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Link Lending Ltd v Hussain and another ? WLR Daily

Posted on April 27, 2010
Link Lending Ltd v Hussain and another [2010] EWCA Civ 424; [2010] WLR (D) 103 “A person, who had been taken into psychiatric care under s3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and had been involuntarily placed elsewhere, was still in actual occupation of her own home under the land registration legislation...

Regina (Shoesmith) v Ofsted and others ? WLR Daily

Posted on April 27, 2010
Regina (Shoesmith) v Ofsted and others [2010] EWHC 852(Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 102 “The duty of fairness which arose in respect of an Ofsted inspection carried out pursuant to s 20 of the Children Act 2004 was derived from a duty to carry out a bona fide and open-minded inspection into the operation of local [...

Winterflood Securities Ltd and others v Financial Services Authority ? WLR Daily

Posted on April 27, 2010
Winterflood Securities Ltd and others v Financial Services Authority [2010] EWCA Civ 423; [2010] WLR (D) 101 “The definition of market abuse in s 118 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 did not require the person engaging in the behaviour in question to have intended to abuse the market and accordingly it was [...

Blair Peach killed by police at 1979 protest, Met report finds ? The Guardian

Posted on April 27, 2010
“The anti-fascist protester Blair Peach was almost certainly killed by police at a demonstration in 1979, according to a secret report released today.” Full story The Guardian, 27th April 2010 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

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Surge in new laws sparked by recession, research reveals ? Law Society?s Gazette

Posted on April 27, 2010
“Some 98% of new laws introduced by the government in 2009 were brought in as statutory instruments without full parliamentary debate, research has revealed today.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 26th April 2010 Source: www.lawgazette...

Legal challenge to Alex Salmond?s exclusion from BBC leaders? debates ? The Guardian

Posted on April 27, 2010
“The Scottish National party will go to court today in an attempt to force the BBC to give its leader Alex Salmond a place in the final leaders’ debate later this week.” Full story The Guardian, 27th April 2010 Source: www.guardian.co...

Human rights court to decide football fan Garry Mann?s fate ? The Independent

Posted on April 27, 2010
“Football fan Garry Mann’s hope of avoiding two years in a Portuguese jail rests with a ruling by human rights judges today.” Full story The Independent, 27th April 2010 Source: www.independent.co.uk

City lawyer ?sacked for writing online erotic novel? sues for �3.5m ? Daily Telep

Posted on April 27, 2010
“A senior lawyer, Deidre Clark, sacked from a leading city firm after she wrote a sexually explicit online novel is suing her former employers for �3.5 million.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2010 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Police defend sex offender monitoring as 300 remain missing ? The Independent

Posted on April 27, 2010
“Police insisted today they are doing all they can to monitor sex offenders as it was revealed more than 300 are missing in the UK.” Full story The Independent, 26th April 2010 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Jack Tweed cleared of rape ? The Guardian

Posted on April 27, 2010
“Jack Tweed, the widower of the reality TV star Jade Goody, was today cleared of raping a teenager he had met in a London nightclub.” Full story The Guardian, 26th April 2010 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The Times to challenge reporting ban on landmark expenses hearing ? The Times

Posted on April 27, 2010
“Media organisations are to challenge a reporting ban on a landmark hearing at which four politicians accused of fiddling their expenses will claim they cannot be brought to trial.” Full story The Times, 27th April 2010 Source: www.timesonline...

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on April 27, 2010
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) AY, R. v [2010] EWCA Crim 762 (27 April 2010) Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Muuse v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 453 (27 April 2010) Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2010] EWCA Civ 419 (27 April 2010) High Court (Administrative Court) [...

Female Birmingham council workers win ?�600m pay claim? ? BBC News

Posted on April 27, 2010
“Hundreds of female council employees who took their claims for equal pay to an employment tribunal have won their case.” Full story BBC News, 27th April 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

The Sun pays out to doctor over front-page terror slur ? The Guardian

Posted on April 27, 2010
“A doctor accepted ‘substantial’ libel damages at the high court today over false allegations in the Sun linking him to terrorism.” Full story The Guardian, 27th April 2010 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on April 26, 2010
High Court (Chancery Division) Pillar Securitisation SARL & Ors v Spicer & Anor (Court Administrators) [2010] EWHC 836 (Ch) (01 April 2010) Dennard & Ors v Pricewaterhousecoopers Llp [2010] EWHC 812 (Ch) (23 April 2010) Sel-Imperial Ltd v The British Standards Institution [2010] EWHC 854 (Ch) (23 April 2010) Digicel (St...

