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Intellectual Property
Trademarks - Community trademark Meredith Corp v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM): General Court of the European Union (Fourth Chamber) (Judges Pelikanova (President), Jurimae (Rapporteur) and Van der Woude): 7 September 2011 ...
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Intellectual Property
Trademarks - 'Likelihood of confusion' Omnicare Inc v Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs): General Court of the European Union (First Chamber) (Judges Azizi (President), Cremona and Frimodt Nielsen (Rapporteur)): 9 September 2011 ...
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Abuse of process
Striking out Action - Claimant bringing claim against defendant for collective enfranchisement Westbrook Dolphin Square Ltd v Friends Provident Life and Pensions Ltd: ChD (Mr Justice Arnold): 14 September 2011 ...
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Abuse of process
Striking out Action - Claimant bringing claim against defendant for collective enfranchisement Westbrook Dolphin Square Ltd v Friends Provident Life and Pensions Ltd: ChD (Mr Justice Arnold): 14 September 2011 ...
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Equalities and austerity cuts
The journey of Ulysses was classically eventful and hazardous. Local authorities seeking to effect necessary budget cuts can find their journey through the public sector equality duty and its predecessors equally challenging. Many local authorities, such as Birmingham, have fallen by the wayside, even though (as the old 1930s song ...
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Legal issues arising from prisoners’ segregation
Several recent cases have considered the legality of segregating prisoners and the safeguards to be implemented to ensure that segregated prisoners’ rights are adequately protected and that the lawfulness of their segregation is properly reviewed. The challenges to the legality of the disciplinary or review procedures have served to clarify ...
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Immigration
Rules - Compatibility with human rights - Claimants appealing R (on the application of Syed) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Patel v Secretary of State for the Home Department: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Sir Anthony ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence R v X: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Pitchford, Mr Justice Wilkie, Mr Justice Holroyde): 6 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Conspiracy to supply drugs R v Kotecha; R v Kotecha; R v Kakkad; R v Suvania: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Pitchford, Mr Justice Wilkie, Mr Justice Holroyde): 6 September 2011 ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence - Conspiracy to supply Class A drug Attorney General's Reference (No 40 of 2011) R v Williams: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division (Lord Justice Pitchford, Mr Justice Tugendhat, Mr Justice Griffith Williams, judgment delivered ...
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Sentencing
Imprisonment - Length of sentence R v Johnson: Court of Appeal, Criminal Division: 8 September 2011 The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, allowed an appeal by the defendant against an ...
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PFI; refusing requests; public sector salaries
Public authorities often enter into outsourcing and private finance initiative (PFI) arrangements with the private sector to run services or deliver capital projects. These are often the subject of complex requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoI). Sometimes the private sector will ...