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Lord Chancellor’s incorrect statement
The Lord Chancellor Kenneth Clarke gave evidence to the Joint Select Committee on Privacy and Injunctions on 16 January 2012 (uncorrected evidence published on 23 January 2012). In answer to a question by Lord Boateng, Clarke said:
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Human rights
Prison - Prisoner - Management and treatment of prisoners Grant and another v Ministry of Justice: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Hickinbottom): 19 December 2011 The Queen's Bench Division dismissed ...
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Injunctions
Practice - Pre-trial or post judgment relief - Freezing order Parbulk II AS v PT Humpuss Intermoda Transportasi TBK and other companies: Queen's Bench Division, Commercial Court (Mr Justice Gloster): 30 November 2011 ...
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Injunctions
Practice - Appeal - Permission to appeal Hutcheson (formerly known as WER) v Popdog Ltd (formerly known as REW): Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Neuberger, Lord Justices Etherton and Gross): 19 December 2011 ...
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Injunctions
Practice - Appeal - Permission to appeal Hutcheson (formerly known as WER) v Popdog Ltd (formerly known as REW): Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Neuberger, Lord Justices Etherton and Gross): 19 December 2011 ...
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Libel and slander
Defamatory words - Words capable of defamatory meaning Dell'Olio v Associated Newspapers Ltd: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Tugendhat): 20 December 2011 The Queen's Bench Division held that the words ...
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Libel and slander
Defamatory words - Words capable of defamatory meaning Rothschild v Associated Newspapers Ltd: Queen's Bench Division (Mr Justice Tugendhat): 21 December 2011 The Queen's Bench Division held that in ...
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Environment
Electricity - Supply - Feed-in tariff R (on the application of Friends of the Earth Ltd) v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change; R (on the application of Homesun Holdings Ltd) v Secretary of State for Energy ...
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The Stop Delaying Justice! initiative
Stop Delaying Justice! is coming into practice in magistrates’ courts across England and Wales this month. This is an initiative led by the judiciary in the magistrates’ courts, with judges and magistrates working together. The intention is that contested trials will be fully case-managed at the first hearing and take ...
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Local authority
Library - Public library - Duty of library authority R (on the application of Bailey and others) v Brent London Borough Council: Court of Appeal, Civil Division (Lord Justices Pill, Richards and Davis): 19 December 2011 ...
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Mediation, unreasonable behaviour and costs
Mediation as an effective dispute resolution method for civil disputes is well established. Therefore it was not surprising that Lord Justice Jackson reinforced the important role of mediation in chapter 36 of his Review of Civil Litigation Costs Final Report: ‘The most important form of ADR… is mediation. The reason ...
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Employment
Contract of service - Church - Claimant being minister of Methodist church Preston v President of the Methodist Church: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Maurice Kay (vice-president), Longmore and Sir David Keene): 20 December 2011 ...
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Competition
Merger - Substantial lessening of competition Claimant airline seeking to purchase 30% share in second respondent airline Ryanair Holdings plc v Office of Fair Trading and another: CA (Civ Div) (Lord Justices Lloyd, Elias and Kitchin): 21 December 2011 ...