‘A Metropolitan police officer who ordered the strip search of an academic, in part because she would not disclose her name while in detention, has been cleared by a disciplinary panel.’
The Guardian, 30th August 2018
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‘A newborn baby died after being placed in a car seat on a hotel room bunk bed overnight, it has emerged. The 10-week-old twin was found unresponsive at the accommodation in Wigan in July 2016. Investigations found the infants had been left on the bottom bunk while their parents drank in the hotel bar. However, a serious case review said the adults were not “excessively intoxicated” and the child had been alive upon their return to the room. No criminal charges were brought and a coroner was unable to ascertain the cause of death.’
BBC News, 31st August 2018
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‘A man convicted of killing a woman on their first date in a speedboat crash on the River Thames has launched an appeal – despite being on the run from police.’
The Independent, 30th August 2018
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‘A man has been banned from driving for 24 months after being caught speeding at more than 140mph while over the drink-drive limit.’
BBC News, 30th August 2018
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‘A council worker has admitted defrauding around £60,000 from the Grenfell Tower victim fund.’
BBC News, 30th August 2018
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‘High-risk paedophiles and sex offenders are not being properly monitored by “seriously overstretched” police in Merseyside, a watchdog has found. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMICFRS) found a backlog of almost 100 overdue visits to registered sex offenders and said neighbourhood officers do not even know where they live in some cases because of poor communication.’
The Independent, 31st August 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Serial killer Stephen Port has lodged an appeal against his murder convictions.’
BBC News, 30th August 2018
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‘A scandal-hit trust is facing calls for a wider probe into dozens of deaths at a hospital’s maternity unit, it was reported last night.’
Daily Telegraph, 31st August 2018
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‘A man who stabbed a Muslim surgeon who treated victims of the Manchester terror attack has been jailed. Ian Rooke attacked Dr Nasser Kurdy as he made his way towards Altrincham Islamic Centre for afternoon prayers in September. The 29-year-old, of no fixed address, was jailed for five years and four months at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court after pleading guilty to wounding with intent and possession of a weapon.’
The Independent, 31st August 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘In Re C (A Child) (Schedule 1 Children Act Variation) [2018] Lexis Citation 63, [2018] All ER (D) 32 (Aug) the Family Court examined the power of a court to vary or revoke an order for the settlement of property that had already been made. Charlotte Sanders, associate at Stewarts, discusses the outcome of the case.’
Family Law, 29th August 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A cage fighter convicted of taking part in a £53m armed robbery has been excused from paying back his alleged share of the stolen cash after a secret court hearing.’
The Guardian, 29th August 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A woman who says she was racially assaulted on a London bus has called for transport companies to keep CCTV material for longer, after footage of her attack was deleted in just 10 days.’
BBC News, 29th August 2018
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‘Home Office officials have made more than 5,700 changes to the immigration rules since 2010, a Guardian analysis has revealed, making the visa system nearly impossible to navigate, according to senior judges and lawyers.’
The Guardian, 27th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The rhetoric is heating up ahead of the second reading of the Civil Liability Bill in the House of Commons next week, with the Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS) and Association of British Insurers (ABI) both speaking out yesterday.’
Legal Futures, 30th August 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘This month thousands of people up and down the country found out whether they had done enough to get into their university of choice. After a long, hard slog involving many sacrificed weekends and evenings, Freshers’ Week will no doubt provide some much needed light relief before it’s time to do it all over again over the next three to four years.’
Family Law, 28th August 2018
Source: www.familylaw.co.uk
‘A man has admitted trying to kill six children in a hit-and-run that left one teenage girl with a broken neck.’
The Guardian, 28th August 2018
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‘It’s the film that’s had cinema-goers reaching for a tissue. The deeply moving tale of a critically ill child whose parents refused to allow him to have a blood transfusion because of their religious beliefs.’
Daily Telegraph
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‘The Supreme Court held that the terms of the Convention do not entitle the respondents to be resettled in the UK metropolitan territory. Overall, a state’s duties to a refugee reaching a particular territory – whose international relations the state controls – are in principle and in normal circumstances limited to providing and securing the refugee’s Convention rights in that context.’
UKSC Blog, 24th August 2018
Source: ukscblog.com
‘In a complex interim judgment dealing with threshold issues, the Supreme Court has asad-khanheld that both the Refugee Convention 1951 and the 1967 Protocol extend to the UK’s Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) of Akrotiri and Dhekelia. Britain occupied Cyprus between 1878 and 1960. Secretive deal making with the Ottoman Empire led the British Empire to forge an alliance with the Turks to protect them from Russia. The British initially occupied and administered Cyprus and ultimately annexed it upon the outbreak of the First World War when the British and the Turks found themselves fighting on opposite sides. Turkey recognised the annexation in the Treaty of Lausanne 1923 and that status continued until the settlement between the UK, Greece and Turkey in 1960 when Cyprus became a republic. Like Britain’s other Mediterranean possessions the island was of military and strategic importance rather than economic value. Upon independence in 1960, the UK retained sovereignty over the SBAs to accommodate military bases which are now the only notable British strategic assets in the eastern Mediterranean. These proceedings threw up a number of issues including the respondents’ entitlement to resettlement in the UK under the Convention, the validity of the UK-Cyprus Memorandum of Understanding of 2003 on illegal migrants and asylum seekers, and whether the UK is in principle entitled to discharge its obligations under the Convention by arranging for support to be provided by Cyprus?’
UKSC Blog, 24th August 2018
Source: ukscblog.com
‘An immigration lawyer who “wrongly claimed” £800,000 from the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).’
Legal Futures, 29th August 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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