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Leak files may be used in court - BBC News

Posted on April 08, 2009
“MPs cannot stop prosecutors in the Home Office leaks case using documents seized from Tory frontbencher Damian Green, the attorney general has warned.” Full story BBC News, 7th April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Criminal case call over G20 death - BBC News

Posted on April 08, 2009
“The Liberal Democrats are demanding a criminal inquiry after video footage of the G20 protest showed a police officer pushing over a man who later died.” Full story BBC News, 8th April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

HJ (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; HT (Cameroon) v Same - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 08, 2009
HJ (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; HT (Cameroon) v Same “A homosexual asylum-seeker could not seek the protection of the court if it were a condition of protection that he hid his membership of a particular social group or modified some attribute or characteristic of the group to avoid persecution...

Regina v Wood (No 2) - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 08, 2009
Regina v Wood (No 2) Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) “A defendant could be sentenced to life imprisonment for manslaughter on the ground of diminished responsibility and, when fixing the minimum term, guidance in murder cases was relevant.” The Times, 8th April 2009 Source: www...

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Police doubt over prostitute laws - BBC News

Posted on April 08, 2009
“New laws making it a criminal offence to have sex with prostitutes controlled by pimps may be too complex to work in practice, police have warned.” Full story BBC News, 7th April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Employers fail to follow redundancy procedures - The Times

Posted on April 08, 2009
“Thousands of workers made redundant by major City institutions could have a legal claim without realising it, according to lawyers.” Full story The Times, 7th April 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Drug court to offer addicts help - BBC News

Posted on April 08, 2009
“The first court in Wales dedicated to dealing with drug offenders will be opened later in Cardiff by Justice Secretary Jack Straw.” Full story BBC News, 8th April 2009 Source: www.bbc.co.uk

?Sadistic? child killer given right to remain anonymous - The Independent

Posted on April 08, 2009
“A man convicted of the ’sadistic’ murder of three children 30 years ago has been granted the right to anonymity while he is being considered for release into the community.” Full story The Independent, 8th April 2009 Source: www...

Legalisation of drugs could save UK �14bn, says study - The Guardian

Posted on April 07, 2009
“The regulated legalisation of drugs would have major benefits for taxpayers, victims of crime, local communities and the criminal justice system, according to the first comprehensive comparison between the cost-effectiveness of legalisation and prohibition...

Expert Evidence in Criminal Trials - Law Commission

Posted on April 07, 2009
“We published a consultation paper on 7 April 2009, in which we have made a number of provisional proposals which would reform the law governing the admissibility of expert evidence in criminal proceedings in England and Wales. A press release is also available...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on April 07, 2009
The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedule 4) Order 2009 The Freedom of Information (Time for Compliance with Request) Regulations 2009 The Charities Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4, Transitional Provisions and Savings) (Amendment) Order 2009 The European Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) (No...

One in four criminals and suspects in bail hostels recalled to jail - Daily Telegraph

Posted on April 07, 2009
“One in four criminals and suspects living in controversial bail hostels have had to be recalled to jail after committing new crimes or breaking the rules.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2009 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Regina v Evans (Gemma) - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 07, 2009
Regina v Evans (Gemma) Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) “For the purposes of gross negligence manslaughter, when a person had created or contributed to the creation of a state of affairs which he knew, or ought to have known had become life-threatening to another person, a consequent duty would normally arise on him to act by taking [...

Regina (Mendes and Another) v Southwark London Borough Council - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 07, 2009
Regina (Mendes and Another) v Southwark London Borough Council Court of Appeal “A judge needed to give reasons for preferring one side?s arguments over the other on an application made by written submissions concerning costs.” The Times, 7th April 2009 Source: www...

Myerson v Myerson (No 2) - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 07, 2009
Myerson v Myerson (No 2) Court of Appeal “A husband could not have an order compromising an ancillary relief application rewritten where his wealth had fallen significantly.” The Times, 6th April 2009 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Serious Organised Crime Agency v Szepietowski and Others - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 07, 2009
Serious Organised Crime Agency v Szepietowski and Others Chancery Division “There was no exception in the exclusion regime of section 252 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, concerning restrictions on dealing with property, to confine attention to assets vested in trustees while disregarding their personal assets...

Regina (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service - Times Law Reports

Posted on April 07, 2009
Regina (A) v Director of Establishments of the Security Service Court of Appeal “The Administrative Court did not have jurisdiction to entertain a claim that a public authority proposed to act in a way incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights where the matters brought up were within the purview of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal...

British Airways plc v Williams and others - WLR Daily

Posted on April 07, 2009
British Airways plc v Williams and others [2009] EWCA Civ 281; [2009] WLR (D) 126 “An airline which had paid its pilots during the period of their ?paid annual leave? by reference to their basic salary, rather than the pay they might expect to earn, including supplements, during a working week, was not in breach of [...

Slack and others v Cumbria County Council (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) - WLR Daily

Posted on April 07, 2009
Slack and others v Cumbria County Council (Equality and Human Rights Commission intervening) [2009] EWCA Civ 293; [2009] WLR (D) 127 “The beginning of the period allowed for initiating an equal pay claim would not be triggered until the expiry of the stable employment between the employer and employee within the meaning of the section 2ZA [...

Office of Fair Trading v Foxtons Ltd - WLR Daily

Posted on April 07, 2009
Office of Fair Trading v Foxtons Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 288; [2009] WLR (D) 128 “An injunction granted in a general challenge by the Office of Fair Trading against the unfairness of certain clauses in an estate agent?s standard terms could extend to the continuing use of unfair terms in an existing contract...

Proceedings brought by A (Case C-523/07) - WLR Daily

Posted on April 07, 2009
Proceedings brought by A (Case C-523/07); [2009] WLR (D) 129 “For the purposes of the rule that the courts of the EC member state where a child was habitually resident had jurisdiction in matters of parental responsibility, ?habitual residence? denoted some degree of integration by the child in a social and family environment...

Orchard v Lee and another - WLR Daily

Posted on April 07, 2009
Orchard v Lee and another [2009] EWCA Civ 295; [2009] WLR (D) 130 “A child at school playing a game in an authorised play area who was not breaking any rules and who was not acting beyond the norms of the game would not have anticipated that some significant personal injury would result from his actions [...

Hall & Woodhouse Ltd v Poole Borough Council - WLR Daily

Posted on April 07, 2009
Hall & Woodhouse Ltd v Poole Borough Council; [2009] WLR (D) 131 “The acts of third parties were not as a matter of law to be imputed to a premises licence holder for the purposes of s 136(1)(a) of the Licensing Act 2003; it was necessary for the court to look at the actual conduct of [...

R (Coleman) v Governor of Wayland Prison and another - WLR Daily

Posted on April 07, 2009
R (Coleman) v Governor of Wayland Prison and another; [2009] WLR (D) 132 “While a mobile telephone found in the possession of a prisoner might properly be taken away from him, neither rule 43(5) of the Prison Rules 1999 nor the common law provided a prison governor with power to destroy the mobile telephone...