“Controversial forms which police have to fill in every time they stop someone in the street should be phased out by the end of next year, a Home Office minister said today.”
The Independent, 4th September 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Nearly half of all criminals released from jail reoffended within a year of being let out, figures have disclosed.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Clifford Chance, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and White & Case are among 64 law firms to receive a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2009 Corporate Equality Index, writes the Am Law Daily.”
Legal Week, 4th September 2008
Source: www.legalweek.com
“Two teenagers who murdered a student by pushing him into a fast-flowing river were jailed for life yesterday.”
The Independent, 5th September 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A mother who complained to shop staff that her seven-year-old son’s Superman playsuit was faulty was told data protection laws meant they could only deal with him.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A father and son accused of insider trading today asked for the case against them to be dismissed on procedural grounds.”
The Times, 4th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The ‘hysterical rhetoric of politicians attempting to ride the tiger of public opinion’ is fuelling the fear of crime, according to a commission headed by Cherie Booth. The Commission on English Prisons Today, led by the wife of the former prime minister, protested over the record prison population reached under the government led until last year by Tony Blair.”
The Independent, 5th September 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman who smuggled an unpaid servant into the UK and forced her to sleep in a cupboard has been jailed for two and a half years at Harrow Crown Court.”
BBC News, 4th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Fraudsters have begun cold-calling householders to accuse them of copyright infringement online and threaten them with court action, an ISP has reported.”
The Register, 4th September 2008
Source: www.theregister.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
RL & Anor, R. v [2008] EWCA Crim 1970 (28 August 2008)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Patents Court)
Zipher Ltd v Markem Systems Ltd & Anor [2008] EWHC 2078 (Pat) (01 September 2008)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The legal aid dispute which threatened to delay the start of the trial of a 17-year-old accused of murdering Rhys Jones in Liverpool has been settled.”
BBC News, 4th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Memos and emails showing how the Government’s Iraq war dossier was ‘sexed up’ must be released, the information commissioner has ordered.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th September 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In performing the necessary balancing exercise in relation to public interest immunity and the exercise of the court’s discretion to order disclosure, it was incumbent on the court to have regard to the absence of a relevant consideration in the PII certificate and schedule, namely, in the light of the allegations made by the claimant, the abhorrence and condemnation accorded to torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, an issue which the court considered was not addressed either expressly or implicitly.”
WLR Daily, 2nd September 2008
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.
R v RL and JF [2008] EWCA Crim 1970; [2008] WLR (D) 299
“A prosecution for the strict liability offence of causing polluting matter to enter controlled waters could be brought against either a club, as an unincorporated association, in its own name or against individual members.”
WLR Daily, 2nd September 2008
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.
“Mishcon de Reya, the law firm, and its star solicitor Anthony Julius have become embroiled in a High Court dispute involving an allegation of professional impropriety, it emerged today.”
The Times, 3rd September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Black Solicitors Network (BSN) is to launch a new City arm, as leading law firms continue their drive to attract a more diverse selection of new recruits.”
Legal Week, 4th September 2008
Source: www.legalweek.com
“Harriet Harman will today step up her drive to make buying sex illegal when she releases new figures showing that more than half of men and women support the move if it will reduce people-trafficking for sexual exploitation.”
The Guardian, 4th Spetember 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A High Court challenge has been launched to stop a French aircraft carrier being broken up in Britain after it was deemed too toxic to be taken apart in India.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd Septemeber 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Justice, the much-quoted saying goes, is open to all – like the Ritz Hotel. Access to the courts can often depend on the depth of a person’s pocket, with some of the best lawyers coming at a prohibitively high price. But lawyers’ fees aside, should the courts be a free public service, like the health service? Or should litigants who use them pay the cost?”
The Times, 4th September 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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