‘Ian Paterson, the surgeon who performed unnecessary breast operations and made healthy patients believe they had cancer, has had his sentence increased to 20 years by the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 3rd August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Three would-be jihadists who dubbed themselves the Three Musketeers have been jailed for life for plotting an attack on a police or military target.’
BBC News, 3rd August 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Social services were blamed for missing abuse while police and NHS failings were brushed under the carpet. Here’s what has happened since.’
The Guardian, 3rd August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Sun newspaper is to pay “substantial damages” to former EastEnders boss Sean O’Connor, after wrongly accusing him of bullying.’
BBC News, 4th August 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A “well-regarded” clergyman who filmed men using a public toilet in a shopping centre has been sentenced to a suspended four-month jail term.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd August 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Lawyers involved in the reopened Birmingham pub bombings inquest are considering requesting the same to happen over IRA blasts in Guildford.’
BBC News, 4th August 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The nation will have “blood on its hands” if an NHS hospital bed cannot be found within days for a teenage girl who is at acute risk of taking her own life, according to the UK’s most senior family judge.’
The Guardian, 3rd August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A former paratrooper who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and won a triathlon while fraudulently claiming thousands of pounds in disability benefit has been jailed.’
The Guardian, 3rd August 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Jackson LJ is still toiling away at costs issues some 8 years after his main report. The original report changed the whole way in which the civil courts go about working how much, if anything, is due from one side to another at the end of a case – budgets being one key element. The main part of this new report concerns extending fixed costs further.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st July 2017
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The impact of Brexit, the outcome of the latest Jackson costs review and taming the “monster” of e-disclosure are of critical importance if the UK is to retain its standing as the dominant legal centre.’
New Law Journal, 28th July 2017
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘The resident judge at Blackfriars Crown Court, one of the six courts due to take part in a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) pilot on extended court hours, has attempted to calm lawyers’ anger over the move.’
Legal Futures, 1st August 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘George Hepburne Scott discusses the death of s 2 arguments & the ‘transient state’ of European Arrest Warrants.’
New Law Journal, 27th July 2017
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘David Hart talks to Rosalind English about the likely impact of the European Withdrawal Bill, and in particular the concerns about the knock on effects it might have on existing environmental standards after BREXIT.’
Law Pod UK, 26th July 2017
Source: audioboom.com
‘Suggestions that freedom of movement will continue after the UK leaves the EU are wrong, Downing Street has said.’
BBC News, 31st July 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A solicitor who misled the court over the ‘student’ status of a client has been suspended indefinitely by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).’
Legal Futures, 1st August 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A teenage boy has been found guilty of killing a man with a “superman punch”.’
BBC News, 31st July 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘From algorithms and artificial intelligence to smart contracts, technology will transform the legal profession. Here’s what it could mean for law students.’
The Guardian, 31st July 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to maintain a cap set on the interest and fees charged on high-cost short-term loans after a review concluded it had benefited consumers.’
OUT-LAW.com, 31st July 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Victims of NHS blunders face spending all their compensation on lawyers fees, following a proposed Government shake-down of legal costs, experts have warned.’
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Lord Justice Jackson has today put forward his vision for extending fixed recoverable costs (FRC), but warned that it was not his job to protect the junior Bar or any other part of the profession in doing so.’
Legal Futures, 31st July 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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