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Divorce

2012-07-26T00:00:00Z

Decree nisi - Rescission - Court granting unopposed decree nisi on wife’s petition based on husband’s adultery Kim v Morris: Fam Div (Mrs Justice Parker DBE): 2 May 2012 ...

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Vicarious liability

2012-07-26T00:00:00Z

Roman Catholic Church - Liability for tortious acts of priest - Claimant alleging sexual abuse and rape by Roman Catholic priest JGE v Trustees of the Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan: CA (Civ) (Lord Justices Ward, Tomlinson, Davis): 12 July ...

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'Commonsense' regulation

2012-07-25T00:00:00Z

I was moved to contribute some observations on regulation following a discussion with a solicitor client pulling their hair out at the delays in the Solicitors Regulation Authority investigation process; and having read Gregory Treverton-Jones QC’s article on the dangers of entity regulation.

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Making Libor claims stick

2012-07-23T00:00:00Z

Libor abuse is the latest of many sticks available to critics with which to flog the banking piñata, but as the Treasury Select Committee circled around former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond on 5 July to take turns waving it his way, it became clear that the full details of ...

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Negligence

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Causation - Breach of duty causing or contributing to damage Wilkin-Shaw v Fuller and Kingsley School: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Owen): 28 June 2012 The Queen's Bench Division, ...

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Criminal

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Hearsay - Admissibility of hearsay evidence - Murder R v Rowley: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Moore-Bick, Mr Justice Kenneth Parker and The Recorder of Newcastle (Sitting as a Judge of the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division)): ...

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Contract

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Validity - Settlement agreement Gaydamak v Leviev: Chancery Division (Mr Justice Vos): 29 June 2012 The Chancery Division, in dismissing the claimant’s claim to enforce an alleged agreement to split their interests in respect of the diamond trade in Angola, held that ...

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Disclosure

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Confidential information - Intellectual property Phillips v Mulcaire: Supreme Court (Lords Hope DP, Walker, Kerr, Clarke and Dyson SCJJ): 4 July 2012 The Supreme Court dismissed the defendant's appeal in ...

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Family

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Orders in family proceedings - Financial provision - Cohabitees Gow (FC) v Grant: Supreme Court (Lords Hope, DP, Wilson, Reed and Carnworth SCJJ, Lady Hale): 4 July 2012 The Supreme ...

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Intellectual property

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Patent - Infringement - Design HTC Europe Co Ltd v Apple Inc: Chancery Division, Patents Court (Mr Justice Floyd): 4 July 2012 The Chancery Division, Patents Court, held that a ...

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Local government: standards regime; disability payment challenge

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

So, farewell then, the Model Code of Conduct Order 2007. As 6 June saw the long-overdue birth of the (almost) final statutory measures to launch the new and battle-scarred standards regime, on 1 July the ancien standards régime was quietly euthanised - subject to the temporary reprieve of a few ...

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Intellectual property

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Interlocutory - Damages not appropriate remedy EMI (IP) Ltd v British Sky Broadcasting Group plc: Chancery Division (Mr John Baldwin QC (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the Chancery Division)): 25 June 2012 ...

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Tax

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Transactions involving fraudulent transaction - Revenue and Customs Commissioners refusing repayment of input tax Greener Solutions v Revenue and Customs Commissioners: Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) (Mr Justice Warren): 18 January 2012 ...

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Tax

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Capital allowance - Taxpayer company converting existing buildings into large public houses J D Wetherspoon plc v Revene and Customs Commissioners: Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) (Mr Justice Michael Briggs and Judge Howard Nowlan): 31 January 2012 ...

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Intellectual property

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Infringement - Use of similar trademark - ‘Budweiser’ Budejovicky Budvar Narodni Podnik v Anheuser-Busch Inc: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justice Ward, Mr Justice Warren, Sir Robin Jacob): 3 July 2012 ...

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EU

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Commission - Decision - Applicant software company found to have abused dominant position in PC operating system market Microsoft Corporation v European Commission: General Court of the European Union (Second Chamber) (Judges Forwood (rapporteur) (president), Dehousse, Schwarcz): 27 June ...

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EU

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Reference to European Court - Request for preliminary ruling concerning interpretation of EU law NS v Secretary of State for the Home Department and other cases: Court of Justice of the European Union (Grand Chamber): Judges Skouris (president), Tizzano, ...

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Evidence

2012-07-19T00:00:00Z

Foreign tribunal - Evidence for purpose of criminal proceedings - Disclosure and inspection of documents R (on the application of Omar and others) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: QBD (Admin) (Sir Anthony May ­(president), ...

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Employment

2012-07-12T00:00:00Z

Procedure - Claim - Whether judge having power to make order Fairbank v Care Management Group and another case: Employment Appeal Tribunal (Mr Justice Slade): 20 March 2012 The Employment ...

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Family proceedings

2012-07-12T00:00:00Z

Occupation order - Parties being married for 20 years Re L (Children) (Occupation order: absence of domestic violence): Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Justices Thorpe, Aikens and Black): 4 April 2012 ...