Current Awareness

 Welsh Ministers v Care Standards Tribunal and another [2008] WLR (D) 8

“The registration of an individual as a manager under Part II of the Care Standards Act 2000 had to relate to a specific establishment or agency. It was not necessarily the case however that all appeals to the Care Standards Tribunal concerning applications for registration as a manager where the premises in question had ceased to be available to the applicant should be struck out as being misconceived or having no reasonable prospect of success.”

WLR Daily, 25th January 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

Please note: once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed. 

Marchant v Dixon [2008] EWCA Civ 11; [2008] WLR (D) 7

“Re-marriage shortly after the making of a consent order which had provided for payment of a lump sum to capitalise a wife’s periodical payments did not constitute a ‘Barder event’ invalidating the order.”

WLR Daily, 25th January 2008Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

Please note: once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed. 

 Irving v Revenue & Customs Commissioners [2007] EWCA Civ 6

“An employer who placed shares in an employee’s retirement benefit scheme was to be treated as having “paid a sum” into the scheme for the purposes of s 595(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (since repealed), rendering the employee liable to income tax on the value of the shares.”

WLR Daily, 25th January 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

Please note: once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed. 

“Two high-profile cases have focused public attention on a defendant’s right to bail.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 24th January 2008

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

“Hundred of criminal barristers have refused to sign a new contract for high-value legal aid work in a move that will put the very high-cost case (VHCC) regime in jeopady.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 24th January 2008

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
 

“Serious flaws existed in the training of British soldiers to deal with Iraqi prisoners, a report is expected to say.”

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BBC News, 25th January 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

“Tough new measures to protect the public from terrorism were introduced in Parliament today, as the Home Office published the Counter-terrorism Bill 2008.”

Full press release

Home Office,  24th January 2008

Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk

“The third annual report of the Advocacy Training Council (ATC) marks the closing contribution of Edwin Glasgow CBE QC as Chairman.”

Full report

The Bar Council, 25th January 2008

Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk

Fleming (t/a Bodycraft) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners
Conde Nast Publications Ltd v Same

House of Lords

“There was a breach of European Union law in the absence of a transitional period when the legislature introduced a retrospective time limit within which those liable to value-added tax could make a claim for overpaid input tax.”

The Times, 25th January 2008 

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
 

White v Herefordshire Council

Court of Appeal

“A purchase notice under Part VI of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 could not be amended but there was nothing to prevent the landowner from serving a second notice if, for example, the planning authority decided the first was defective.”

The Times, 25th January 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.

“More than four in ten maternity units in England offer poor or below average care, a report by the healthcare watchdog concludes today.”

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The Times, 25th January 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“A controversial proposal by the Government to extend pre-charge detention for terror suspects to up to 42 days could undermine the help that Muslim groups are giving police, according to the Home Office’s official assessment of the measure.”

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The Times, 25th January 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“More than one in ten psychiatrists has been stalked by patients or their associates, a survey suggests. A report commissioned by the Royal College of Psychiatrists has found that 10.7 per cent of its members have been victims of stalking, while one in three had suffered harassment under legal and academic definitions of the term.”

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The Times, 25th January 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

“Gordon Brown was forced into the first unwanted and damaging cabinet reshuffle of his six months as prime minister last night after Peter Hain resigned his post as he faced the prospect of being questioned under caution by police investigating more than £100,000 of undeclared donations.”

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The Guardian, 25th January 2008

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

“A vicar accused of spitting at a churchwarden and acting ‘like a medieval pope’ faces the sack after a church court ruled he should be moved from his parish.”

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The Guardian, 25th January 2008

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

“Twenty-five people were arrested in dawn raids yesterday as police tried to shut down a gang which trafficked children from Romania and forced them to steal and rob on the streets of London.”

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The Guardian, 25th January 2008

Source: www.guardian.co.uk