from the Inner Temple Library
“Ministers have hit out at Britain’s consumer regulators as an official review is launched to investigate why people have not been protected from alleged profiteering by utility firms, banks and rail companies.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police has said it will not launch a perjury investigation into ex-royal butler Paul Burrell until after the Princess Diana inquest concludes.”
BBC News, 7th March 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The convicted killer Kenneth Noye won permission today to bring a legal challenge over the refusal of the Criminal Cases Review Commission to refer his conviction for the murder of Stephen Cameron back to the court of appeal.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A legal battle to release a secret intelligence report which could free the Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is to continue after judges ruled the foreign secretary had the right to suppress the document.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal Services Commission v Rasool [2008] EWCA Civ 154; WLR (D) 75
“For the purposes of limitation and ascertaining the date of accrual of a cause of action permitting the Legal Services Commission to recover costs following revocation of a legal aid certificate, it was not a condition precedent that the quantum of any such costs should first be established before time started to run.”
WLR Daily, 6th March 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.
Regina (AM) (Cameroon) v Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (No 2)
Court of Appeal
“Where a listing mistake meant a statutory review of an immigration appeal went ahead, resulting in a final determination, before a judicial review application had been heard, the judicial review should be heard and the final determination set aside; otherwise the applicant would suffer serious injustice for which there was no other remedy.”
The Times, 7th March 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.
“Technology and Construction Court Annual Report 2006/2007.”
Judiciary of England & Wales, 5th March 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Justice Minister Bridget Prentice has made a written ministerial statement announcing the government’s response to the Law Commission’s paper on the financial consequences of relationship breakdown for cohabiting couples.”
Ministry of Justice, 6th March 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Home Secretary has announced details of the plan for a system of national ID cards.”
Home Office, 6th March 2008
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Plans to give two million cohabiting partners similar rights to married couples have been shelved by ministers.”
The Times, 7th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An underworld gun dealer has been jailed for 15 years after being caught with an arsenal of firearms that included a handgun with four barrels capable of firing at once.”
The Times, 7th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A woman aged 65 who became the victim of an online smear campaign that she says made her ‘look like a sexual predator’ called yesterday for stricter controls on social networking websites.”
The Times, 7th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The use of restraint techniques involving deliberate physical pain in privately run child prisons should be abolished without delay, according to a report from MPs and peers published today.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Spain yesterday dropped its attempt to extradite two British residents who had been freed from Guantánamo Bay, after accepting that torture they suffered during five years of American custody had left them too weak to stand trial.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s former butler, has refused to return from the US to explain a statement he made to an undercover reporter that he had not told the whole truth when he gave evidence at the inquest into her death.”
The Guardian, 7th March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man has been ordered to serve at least 38 years in prison for bludgeoning to death a woman and her two children with a hammer.”
The Independent, 7th March 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An Iranian lesbian who fled to Britain after her girlfriend was arrested and sentenced to death faces being forcibly returned after losing the latest round in her battle to be granted asylum.”
The Independent, 7th March 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A university student has been forced to give his DNA to police because he failed to buy a £2.40 rail fare.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The mother of a five-year-old boy who died during an E.coli outbreak has told an inquiry of the anger she felt towards the butcher who supplied the contaminated meat.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
