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Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2010 published ? Ministry of Justice
Posted on August 11, 2010“Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Rules will come in to force on 4 October 2010.” Full story Ministry of Justice, 11th August 2010 Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Minor breaches of contract can combine to make major breach, rules Court of Appeal ? OUT-LAW.com
Posted on August 11, 2010“When consulting and IT firm Accenture made a number of small breaches of the terms of a contract this could add up to a major breach with potentially costly consequences, the Court of Appeal has ruled.” Full story OUT-LAw.com, 11th August 2010 Source: www...
Recent Statutory Instruments ? OPSI
Posted on August 11, 2010The Plant Health (Fees) (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 The Education (Independent School Standards) (England) Regulations 2010 The Vaccine Damage Payments (Specified Disease) (Revocation and Savings) Order 2010 The School Teachers? Pay and Conditions Order 2010 Source: www...
New proposals for the regulation of lawyers ? Bar Standards Board
Posted on August 11, 2010“The Joint Advocacy Group today (10 August) launches its consultation on proposals for a scheme to quality assure advocates in the criminal courts.” Full story Bar Standards Board, 10th August 2010 Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk
Three million in the queue for compensation over PPI mis-selling ? The Guardian
Posted on August 11, 2010“Nearly three million people who took out payment protection insurance (PPI) sold by banks and other lenders could be in line for compensation totalling more than £2bn after the Financial Services Authority today issued new rules on how firms should handle the flood of complaints over mis-selling...
Why are over-70s banned from jury duty? ? BBC News
Posted on August 11, 2010“It has been decreed that the ban on over-70s doing jury duty will remain. But many older people would welcome the opportunity.” Full story BBC News, 10th August 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Nurse convicted of killing wife in Southport ? BBC News
Posted on August 11, 2010“A nurse who strangled his wife and tried to make it look as though she died in an accident has been found guilty of her murder.” Full story BBC News, 10th August 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
ASA watchdog bans ?offensive? anti-terror hotline radio advert ? The Guardian
Posted on August 11, 2010“Britain’s eccentrics, recluses and misanthropes, you can relax. Ignoring neighbours and keeping your curtains permanently shut to the world outside might not win you many friends, but you’re no longer likely to be denounced as a possible terrorist...
Hitman guilty of Surrey housewife murder ? BBC News
Posted on August 11, 2010“A hitman who flew to the UK from Thailand to kill a housewife in Surrey has been found guilty of murder.” Full story BBC News, 10th August 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Letting over-70s serve on juries ?would disrupt criminal trials? ? Daily Telegraph
Posted on August 10, 2010“The Council of Circuit Judges, which represents more than 600 judges in England and Wales, said it had come to the ‘firm conclusion that there is no compelling case to alter the status quo’.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 10th August 2010 Source: www...
Sion Jenkins compensation bid rejected ? The Independent
Posted on August 10, 2010“Former teacher Sion Jenkins was refused compensation for the six years he spent in prison before being acquitted of his foster daughter’s murder, it was reported today.” Full story The Independent, 10th August 2010 Source: www.independent...
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Posted on August 10, 2010Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) Gojra & Anor, R v [2010] EWCA Crim 1939 (06 August 2010) Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Lockheed Martin Corp v Willis Group Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 927 (30 July 2010) Source: www.bailii.org
Recent Statutory Instruments ? OPSI
Posted on August 10, 2010The Equality Act 2010 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2010 The Assembly Learning Grants (European University Institute) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 The Consumer Credit (Advertisements) Regulations 2010 The Consumer Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2010 The Policing and Crime Act 2009 (Commencement No...
Omak Maritime Ltd v Mamola Challenger Shipping Co Ltd ? WLR Daily
Posted on August 10, 2010Omak Maritime Ltd v Mamola Challenger Shipping Co Ltd [2010] EWHC 2026 (Comm); [2010] WLR (D) 230 “An arbitral tribunal in assessing damages for breach of contract had been wrong to treat a claim for wasted expenses and a claim for loss of profits as two separate and independent claims which could not be ‘mixed’...
R (PM) v Hertfordshire County Council ? WLR Daily
Posted on August 10, 2010R (PM) v Hertfordshire County Council [2010] EWHC 2056 (Admin); [2010] WLR (D) 229 “A local authority charged with obligations to children under ss 17 and 20 of the Children Act 1989 was not bound by a simple finding of fact by the First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) as to the age of [...
R v Geary ? WLR Daily
Posted on August 10, 2010R v Geary [2010] WLR (D) 228 “The offence under s 328(1) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 of entering into or becoming concerned in an arrangement which a person knew or suspected facilitated the acquisition, retention, use or control of criminal property by or on behalf of another person, applied to property which [...
