“A hacker with the notorious ‘hacktivist’ collective LulzSec is to be released ‘imminently’ despite being found with more than 170 indecent images of children as young as six months.”
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The Independent, 12th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A choirmaster jailed for six years for indecently assaulting a former pupil has lost a challenge against the length of his sentence.”
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The Guardian, 12th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman jailed for eight years after aborting her unborn baby within a week of her due date has had her sentence reduced to three and a half years.”
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The Guardian, 12th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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“New measures to enhance consumer rights and make them easier to understand have been unveiled by consumer minister Jo Swinson.”
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The Guardian, 12th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hay and others v Gilgrove Ltd and another [2013] EWCA Civ 412; [2013] WLR (D) 220
“On the true construction of a collective agreement incorporated into the claimants’ contracts all who performed the role of a market porter, whether registered or unregistered, were entitled to share equally in ‘porterage’ charges made by the employer to customers for the movement of goods.”
WLR Daily, 26th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Calix v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [2013] UKPC 15; [2013] WLR (D) 219
“Oddity of personality did not of itself diminish the value of one’s good character and, therefore, a judge had erred in reducing a plaintiff’s damages for malicious prosecution on the basis that his reputation and social standing did not amount to much because he had chosen to withdraw from society and live as a recluse.”
WLR Daily, 23rd May 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Today, Monday 10 June 2013, a number of minor changes to the Immigration Rules have been published which will come into force on 1 July 2013.”
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UK Border Agency, 10th June 2013
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The most vulnerable victims are to be protected from the trauma of appearing in court, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling announced today.”
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Ministry of Justice, 11th June 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
“Anna Heenan, solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published in May.”
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Family Law Week, 7th June 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“There is a new independent Assessor (Stephen Shaw) for non-legal complaints made about the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) but not for the legal ones – how very odd! It was recently reported that victims of crime will be able to ‘win the right’ to appeal against decisions by the CPS not to charge suspects and there is a consultation which is open until the 5th of September 2013. It has a mnemonic ‘VRR’ which stands for a ‘Victim’s Right to Review’.”
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Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 12th June 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“The answer of the Court was that clear and express words in the contract would be required in order to confer a power to increase a sanction on an Appeal Panel.”
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UK Human Rights Blog, 11th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Will the Ministry of Justice back down over cuts to legal aid? Radio 4’s legal magazine follows the bitter dispute between the profession and the government.
This week, Maura McGowan QC of the Bar Council is in the studio with Joshua Rozenberg, making the lawyers’ case. But is she right that the legal profession will be undermined? Lord McNally responds for the government.”
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BBC Law in Action, 11th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has urged the supreme court to dismiss legal challenges by two convicted murderers who are seeking the right for prisoners to vote.”
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The Guardian, 11th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A killer who begged police to let him ‘finish off’ his victim after being arrested midway through a knife attack on his girlfriend has been found guilty of murder.”
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Daily Telegraph, 12th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A London chambers has become the first alternative business structure (ABS) licensed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority that does not have any solicitors.”
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Legal Futures, 11th June 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk