“There may be circumstances in which the eight-day period solicitors have to challenge interventions into their practices should be extended, the Court of Appeal has suggested.”
Legal Futures, 19th July 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“The new general anti-abuse rule (GAAR) is now in force, preventing artificial and abusive tax avoidance schemes that fail to pass a ‘double reasonableness’ test.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th July 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The government spent £6m on submitting evidence to the Francis inquiry into Stafford Hospital failings, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed complaints from Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne and his partner Carina Trimingham levelled against five national newspapers over photographs of the pair at Leyhill prison.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The first prosecution for ‘tombstoning’ could be brought against a man accused of jumping from a 30ft bridge.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The new press watchdog proposed by the country’s largest newspaper and magazine publishers has “a profound lack of any functional or meaningful independence from the industry”, a trust associated with Hacked Off claims.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An inquiry has been launched into the contact the authorities had with a vulnerable family after a violent alcoholic man was jailed for at least 30 years for murdering his baby daughter, his girlfriend and her mother.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 22-year-old man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of organist Alan Greaves on Christmas Eve in Sheffield.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Most porn on demand services available to British internet users are operated from outside the UK putting them beyond UK regulation, a regulator has warned.”
The Independent, 19th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Six people have been wrongly detained and falsely accused of crimes in the past year as a result of mistakes made in the official disclosure of confidential data on their internet use to the police and security services.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five supreme court justices have spent a day wrestling with notions of God, nirvana and what constitutes worship in an attempt to decide whether Scientologists may conduct weddings.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Premier League has won a court order forcing UK internet service providers to block a popular football streaming website.”
BBC News, 17th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Regulations 2013
The Capital Allowances (Energy-saving Plant and Machinery) (Amendment) Order 2013
The Motor Vehicles (Driver Testing and Vehicle Load) Regulations 2013
The Public Guardian (Fees, etc) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Immigration (Designation of Travel Bans) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2013
The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Amendment) Order 2013
The Football Spectators (Prescription) (Amendment) Order 2013
The Individual Savings Account (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2013
The Gas Act 1986 (Exemption) (Onshore Gas) Order 2013
The Education (Student Support and European University Institute) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Child Trust Funds (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2013
The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) Regulations 2013
The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2013
The Crime Prevention (Designated Areas) (Revocations) Order 2013
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2013
The Transfer of Functions (Youth Leisure-time Activities) Order 2013
The Consular Fees (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2013
The Mental Health (Discrimination) Act 2013 (Commencement) Order 2013
The Syria (Restrictive Measures) (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2013
The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Benedetti (Appellant) v Sawiris and others (Respondents) [2013] UKSC 50 | UKSC 2011/0087 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 17th July 2013
“Government lawyers want to overturn decision that criminal records vetting system breaches human rights.”
The Independent, 14th July 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“One of the UK’s largest insurance companies, Swinton, has been fined £7.38m for mis-selling policies.”
BBC News, 16th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Anyone applying for a lasting power of attorney (LPA) to choose someone they trust to make decisions for them if they lose mental capacity will be helped by a 15 per cent cut in the application fee announced by Justice Minister Helen Grant.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th July 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
BDW Trading Ltd and another v South Anglia Housing Ltd [2013] WLR (D) 282
“Section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, which provided for consultation requirements to apply to ‘qualifying long term agreements’ (‘QLTA’), had no application to a long term agreement entered into in relation to buildings which had not yet been constructed, or which were not let at the time of the agreement.”
WLR Daily, 15th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“An arrested person who resisted extradition on the basis that there was systemic corruption in the judicial system in the requesting country did not necessarily have to point to particular facts or circumstances affecting his case since such corruption affected everyone who was subjected to it and it was impossible to say that any individual who was returned to such a system would receive the right to a fair trial within article 6 of the Convention.”
WLR Daily, 10th July 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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