“A 19-year-old man convicted of murdering a teenager as she babysat her sister’s two children in Hertfordshire has been given a life sentence.”
BBC News, 25th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The campaign to win a pardon for the UK’s computer genius Alan Turing has been stepped up by the introduction today of a Private Members Bill in the House of Lords.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Charlotte Church has received an apology and damages from the People after it falsely claimed she drunkenly proposed to her partner in a pub last year.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court
RT (Zimbabwe) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] UKSC 38 (25 July 2012)
Perry & Ors v Serious Organised Crime Agency [2012] UKSC 35 (25 July 2012)
Hewage v Grampian Health Board [2012] UKSC 37 (25 July 2012)
T (Children), Re [2012] UKSC 36 (25 July 2012)
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council v Hickin [2012] UKSC 39 (25 July 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
EJ (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 1013 (25 July 2012)
NHS Leeds v Larner [2012] EWCA Civ 1034 (25 July 2012)
The Hospital Medical Group Ltd v Westwood [2012] EWCA Civ 1005 (24 July 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
TT, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Merton [2012] EWHC 2055 (Admin) (25 July 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Source: www.bailii.org
“This Issues Paper looks at unfair terms in contracts between businesses and consumers. During 2012, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is consulting on a package of measures to clarify consumer law, to be introduced by primary and secondary legislation. This provides an opportunity to clarify the law on unfair terms as it affects consumers.”
Law Commission, 25th July 2012
Source: http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
“Monday night’s fascinating seminar on Article 9, ‘Outlawing God’, saw Dinah Rose QC, John Bowers QC, Dr Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat former MP) and Rabbi Michael Laitner (solicitor and Orthodox rabbi) square off over the relationship of the courts to religious belief and believers, refereed (and sometimes stoked) by Joshua Rozenberg in the chair.“
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Swift v. Secretary of State for Justice [2012] EWHC 2000 (QB) Eady J, read judgment. This decision involves the intersection of Articles 8 (family) and 14 (discrimination) of the ECHR with the law governing who can recover damages for the death of a relative. This law is the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (for the text see [10] of the judgment – embarrassingly, the one freely available on the internet is out of date). One does not to think for very long before realising that the FAA is underpinned by an idea that one ought to respect the rights of the family, and to pay the family when one has negligently caused the death of a family member. But like all such laws, there is the problem of where to stop – where does the family stop for these purposes?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th July 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Government may have failed to abide by EU copyright laws if volunteer-run libraries are not required to pay authors royalties when they loan out books, the Society of Authors (SoA) has claimed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK’s data protection watchdog is reminding firms that they must notify it and be registered in order to process personal data.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Government today set out its proposals to enhance the UK designs legal framework to make the system more accessible for businesses.”
Intellectual Property Office, 24th July 2012
Source: www.ipo.gov.uk
“The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court ruling that Secretary of State Eric Pickles must reconsider his refusal of plans for 280 homes on a greenfield site at Sandbach, Cheshire.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Several leading UK internet service providers have refused to sign a code of conduct designed to guarantee ‘full and open access’ to the net.”
BBC News, 25th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government is urging Border Agency workers not to hold a strike on the eve of the Olympics, arguing it is the ‘wrong time.’ ”
BBC News, 25th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A father who was denied access to his children for three years because it upset their mother suffered a breach of his parental rights, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Basildon council is preparing to bring back bailiffs after travellers removed from Europe’s largest illegal site at Dale Farm in Essex moved to a neighbouring settlement.”
The Guardian, 25th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Pre-emptive arrests, confinement by kettling and the gathering of personal data give police officers ‘excessive and disproportionate’ control over public protests, a report by a coalition of police monitoring groups has warned.”
The Guardian, 24th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teacher has been jailed for 11 years for sexually abusing five boys at public schools in Berkshire and Kent.”
BBC News, 24th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A bomb hoaxer who caused the closure of London’s Tottenham Court Road after throwing equipment from the fifth floor of an office block has been jailed.”
BBC News, 24th july 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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