Teenager jailed for murder over Facebook insult – The Guardian

Posted June 22nd, 2010 in murder, news, sentencing, young offenders by sally

“A 16-year-old boy who fatally stabbed a former friend over a ‘loss of face’ after they traded insults on Facebook was jailed for at least 14 years today.”

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The Guardian, 22nd June 2010

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

2010 Budget – HM Treasury

Posted June 22nd, 2010 in budgets, news by sally

“The Chancellor, George Osborne, today presented the first Budget of the Coalition Government.”

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HM Treasury, 22nd June 2010

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FA (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily

Posted June 22nd, 2010 in appeals, asylum, immigration, law reports by sally

FA (Iraq) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 696; [2010] WLR (D) 152

“Where a person who had been granted leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom for a year or more appealed against the refusal of his claim for asylum under s 83 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 he was entitled, by virtue of the principle of equivalence under Community law, to include the refusal of his claim for humanitarian protection in the appeal.”

WLR Daily, 21st June 2010

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Rabone and another v Pennine Care NHS Trust – WLR Daily

Posted June 22nd, 2010 in appeals, duty of care, hospitals, law reports, suicide by sally

Rabone and another v Pennine Care NHS Trust [2010] EWCA Civ 698; [2010] WLR (D) 152

“Health trusts did not have an obligation to take special preventive measures to protect voluntary mental patients from the risk of suicide, even where that risk was ‘real and immediate’. The obligation existed in the case of persons for whom the state had assumed responsibility by their detention under the Mental Health Act 1983.”

WLR Daily, 21st June 2010

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Bulger killer child pornography case: Judge lifts ban – The Guardian

“A judge today ruled that the public can be told that Jon Venables, one of the killers of two-year-old James Bulger, has been charged with downloading and distributing child pornography.”

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The Guardian, 21st June 2010

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