‘A voluntary code of conduct for the gambling industry will be compulsory but needs toughening up, Culture Secretary Maria Miller has said.’
BBC News, 2nd March 2014
Source: < href="http://www.bbc.co.uk">www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sir Brian Leveson “pulled his punches” over evidence of “serious police corruption at the very highest level” because it was “too hot to handle”, according to a complaint that has been lodged with the judicial watchdog by a News of the World hacking victim.’
The Independent, 2nd March 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The public strongly backs the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) taking allegations of historical sex abuse to court, a survey has suggested.’
BBC News, 3rd March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Joanne Dennehy has become the first woman ordered to die behind bars by a judge, who told the murderer of three men she was “a cruel, calculating, selfish and manipulative serial killer”.’
The Guardian, 28th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Forde and McHugh Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2014] UKSC 14; [2014] WLR (D) 99
‘Contributions made by a company into a funded unapproved retirement benefits scheme in favour of one of its directors did not constitute the director’s “earnings” for the purposes of section 6(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 and thus the company was not liable to pay national insurance contributions in respect of the value of the contribution.’
WLR Daily, 26th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Rowstock Ltd and another v Jessemey [2014] EWCA Civ 185; [2014] WLR (D) 101
‘The Court of Appeal so stated when allowing the appeal of the claimant, Mr P Jessemey, against a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal on 5 March 2013 [2013] ICR 807 dismissing his appeal against a decision by the employment tribunal sitting at Reading to dismiss his claim against his former employer Rowstock Ltd and its director Mr Davis for victimisation pursuant to section 108 of the Equality Act 2010.’
WLR Daily, 26th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Makudi v Baron Triesman of Tottenham [2014] EWCA Civ 179; [2014] WLR (D) 98
‘Where a claim in defamation was brought against the defendant for repeating at an extra-parliamentary inquiry his evidence before a parliamentary committee, he was immune from the claim, by virtue of article 9 of the Bill of Rights 1689, because of the public interest in the evidence and the close nexus between the evidence on the two occasions.’
WLR Daily, 26th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Redbridge London Borough Council v Dhinsa and another [2014] EWCA 178; [2014] WLR (D) 97
‘Section 200 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 was apt to exclude a parks police constable from claiming unfair dismissal where the Parks Police Service employing him was a “constabulary maintained by virtue of an enactment”, since, for the purposes of section 200(2)(a) of the 1996 Act, all members of the Service were “constables” who had made an appropriate declaration before a Justice of the Peace and the Service was also maintained by virtue of two enactments.’
WLR Daily, 26th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘It was lawful that a journalist’s assistant who was thought to harbour state secrets in electronic form against the wishes of Britain and a foreign power should be stopped and held at an airport on the basis that investigating him amounted to determining whether he was a terrorist under section 40(1)(b) of and paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000.’
WLR Daily, 19th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Nottingham City Council v LM and others [2014] EWCA Civ 152; [2014] WLR (D) 92
‘Jurisdiction had to be considered in every children case with an international element and at the earliest opportunity, particularly when the proceedings were issued and at the case management hearing.’
WLR Daily, 21st February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘In the context of insolvency, where rent was payable in advance the office holder should make payments at the rate of the rent for the duration of any period during which he retained possession of the demised property for the benefit of the winding up or administration. The rent would be treated as accruing from day to day. Those payments were payable as expenses of the winding up or administration. The duration of the period was a question of fact and was not determined merely by reference to which rent days occurred before, during or after that period.’
WLR Daily, 24th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Marks & Spencer plc v Revenue and Customs Commissioners (No 2) [2014] UKSC 11; [2014] WLR (D) 90
‘A company was entitled to make successive claims to cross-border group relief against corporation tax in relation to the same loss incurred in the same accounting period by a European subsidiary which had gone into liquidation and then to withdraw any earlier claims in respect of the same surrendered loss which did not meet the subsequent judicially determined test, subject to the claim ultimately relied upon not being statute-barred.’
WLR Daily, 19th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Stephen Sedley on the purpose of judicial review.’
London Review of Books, 28th February 2014
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
‘A “boy racer” has been jailed for nine years after admitting causing the deaths of two girls whom he hit with his car.’
BBC News, 27th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The failed prosecutions of celebrities over allegations of historic sex offences were not prompted by a knee-jerk decision to overcompensate for mistakes made in relation to Jimmy Savile, the UK’s chief prosecutor has said.’
The Guardian, 27th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Westminster City Council has been given permission to take to the Supreme Court the landmark Hemming case concerning the setting of licensing and regulatory fees.’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th February 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A police marksman has lost his high court bid to challenge a public inquiry finding that he used excessive force when he killed robbery suspect Azelle Rodney.’
The Guardian, 27th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The fair and accurate reporting of court proceedings has long been protected from libel action by the defence of privilege. Contemporaneous fair and accurate reports of court proceedings in public are now protected by absolute privilege and other fair and accurate reports by qualified privilege. In the former case no libel action can be brought, in the latter an action will only succeed if malice is proved.’
Legal Week, 27th February 2014
Source: www.legalweek.com
‘Two women who were sexually assaulted by London taxi driver John Worboys have won a High Court victory in their bid to get compensation from the police.’
BBC News, 28th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A recent run of High Court rulings shows that a “sensible and pragmatic” approach to the circumstances in which relief from sanctions for breaches of the civil court costs rules will be granted is gradually beginning to emerge, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 25th February 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
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