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Yahoo! wins sponsored links ruling in High Court - OUT-LAW.com

Posted on March 09, 2008
“Yahoo! did not infringe a businessman’s rights by displaying adverts for other companies when users entered his trade marks as search terms. The High Court dismissed a lawsuit against the web giant as being ‘totally without merit.’” Full story OUT-LAW...

Legal Services Commission v Rasool - WLR Daily

Posted on March 07, 2008
Legal Services Commission v Rasool [2008] EWCA Civ 154; WLR (D) 75 “For the purposes of limitation and ascertaining the date of accrual of a cause of action permitting the Legal Services Commission to recover costs following revocation of a legal aid certificate, it was not a condition precedent that the quantum of any such costs [...

Regina (AM) (Cameroon) v Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (No 2) - Times Law Reports

Posted on March 07, 2008
Regina (AM) (Cameroon) v Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (No 2) Court of Appeal “Where a listing mistake meant a statutory review of an immigration appeal went ahead, resulting in a final determination, before a judicial review application had been heard, the judicial review should be heard and the final determination set aside; otherwise the applicant would suffer [...

Technology and Construction Court Annual Report 2006/2007 - Judiciary of England & Wales

Posted on March 07, 2008
“Technology and Construction Court Annual Report 2006/2007.” Full report Judiciary of England & Wales, 5th March 2008 Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

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Response to paper on cohabitation and relationship breakdown - Ministry of Justice

Posted on March 07, 2008
“Justice Minister Bridget Prentice has made a written ministerial statement announcing the government’s response to the Law Commission’s paper on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown for cohabiting couples.” Press release Ministry of Justice, 6th March 2008 Source: www...

Plan for ID cards announced - Home Office

Posted on March 07, 2008
“The Home Secretary has announced details of the plan for a system of national ID cards.” Press release Home Office, 6th March 2008 Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk

Legal rights to cohabiting couples are shelved - The Times

Posted on March 07, 2008
“Plans to give two million cohabiting partners similar rights to married couples have been shelved by ministers.” Full story The Times, 7th March 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Jail for criminal with a four-barrel gun - The Times

Posted on March 07, 2008
“An underworld gun dealer has been jailed for 15 years after being caught with an arsenal of firearms that included a handgun with four barrels capable of firing at once.” Full story The Times, 7th March 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Widow, 65, humiliated by web page that painted her as a scarlet woman - The Times

Posted on March 07, 2008
“A woman aged 65 who became the victim of an online smear campaign that she says made her ‘look like a sexual predator’ called yesterday for stricter controls on social networking websites.” Full story The Times, 7th March 2008 Source: www...

MPs urge curb on restraint techniques in child jails - The Guardian

Posted on March 07, 2008
“The use of restraint techniques involving deliberate physical pain in privately run child prisons should be abolished without delay, according to a report from MPs and peers published today.” Full story The Guardian, 7th March 2008 Source: www...

Spain drops extradition attempt against Guant�namo torture pair - The Guardian

Posted on March 07, 2008
“Spain yesterday dropped its attempt to extradite two British residents who had been freed from Guant�namo Bay, after accepting that torture they suffered during five years of American custody had left them too weak to stand trial.” Full story The Guardian, 7th March 2008 Source: www...

Burrell refuses to return to witness box at Diana inquest - The Guardian

Posted on March 07, 2008
“Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s former butler, has refused to return from the US to explain a statement he made to an undercover reporter that he had not told the whole truth when he gave evidence at the inquest into her death.” Full story The Guardian, 7th March 2008 Source: www...

Killer of mother and two children jailed for 38 years - The Independent

Posted on March 07, 2008
“A man has been ordered to serve at least 38 years in prison for bludgeoning to death a woman and her two children with a hammer.” Full story The Independent, 7th March 2008 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Now Iranian lesbian who fled to Britain faces deportation - The Independent

Posted on March 07, 2008
“An Iranian lesbian who fled to Britain after her girlfriend was arrested and sentenced to death faces being forcibly returned after losing the latest round in her battle to be granted asylum.” Full story The Independent, 7th March 2008 Source: www...