Judge to rule on Daniel Ubani?s attempts to silence sons of dead patient ? The Guardian
Posted on August 10, 2010“A judge will rule later this month on attempts by a German doctor who accidentally killed a patient on his first UK shift as a locum GP to restrict a campaign by the dead man’s sons to stop him working as a doctor in his home country.” Full story The Guardian, 9th August 2010 Source: [...
Family judges alarmed over legal aid tender ? Law Society?s Gazette
Posted on August 10, 2010“The head of the family courts has warned the Legal Services Commission that he has been ?inundated? by family judges expressing serious concerns over the outcome of the family legal aid tender, in a letter seen by the Gazette.” Full story Law Society’s Gazette, 9th August 2010 Source: www...
Is the European court of justice a legal or political institution now? ? The Guardian
Posted on August 10, 2010“The most curious feature of the European court of justice (ECJ) , the court of the European Union, is not that it is a political court, but rather that it has until very recently been so successful in pursuing its political programme of the integration of Europe through law without attracting much public or even [...
Human rights: from Europe to the UK ? The Guardian
Posted on August 10, 2010“A new government report on the implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments has highlighted the vexed issue of the rightful place of such rulings in domestic law. Many decisions, such as on prisoner voting rights, have languished for years unimplemented and it remains to be seen whether the coalition government will do any [...
Stirland case coroner calls for witness reforms ? BBC News
Posted on August 10, 2010“Police should review witness protection protocols, a coroner has said in her report into the gangland killings of a Lincolnshire couple.” Full story BBC News, 10th August 2010 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Posted on August 09, 2010High Court (Chancery Division) HMRC v Portsmouth City Football Club Ltd & Ors [2010] EWHC 2013 (Ch) (05 August 2010) High Court (Administrative Court) Chauhan v General Medical Council [2009] EWHC 2093 (Admin) (06 August 2010) Source: www.bailii.org
Bar Council Kicks Off Week of Events to Promote Entry to the Bar ? Bar Council
Posted on August 09, 2010“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, is launching a week-long programme of events aimed at promoting and enhancing better access to the profession. This will include a day-long conference in Birmingham, for sixth-formers interested in a career at the Bar and the fourth annual Bar Placement Scheme, in conjunction with the [...
Lockheed Martin Corpn v Willis Group Ltd ? WLR Daily
Posted on August 09, 2010Lockheed Martin Corpn v Willis Group Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 927; [2010] WLR (D) 225 “Where a party was to be substituted on the grounds of mistake under CPR r 19.5 there was no further formal jurisdictional requirement that the mistake was not misleading to the other party or did not cause reasonable doubt as [...
Health & Safety Executive v Wolverhampton City Council and another ? WLR Daily
Posted on August 09, 2010Health & Safety Executive v Wolverhampton City Council and another [2010] EWCA Civ 892; [2010] WLR (D) 224 “A material consideration for a local planning authority when deciding whether to revoke or modify the grant of planning permission under s 97 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 was the authority?s liability to pay [...
BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd v Eurosail-UK 2007-3BL plc and others ? WLR Daily
Posted on August 09, 2010BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd v Eurosail-UK 2007-3BL plc and others [2010] EWHC 2005 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 223 “The requirement in s 123(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 to ‘[take] into account [the company?s] contingent and prospective liabilities’ when determining whether the value of the company?s assets was less than the amount of its [...
UK Border Agency investigation finds cause for ?significant concern? ? The Guardian
Posted on August 09, 2010“An investigation into claims by a whistleblower that asylum seekers are mistreated, tricked and humiliated by staff working for the UK Border Agency has found cause for ‘significant concern’ and makes several recommendations for change...
Youth worker jailed for grooming under-age girl ? The Independent
Posted on August 09, 2010“A youth consultant who groomed a 13-year-old girl for sex online was jailed for 21 months today.” Full story The Independent, 6th August 2010 Source: www.independent.co.uk
Man who threatened to kill Cheryl Cole jailed ? Daily Telegraph
Posted on August 09, 2010“A man who threatened to kill singer Cheryl Cole and blow up a football stadium has been jailed for two years.” Full story Daily Telegraph, 6th August 2010 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Pair jailed for life for murder of pub landlord ? The Independent
Posted on August 09, 2010“Two men were jailed for life today for killing a pub landlord shot dead after a ‘trivial’ row over a laser pen shone at a car, police said.” Full story The Independent, 6th August 2010 Source: www.independent.co.uk
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