“The legal aid budget will face further cuts whoever wins the election, politicians from the three main parties warned last week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“More than 55 per cent of criminal offences are dealt with outside our courts — on-the-spot fines exceed 200,000 a year and more than a fifth of offenders who breach conditional cautions are not pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service. A Commons select committee described this as representing ‘a fundamental change to our concept of a criminal justice system’.”
The Times, 8th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A ban on mephedrone and other so-called ‘legal highs’ was backed by the Lords today amid accusations ministers were guilty of a ‘knee-jerk’ response.”
The Independent, 8th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A teenager has admitted spreading false rumours about the supposed location of one of James Bulger’s killers, police confirmed today.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Under-18s are to be banned from using sunbeds under new legislation passed by Parliament. Tanning salons will also have to be manned, meaning that coin-operated booths will be outlawed after several children suffered serious burns after using them without supervision.”
The Independent, 9th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“What price access to justice for injured people? Right now it’s somewhere between £600 and £800.”
The Times, 8th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A woman called police after finding indecent images of children on her husband’s laptop, a court has heard.”
BBC News, 8th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Jude Law has settled a breach of privacy action with Hello! magazine, with the magazine agreeing to pay £9,500 in damages and undertaking not to publish any pictures of the Alfie star with his children until they are 18.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“PC and sergeant sentenced to 18 months’ jail after a judge said their treatment of suspect was ‘little short of torture.’ ”
The Guardian, 8th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Former care home manager Rachel Baker was today found not guilty of murdering two of her elderly residents. Baker, 44, was accused of murdering Frances Hay and Lucy Cox at Parkfields Residential Care Home in Butleigh, Somerset. She was cleared of the murder charges and an attempted murder charge involving Mrs Hay by a jury at Bristol Crown Court today.”
The Independent, 8th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
The Federation of Maintained Schools and Miscellaneous Amendments (Wales) Regulations 2010
The Independent Review of Determinations (Adoption and Fostering) (Wales) Regulations 2010
The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Amendment of Schedule 3) Order 2010
The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records and Registration) (Jersey) Regulations 2010
The Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Vehicles Regulations (Amendment) Order 2010
The Motor Cycles Etc. and Tractors Etc. (EC Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Isles of Scilly (Children Act 1989) Order 2010
The Isles of Scilly (Functions) (Adoption and Children Act 2002) Order 2010
The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) (Amendment) (England, Wales and Scotland) Order 2010
The Financial Assistance Scheme (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2010
The Cosmetic Products (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Representation of the People (Timing of the Canvass) (Northern Ireland) Order 2010
The Education (Educational Provision for Improving Behaviour) Regulations 2010
The Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010
The Environmental Civil Sanctions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2010
The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Amendment Regulations 2010
The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
The Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 (Amendment) Order 2010
The Value Added Tax (Small Non-Commercial Consignments) Relief (Amendment) Order 2010
The Financial Assistance Scheme (Tax) Regulations 2010
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Regina v T (N) [2010] EWCA Crim 711; [2010] WLR (D) 93
“The prosecution were not entitled to apply for leave to appeal against a terminating ruling made by a judge in a Crown Court on a trial on indictment, unless it had complied with the mandatory requirements of s 58(4) and (8) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, following the making of the ruling, of informing the court that it intended to appeal or requesting an adjournment to consider such an appeal and, before or at that time, informing the court that it agreed that the defendant should be acquitted if leave to appeal was not obtained or the appeal was abandoned before being determined.”
WLR Daily, 7th 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.
“There was a public interest in issues such as the status, relevance and application of policy documents of general application emerging from the Revenue and Customs Commissioners, or any government department, being resolved in the Administrative Court, since it was the court with expertise in that area.”
WLR Daily, 7th 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.
“Guidance for county courts hearing applications for possession orders by local authority landlords of non-secure tenancies where the occupier, being an introductory tenant or a homeless person housed by the local authority, sought to challenge the local authority’s decision to recover possession as an improper exercise of its powers at common law on the ground that it was a decision that no reasonable person would consider justifiable.”
WLR Daily, 7th 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.
Hilmi and Associates Ltd v 20 Pembridge Villas Freehold Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 314; [2010] WLR (D) 90
“Where, before the coming into force of the Companies Act 2006, a corporate tenant served notice, pursuant to s 13 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, seeking to exercise a statutory right to acquire the applicable freehold, it was required, for the notice to be valid, to affix its corporate seal, or to supply the signature of two directors or a director and the company secretary.”
WLR Daily, 7th 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.
Queen’s Bench Division
“The psychological effect of such works as gate piers set across a public footpath, so as to denote private property, was relevant when deciding whether those works amounted to a significant obstruction of the highway so that an order might be required for their removal by the local highway authority.”
The Times, 8th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Bilkus v Stockler Brunton (a Firm)
Court of Appeal
“A solicitor rendering his fee note had to consider carefully, if charging uplift, whether the relevant work was contentious or non-contentious.”
The Times, 8th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Plans for compulsory sex education in schools have been dropped in the pre-election ‘wash up’ after being blocked by the Tories. The controversial measure would have ensured every 15-year-old had at least one year of sex education lessons. It was part of Ed Balls’ Children, Schools and Families Bill, but was shelved today in the last-minute rush to get legislation through before the election.”
The Times, 7th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A former heroin addict who became an award-winning businessman has been jailed for life for murdering a love rival who began an affair with his wife at the Glastonbury Festival.”
The Times, 8th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The first consolidating edition of the Criminal Procedure Rules came into force today (5 April 2010).”
Ministry of Justice, 8th April 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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