Regina v Hancox; Regina v Duffy
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“The imposition of a serious crime prevention order had to be justified by the public benefit in preventing, restricting or disrupting involvement by the defendant in serious crime; it was not enough that the order might have some benefit.”
The Times, 5th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“British residents held at Guantánamo Bay could be offered millions of pounds in compensation for wrongful imprisonment and abuse after the court of appeal today dismissed an attempt by MI5 and MI6 to suppress evidence of alleged complicity in torture.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Secrecy is the watchword of our intelligence and security services — an essential component of their work, which arouses intense suspicion and spawns countless conspiracy theories.”
The Times, 5th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Two brothers who subjected two young boys to prolonged torture are to appeal against their sentences.”
BBC News, 5th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Fewer than a quarter of new partners promoted this year at the City’s ten biggest law firms are women, raising doubts about the effectiveness of the legal elite’s efforts to promote diversity in their senior ranks.”
The Times, 4th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Prosecutors have abandoned a legal attempt to make a young man pull his trousers up, it emerged today.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In a field where there are no legal rules but only conventions deduced from previous events, of which there are not many, and the views of learned writers, I consulted with constitutional lawyers in the persons of Sir David Williams, QC, Regius Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, and Sir William Wade, QC, former Master of Gonville and Caius, Cambridge.”
The Times, 4th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Controversial paediatrician David Southall was today restored to the medical register after the court of appeal rejected a decision of the General Medical Council (GMC) to strike him off.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Media law has become an intensely controversial area and the demand for reform is growing, with editors and politicians attempting to influence the debate.”
The Lawyer, 3rd May 2010
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Southall v The General Medical Council [2010] EWCA Civ 484 (04 May 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Mireskandari v Associated Newspapers Ltd. [2010] EWHC 967 (QB) (04 May 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Red River UK Ltd & Anor v Sheikh & Anor [2010] EWHC 961 (Ch) (30 April 2010)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Secret evidence cannot be used in a civil damages claim being brought by six former Guantánamo Bay detainees, the court of appeal ruled today.”
The Guardian, 4th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Apart from hopeless or abusive cases, a local authority faced with an application for support and accommodation pending the determination of an arguable application for leave to remain on human rights grounds, should not refuse assistance if that would have the effect of requiring the person to leave the United Kingdom thereby forfeiting his claim.”
WLR Daily, 30th April 2010
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.
Financial Services Authority and Others v Amro International SA
Court of Appeal
“The Financial Services Authority was entitled to order production of documents from accountants at the request of the US Securities and Exchange Commission without subjecting the request to critical examination. It was not required to give notice before serving the order, nor need the order be within the terms of the memorandum of understanding between the FSA and the SEC.”
The Times, 3rd May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Bournemouth University Higher Education Corporation v Buckland
Court of Appeal
“A repudiatory breach of contract, once it had happened, could not be cured by the contract breaker.”
The Times, 3rd May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A pensioner walked free from court after being cleared of murdering his wife of 50 years whom he stabbed to death in a failed suicide pact.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers is taking it to an employment tribunal this week, claiming compensation for disability discrimination.”
The Times, 4th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A sexual predator whose past violent crimes were exposed when he was caught operating a members-only website for paedophiles has been jailed for 14 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A midwife whose son was starved of oxygen at birth leaving him disabled has won compensation to pay for his care.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A high-flying financier who accused her boss of sexual harassment, bringing prostitutes to business meetings and trying to have her killed by Russian hitmen has had her £4 million compensation claim dismissed by an employment tribunal.”
The Times, 4th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Six former Guantanamo Bay detainees are to hear if an appeal has succeeded against government use of secret evidence to fight their damages claim.”
BBC News, 4th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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