‘A persistent offender from Libya cannot be deported because he would face severe punishment for drinking in his homeland, immigration court rules.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Two men have been jailed for life for a group attack on a young father after a party in east London.’
The Guardian, 27th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A nurse who filmed himself raping unconscious patients in A&E has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.’
The Independent, 27th April 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A property developer has admitted making illegal alterations to a Monmouthshire house that is said to have inspired the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful.’
BBC News, 27th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The UK is in breach of its own United Nations human rights commitment to provide people with adequate homes because the housing crisis is so serious, a consortium of leading housing charities has warned. They cite soaring housing rental costs, unhealthy conditions in homes, and rising levels of homelessness and warn of “profound issues of lack of supply, increasing housing costs, lack of security of tenure and homes of such poor quality that they are unfit for habitation”.’
The Guardian, 28th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Sun journalist Tom Wells will not face a retrial over a charge of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office, the Old Bailey has heard.’
BBC News, 24th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A statute modernising adult social care law that came into force this month could expose local authorities to greater litigation risks.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 27th April 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A man has been jailed for life for the murder of a student found stabbed at her flat in Stoke-on-Trent.’
BBC News, 24th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Operation Elveden was prompted by the Leveson Inquiry – evidence heard at the Inquiry suggested there was a culture of tabloid newspapers paying public officials for stories. At a time when the tabloid press was being vilified for intruding in people’s private lives through phone hacking, this was seen as further evidence of out-of- control journalists, ignoring the law for their own gain.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 24th April 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘A father who repeatedly raped his daughter over a four-year period resulting in her having a baby has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 24th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A nightclub bouncer has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a man who died more than two years after he felled him with a single punch.’
BBC News, 24th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A 70-year-old man who skippered a yacht across the Atlantic in a calamity-riddled £200m cocaine smuggling operation has been jailed for 10 years.’
BBC News, 24th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘It is five years since the schoolboy was murdered in Victoria Station. His mother Naima talks to Joshi Herrmann about that terrible day.’
The Independent, 25th April 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An attempt to ban the possession of the toxic “diet drug” DNP has failed, it has emerged just days after student Eloise Parry became the fifth person in three years to die after taking the pill bought over the internet.’
The Guardian, 24th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A serial criminal who was brought to the ground by the owner of a shop during a failed axe raid has been jailed for six years.’
The Guardian, 24th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Two soldiers, including one who is now a guard at Buckingham Palace, have been spared jail after they brutally assaulted two men in an unprovoked attack after a night out in Darlington, County Durham.’
The Independent, 24th April 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The judge who disqualified Lutfur Rahman is one of the country’s leading electoral law practitioners and has handed down previous, scathing judgments resulting in councillors being removed from office.’
The Guardian, 24th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A chip shop owner has lost his Court of Appeal challenge over what he claimed were “unfair, unlawful and disproportionate” parking charges.’
BBC News, 23rd April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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