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Database blacklist saw thousands denied jobs ? The Independent

Posted on May 28, 2009
“Thousands of workers in the construction industry were denied employment because of a secret ‘blacklist’, a court heard today.” Full story The Independent, 27th May 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Britain sending refused Congo asylum seekers back to threat of torture ? The Guardian

Posted on May 28, 2009
“The British government is sending refused asylum seekers back home, a Guardian investigation has revealed, despite the fears of human rights campaigners and lawyers that deportees could encounter persecution on their return.” Full story The Guardian, 27th May 2009 Source: www...

Rolls Royce plc v Unite the Union ? Times Law Reports

Posted on May 27, 2009
Rolls Royce plc v Unite the Union Court of Appeal “Length of service was a lawful criterion for selection for redundancy since it achieved a legitimate aim by a proportionate means.” The Times, 27th May 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Recent Statutory Instruments ? OPSI

Posted on May 27, 2009
The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 The Housing (Replacement of Terminated Tenancies) (Successor Landlords) (England) Order 2009 The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Commencement No...

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Home visits for high risk sex offenders cut ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on May 27, 2009
“High risk sex offenders under supervision in the community face fewer checks by the police after revised Government guidance relaxed their monitoring.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 26th May 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Court refuses ?futile? reporting restriction on paternity story ? OUT-LAW.com

Posted on May 27, 2009
“Banning the further reporting of a story which has already gained the attention of millions of people around the world would be ludicrous, absurd and unenforceable, the High Court has said.” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 26th May 2009 Source: www...

Police chief Colin Port risks career by refusing to return child abuse data ? The Times

Posted on May 27, 2009
“A chief constable could face jail and an end to his 35-year police career for defying a High Court order to return computers suspected of holding a huge collection of child abuse images to a controversial expert witness.” Full story The Times, 27th May 2009 Source: www...

MI5 faces fresh torture allegations ? The Guardian

Posted on May 27, 2009
“The home secretary Jacqui Smith faces legal action over allegations that MI5 agents colluded in the torture of a British former civil servant by Bangladeshi intelligence officers.” Full story The Guardian, 26th May 2009 Source: www.guardian...

Judge blames police for vigilante crimes ? Daily Telegraph

Posted on May 27, 2009
“Judge Richard Bray criticised the force for the number of reprisal crimes committed, saying the courts were ending up dealing with revenge attacks because the police did not respond to calls quickly enough.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 27th May 2009 Source: www...

Harry Rednapp lawyer takes on the police again over search warrant ? The Times

Posted on May 27, 2009
“The lawyer who has put a police chief?s job on the line over a search warrant is the same man who represented Harry Redknapp in his successful claim over a dawn raid on his home.” Full story The Times, 27th May 2009 Source: www.timesonline...

ECJ rulings on Google keywords might not resolve controversy, warns High Court ? OUT-LAW.com

Posted on May 27, 2009
“A widely-requested European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on keyword advertising may fail to give businesses in the UK and Ireland the legal clarity it would give to the rest of Europe, a High Court judge has warned.” Full story OUT-LAW.com, 26th May 2009 Source: www...

Menezes officer ?did not deceive? ? BBC News

Posted on May 27, 2009
“A police officer who admitted altering his notes about the death of Jean Charles de Menezes has been cleared following an inquiry.” Full story BBC News, 26th May 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on May 27, 2009
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) ZO (Somalia) & Anor, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] EWCA Civ 442 (20 May 2009) Wood v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2009] EWCA Civ 414 (21 May 2009) Baker v Quantum Clothing Group [2009] EWCA Civ 499 (22 May 2009) [...

Aerotel Ltd v Wavecrest Group Enterprises Ltd and others ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
Aerotel Ltd v Wavecrest Group Enterprises Ltd and others [2009] EWCA Civ 408; [2009] WLR (D) 171 “A patentee seeking to rely on commercial success as an indicator of non-obviousness in order to rebut an allegation of its patent being obvious over prior art had to establish that the commercial success relied on was due to [...

Vodafone 2 v Revenue and Customs Commissioners ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
Vodafone 2 v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2009] EWCA Civ 446; [2009] WLR (D) 170 “It was possible to provide a conforming interpretation of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 which avoided any unlawful restriction on a taxpayer company?s freedom of establishment, conferred by art 43EC of the EC Treaty, by the introduction of an [...

Mohammadi v Shellpoint Trustees Ltd and another ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
Mohammadi v Shellpoint Trustees Ltd and another [2009] EWHC 1098 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 169 “When a legally assisted person?s solicitors had ceased to act, without another firm being retained under a legal aid certificate, and that fact had been communicated to the opposing party, then from the moment of that communication the litigant ceased to [...

