“Judicial officials are considering plans to stream the inquest into the police shooting of Mark Duggan live over the internet.”
The Guardian, 28th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Introductory tenancies require a notice under s.128 Housing Act 1996 to be served before possession proceedings. That notice shall inform the tenant of his right to request a review of the landlord’s decision to seek an order for possession and of the time within which such a request must be made. [s.128(6)]”
NearlyLegal, 26th January 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has urged the legal profession to simplify its complaints procedures, following the publication of research showing that only one in eight dissatisfied customers goes on to make a formal complaint.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 28th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The true scale of the problem posed by ‘lawless bailiffs’ is revealed as shocking figures show a sharp rise in complaints about their behaviour since the start of the banking crisis.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“On 25 October 2012 the Office of Fair Trading announced that it had written to the head teachers of almost 30,000 State schools to draw attention to the high price of school uniforms. The high price is caused in part by 74% of schools requiring parents to purchase uniforms from a single, named retailer or from the school itself. This has created a captive market for chosen suppliers, allowing them to charge an additional £52 million per year (see para 2.3 of the OFT’s 2006 school uniforms review).”
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 20th January 2013
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
“Every now and again, there is a Local Government Ombudsman report that seems to go beyond individual instances of maladministration and instead capture something of the zeitgeist. The LGO decision summarised here may well be one of the latter (certainly the Guardian thinks so), as arguably what it shows is a Local Authority prioritising its own administrative concerns over its legal duties in both its policy and the operation of policy. There is also a routine failure to ask the kind of questions that might have meant it had to do more. This on top of a series of administrative failures.”
NearlyLegal, 20th January 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
“Jimmy Savile’s ability to commit hundreds of serious sexual offences inside public institutions, ‘hiding in plain sight’ as Friday’s police and NSPCC report on his crimes puts it, seems almost incredible. And for his victims, it is indeed credibility which is the issue at the heart of this scandal.”
BBC News, 12th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The police watchdog will supervise an investigation into a complaint by Stephen Lawrence’s brother that officers stopped and searched him because he was black.”
BBC News, 10th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Stephen Lawrence’s brother today launched a race discrimination case against Britain’s biggest police force, claiming officers harassed him due to his skin colour.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The advertising watchdog has criticised a magazine and a clothing firm for attempting to drum up business by using images of the late Jimmy Savile in email campaigns, including one which features the disgraced ex-presenter wearing what appears to be underwear while smoking a cigar.”
The Guardian, 9th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It was perhaps timely, following so soon as it did in the wake of the Leveson Report, that an Australian radio station telephoned the private hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for acute morning sickness, and pretended to be the Queen. Whilst it was amusing that the presenters, who themselves confessed that they thought their accents would give them away, actually managed to obtain any information, it also raises once again the ugly spectre of press control, and what information should be freely available to the press to broadcast to the world, and what should be left strictly in the private domain.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 18th December 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Ofcom has found two BBC police dramas, Good Cop and Line Of Duty, in breach of rules regarding protecting children.”
BBC News, 17th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Five lay people will be invited to take part in a review of the newspapers’ code of practice in the wake of the Leveson report into press ethics.”
BBC News, 15th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Complaints about a company based in India which sent text messages about reclaiming payment protection insurance (PPI) and compensation for accidents have been upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).”
The Guardian, 12th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Public organisations are wasting resources and causing financial hardship by taking too long to put right basic mistakes, says a new report by parliamentary ombudsman Dame Julie Mellor.”
The Guardian, 12th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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“Use of the UK supreme court and judicial review can renew confidence in a system of self-regulation.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An application to quash the original Hillsborough inquest verdicts could be made today, the Attorney General’s office said.”
The Independent, 10th December 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A complaint of racial discrimination by workers arising out of a ban preventing them from entering the workplace was not presented in time under section 68(1) of the Race Relations Act 1976 after a period of three months beginning with the date on which the ban had expired.”
WLR Daily, 4th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The ability of big companies to use armies of lawyers to prevent regulators from introducing consumer-friendly measures will be curbed after the chancellor’s autumn statement promised to make appeals quicker and easier.”
The Guardian, 6th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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