“A 63-year-old man who murdered a former police officer and burned his body after becoming obsessed with his wife has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Outgoing Supreme Court president Lord Phillips has called for leading law firms to encourage more partners to sit as part-time judges, in a bid to increase the number of solicitors in the judiciary.”
Legal Week, 21st September 2012
Source: www.legalweek.com
“A judge who criticised UK abortion policies while sentencing a woman to eight years in prison for performing her own abortion at a late stage in her pregnancy is one of at least five members of the judiciary with links to a Christian charity which has campaigned for more conservative abortion laws.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nearly half of British adults think they have to go to court to get divorced, according to a survey that shows a lack of awareness of non-court options for family law matters.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th September 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Before prosecuting and jailing women for abortion, we should ask whether criminalisation is ever appropriate.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“As Andrew Tickell noted in his post on Wednesday the European Court of Human Rights this week ruled that the UK violated the Article 5(1) ECHR rights of three prisoners sentenced to indeterminate prison sentences for public protection, where reasonable provision for their rehabilitation was not made.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The first chief coroner of England and Wales has promised to establish a cadre of specialists to examine deaths in custody and military fatalities.”
The Guardian, 21st September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The ECtHR’s recent decision in Buckland v UK demonstrates again how wonderfully delphic the subject of housing and Article 8 rights has become.”
NearlyLegal, 23rd September 2012
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The Metropolitan Police has commissioned an independent review into how it responds to people with mental health conditions.”
BBC News, 24th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“More than £750,000 has been taken from prisoners’ pay packets to support victims of crime, according to the new Minister for Victims.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Nearly £1bn has been spent on the electronic tagging of criminals over the past 13 years with little effect on cutting offending rates, offering little value for money and serving only to enrich two or three private security companies, one of which is G4S, a senior police officer has claimed.”
The Guardian, 24th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF) and Fostering Network have welcomed the Government’s newly published consultation on proposed changes to adoption and fostering.”
Family Law Week, 19th September 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“It’ll all be over by Christmas: that’s what the coalition promised when it established the Commission on a Bill of Rights to, among other things:
‘… investigate the creation of a UK Bill of Rights that incorporates and builds on all our obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, ensures that these rights continue to be enshrined in UK law, and protects and extends our liberties.'”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Family law’s commercial and legal landscape is changing dramatically with the legal aid reforms, the continuing impact of the recession, competition from ABSs and potential legislative changes affecting everyone from the richest to the poorest.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 20th September 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“An ‘evil’ soldier who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death and then stamped on her face in front of their four-year-old son in a brutal revenge attack has been jailed for life.”
The Independent, 19th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Government must reform UK copyright law in order to restore the public and business’s ‘respect’ in the ‘integrity’ of the framework, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th September 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has said:
‘On 30 July 2012 Daniel Thomas, a semi-professional footballer, posted a homophobic message on the social networking site, Twitter. This related to the Olympic divers Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield. This became available to his ‘followers’. Someone else distributed it more widely and it made its way into some media outlets. Mr Thomas was arrested and interviewed. The matter was then referred to CPS Wales to consider whether Mr Thomas should be charged with a criminal offence.'”
Crown Prosecutions Service, 20th September 2012
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
“The United Kingdom’s record of slowly improving judicial diversity has been dealt a severe blow by a comparative European report revealing that only Azerbaijan and Armenia employ fewer female professional judges. Despite what the study describes as a gradual ‘feminisation of the judiciary resulting in a near gender equality’ across the continent and its eastern borders, only 23% of judges in England and Wales and 21% of judges in Scotland are women.”
The Guardian, 20th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A couple who squandered £1.7 million during a bitter divorce and custody battle were criticised by a judge for driving their marriage ‘full tilt onto the rocks.'”
Daily Telegraph, 19th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Four of the terrorists convicted for the 21 July 2005 bomb plot will launch an attempt to have their sentences quashed following claims by a former senior government scientist that key forensic evidence used to jail the attackers was flawed.”
The Guardian, 19th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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