Heather Arthur murder: Husband jailed for life – BBC News
‘A man who stabbed his wife to death after discovering she was having an affair has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 13th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Author: sally
Domestic violence experienced by 30% of female population, survey shows – The Guardian
‘More than 1.1 million or 7% of women and 720,000 or 4% of men have been victims of some kind of domestic abuse in the past year, official crime figures reveal.’
The Guardian, 13th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man who murdered four-year-old Riley Turner given whole-life sentence – The Guardian
‘A man has been told he will never be released from prison after admitting the murder of a “happy and bubbly” four-year-old boy.’
The Guardian, 13th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judiciary mulls allowing parties to agree time extensions between themselves – Litigation Futures
‘The judiciary is considering a change to model directions that would allow parties to agree a 28-day extension to time limits without the need for court approval, it has emerged.’
Litigation Futures, 13th February 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
High Court upholds permission for 200 York homes – OUT-LAW.com
‘A planning inspector’s decision to grant planning permission for a residential development with no affordable housing to prevent a delay in the contribution the development would make to the local authority’s housing land supply was rational and supported by sufficient reasons, a High Court judge has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 13th February 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
Police watchdog investigates vigilante murder of disabled Iranian refugee – The Guardian
‘Police watchdog investigators are carrying out house-to-house inquiries in the Bristol street where a disabled Iranian refugee was murdered by a vigilante who wrongly believe him to be a paedophile.’
The Guardian, 13th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Incendiary Devices: The Snowden Files – The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man – London Review of Books
‘What matters more: the leaker, or the leak? Any one of the following, you’d think, might have been the news story of the year, or the decade: the revelation that America’s biggest spy agency, the NSA, has information on every phone call made in the continental United States as well as abroad; that it claims to have direct access to the servers of Google, Yahoo, Facebook and all the other major web companies; that GCHQ, the NSA’s British equivalent, is siphoning off the entire internet and storing some of it for thirty days; that online encryption has been subverted and nothing is safe from government spies. The drift of the stories – which were at their peak last summer, when the Guardian and others first got their hands on Edward Snowden’s documents – was that we’re all being watched all the time. Anything we do online, and any phone call we make, is potentially being analysed by the NSA and its friends. But, as Luke Harding discloses in his book on the Snowden affair, the most viewed story in the Guardian’s history wasn’t any of this: it wasn’t a piece of news at all. It was the 12-minute video, made by Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, in which Snowden explained who he was and why he’d decided to reveal what he had.’
London Review of Books, February 2014
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
In re West of England Ship Owners Insurance Services Ltd Retirement Benefits Scheme Board of the Pension Protection Fund v Board of the West of England Ship Owners Insurance Services Ltd Retirement Benefits Scheme and another
‘Considerations of fairness and reasonableness could not be imported into the process of construing the provisions of a Levy Determination issued by the Pension Protection Fund (“PPF”) which set out, pursuant to section 175(5) of the Pensions Act 2004, the rules for calculating the annual levy on defined pension benefit schemes eligible to receive compensation from the PPF. If the relevant rule in the Levy Determination did not permit the board of the PPF to interfere in any individual case so as to procure what might be said to be fair or rational in the calculation of the levy, the ombudsman was similarly constrained on a reference.’
WLR Daily, 23rd January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Khan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
Regina (Khan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 88; [2014] WLR (D) 60
‘The word “matter” in section 96(1)(b) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 was to be interpreted broadly to include both evidence and issues.’
WLR Daily, 11th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Mitchell (William) – WLR Daily
Regina v Mitchell (William) [2014] WLR (D) 61
‘To be the holder of a public office a person had to owe duties to the public over and above duties owed to individual citizens. Therefore a paramedic who did not owe such duties was not a holder of a public office.’
WLR Daily, 12th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Ministry of Defence v Kemeh – WLR Daily
Ministry of Defence v Kemeh [2014] EWCA Civ 91; [2014] WLR (D) 59
‘Common law principles of agency were applicable when considering section 32(2) of the Race Relations Act 1976.’
WLR Daily, 11th February 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Are judges and opposing parties targeting lawyers? Recent cases suggest they are – Legal Futures
‘A string of recent cases indicate that judges may be increasingly tempted to remind solicitors of their duty to act impartially in litigation, in an era of alternative business structures (ABSs) where their loyalties might be tested, according to a leading criminal lawyer.’
Legal Futures, 13th February 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Civil Justice Council slams government’s court fee reforms – Litigation Futures
‘The Civil Justice Council has become the latest and one of the most influential bodies to lay into the government’s proposed increases in court fees, warning that they could have a “chilling effect” on people who want to bring claims.’
Litigation Futures, 13th February 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Police failings left suspect free to shoot man in face resulting in ‘life-changing’ injuries – The Independent
‘A suspected gunman was free to shoot a man in the face after apparent police failings meant that he was not identified as the owner of a sawn-off shotgun seized in a police operation 17 months earlier, it has emerged.’
The Independent, 12th February 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
EU uncertainty – the impact on EU migrants in the UK – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
‘Recently I have seen an increase in EU nationals enquiring about becoming British. I always ask the client why they feel the need (given the extensive rights that EU law secures) to move between EU states. The invariable answer is a fear that Britain will leave the EU.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 12th February 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
FGM: government is in breach of legal obligations, say lawyers – The Guardian
‘An influential group of Britain’s leading human rights barristers has told MPs that the government is in breach of its legal obligation to protect children by failing to stop girls becoming victims of female genital mutilation.’
The Guardian, 12th February 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
High Court quashes government’s refusal to proceed with Litvinenko inquiry – UK Human Rights Blog
‘This was an application by the widow of Alexander Litvinenko for judicial review of the refusal by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to order the setting up of a statutory inquiry into his death in London in November 2006. The Secretary of State had been asked to set up such an inquiry by Sir Robert Owen, the judge appointed to conduct the inquest into Mr Litvinenko’s death as Assistant Coroner.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th February 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Suspected foreign war criminals ‘able to stay in UK’ – BBC News
‘Forty-nine people suspected of genocide, torture or other serious crimes abroad are living in the UK despite being priority cases for deportation, figures reveal.’
BBC News, 13th February 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