Shops ordered to pay �20m over ?toxic sofas? ? BBC News

Posted on April 26, 2010
“A number of High Street chains has been ordered to pay up to �20m ($31m) to 2,000 people who received chemical burns from sofas.” Full story BBC News, 26th April 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Election 2010 ? The Bar Council

Posted on April 26, 2010
“This note summarises the key points in the manifestos of the three main political parties which may be of interest to the Bar. It is intended that this should be non-partisan and the Bar Council as an organisation is not aligning itself to any particular political party...

Khatri v Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank BA ? WLR Daily

Posted on April 26, 2010
Khatri v Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank BA [2010] EWCA Civ 397; [2010] WLR (D) 100 “Where an application for summary judgment turned on the terms of a written contract, it did not follow that the factual matrix of the contractual relationship could only be determined by a full trial with discovery, evidence and cross-examination of witnesses...

R v Modjiri ? WLR Daily

Posted on April 26, 2010
R v Modjiri [2010] EWCA Crim 829; [2010] WLR (D) 99 “The concern of s 79(3) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 is limited to the valuation of property and does not extend to the realisation of property, so that it does not have to be assumed that a beneficial interest in property has [...

FSA hits insider dealer with �956,000 bill ? The Times

Posted on April 26, 2010
“A former Cazenove partner serving a 21-month jail sentence for insider dealing should forfeit �956,863 in a confiscation and costs order, his prosecutors said yesterday.” Full story The Times, 24th April 2010 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Prison population hits record 85,000 after end of early releases ? The Guardian

Posted on April 26, 2010
“The prison population has hit a record 85,000 after Labour’s decision to end the 18-day early release scheme just before the election campaign got under way.” Full story The Guardian, 23rd April 2010 Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Jackson report: litigation processes and their impact on costs ? Law Society?s Gazette

Posted on April 26, 2010
“Much has already been said about Lord Justice Jackson?s proposals for success fees, after-the-event insurance, costs shifting and the like, but much less, if anything, about litigation processes, and their impact on costs. Yet it is surely unarguable that a streamlining or simplification of the litigation process would result in a reduction in costs...

Man sentenced for lying over James Bulger killer ? BBC News

Posted on April 26, 2010
“A teenager has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence for claiming a former colleague was one of James Bulger’s killers.” Full story BBC News, 23rd April 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Suspected counterfeits can be destroyed if not defended by importer, says HMRC ? OUT-LAW.com

Posted on April 26, 2010
“Suspected counterfeit goods being brought into the UK can be destroyed without going to court if the importer fails to object, according to new rules put in place by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 26th April 2010 Source: www...

Robert Verkaik: A legal battle that could run for years to come ? The Independent

Posted on April 26, 2010
“This is not the last we have heard from Sharon Shoesmith and her campaign to prove she was made a scapegoat over the tragic death of Baby Peter.” Full story The Independent, 24th April 2010 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Politicians? legal fight in private to avoid trial over expenses ? The Times

Posted on April 26, 2010
“Four politicians accused of fiddling their expenses are to begin in private their landmark constitutional battle against being brought to trial, The Times has learnt.” Full story The Times, 26th April 2010 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Police to release secret report on the death of Blair Peach ? The Guardian

Posted on April 26, 2010
“A highly critical report into the death of Blair Peach, the anti-fascist campaigner widely believed to have been killed by police in 1979, is expected to be published on Tuesday.” Full story The Guardian, 25th April 2010 Source: www.guardian...

Firefighter who slept with boss wins payout ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on April 26, 2010
“A woman firefighter who resorted to sleeping with her boss in a vain attempt to end a campaign of harassment against has received a payout from her former employers.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 23rd April 2010 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Europe presses UK to introduce total ban on smacking children ? The Guardian

Posted on April 26, 2010
“The UK will come under increasing pressure to ban all smacking and corporal punishment of children as the European human rights body steps up pressure for a change in the law.” Full story The Guardian, 25th April 2010 Source: www.guardian...

HSE warning after gas fitter jailed for Powys work ? BBC News

Posted on April 23, 2010
“Health and safety chiefs have welcomed a court ruling to jail a gas fitter for working without proper accreditation.” Full story BBC News, 23rd April 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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