One year for ammunition smuggler – UK Border Agency
“A Cambridgeshire man has been sentenced to a year in prison for attempting to smuggle ammunition into the UK.”
UK Border Agency, 21st October 2010
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A Cambridgeshire man has been sentenced to a year in prison for attempting to smuggle ammunition into the UK.”
UK Border Agency, 21st October 2010
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Long term investors’ interests are too easily damaged by hostile takeovers, the Takeover Panel has said. It will amend the City’s rules on takeovers of publicly traded companies to protect the existing shareholders of target companies.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st October 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“OPINION: Everyone thought the question of what rights exist in football fixture lists was settled back in 2004 when the European Court of Justice concluded that the then new database right did not protect football fixture lists. It wasn’t.”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th October 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Three peers have been suspended from the Lords for wrongly claiming expenses totalling tens of thousands of pounds.”
BBC News, 21st October 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Wounds to the body of weapons inspector David Kelly were ‘typical of self-inflicted injury’, according to previously secret medical documents released today. Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke said he was publishing the documents on how Dr Kelly died ‘in the interests of maintaining public confidence in the inquiry into how Dr Kelly came by his death’. Lord Hutton, who conducted the inquiry into Dr Kelly’s death, ruled that the report should remain secret for 70 years, but there were a number of calls for another examination of the case.”
The Independent, 22nd October 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An investigation is under way after a police officer was filmed hitting an anti-fascist demonstrator in the face during a far-right rally.”
The Guardian, 21st October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A police force’s handling of a woman’s complaint that she was raped by a known sex offender was ‘so inept that it borders on the unbelievable’, an official report concluded today.”
The Guardian, 21st October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A broke businessman who executed an elderly couple in cold blood for their money was jailed for life today and told he would serve at least 30 years in prison for their murders.”
The Independent, 21st October 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An anti-paedophile vetting scheme that would have forced nine million people to undergo checks is to be ripped up under a review to be announced today, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”
Daily Telegraph, 22nd October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Porsche driver caught using a laser jammer to disable police speed guns has been banned in a landmark court ruling.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Two men have been convicted of murdering a shopkeeper during a robbery at his village store in West Yorkshire.”
BBC News, 21st October 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The senior presiding judge for England and Wales has said he cannot back the closure of 18 of the 103 magistrates’ courts earmarked for closure.”
BBC News, 21st October 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The implications of the Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) for local government legal services will be immense.”
The Lawyer, 20th October 2010
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Court rules for first time that prenups should have ‘decisive weight’ in English divorce courts after Nicolas Granatino challenged agreement with Katrin Radmacher.”
The Guardian, 20th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government must not hinder access to justice for personal injury victims as it takes forward Lord Young’s report on the ‘compensation culture’, lawyers’ groups have warned.”
Full story
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st October 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, today made an unexpected pledge to cut the record 85,000 daily prison population in England and Wales by 3,000 within four years.”
The Guardian, 20th October 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A rape victim who gave her baby away 20 years ago because she could not be sure if the child was her husband’s cannot now find out the truth because of adoption rules, a court has heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th October 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Supreme Court
Radmacher (formerly Granatino) v Granatino (Rev 1) [2010] UKSC 42 (20 October 2010)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
London Borough of Haringey v Hines [2010] EWCA Civ 1111 (20 October 2010)
Threlfall v Hull City Council [2010] EWCA Civ 1147 (20 October 2010)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Dowson & Ors v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2010] EWHC 2612 (QB) (20 October 2010)
High Court (Chancery Division)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Education (Inspectors of Education and Training in Wales) Order 2010
The Lords Office-holders Allowance Order 2010
The Reserve Forces Act 1996 (Isle of Man) Order 2010
The European Communities (Designation) (No. 4) Order 2010
The Montserrat Constitution Order 2010
The Armed Forces Act (Continuation) Order 2010
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk