“The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, has defended proposals to create a new generation of secret courts in the face of criticism from Nick Clegg and parliament’s human rights committee, saying the plans will make the system more accountable and more conducive to intelligence sharing with other countries.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The advertising watchdog has banned an ad campaign by American Apparel featuring semi-naked young women, after investigating a complaint that it is ‘pornographic and exploitative’.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
1215 and All That (PDF)
Speech by the Rt Hon Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Irish Legal History Society Lecture, 26th March 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Government proposals to extend the use of secret hearings in cases where evidence might compromise national security are a radical departure from the UK’s ‘traditions of open justice and fairness’, MPs and peers said today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th April 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Councils should be prepared to disclose the names of senior staff members involved in recruiting senior councillors or officials as well as details of the role they played in that recruitment, an Information Rights Tribunal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Legal Services Board – the independent body overseeing the regulation of lawyers in England and Wales – is today releasing its Interim Baseline Report on the Market Impact of the Legal Services Act 2007.”
Full story (PDF)
Legal Services Board, 4th April 2012
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
Related links:
Market impacts of the Legal Services Act – Interim Baseline Report (PDF)
“Sainsbury’s £10m ‘feed your family for £50’ advertising campaign has been banned because its meal plans failed to provide enough calories and cost more than advertised.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
19th Statute Law Repeals Report (PDF)
Law Commission, 4th April 2012
“The Annual Report of the Office of the Head of International Family Justice for England and Wales has just been published. Lord Justice Thorpe, Head of International Justice for England and Wales reports on the activities of ‘the Office’ during the period January-December 2011.”
Family Law Week, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
AH (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 395; [2012] WLR (D) 106
“In looking to the question whether an asylum seeker, who had been a member of a terrorist organisation and convicted of a crime outside the country of refuge, fell to be excluded from the Refugee Convention pursuant to article 1F(b) and (c) thereof, one had to avoid applying a presumption of individual liability; and in asking whether the crime in question was sufficiently ‘serious’ one also had to set the applicable threshold with care.”
WLR Daily, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights has now responded to the Government’s consultation on the proposals set out in their Justice and Security Green Paper Cm 8194. The idea is to extend ‘closed material procedures’ so as to be available in all civil proceedings, i.e. not just in some highly restricted national security contexts such as deportation appeals before SIAC (the Special Immigration Appeals Commission), control orders, and their successor regime known as TPIMs.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A judge who stopped a case brought by two terror suspects in order to save money was in the wrong, the Appeal Court has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Faniyan v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2012] EWCA Civ 411 (03 April 2012)
Central Bank of Nigeria v Williams [2012] EWCA Civ 415 (03 April 2012)
CB & Anor v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 418 (03 April 2012)
Council of the City of Sunderland v Brennan & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 413 (03 April 2012)
Turnbull v Warrener [2012] EWCA Civ 412 (03 April 2012)
J (Children), Re [2012] EWCA Civ 380 (03 April 2012)
Lomas & Ors v JFB Firth Rixson Inc & Ors [2012] EWCA Civ 419 (03 April 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Town and Country Planning (Trees) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2012
The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2012
The Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (Tribunal Composition) Order 2012
The Schools (Specification and Disposal of Articles) Regulations 2012
The Town and Country Planning (Compensation) (Wales) Regulations 2012
The Thurrock Development Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2012
The Education (Charges for Early Years Provision) Regulations 2012
The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2012
The Localism Act 2011 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provision) (Wales) Order 2012
The Land Compensation Development (Wales) Order 2012
The Authorised Officers (Meat Inspection) (Revocation) (Wales) Regulations 2012
The Commons Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) (Wales) Order 2012
The Pembrokeshire (St. Mary Out Liberty and Tenby Communities) Order 2012
The Planning Act 2008 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2012
The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Wales) Order 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“A miners’ leader once feted for opposing Arthur Scargill has been convicted for stealing nearly £150,000 from his own union’s charity.”
The Guardian, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Legal Services Board (LSB) has admitted that the 2007 Legal Services Act (LSA) has not resulted in sweeping changes to the profession, stating in a five-year progress report that it is ‘early days’ to judge its impact.”
The Lawyer, 4th April 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A former insurance salesman who abducted his daughter on her third birthday more than two years ago and refuses to reveal her whereabouts was today handed a fourth consecutive jail term by a High Court judge.”
The Independent, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Government’s ‘reinvigorated’ Right to Buy scheme is now in force and will apply to social housing tenants, following a consultation at the end of last year.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A man has been banned from carrying scissors in public after he sneaked up on two unsuspecting women and cut their hair.”
The Guardian, 3rd April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The identities of more than 160 child sex offenders have been exposed during the first year of the ‘Sarah’s Law’ scheme, which allows worried parents to check on anyone who has regular access to their children.”
The Independent, 4th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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