“One in 10 emergency calls to police are categorised as domestic violence related, rising in some areas to a fifth of all 999 alerts.”
The Guardian, 24th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Warring parents are increasingly attempting to ‘brainwash’ their children to get the upper hand in custody disputes, according to lawyers.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former spy is suing the Metropolitan police for failing to ‘protect’ him from falling in love with one of the environmental activists whose movement he infiltrated.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Dozens of super-rich criminals – some worth tens of millions – have received vast sums in legal aid despite their illicit fortunes, an investigation has revealed.”
BBC News, 26th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The justice secretary’s promise to give householders the right to deploy ‘disproportionate force’ in defending their homes will be incorporated into a parliamentary bill this week.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The head of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), Lord Hunt, has said there is widespread agreement within the media for a proposed new self-regulation body he is arguing should be introduced in the wake of the Leveson report into press standards, which is published on Thursday.”
The Guardian, 26th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government wants to give more prisoners on sentences of less than 12 months a mentor – who may themselves be an ex-offender – to try to cut reoffending.”
BBC News, 26th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two specific criminal offences of stalking have come into force in England and Wales for the first time.”
The Independent, 26th November 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“UBS has been fined £30m by the UK’s Financial Services Authority – and could see its investment banking activities hampered by the Swiss regulator – after the former trader Kweku Adoboli was jailed for fraud.”
The Guardian, 26th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who threatened his neighbour with a sexual aid tucked into his trousers has been jailed for five years after police mistook it for a firearm.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A working father who refused to leave his family-owned land in the ‘millionaires’ row’ of a picturesque village while he sought permission for a £32,000 eco-house has been jailed.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd November 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An elderly man who lied about his failing eyesight has been jailed after he killed a pedestrian.”
BBC News, 23rd November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Arrowgame Ltd v Maxwell Brent Wildsmith & Ors [2012] EWHC 3315 (Ch) (22 November 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Terna Bahrain Holding Company Wll v Al Shamsi & Ors [2012] EWHC 3283 (Comm) (22 November 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames v Kubicek [2012] EWCA 3292 (QB) (23 November 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The decision to deport an individual and the grant of conditional bail pending deportation did not involve a determination of civil rights within the meaning of article 6 of the Convention for the Protections of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and accordingly the fair trial provisions in article 6 had no application to that decision. Where bail conditions interfered with an individual’s article 8 rights to protection of private and family life but did not amount to deprivation of liberty, the individual had to be able to make an effective challenge to the decision but was not without more entitled to the disclosure of information relating to the national security case against him.”
WLR Daily, 19th November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society and others: [2012] UKSC 56; [2012] WLR (D) 335
“A lay Catholic teaching order whose brother members were assigned by it to teach at various schools was jointly vicariously liable with the school management body for acts of physical and sexual abuse committed by the brothers while employed by the school management body at a residential school.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Samin v Westminster City Council: [2012] EWCA Civ 1468; [2012] WLR (D) 336
“A migrant worker from another EU member state who could not establish that he was temporarily unable to work as a result of illness or accident within regulation 6(2)(a) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 was not entitled to housing provision from a local authority as a homeless person under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Shagroon v Sharbatly: [2012] EWCA Civ 1507; [2012] WLR (D) 337
“An English court would not recognise an overseas divorce, even if it was recognised by the country where the divorce had taken place, if the marriage performed between the parties was not recognised or recognisable in English law within the meaning of the Marriage Acts 1949 to 1986. Therefore, an English court had no jurisdiction to entertain a financial relief claim made under section 12 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 by a party to such a marriage.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The provisions of Schedule 21 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which enabled the court in a case of exceptional seriousness to sentence an offender to life imprisonment with a whole life term as the specified minimum sentence, were not incompatible with and did not contravene article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms provided the judge specifying the minimum term was satisfied that, taking into account all the aggravating and mitigating factors, the element of just punishment and retribution required the imposition of a whole life order.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
The Land Charges Fees (Amendment) Rules 2012
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 30 and Consequential Amendment) Order 2012
The Inheritance Tax (Market Makers and Discount Houses) Regulations 2012
The Income Tax (Purchased Life Annuities) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2012
The Official Secrets Act 1989 (Prescription) (Amendment) Order 2012
The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012
The Land Charges (Amendment) Rules 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
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