News – Page 241

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    Insolvency

    2012-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Property available for distribution – Pari passu – Anti-deprivation Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Football League Ltd: ChD (Mr Justice David Richards): 25 May 2012 The Chancery Division declined the ...

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    Extradition

    2012-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Extradition hearing – European Arrest Warrant – Appellant being arrested pursuant to European Arrest Warrant Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority: SC (Justices of the Supreme Court, Lords Phillips (president), Walker, Brown, Mance, Kerr, Dyson, Lady Hale): 30 May 2012 ...

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    Greenwich LBC sees off equality challenge

    2012-06-14T00:00:00Z

    Greenwich Community Law Centre (the law centre) once again failed to overturn a decision by Greenwich London Borough Council (the council) after the law centre was not reappointed following a recommissioning exercise. On 24 April, the Court of Appeal, in upholding the 21 December 2011 decision of Cranston J, found ...

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    CCRC concern over advice given to refugees

    2012-06-14T00:00:00Z

    The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is concerned that potentially hundreds of asylum seekers and refugees have been wrongly convicted after being advised to plead guilty to offences relating to their entry to the UK.

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    Licensing

    2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Sex establishment - Control - Whether fee determined by authority Hemming (t/a Simply Pleasure Ltd) and others v Westminster City Council: QBD (Admin): 16 May 2012Hemming (t/a Simply Pleasure Ltd) and others v Westminster City Council: QBD (Admin) (Mr ...

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    Competition

    2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

    Merger - Substantial lessening of competition - Whether tribunal erring Ryanair Holdings plc v Office of Fair Trading and another: CA (Civ Div) (Sir Andrew Morritt, Lord Justice Hughes, Lord Justice McFarlane): 22 May 2012 ...

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    New route for graduate entrepreneurs

    2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

    On 6 April 2012, a number of changes to the UK Immigration Rules came into force. Among the significant reforms given effect at that time was the addition of a new scheme under the points-based system, Tier 1 (graduate entrepreneur).

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    Matrimonial lawyers and accounting experts

    2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

    European finance ministers are currently learning what matrimonial lawyers have known for years - a change in relationship is rarely straightforward when there is a lot of money at stake.

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    Intellectual property

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Database rights - Infringement Football Dataco Ltd and other companies v Sportradar GMBH and another company; Football Dataco Ltd and other companies v Stan James Abingdon Ltd and other companies: Chancery Division (Mr Justice Floyd): 8 May 2012 ...

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    Local government

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Council tax - Respondent being non-British spouse of foreign student Harrow Borough of London v Ayiku: Queen's Bench Division, Administrative Court (London) (Mr Justice Sales): 9 May 2012 The Administrative ...

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    Conveyancing panels

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    The recent announcement of ­automatic admission for CQS firms to the HSBC panel is a welcome return to normality. Perhaps not quite ‘as you were’, but a major step towards recognition that the best interests of our clients and their borrowers are served by a ­diversity of choice within the ...

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    Insurance

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Liability insurance - Determination of proximate cause - Damage to goods being found European Group Ltd and others v Chartis Insurance UK Ltd: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Popplewell): 11 May 2012 ...

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    Case management - a more robust approach

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Guntrip v Cheney Coaches Ltd, [2012] EWCA Civ 392, Ward, Elias and Lewison LJJ; Fred Perry Holdings Ltd v Brands Plaza Trading Ltd & Another [2012] EWCA Civ 224, Jackson and Lewison LJJ.

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    Company

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Receiver - Solicitor - Negligence - Claimant company suffering losses from fire Edenwest Ltd v CMS Cameron McKenna: ChD (Mr Justice Hildyard): 14 May 2012 The claimant company carried out ...

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    Practice

    2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

    Pre-trial or post-judgment relief - Freezing order - Committal order - Disclosure JSC BTA Bank v Mukhtar Ablyazov and others; JSC BTA Bank v Addleshaw Goddard LLP: QBD (Comm) (Mr Justice Teare): 15 May 2012 ...

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    Keeping the Pirates at Bay (or away from it)

    2012-05-25T00:00:00Z

    In 2003, a group of friends living in Sweden launched a website which quickly became one of the most notorious sites on the internet - a file-sharing website known as The Pirate Bay. The High Court has now instructed five internet service providers (ISPs) to take measures to block their ...

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    Intellectual property

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Patents Court - Jurisdiction Suh and another v Ryu and others: Patents County Court (Judge Birss QC): 3 May 2012 The Patents County Court held that regulation 3(2)(b) of the ...

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    Intellectual property

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Patent - Infringement - Order for destruction Merck Canada Inc and another v Sigma Pharmaceuticals plc: Patents County Court (Judge Birss QC): 3 May 2012 The Patents County Court granted ...

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    Contract

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Condition - Breach - Effect - Defendant terminating agreement Deiulemar Shipping SpA and another v Transfield ER Futures Ltd: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr C Edelman QC (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the Commercial Court)): 18 April ...

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    Criminal evidence

    2012-05-24T00:00:00Z

    Hearsay - Document - Whether conviction on count 1 unsafe R v Ibrahim: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Aikens, Mr Justice Field and Judge Nicholas Cooke QC): 27 April 2012 ...