Man jailed for stepdaughter rape – BBC News

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in news, rape, sentencing by sally

“A man who raped his teenage stepdaughter making her pregnant before she suffered a miscarriage, has been jailed for 12 years.”

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BBC News, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Verdict on prison death quashed – BBC News

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in inquests, news, prisons, suicide by sally

“A fresh inquest has been ordered into the death of a prison inmate who was found hanged in his cell.”

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BBC News, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in legislation by sally

The Armed Forces Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2009

The European Parliamentary Elections (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

The Immigration and Nationality (Fees) Regulations 2009

The Immigration (Biometric Registration) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

The Armed Forces (Naval Chaplains) Regulations 2009

The Mental Capacity (Deprivation of Liberty: Monitoring and Reporting; and Assessments -Amendment) Regulations 2009

The Zimbabwe (Financial Sanctions) Regulations 2009

The Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Wales) Regulations 2009

Source: www.opsi.gov.uk

Rapist has sentence cut on appeal – BBC News

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in news, rape, sentencing by sally

“A man who raped a woman he kidnapped from a supermarket car park has had his sentence cut at the Court of Appeal.”

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BBC News, 2nd April 2009

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Kidnappers detained for 34 years – BBC News

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in conspiracy, false imprisonment, news, sentencing by sally

“A gang of kidnappers who held a man for 23 hours have been given jail terms ranging from eight to four years.”

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BBC News, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

BBC fined £150,000 over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross phone prank scandal – The Guardian

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in media, news by sally

“Ofcom censures corporation over offensive messages Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left on Andrew Sachs’s voicemail.”

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The Guardian, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Licences plan for clamping firms – BBC News

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in licensing, news, wheel clamping by sally

“Wheel clamping companies will have to conform to tough new licensing regulations in order to operate, under new Home Office proposals.”

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BBC News, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Playboy TV fined over sex scenes – BBC News

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in media, news by sally

“Ofcom has fined Playboy TV £22,500 for broadcasting unencrypted explicit ‘adult material.’ ”

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BBC News, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Only 14 firms become first-wave LDPs – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in legal disciplinary practices, news by sally

“The legal profession has largely snubbed the first wave of the Legal Services Act’s business structure reforms, with only 14 legal disciplinary practices up and running as the new regime came into force on Tuesday.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 2nd April 2009

Source: www.lawgazette.org.uk

Access to civil justice is failing, says Association of District Judges president – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in fees, legal aid, news by sally

“Access to justice in the civil courts is worse than it was a decade ago and is set to decline further, according to the new president of the Association of District Judges.”

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Law Society’s Gazette. 2nd April 2009

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

Doleman v Shaw – WLR Daily

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in assignment, law reports, leases, winding up by sally

Doleman v Shaw [2009] EWCA Civ 283; [2009] WLR (D) 115

On a true construction of s 178(4) of the Insolvency Act 1986, on the disclaimer of a lease by a liquidator, although the company ceased to be bound by the tenant covenants so far as its own obligations were concerned, it was treated as still bound so far as third party obligations were concerned.”

WLR Daily, 1st April 2009

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.

 

In re A (Child: Overseas adoption) – Times Law Reports

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in adoption, law reports by sally

In re A (Child: Overseas adoption)

Court of Appeal

“In the context of an overseas adoption, a child’s home with prospective adopters during the period of ten weeks immediately prior to the making of an order for parental responsibility was not required to be in the United Kingdom.”

The Times, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Dobson and Others v Thames Water Utilities Ltd – Times Law Reports

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in damages, law reports, nuisance, utilities by sally

Dobson and Others v Thames Water Utilities Ltd

Court of Appeal

“Where a court was considering an award of damages to an occupier of land for loss of amenity following transitory nuisance, the actual impact on the occupier would be relevant.”

The Times, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Kelly and Another v GE Healthcare Ltd – Times Law Reports

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in compensation, law reports, patents by sally

Kelly and Another v GE Healthcare Ltd

Chancery Division

“Compensation for employed inventors of inventions of outstanding benefit to the employer should be determined after the event, not before, in accordance with all available evidence so as to secure a just and fair reward to the employee.”

The Times, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

UK Border Agency reaches full agency status and publishes framework agreement and business plan – UK Border Agency

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in immigration, press releases by sally

“The UK Border Agency, which was established as a shadow executive agency in April 2008, has today begun to operate as a full executive agency of the Home Office. ”

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UK Border Agency, 1st April 2009

Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk

New measures to boost United Kingdom fight against human trafficking – UK Border Agency

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in press releases, trafficking in human beings by sally

“Victims of human trafficking will receive better protection and support under new measures coming into force in the United Kingdom today.”

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UK Border Agency, 1st April 2009

Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk

Attorney General decision on Binyam – Attorney General’s Office

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in attorney general, intelligence services, press releases, torture by sally

“Attorney General decision on Binyam Mohamed investigation.”

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Attorney General’s Office. 26th March 2009

Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk

Important changes to the Bar’s complaints and disciplinary system – Bar Standards Board

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in barristers, disciplinary procedures, press releases by sally

“The Bar Standards Board is pleased to announce that, following a review of the complaints and disciplinary system, new improvements to the system have been introduced.”

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Bar Standards Board, 31st March 2009

Source: www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

Buy-to-let tycoon jailed for conning millions from investors – The Guardian

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in fraud, news, sentencing by sally

“A buy-to-let property tycoon who conned investors out of millions of pounds to fund lavish lifestyles for himself and the firm’s directors was jailed today.”

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The Guardian, 2nd April 2009

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Did the handling of the G20 protests reveal the future of policing? – The Guardian

Posted April 3rd, 2009 in demonstrations, news, police by sally

“This week police used ‘kettling’ – penning marchers in an area and refusing to let them out – to deal with the G20 demonstrations. Is this really the most sensible way to tackle protests?”

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The Guardian, 3rd April 2009

Source: www.guardian.co.uk