‘The legal ban on heterosexual couples entering into civil partnerships is to be challenged in the high court.’
The Guardian, 19th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Prison Officers Association (POA) is to launch a judicial review against the Prison Service to speed up an outright ban on smoking in prisons.’
BBC News, 18th January 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘After I was mugged, a suspect was arrested but the case was dropped because of ‘grave concerns’ about the credibility of my evidence. Can a new law protect thousands of women like me?’
The Guardian, 18th January 2016
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Former soldier Rob Lawrie admitted he had been ‘stupid’ but told a French court he ‘could not leave’ four-year-old girl behind after repeated pleas from her father.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Sentencing Council is proposing to issue a new definitive guideline for imposition of community and custodial sentences.’
Sentencing Council, 14th January 2016
Source: https://consult.justice.gov.uk
‘Simba Kuuya’s victim only found out about his condition when one of his former partners contacted her on Facebook.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th January 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A dispute over an unsuccessful start-up turns messy, but clears up a point of confusion over patent assignments.’
Technology Law Update, 14th January 2016
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘Most sexual abuse cases are not being investigated, according to a top judge.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A costs judge has rejected an attempt by a newspaper group to avoid legal costs because an order infringed its right to freedom of expression.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th January 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘In December 2015, the European Court of Human Rights, by 6 votes to 1, dismissed a Romanian national’s appeal against his employer’s decision to terminate his contract for using a professional Yahoo Messenger account to send personal messages to his fiancé and brother.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th January 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The review by Stephen Shaw into the welfare in immigration detention of vulnerable persons has been published today. The Government has responded stating that it “accepts the broad thrust of his recommendations” and that the Home Office expects its reforms reduce the number of those detained reduce and the duration of detention before removal.’
Free Movement, 14th January 2016
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘Escort given restraining order preventing her from contacting supercar sales executive after sending details to bosses of his ‘submissive sexual lifestyle’.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A ‘trial of the facts’ into allegations of sexual abuse by Lord Janner has been formally dropped following the Labour peer’s death in December.’
The Independent, 15th January 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A woman who filmed a man sexually assaulting another woman while laughing in the background has been jailed.’
The Guardian, 14th January 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Laura Davies, 21, was killed by her controlling ex-boyfriend Jordan Taylor in a revenge attack.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘BT Group’s takeover of mobile phone network EE has been given final clearance by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).’
BBC News, 15th January 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina v R and others [2015] EWCA Crim 1941; [2015] WLR (D) 552
‘The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) gave guidance on the proper approach to disclosure of unused material in criminal proceedings where large quantities of documents, in particular electronic documents, were involved, and also on the approach to an abuse of process application where proceedings were delayed because of the disclosure exercise.’
WLR Daily, 21st December 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The woman, who is in her late 70s, underwent a frontal leucotomy in 1962 to cut nerve fibres in the brain.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Court hears two underqualified doctors watched as a previously healthy young woman lay dying without taking the basic steps that could have saved her.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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