High Court (Chancery Division)
Far Out Productions Inc v Unilever UK & CN Holdings Ltd [2009] EWHC B42 (Ch) (16 December 2009)
High Court (Administrative Division)
Oakes v Secretary of State for Justice & Ors [2009] EWHC B27 (Admin) (17 December 2009)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Only 33,000 of the 4.9m crimes the police recorded last year were solved as a result of a match on the national DNA database, police admitted today.”
The Guardian, 5th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A trainee police officer who was forced to cut his shoulder-length hair has failed in his claim that the order constituted sex discrimination. An Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) said that the police force’s dress code was fair.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th January 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A record rise in the number of complaints against MI5 and other bodies authorised to spy on the public is being investigated by judges appointed to oversee the use of surveillance powers in Britain.”
The Independent, 6th January 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The power for a private individual to seek an arrest warrant from a British court for a foreign national they wish to prosecute is an unusual but not unique quirk of English law. The ability, which derives from the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, is also available in varying forms in the Netherlands, Spain, the Czech Republic and New Zealand.”
The Times, 6th January 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Baroness Scotland announces plans to alter laws after attempts to obtain warrants against Israeli generals for war crimes.”
The Guardian, 5th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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