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Judge orders Total to make ?generous? offer to Buncefield victims - The Times

Posted on November 18, 2008
“Hundreds of victims of the Buncefield fire moved closer to an initial payout today after a judge instructed the oil depot’s operator to make them a ’sensible and generous’ offer.” Full story The Times, 17th November 2008 Source: www...

Mother to get answers over daughter?s rape and murder - Daily Telegraph

Posted on November 18, 2008
“An inquest is to be opened into the death of a woman murdered by a convicted rapist who had used the Human Rights Act to convince a panel he should be freed from jail.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008 Source: www.telegraph...

Warning over fixed penalty notices for violent crimes - The Times

Posted on November 18, 2008
“Magistrates gave warning yesterday that the criminal justice system is being ‘undermined’ because thousands of serious offences are being processed by police using fixed penalty notices away from public scrutiny.” Full story The Times, 17th November 2008 Source: www...

Senior judge wants top court to avoid crime - Daily Telegraph

Posted on November 18, 2008
“A member of the Court of Appeal has argued that only rare or occasional criminal cases should be heard by the new Supreme Court because its judges are too out of touch.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2008 Source: www.telegraph...

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Judges? report backs US-style plan that give lawyers a cut of damages - The Times

Posted on November 18, 2008
“A report seen by The Times supports the adoption of US-style contingency deals in which lawyers take their fees out of damages won for clients.” Full story The Times, 18th November 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk       

Met defends stop-and-search tactics as it claims limited success in reducing knife crime - The Guardian

Posted on November 18, 2008
“The Metropolitan police yesterday claimed a limited success in the fight against knife crime, citing a 12% fall in incidents since May, but at the price of long-term resentment over the widespread use of stop-and-search needed to achieve it.” Full story The Guardian, 18th November 2008 Source: www...

Court cuts ?compromising judges? - BBC News

Posted on November 18, 2008
“A leading judge has told the BBC he fears a conflict of interest as courts increasingly depend on income from fines and confiscations to operate.” Full story BBC News, 18th November 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk       

Solicitors accused over ?dubious deals? with union official that cost sick miners thousands - The Times

Posted on November 18, 2008
“Britain?s highest-earning solicitor acted dishonestly and with ‘conscious impropriety’ in dealings with a mining union that led to his firm handling thousands of industrial disease compensation claims, a tribunal heard yesterday.” Full story The Times, 18th November 2008 Source: www...

Iraq war legal advice flawed, says ex-law lord - The

Posted on November 18, 2008
“Legal advice given to Tony Blair prior to the invasion of Iraq was fundamentally ‘flawed’, a former senior law lord said today.” Full story The Independent, 18th November 2008 Source: www.independent.co.uk       

?Kerplunk? sculptor agrees £1.7m court settlement - Daily Telegraph

Posted on November 18, 2008
“The award-winning designer of the troubled B of the Bang sculpture has agreed to pay back £1.7 million of taxpayers’ money.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk       

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on November 18, 2008
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Sangha & Ors, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 2562 (18 November 2008) Whittle & Ors, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 2560 (14 November 2008) Headlam & Ors, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 2578 (10 October 2008) High Court (Chancery Division) Reid (Formerly Trading As Reid Minty) v Edwards & Ors [2008] EWHC 2722 (Ch) (07 [...

300,000 UK visas ?wrongly issued? - BBC News

Posted on November 18, 2008
“An estimated 300,000 visas giving foreigners the right to come to Britain may have been wrongly approved every year, a committee of MPs has been told.” Full story BBC News, 18th November 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk       

Cuts and the Courts - BBC News

Posted on November 18, 2008
“The Ministry of Justice is seeking to save over £1 billion over the next three years.” Full story BBC News, 18th November 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk       

Judge defends her memoir of abuse - BBC News

Posted on November 18, 2008
“A London judge has defended her memoir detailing a childhood of cruelty and neglect, which was published in 2006.” Full story BBC News, 18th November 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk       

Barristers make £75m in five years from tax and fraud cases - The Guardian

Posted on November 17, 2008
“Lawyers prosecuting tax and customs fraud and illegal drug cartels have made more than £75m in fees over the past five years, according to Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office figures.” Full story The Guardian, 17th November 2008 Source: www...

BAILII: Recent Decisions

Posted on November 17, 2008
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Randhawa & Anor, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 2599 (22 October 2008) Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Wandsworth v Whibley [2008] EWCA Civ 1259 (14 November 2008) High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) Farraj & Anor v King’s Healthcare NHS Trust & Anor [2008] EWHC 2468 (QB) (17 October 2008) High Court (Administrative Court) Muscat v Health Professions [...