Gresham International Ltd and others v Moonie and others ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
Gresham International Ltd and others v Moonie and others [2009] EWHC 1093 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 168 “The court had power, under its supervisory role of compulsory winding up and bankruptcy, to make orders that would effectively grant retrospective sanction to a liquidator who had issued proceedings in her name without first obtaining the sanction of [...

Everitt v Budhram (a bankrupt) and another ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
Everitt v Budhram (a bankrupt) and another [2009] WLR (D) 167 “The ‘needs’ of a bankrupt within s 335A(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 should be given a wide interpretation and could include his financial, medical, emotional and mental needs...

R (MM (Burma) and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (DT (Eritrea)) v Same ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
R (MM (Burma) and another) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; R (DT (Eritrea)) v Same [2009] EWCA Civ 442; [2009] WLR (D) 166 “A person whose asylum claim had been finally determined in country A against him or her and who made a subsequent claim for asylum in country A came within the [...

Smith v Northamptonshire County Council ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
Smith v Northamptonshire County Council [2009] UKHL 27; [2009] WLR (D) 165 “A care worker who was injured when using a defective wheelchair ramp at a client?s home had not been using equipment ‘used by an employee at work’ so as to make her local authority employer, who was aware of the ramp but did not [...

Roult (by his mother and litigation friend) v North West Strategic Health Authority ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
Roult (by his mother and litigation friend) v North West Strategic Health Authority [2009] EWCA Civ 444; [2009] WLR (D) 164 “There was no power pursuant to CPR r 3.1 in the context of personal injury litigation to vary the terms of a settlement where there had been an unforseen event which destroyed the assumption on [...

Rank Nemo (DMS) Ltd and others v Coutinho ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
Rank Nemo (DMS) Ltd and others v Coutinho [2009] EWCA Civ 454; [2009] WLR (D) 163 “The failure of an employer to pay compensation awarded to an employee for race discrimination, even after such compensation award had been converted into a county court judgment, could amount to victimisation of the employee after termination of his employment, [...

Odelola v Secretary of State for the Home Department ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
Odelola v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] UKHL 25; [2009] WLR (D) 162 “The version of the immigration rules which was applicable to the determination of an application for leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom was the one in force at the time the application came to be determined rather [...

McConkey v Simon Community Northern Ireland ? WLR Daily

Posted on May 26, 2009
McConkey v Simon Community Northern Ireland [2009] UKHL 24; [2009] WLR (D) 161 “An employer in Northern Ireland could refuse to employ a person on the ground of that person having supported the use of violence for political ends connected with the affairs of Northern Ireland, even if the person had since repudiated such views...

McConkey and Another v Simon Community Northern Ireland ? Times Law Reports

Posted on May 26, 2009
McConkey and Another v Simon Community Northern Ireland House of Lords “An employer in Northern Ireland could refuse to employ a person on the ground of his having supported the use of violence for political ends connected with the affairs of Northern Ireland even if the job-seeker had since repudiated such views...

Law Society ?lost control? of investigation into top solicitor ? The Guardian

Posted on May 26, 2009
“The Law Society has been accused of “systematic failure” in its handling of a complaint against a close ally of the attorney general, the Guardian can reveal after a court injunction was lifted last week.” Full story The Guardian, 24th May 2009 Source: www...

Indeterminate sentences ? the legal view ? The Guardian

Posted on May 26, 2009
“While the sentences passed in the Baby P case attracted swift condemnation from critics who worried the offenders could be freed at a very early stage, statistics show the new indeterminate sentences rarely lead to early release.Since indeterminate sentences were introduced in 2005, fewer than 50 prisoners have been released when they had served their [...

Record sentences end the tragic saga of Baby Peter ? The Independent

Posted on May 26, 2009
“The mother of Baby Peter was branded ‘manipulative and self-centred’ by an Old Bailey judge yesterday who sentenced her to at least five years in prison for the death of her son.” Full story The Independent, 23rd May 2009 Source: www...

Fury as Commons denied DNA vote ? The Guardian

Posted on May 26, 2009
“Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, has been warned that the government risks further damaging the public’s faith in politics after it emerged that plans for the police to keep innocent people’s DNA profiles for up to 12 years will become law without a Commons vote...

Combat ban for female troops to be reviewed ? The Independent

Posted on May 26, 2009
Britain’s female soldiers could soon battle enemy forces in face-to-face combat, if a ban on women serving in the most dangerous warfare roles is lifted for the first time. Full story The Independent, 25th May 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk

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