‘The former chief executive, finance director and marketing director at a UK insurance provider have been served with fines by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and banned from taking senior positions at other financial services companies in the future.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th November 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Football managers and coaches are not infrequently subjected to disciplinary sanctions by football regulatory bodies for speaking out about referees and such like. It is comparatively rarer for players to be sanctioned for expressing themselves, although this has now happened twice to QPR and sometime England midfielder and avid tweeter Rio Ferdinand.’
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 10th November 2014
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
‘A man has been ordered to pay almost £500 in fines and costs for dropping a snack lid on the ground in Bristol.’
BBC News, 7th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘New bodies which will monitor the performance of the strategic road network and champion the needs of its users will be created as part of plans to hold a reconstituted Highways Agency to account, the UK government has announced.’
OUT-LAW.com, 29th October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The amount of enforcement action taken against employers for non-compliance with their automatic enrolment duties rose considerably in September, according to the Pensions Regulator, which has also recently issued its first fines for breaches.’
OUT-LAW.com, 29th October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Home Office guidance updated this week says people can be fined up to £2,500 for not controlling invasive plant in move designed to tackle problem in residential areas.’
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Another attempt to introduce jail sentences as a possible punishment to individuals who access or disclose personal data in breach of data protection rules has stalled in the UK parliament.
24th October 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Ministers are considering introducing “pop up” courts for people who challenge speeding fines to be held in their own communities.’
Daily Telegraph, 25th October 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has been fined £200 for breaking electoral law after he failed to declare that he was getting office space free.’
The Guardian, 21st October 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A breakdown of the new legal powers police have to help prevent dog attacks.’
Daily Telegraph,
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Tough new legal powers to help prevent thousands of dog attacks every year will be given to police forces and local authorities from Monday 20 October.’
Home Office, 17th October 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘An illegal gangmaster who made Romanian workers scavenge in bins while charging them to live in an unheated shed has been fined just £500.’
The Independent, 8th October 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Leading Surrey firm Mundays has been fined £2,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for using stamp duty land tax (SDLT) avoidance schemes which saved clients over £2.5m.’
Legal Futures, 3rd October 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A mental health trust has been fined £20,000 after a patient dived off a hospital roof, leaving him paralysed from the chest down.’
BBC News, 2nd October 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Almost 200,000 people were prosecuted last year for failing to buy a television licence. Should those who can’t afford to pay their bills be criminalised in this way?’
The Guardian, 24th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Lura Pacheco, 34, was fined £500 and sentenced to 100 hours’ community service after first prosecution for ‘education tourism’.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd September 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Motorists could demand the refund of more than £100m in parking fines, after what experts described as an “explosive” tribunal ruling left local government traffic officials in “absolute panic”.’
The Independent, 21st September 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A Greater Manchester Police officer has been forced to step down over the fatal shooting of an unarmed colleague during a training exercise.’
BBC News, 17th September 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A paralegal who took sensitive information from his employer when moving to a rival law firm was convicted of a criminal offence under the Data Protection Act this week.’
Legal Futures, 11th September 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A company has been fined £150,000 after a worker was killed when a crane wheel he was dismantling “exploded like a bomb”.’
BBC News, 9th September 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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