Police take student?s DNA for �2.40 fare fine - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 07, 2008
“A university student has been forced to give his DNA to police because he failed to buy a �2.40 rail fare.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Mother?s anger at son?s E.coli death - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 07, 2008
“The mother of a five-year-old boy who died during an E.coli outbreak has told an inquiry of the anger she felt towards the butcher who supplied the contaminated meat.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Consumer regulators face inquiry over profits - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 07, 2008
“Ministers have hit out at Britain’s consumer regulators as an official review is launched to investigate why people have not been protected from alleged profiteering by utility firms, banks and rail companies.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008 Source: www...

No Burrell probe during inquest - BBC News

Posted on March 07, 2008
“The Metropolitan police has said it will not launch a perjury investigation into ex-royal butler Paul Burrell until after the Princess Diana inquest concludes.” Full story BBC News, 7th March 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

High court grants Kenneth Noye murder appeal hearing - The Guardian

Posted on March 07, 2008
“The convicted killer Kenneth Noye won permission today to bring a legal challenge over the refusal of the Criminal Cases Review Commission to refer his conviction for the murder of Stephen Cameron back to the court of appeal.” Full story The Guardian, 7th March 2008 Source: www...

Judges back Lockerbie evidence suppression - The Guardian

Posted on March 07, 2008
“A legal battle to release a secret intelligence report which could free the Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is to continue after judges ruled the foreign secretary had the right to suppress the document.” Full story The Guardian, 7th March 2008 Source: www...

First details of ID card timetable revealed - The Independent

Posted on March 06, 2008
“Foreign nationals will be required to give their biometric details from this year, and from next year the ID cards scheme will extend to British people working in high-risk areas such as airports, said the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.” Full story The Independent, 6th March 2008 Source: www...

Regina v Rose (Kevin) - Times Law Reports

Posted on March 06, 2008
Regina v Rose (Kevin) Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) “When calculating the benefit to a thief or handler of his acquisition or possession of criminal property, the market value of it was the amount it would have cost him to obtain the property legitimately, or the economic value to the loser, rather than what the thief or [...

Regina v Marchese - Times Law Reports

Posted on March 06, 2008
Regina v Marchese Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) “The fact that a count in an indictment was duplicitous would not lead to the quashing of a conviction if, on the facts, the duplicity had not caused any injustice to the defendant. “ The Times, 6th March 2008 Source: www...

Birkdale School, Sheffield v Revenue and Customs Commissioners - WLR Daily

Posted on March 06, 2008
Birkdale School, Sheffield v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2008] EWHC 409 (Ch); WLR (D) 74 “Value added tax was not payable by independent schools on charges made to parents for participation in optional fees refund arrangements. There was a single supply of educational services to parents when they participated in such schemes...

Hanchett-Stamford v Attorney General and another (Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd intervening) - WLR Daily

Posted on March 06, 2008
Hanchett-Stamford v Attorney General and another (Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd intervening) [2008] EWHC 330 (Ch); WLR (D) 73 “The assets of an unincorporated association, which was not a charity and which had ceased to exist due to the fall in its membership to below two, did not pass to the Crown as bona vacantia but [...

Battle for disturbed tycoon?s �10m leaves Tories with huge legal bill - The Times

Posted on March 06, 2008
“The Tories are facing a �700,000 legal bill for trying to hold on to a �10 million bequest from a mentally unfit tycoon who believed Margaret Thatcher could save the world from Satan.” Full story The Times, 6th March 2008 Source: www.timesonline...

�63,000 for mother?s time with baby - The Guardian

Posted on March 06, 2008
“A teenage mother whose baby was unlawfully removed from her within hours of his birth without a court order is to have a four-month residential assessment of her parenting skills which could cost the local authority nearly �100,000.” Full story The Guardian, 6th March 2008 Source: www...

?Matter of time? until Pc has to shoot a child - Daily Telegraph

Posted on March 06, 2008
“The spiralling use of guns among children means it is only a matter of time before an armed officer is faced with shooting a child, the head of a Home Office task force has warned.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 6th March 2008 Source: www...

Kick-starting a national debate on a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities - Ministry of Justice

Posted on March 06, 2008
“Justice Minister Michael Wills has given a speech on the need for a national debate on constitutional reform to inform discussions about the new Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.” Full story Ministry of Justice, 5th March 2008 Source: www...

Phorm fires privacy row for ISPs - The Guardian

Posted on March 06, 2008
“Web users are up in arms over what they see as an invasion of privacy by a company that will track surfing patterns to serve targeted ads.” Full story The Guardian, 6th March 2008 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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