‘Remember the three girls from Bethnal Green Academy, who in February slipped through Gatwick security to join so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)? If, watching the footage, you exclaimed to yourself, “how can we stop this?”, then read on. Eight months and a massacre in Tunisia later, the Courts have intervened in more than 35 cases to prevent the flight of children to Syria or to seek their return.’
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UK Human Rights Blog, 30th October 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A man who received compensation after being failed by Liverpool social services as an orphaned child has said the award was a “token gesture”.’
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BBC News, 2nd November 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Six police and crime commissioners have threatened the Home Office with legal action over changes to the way police forces in England and Wales are funded.’
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BBC News, 3rd November 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Magistrates courts should be empowered to deal with thousands more assault charges every year rather than sending too many cases for expensive trial in the crown court, the Law Commission has said.’
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The Guardian, 3rd November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Companies can be represented in court by McKenzie Friends under rights of audience granted in exceptional circumstances, the High Court has decided.’
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Litigation Futures, 30th October 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
”Archaic’ language on violent crime dating back more than 150 years must be updated, says Law Commission.’
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Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The home secretary, Theresa May, should not seek to give the intelligence agencies full access to an individual’s web browsing history, Labour and the former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg are both likely to say when the government publishes its draft investigatory powers bill on Wednesday.’
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The Guardian, 2nd November 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘CCTV cameras caught Louis Dempsey, 35, deliberately falling over in the Asda store in Brighton and showed he was lying.’
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Daily Telegraph, 29th October 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A Family Court judge has ordered a local authority to pay £20,000 in damages each to a mother and her seven-year-old daughter for breaches under the Human Rights Act.’
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Local Government Lawyer, 29th October 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The unnamed man was awarded £7500 in compensation under the Equality Act.’
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Daily Telegraph, 29th October 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The reforms to judicial review proceedings in Part 4 of the Criminal Justice & Courts Act 2015 have been closely analysed in a timely report by JUSTICE, the Public Law Project and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.’
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UK Human Rights Blog, 29th October 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Abolishing the exemption from LASPO for insolvency cases would create a “windfall” for third-party funders, insolvency trade body R3 has argued.’
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Litigation Futures, 29th October 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘There have been plenty of Upper Tribunal decisions on RTM (we covered the UT decision in this case with six others back in December 2013 – our note here, where your correspondent would like it noted that he suggested that there was “plenty for the Court of Appeal to tuck into”), but there has only been one previous excursion into this area by the Court of Appeal. That case, Gala Unity Ltd v Ariadne Road RTM Co Ltd [ 2012 ]] EWCA Civ 1372 (our note), is quite the predecessor to Ninety Broomfield Road in that both cases concerned more than one block of flats seeking to exercise the right to manage together. And quite the oddity, too. The Court of Appeal in Ninety Broomfield Road has restored some sense to the application of RTM in multiple block cases. It is also plainly right (a seal of approval that will doubtless cheer the hearts of the Court of Appeal judges involved).’
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Nearly Legal, 29th October 2015
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘A Conservative cabinet minister has signalled a crackdown on the “misuse” of freedom of information requests as a means of researching stories for journalists.
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The Guardian, 29th October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Police have lobbied the government for the power to view the internet browsing history of every computer user in Britain ahead of the publication of legislation on regulating surveillance powers.’
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The Guardian, 30th October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The last British resident to be held in Guantanamo Bay has been released, having been detained there for 13 years, the foreign secretary has said.’
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BBC News, 30th October 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting seeks to recruit full-time law reporters to prepare reports for the ICLR publications:
The Law Reports
The Weekly Law Reports
The Industrial Cases Reports
The Business Law Reports
The Public and Third Sector Reports
Applicants must be a member of the Bar of England and Wales, or solicitor on the roll of solicitors in England and Wales.
For a full job description or to apply online visit www.iclr.co.uk
Applicants will need to submit both a covering letter and curriculum vitae.
Applications close on Monday 16th November 2015.
‘The Intellectual Property Office has opened a consultation to assess whether there would be sufficient stakeholder support to introduce our Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill into Parliament using the special procedure reserved for uncontroversial Law Commission Bills.’
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Law Commission, 23rd October 2015
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
‘Bridget Tatham follows the rise & risk of public sector outsourcing.’
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New Law Journal, 26th October 2015
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
