“Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings has today become the first company to be convicted of the new offence of corporate manslaughter.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 15th February 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Two members of a drug trafficking gang have been given prison sentences totalling 22 years for smuggling millions of pounds’ worth of cannabis into the UK.”
UK Borders Agency, 16th February 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Prudential, one of the country’s leading pension suppliers, has been taken to the high court by the trustees of its own employees’ retirement fund. The move by Prudential Staff Pensions could potentially force the financial services firm into topping up the scheme and comes after the Pru changed its practices in 2005 to plug a £379m deficit in the 92-year-old pension plan.”
The Guardian, 16th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Gay and lesbian couples could soon win the right to marry, and straight couples be given the right to form civil partnerships.
The equalities minister, Lynne Featherstone, has disclosed that the government intends to consult over how marriage laws in England and Wales can be further reformed, despite strong opposition from some religious groups.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five Muslim men who disrupted a march by soldiers who had just returned from Afghanistan have lost an appeal against convictions for public order offences.”
BBC News, 16th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A major child abuse investigation is being carried out in Devon. Thousands of parents of children at secondary schools in Torbay and Teignbridge have been sent letters informing them of the investigation.”
BBC News, 17th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The sex offenders’ register has existed since 1997. Since that time it has helped the police to protect the public from these most horrific of crimes. Requiring serious sexual offenders to sign the register for life – as they do now – has broad support from across this House. However, the Supreme Court ruled last April that not granting sex offenders the opportunity to seek a review is a breach of their human rights – in particular, the right to a private or family life. These are rights, of course, that these offenders have taken away from their victims in the cruellest and most degrading manner possible. The government is disappointed and appalled by this ruling – it places the rights of sex offenders above the right of the public to be protected from the risk of re-offending – but there is no possibility of further appeal.”
Home Office, 16th February 2011
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The EU directive, due to take full effect in April, makes it illegal for practitioners to supply unlicensed herbal medicines. But Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, said in a written ministerial statement that they would be allowed to continue if they registered with the Health Professions Council (HPC).”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A referendum on changing the voting system will definitely take place on May 5 after the Government last night saw off an 11th-hour challenge to the plans in the House of Lords.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Investors and consumers will be given greater protection by new financial watchdogs which will have the power to ban retail products and reveal pending enforcement actions against banks and brokers.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Should a young woman be sterilised? Should a sex ban be imposed on a man in his 40s? Hearings involving vulnerable people need close monitoring.”
The Guardian, 17th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An IT student who says he can’t get a job because he got a second class degree has had his bid for £5m damages from the university he claims let him down thrown out by a High Court judge.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Speech by Lord Justice Carnwath, Senior President of Tribunals
Commonwealth Law Conference, 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Articles 56FEU and 57FEU of the FEU Treaty did not preclude a member state from making the hiring out on its territory of workers who were Polish nationals subject to the obtaining of a work permit during the transitional period provided for in paragraph 2 of Chapter 2 of Annex XII to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia (OJ 2003 L236, p 33). The hiring out of workers, within the meaning of article 1(3)(c) of Parliament and Council Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services (OJ 1997 L18, p1), was a service provided for remuneration in respect of which the worker who had been hired out remained in the employ of the undertaking providing the service, no contract of employment having been entered into with the user undertaking.”
WLR Daily, 15th February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Details of the judicial review into the government’s scrapping of the school building programme.”
The Guardian, 11th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Elderly patients who believe they have been treated badly because of their age could sue the National Health Service under new rights to be unveiled by ministers next month.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th February 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Thousands of sex offenders in England and Wales are set to be given the right to appeal against having their names on the sex offenders register for life.”
BBC News, 16th February 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Electoral Commission has concluded that there was no widespread evidence of voting fraud at last year’s local and general elections, despite allegations at the time that the postal ballot system was being exploited.”
The Independent, 16th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A high court judge has criticised the Metropolitan police for failing to adequately investigate allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World.”
The Guardian, 15th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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