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Trustee Solutions Ltd. and others v. Dubery and another – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2007 in law reports, pensions by sally

Trustee Solutions Ltd. and others v. Dubery and another [2007] EWCA 771

“On a true construction of s73(3)(b) of the 1995 Act the members of a pension scheme who had the right to retire at 60 in respect of any part of their service, and who were aged between 60 and 64 on the date that the scheme commenced winding up, fell within the provision; but not in respect of pension or other benefits accrued by service to which a normal retirement date at the age of 65 applied.”

WLR Daily, 26th July 2007

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Poets Chase Freehold Co. Ltd. v. Sinclair Gardens Investments (Kensington) Ltd. – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2007 in landlord & tenant, law reports by sally

Poets Chase Freehold Co. Ltd. v. Sinclair Gardens Investments (Kensington) Ltd. [2007] EWHC 1776 (Ch)

“A notice that was purportedly given under s 13 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, but was subsequently accepted by the qualifying tenants to have failed to comply with the requirements of s 13(3), was an invalid notice that did not have statutory consequences and there was nothing in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Act to bar the tenants from serving without delay a valid s 13 notice.”

WLR Daily, 26th July 2007

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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R (El-Kurd) v. Sakavickas and another – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2007 in indictments, jury directions, law reports, proceeds of crime by sally

R (El-Kurd) v. Sakavickas and another; R v. Rana Singh [2007] EWCA Crim 1888

“Where a judge had misdirected a jury owing to a defect in the indictment and the misdirection went to the heart of the issue between the defendant and the Crown, the conviction would be unsafe even if the indictment could have been amended so that the facts relied on would amount to the offence charged, and even where the case against the defendant was very strong.”

WLR Daily, 26th July 2007

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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In re W (Children) (Permission to appeal) – WLR Daily

Posted July 30th, 2007 in appeals, contact orders, law reports, residence orders by sally

In re W (Children) (Permission to appeal)

“The function of the Court of Appeal on a permission application for residence and contact was limited to a review of the decision of the judge to see whether a prospective appellant had an arguable case, fit to present to the full court on appeal, that the order was ‘plainly wrong’.”

WLR Daily, 26th July 2007

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.

Prisoners to claim millions for parole delay – Daily Telegraph

Posted July 30th, 2007 in compensation, delay, human rights, news, parole, prisons by sally

“Millions of pounds are set to be paid out by the Government to prisoners kept in jail beyond their release dates.”