“The Legal Services Commission has published a plan for the tender process for new interim family contracts to start in February 2012.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A member of a gang believed to have sexually abused more than 100 schoolgirls in a seaside resort has been sentenced to 10 years in custody.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Volunteers who are using mediation to heal community rifts have featured on national television.”
Ministry of Justice, 8th July 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The campaign to save Britain’s libraries from council cuts has been given a significant boost after a court ordered a judicial review into some of the closures.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A select committee-style inquiry on Christianity is to be held in order to clarify how the law affects believers, amid increasing claims of religious discrimination and persecution.”
The Guardian, 10th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Solicitor advocates have made a final effort to stop a scheme that will see judges evaluating their competence, which they claim would discriminate against solicitors.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th July 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A student has been sentenced to 12 months in a young offender institution after throwing placard sticks at police during anti-cuts demonstrations in March.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former police officer is taking his legal battle over a health trust’s refusal to fund obesity surgery to the Court of Appeal.”
The Independent, 11th July 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The children of the late tycoon Lord Steinberg are fighting the rump of their father’s Stanley Leisure gambling empire in a multimillion-pound case at the high court in London.”
The Guardian, 10th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A serial rapist who targeted women in a Dorset town over six years has been given four life sentences.”
BBC News, 8th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“James Murdoch and News Corp could face corporate legal battles on both sides of the Atlantic that involve criminal charges, fines and forfeiture of assets as the escalating phone-hacking scandal risks damaging his chances of taking control of Rupert Murdoch’s US-based media empire.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Journalists dismissed by the News of the World who are unable to find new jobs and fear their professional reputations have been damaged by the phone hacking scandal could have legal grounds for suing News International, according to employment specialists.”
The Guardian, 10th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Too many women leave the law before they qualify for judicial appointment. The inflexible work culture must be changed.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A paedophile who faked his own death by leaving his clothes, car keys and a suicide note on a Lancashire beach has been jailed for seven years.”
BBC News, 7th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Government plans to make more services available online and to use cloud computing to deliver public services need to be clearer on how information will be protected, a House of Commons committee has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Three police investigations involving a Bedfordshire man who was murdered, decapitated and dumped in a lake were ‘flawed’, the police watchdog has said.”
BBC News, 7th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain was an occupying power following the invasion of Iraq and failed to carry out effective investigations into the killing of civilians, the European court of human rights has ruled in a landmark judgment.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related links: AL-JEDDA v. THE UNITED KINGDOM – 27021/08 [2011] ECHR 1092 (7 July 2011)
AL-SKEINI AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM – 55721/07 [2011] ECHR 1093 (7 July 2011)
“The home secretary, Theresa May, is to ask MPs to pass an emergency bill to resolve the police bail crisis amid warnings from defence lawyers that it amounts to a ‘smash and grab raid’ to boost police powers.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Supreme Court
NML Capital Ltd v Argentina [2011] UKSC 31 (6 July 2011)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Dalton v Nottinghamshire County Council [2011] EWCA Civ 776 (06 July 2011)
AH v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2011] EWCA Civ 787 (06 July 2011)
Howell & Ors v Lees- Millais & Ors [2011] EWCA Civ 786 (06 July 2011)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Lewis v Client Connection Ltd. [2011] EWHC 1627 (Ch) (06 July 2011)
Balli (Also Known As Ravinder Singh), Re Contempt Of Court [2011] EWHC 1736 (Ch) (01 July 2011)
Leighton Contracting (Qatar) WLL v Simms & Ors [2011] EWHC 1735 (Ch) (22 June 2011)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Babakandi v Westminster City Council [2011] EWHC 1756 (Admin) (06 July 2011)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Fenice Investments Inc v Erram Falkus Construction Ltd [2011] EWHC 1678 (TCC) (06 July 2011)
Lanes Group Plc v Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd [2011] EWHC 1679 (TCC) (06 July 2011)
Source: www.bailii.org
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