‘A man who slit the throats of his two young children during lockdown has been detained in hospital indefinitely.’
The Guardian, 10th December 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Femicide Census has produced its fifth, and most comprehensive, report to date of women killed by men in the UK.’
Family Law, 9th December 2020
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘The woman who killed seven-year-old Emily Jones in a Bolton park on Mother’s Day has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of eight years.’
The Guardian, 8th December 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A woman with a history of violence and mental health problems who confessed to killing seven-year-old Emily Jones, has been cleared of murder.’
The Guardian, 4th December 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man who beat, strangled and set alight a fellow patient at a secure mental health unit in north London has been detained for an unlimited time.’
BBC News, 3rd December 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who threw his infant son into a river “slipped through the net” of mental health services, a judge has said. Zak Bennett-Eko, 23, was sentenced to a hospital order on Tuesday after being found guilty of the manslaughter by diminished responsibility of his 11-month-old son Zakari.’
The Guardian, 1st December 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man has admitted killing a 12-year-old boy in a hit-and-run near a school.’
BBC News, 30th November 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Twenty years ago, 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor was stabbed in the leg and left to die in a south London stairwell. It took six years and three trials for brothers Danny and Ricky Preddie to be convicted of manslaughter. They were aged 12 and 13 at the time of the killing.’
BBC News, 27th November 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Victims of domestic abuse should not be denied legal aid because they have assets trapped in a home, the high court has ruled.’
The Guardian, 25th November 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘In 2017 a 24-year-old woman, Louella Fletcher Michie, died at the Bestival Music Festival, having taken 2-CP, a Class A drug, supplied by her boyfriend, the appellant.’
2 Hare Court, November 2020
Source: www.2harecourt.com
‘In Stoffel & Co. v Grondona, the Supreme Court considered the operation of the common law defence of illegality in the context of solicitors’ negligence for the first time since its seminal decision in Patel v Mirza [2017] AC 467. At the same time, the Court handed down judgment in a clinical negligence case: Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust [2020] UKSC 43.’
Hailsham Chambers, 3rd November 2020
Source: www.hailshamchambers.com
‘A father who admitted causing the death of his teenage son by shaking him as a baby has been jailed for three years.’
BBC News, 9th November 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘R (Peter Skelton and anr) v Senior Coroner for West Sussex [2020] EWHC 2813 (Adminn). Susan Nicholson and Caroline Devlin were killed by the same man during the course of abusive relationships. They died in 2011 and 2006, but the man was not convicted – of murder and manslaughter respectively – until 2017. The inquest into Susan’s death in 2011 resulted in a verdict of accidental death. Following the murder conviction, the Coroner applied to the High Court for this to be quashed, with the intention of holding a short inquest at which a fresh conclusion of “unlawful killing” would be recorded. However, the Claimants in this case – Susan’s parents – sought to expand the scope of the inquest to consider what they thought, understandably, were police failings. They were successful; this blog explains why, and examines the wider implications of the ruling.’
UK Human Rights Law Blog, 5th November 2020
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘In Ecila Henderson v. Dorset Healthcare University NHS Trust Foundation [2020] UKSC 43 the Supreme Court has revisited the defence of illegality (“ex turpi causa”) in the context of a claim for clinical negligence.’
UK Human Rights Law Blog, 3rd November 2020
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A man has admitted slitting the throats of his two young children during lockdown. Nadarajah Nithiyakumar, 41, attacked his daughter Pavinya, aged 19 months, and three-year-old son Nigash at the family home in Ilford, east London, on 26 April.’
The Guardian, 5th November 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A police officer who strangled a mother-of-two after she exposed their affair will have his 10-and-a-half year sentence for manslaughter reviewed.’
BBC News, 4th November 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A police officer who strangled his long-term lover after she exposed their affair to his wife has been jailed.’
BBC News, 28th October 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The family of a vulnerable woman who was killed by her housemate while in supported accommodation have spoken of their loss after an inquest found that her death could have been prevented if effective risk assessments had been carried out.’
Garden Court Chambers, 5th October 2020
Source: www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk
‘A police officer who strangled his long-term lover after she exposed their affair to his wife has been cleared of murder.’
BBC News, 27th October 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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