Kristy Robinson wins £2,350 damages over wrongful arrest – BBC News
‘A victim of domestic violence has been awarded £2,350 from Gwent Police after she was arrested when she phoned for help.’
BBC News, 24th February 2014
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‘A victim of domestic violence has been awarded £2,350 from Gwent Police after she was arrested when she phoned for help.’
BBC News, 24th February 2014
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‘Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis will learn on Monday whether he faces a retrial over allegations he sexually assaulted two women.’
The Guardian, 24th February 2014
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Mohamud v W M Morrison Supermarkets plc [2014] EWCA Civ 116; [2014] WLR (D) 68
‘Where an employee’s duties included interaction with customers but did not involve any element of keeping public order or exercising authority over them, the employer was not vicariously liable for an assault by the employee on a customer. The mere fact of contact between a sales assistant and a customer, which was plainly authorised by an employer, was not of itself sufficient to fix the employer with vicarious liability.’
WLR Daily, 13th February 2014
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‘The decision to prosecute historic sex abuse cases involving celebrity defendants has been called into question after veteran DJ Dave Lee Travis was acquitted of 12 sexual assault charges in the first high-profile trial brought by Operation Yewtree.’
The Independent, 13th February 2014
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‘The Coronation Street star William Roache was acquitted of two counts of rape and five charges of indecent assault on Thursday at the end of a trial that raised questions about the decision of police and prosecutors to press charges.’
The Guardian, 6th February 2014
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‘An aristocrat has been jailed for two years after admitting beating his wife over a 22-year period. Lord Edward Somerset, 55, the son of the Duke of Beaufort, admitted four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm between 1990 and 2012.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th Febraury 2014
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‘A man who tried to rape a woman in a “chilling” attack while she was on the phone to police has been jailed.’
BBC News, 3rd February 2014
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Regina v Lewis (Leroy): [2013] EWCA Crim 2596; [2014] WLR (D) 38
‘Once an indictment had been properly preferred and signed it remained the indictment in the case, so that the Crown Court had jurisdiction to try a case where no evidence had been offered on the single indictable offence and only summary offences were left to be tried.’
WLR Daily, 5th December 2014
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‘The Offences Against the Person Act has been in law since 1861. It covers all forms of physical assault ranging from the most serious, such as stabbing someone, to common assault which can be committed merely by spitting at someone. Marital rape is an offence, as is pursuing a course of conduct which amounts to harassment. Despite these laws, MPs are now seeking to introduce a new offence of Domestic Abuse, aimed solely at offences carried out within relationships. The offence would be defined as, “intentionally, wilfully or recklessly causing, or attempting to cause, physical injury or psychological harm to a person”.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 29th January 2014
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‘Prosecutors have been accused of behaving “ludicrously” by concealing the cause of a miscarriage of justice in which an undercover police officer is alleged to have used his fake identity in court to hide his covert infiltration.’
The Guardian, 27th January 2014
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‘Several members of a family who attempted to kidnap their sister’s gay partner have been jailed.’
BBC News, 24th January 2014
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‘A business student is facing jail after being found guilty of an acid attack that left a friend scarred for life.’
The Guardian, 23rd January 2014
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‘David Rooke forced Craig Kinsella, 34, to live in a garage where he suffered regular beatings and ended up scavenging for food in bins, Sheffield Crown Court heard.’
Daily Telegraph, 7th January 2014
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Supreme Court, 18th December 2014
‘A man has been jailed for five years for punching and killing another man during a row over a disabled space in a supermarket car park.’
BBC News, 12th December 2013
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“Three Sikh men and a woman have received lengthy jail sentences after being convicted of slashing an elderly Indian general in the neck.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2013
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‘A violent rapist has been jailed for life after a landmark legal ruling in which his original acquittal for the offence was quashed by the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 7th December 2013
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‘Three members of a self-styled “Muslim Patrol” vigilante group have been jailed for harassing, intimidating and assaulting people on the streets of east London while claiming they were enforcing sharia law.’
The Guardian, 6th December 2013
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‘A bag-snatcher who fatally injured a Birmingham grandmother during a mugging has been jailed for 11 years.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2013
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“A man who burned to death a loan shark to whom he owed money has been jailed for 10 years.”
BBC News, 8h November 2013
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