Spirerose Ltd (In Administration) v Transport for London - WLR Daily

Posted on November 17, 2008
Spirerose Ltd (In Administration) v Transport for London [2008] EWCA Civ 1230; [2008] WLR (D) 358 “In concluding that a valuation of the claimant?s land on the basis that at the date of valuation there would have been a determined planning application granting permission , the Lands Tribunal had not erred...

Football Association Premier League Ltd and others v QC Leisure Ltd and others (Union des Associations Europeenes de Football, British Sky Broadcasting Ltd, Setanta Sports sarl, Groupe Canal Plus SA and Motion Picture Association intervening) - WLR Daily

Posted on November 17, 2008
Football Association Premier League Ltd and others v QC Leisure Ltd and others (Union des Associations Europeenes de Football, British Sky Broadcasting Ltd, Setanta Sports sarl, Groupe Canal Plus SA and Motion Picture Association intervening) “The court had jurisdiction under CPR r 19...

Hussain v Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary - Times Law Reports

Posted on November 17, 2008
Hussain v Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary Court of Appeal “Transient physical symptoms caused by anxiety or stress did not amount either to psychiatric or physical injury and were insufficient to constitute material damage, an essential ingredient of the tort of misfeasance in public office...

Regina (Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions - Times Law Reports

Posted on November 17, 2008
Regina (Purdy) v Director of Public Prosecutions Queen?s Bench Divisional Court “The statutory prohibition on assisted suicide did not engage the right to private life protected under article 8.1 of the European Convention on Human Rights.” The Times, 17th November 2008 Source: www...

Recent Statutory Instruments - OPSI

Posted on November 17, 2008
The Derwentside (Parish Electoral Arrangements) Order 2008 (PDF) The Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed (Parish Electoral Arrangements and Electoral Changes) Order 2008 (PDF) The Stratford-on-Avon (Parish Electoral Arrangements and Electoral Changes) Order 2008 (PDF) The Borough of Tewkesbury (Parish Electoral Arrangements) Order 2008 (PDF) The Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (Appointment, Procedure etc...

Child protection register missed more than 80 per cent of serious child abuse cases - Daily Telegraph

Posted on November 17, 2008
“More than 80 per cent of children killed or seriously injured as a result of abuse or neglect were not on the national child protection register, it has emerged.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 15th November 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk       

Victim speaks out after man cleared of rape while sleepwalking - Daily Telegraph

Posted on November 17, 2008
“A woman has spoken out after a man accused of raping her became the latest to be cleared because he was sleepwalking.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 16th November 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk       

Britain ?should be ashamed of art gift law? - The Times

Posted on November 17, 2008
“Britain should be ’shamed’ into revising laws that make it easier for American collectors to donate art to our museums and galleries than Britons, the director of the British Museum says today.” Full story The Times, 15th November 2008 Source: www...

Pensioner locked up indefinitely after beating wife to death - Daily Telegraph

Posted on November 17, 2008
“A pensioner who beat his cancer-stricken wife of 30 years to death as she lay in bed has been locked up in a secure unit indefinitely.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 14th November 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk       

Boris Johnson ready to sue over third Heathrow runway - The Times

Posted on November 17, 2008
“Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, has threatened to take legal action against the government if ministers go ahead with plans to build a third runway at Heathrow.” Full story The Times, 16th November 2008 Source: www.timesonline.co.uk       

Donor ?opt-out? proposal rejected - BBC News

Posted on November 17, 2008
“A panel of experts has rejected plans to presume everyone consents to being an organ donor unless they opt out.” Full story BBC News, 17th November 2008 Source: www.bbc.co.uk       

Villagers win over £70,000 after peace shattered by noisy council refuse wagons - Daily Telegraph

Posted on November 17, 2008
“Three villagers have won more than £70,000 in compensation from a local authority after refuse trucks shattered the early morning peace.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 14th November 2008 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk       

Smith: firms should not go to strip clubs

Posted on November 17, 2008
“The Home Secretary has hit out at corporate high-fliers who entertain their clients at lap-dancing clubs. Jacqui Smith branded the practice ‘bizarre’ as the Government prepared to unveil a crackdown on the sex trade that is expected to criminalise most people who use prostitutes...

Make pre-nups legally binding, says Tory thinktank - The Guardian

Posted on November 17, 2008
“Pre-nuptial agreements would be legally binding, and cohabiting couples would not have the same rights as those who marry, under Tory plans for strengthening marriage unveiled today.” Full story The Guardian, 17th November 2008 Source: www...

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