“‘Right to be forgotten’ laws, giving users – rather than services such as Facebook – control of personal data will save billions of euros and thickets of red tape. So why is Britain resisting?”
The Guardian, 4th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The breach by a sewerage undertaker of its duty under section 106 of the Water Industry Act 1991 to permit connection of a private sewer to the public sewer did not give rise to a liability in nuisance.”
WLR Daily, 27th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Dawes; Regina v Hatter; Regina v Bowyer [2013] EWCA Crim 322; [2013] WLR (D) 130
“For the purposes of the defence of loss of self-control, on a charge of murder, the questions whether the circumstances were extremely grave and whether the defendant’s sense of being seriously wronged by them was justifiable required objective assessment by the judge at the end of the evidence and, if the defence was left, by the jury considering their verdict. They were not to be decided by the defendant on the basis of any assertions he might make in evidence or any account he might give in the investigative process.”
WLR Daily, 26th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The families of the six people who died in the Lakanal House fire are taking legal action for compensation, BBC London has learned.”
BBC News, 4th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government has issued guidance that sets out the kind of costs businesses incur that they are legitimately able to claim back through payment surcharging under new rules set to come into force this weekend.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“This complicated inter-jurisdictional battle between estranged parents is a stark illustration of how difficult it can be in these sorts of cases to apply the law in the fog of family warfare.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Nearly one in three civil legal aid practitioners reckon the LASPO cuts leave them at risk of redundancy. A report drawing on an on-line survey of 674 individuals working in legal aid found that almost two-thirds of specialist advisers felt at risk of redundancy (63.4%) and almost half of those fearing redundancy (44.8%) had more than 10 years’ experience.”
Legal Voice, 5th April 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“The three executives who ran HBOS bank in the runup to its near-catastrophic collapse have been slated for their ‘colossal failure’ of management in a scathing report which calls for them to be held to account by the City regulator.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A student who blackmailed a woman by hacking into her email, stealing naked pictures of her and posting them on Facebook has been spared jail.”
BBC News, 4th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Bristol motorist caught driving erratically was ‘high on drum and bass’ a court has heard.”
The Independent, 5th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The secretary of state’s policy in respect of rub-down searches of prisoners, which allows cross-gender searches in the case of male prisoners but not for female prisoners, does not discriminate against male prisoners on grounds of sex.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 4th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A teenager who was killed on holiday after falling from a stage following a single punch was unlawfully killed, a coroner ruled.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“New National Standards for Youth Justice Services have been launched.”
Youth Justice Board, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Mick Philpott was today jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years after being found guilty of killing six of his children in a house fire.”
The Independent, 4th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government has laid out plans to open the majority of probation services to competition, in its programme ‘Transforming Rehabilitation – a revolution in the way we manage offenders’. The aim is to reform offender management services in the community, in order to reduce re-offending rates, while delivering improved value for money for the tax payer.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An owner has won a nine-month legal battle, fighting tooth and claw for custody of a cat that went missing for six years after its adopted family refused to give her up.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Ex-wife is suing Scot Young for share of £400m fortune that he claims he lost within three months.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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