“In an increasingly competitive legal sector it is understandable that many lawyers are unwilling to admit to human weakness, but those counselling struggling legal professionals believe that the number failing to cope has risen notably in recent years.”
Legal Week, 8th September 2011
Source: www.legalweek.com
“A military historian who faked an illustrious Army career has been jailed for three years.”
BBC News, 26th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The owner of a care home, Annette Hopkins, represented by Kate Lumsdon (23es) and Barry McElduff (2KBW), had her conviction for negligence quashed by the Court of Appeal, who cast doubt over the viability of the offence created by the Mental Capacity Act 2005: R v Hopkins and Priest [2011]EWCA Crim 1513. The Court of Appeal, quashing the conviction on other grounds, held that in its view the offence as drafted failed the test of sufficient certainty. The Court was however bound by precedent: R v Dunn [2010] EWCA Crim 2935.”
23 Essex Street, 17th August 2011
Source: www.23es.com
“The death of a man decapitated by a mental health patient could have been stopped had there not been a catalogue of lost opportunities, an inquiry says.”
BBC News, 17th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“On the true meaning of section 21(1)(a) of the National Assistance Act 1948, as amended, an asylum seeker suffering from depression and mental health difficulties who had been granted indefinite leave to remain was entitled to residential accommodation if the local authority had provided a programme of assistance and support to him through a care co-ordinator, since such provision of assistance would be otiose without the additional provision of housing.”
WLR Daily, 10th August 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Care charities and other not-for-profit organisations are being asked whether they think they can better meet the needs of people who lack mental capacity.”
Ministry of Justice, 4th August 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The star of the original Yorkie chocolate bar adverts has admitted killing his terminally-ill wife.”
BBC News, 28th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The family of Anni Dewani, who was murdered on her honeymoon in South Africa, told how they wanted ‘closure’ as extradition proceedings against her husband, Shrien, drew to a conclusion.”
The Guardian, 21st July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Serial killers including Ian Brady and Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper could be claiming hundreds of pounds a year in benefits, it has emerged.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Jones and another v Ruth and another [2011] EWCA Civ 804; [2011] WLR (D) 222
“Foreseeability of the injury or loss sustained by a claimant was not an essential element in the cause of action for harassment under section 3 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.”
WLR Daily, 12th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A new inquest is to be held in November into the death of a six-year-old boy who was killed when his father jumped from a hotel balcony in Greece while holding him.”
The Guardian, 11th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The care and treatment given to a man with a history of schizophrenia who killed a pensioner because voices in his head ordered him to attack a stranger have been severely criticised in a review.”
The Guardian, 30th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Nail bomber David Copeland has failed in his bid to reduce his minimum jail term of 50 years.”
BBC News, 28th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A council has apologised for mistakes which led to an 11-year-old raping another boy.”
BBC News, 15th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A west London council acted unlawfully by refusing to allow a 21-year-old autistic man to be placed in the care of his father, the High Court ruled.”
BBC News, 9th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Dame Jo Williams, chair of the Care Quality commission, pledges rethink of residential care for people with learning difficulties following exposé of abuse at Bristol hospital.”
The Guardian, 7th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“When Linda Morgan’s son Joe Paraskeva was sectioned, he tried to escape from hospital and was given a prison sentence that could see him spend the rest of his life behind bars. His mother has launched a campaign, Justice for Joe, to highlight his case.”
The Guardian, 1st June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“HM Revenue & Customers is looking at how to replace the terms ‘lunatic’, ‘idiot’, and ‘insane person’ in tax law.”
The Guardian, 29th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman has been cleared of the murder of her severely autistic 11-year-old son.”
BBC News, 26th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Aitken v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2011] EWCA Civ 582; [2011] WLR (D) 165
“Parties and their lawyers using the tribunal system should not draw the appellate courts into unnecessary speculation as to what the law would be if an employment tribunal had found the facts differently. Users of the tribunal system needed to be reminded that they needed evidence to prove facts; they needed facts on which to base legal submissions; and they needed real, not imaginary, questions of law for any appeal.”
WLR Daily, 18th May 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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