (QB) (08 April 2014)
Farrugia v Burtenshaw & Ors [2014] EWHC 1036 (QB) (08 April 2014)
Love v Halfords Ltd [2014] EWHC 1057 (08 April 2014)
High Court (Chancery Division)
McTear & Anor v Engelhard & Ors [2014] EWHC 1056 (Ch) (10 April 2014)
E.Surv Ltd v Goldsmith Williams Solicitors [2014] EWHC 1104 (Ch) (10 April 2014)
Stemcor (SEA) Pte Ltd & Anor, Re [2014] EWHC 1096 (Ch) (10 April 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Ashton, R. v [2014] EWHC 974 (Admin) (08 April 2014)
High Court (Family Division)
An NHS Foundation Trust v Ab [2014] EWHC 1031 (Fam) (04 April 2014)
A & B v P Council [2014] EWHC 1128 (Fam) (21 March 2014)
Surrey County Council v AB & Ors [2014] EWHC 1115 (Fam) (21 March 2014)
MB v GK [2014] EWHC 1122 (Fam) (03 April 2014)
Y (A Child: Private Law: Interim Change of Residence) [2014] EWHC 1068 (Fam) (02 April 2014)
JP v NP [2014] EWHC 1101 (Fam) (09 April 2014)
High Court (Commercial Court)
United States of America (USA) v Abacha & Ors [2014] EWHC 993 (Comm) (08 April 2014)
Barclays Bank Plc v Svizera Holdings BV & Anor [2014] EWHC 1020 (Comm) (08 April 2014)
Tchenguiz & Ors v Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2014] EWHC 1102 (Comm) (11 April 2014)
Moran Yacht & Ship Inc v Pisarev & Anor Re 4YOU [2014] EWHC 1098 (Comm) (10 April 2014)
T&L Sugars Ltd v Tate & Lyle Industries Led [2014] EWHC 1066 (Comm) (10 April 2014)
High Court (Patents Court)
Hospira UK Ltd v Genentech Inc [2014] EWHC 1094 (Pat) (10 April 2014)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘Sarah Lucy Cooper, barrister of Thomas More Chambers, examines the law on anti-suit injunctions and their role in financial remedies cases where one party seeks to pursue claims in another jurisdiction despite a final order having been made in this jurisdiction.’
Family Law Week, 9th April 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘In Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd v. Rhone-Poulenc Rorer International Holdings Inc and Others [2007] Bus LR 1796, [2007] BusLR 1796, [2008] 1 All ER 425, [2007] UKHL 43 Lord Hoffmann described s.7 (2) and (3) of the Patents Act 1977 as “an exhaustive code for determining who is entitled to the grant of a patent.”‘
NIPC Law, 10th April 2014
Source: www.nipclaw.blogspot.co.uk
‘Increasing costs and lengthy delays before hearings are causing people to shun small claims courts.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘This was a case about determination of mental capacity, which both judge and counsel described as “particularly difficult and finely balanced”. The judge was confronted with a great deal of conflicting evidence about the capabilities of the individual in question, but concluded in the end that’
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th April 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The suicide of a violinist days after she testified in court against an ex-choirmaster “could and should” have been prevented, a report has said.’
BBC News, 10th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The unwitting former partner of a paedophile is planning legal action after a police force said it was powerless to retain or destroy the abuser’s laptop which contains photographs of his young victims wearing swimwear and leotards.’
The Independent, 11th April 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Scuffles broke out inside a court after three teenagers were found guilty of murdering a grandfather in a raid for gold and cash at his bungalow.’
BBC News, 10th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Former Commons deputy speaker’s acquittal suggests CPS may be too willing to bring charges when evidence is not very strong’
The Guardian, 10th April 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The state of the Latvian prison estate was not such as to produce a real risk that there would be a breach of article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms if extradition were directed.’
WLR Daily, 9th April 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Annex I, point 14, of Parliament and Council Directive 2005/29/EC meant that a pyramid promotional scheme constituted an unfair commercial practice only where such a scheme required the consumer to give financial consideration, regardless of its amount, for the opportunity to receive compensation that was derived primarily from the introduction of other consumers into the scheme rather than from the sale or consumption of products.’
WLR Daily, 3rd April 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Where, in adoption proceedings, an unrelated carer sought leave to be joined and to apply for a residence order, care was required in looking to the questions of: locus under the various potentially applicable statutory provisions; whether, and if so how, to have regard to a “change in circumstances”; and whether the child’s welfare was to be regarded as paramount.’
WLR Daily, 8th April 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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