‘12,000 women are sentenced each year in the UK – leaving about 20,000 children without mothers, according to Women in Prison’
The Independent, 16th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Two Libyan cadets have been jailed for 12 years each for raping a man in Cambridge.’
BBC News, 15th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A former prison officer has been jailed for 10 months for selling “salacious gossip” about celebrity inmates to two national newspapers.’
BBC News, 15th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Men-only divorce law firms look set to be the latest import from America as Britain’s first practice targeting fathers who feel hard done by in the family courts sets up in London.’
The Independent, 17th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Minimal coverage given to British Horseracing Authority’s unfounded corruption investigation into jockey and others is only part of a sorry saga.’
The Guardian, 17th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The former Attorney General Dominic Grieve has questioned what the Conservative Party is trying to achieve through its plan to replace the Human Rights Act with a new British Bill of Rights.’
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The Independent, 17th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A charity, which successfully took the last Heathrow expansion scheme to court, says it could do the same again if ministers press ahead with a new runway at either Heathrow or Gatwick.’
BBC News, 18th May 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Anti-vivisection activists have won the right to a legal challenge over the way the Home Office investigated the care of animals at a leading research institution.’
The Independent, 17th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Almost 5,000 disabled adults have been sexually abused in England in the past two years, figures have shown.’
The Guardian, 18th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Those working with migrant children have known this all along, but in March we had some official confirmation from a Parliamentary committee: the situation of migrant children in the UK is getting worse, not better.’
Free Movement, 14th May 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘The Hong Kong-based provider of internet TV subscription service NOW TV could not prevent Sky using the same name for a similar service in the UK because it did not have a UK customer base, the UK’s highest court has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 14th May 2015
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The return of a majority Conservative government in last week’s general election in the UK has made the Conservative Party’s plans for reforming human rights law in the United Kingdom a likely prospect. It is recalled that on 3 October 2014, the Conservative Party published its policy document ‘Protecting Human Rights in the UK’ which sets out its proposal to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and replace it with a new British Bill of Rights. In addition, the policy document also raised the prospect that the UK might withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 15th May 2015
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org/blog
‘A litigant-in-person has lost his claim for psychiatric injury against the Stobart Group and associated companies over his failure to serve a medical report.’
Litigation Futures, 15th May 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A committee of High Court judges, joined by a leading QC and City solicitor, has revealed its recommendations for faster trials of commercial disputes.’
Litigation Futures, 15th May 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Jack Straw, a former Labour cabinet minister and one of the architects of the Freedom of Information Act, has said that the Prince of Wales’s memos to ministers should have remained secret and that the supreme court exceeded its power in backing the Guardian’s fight for publication.’
The Guardian, 14th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A six-year-old boy with cerebral palsy is to receive a £10m care and rehabilitation package from Harrogate and district NHS foundation trust after it admitted failing to provide proper care during his birth that resulted in devastating neurological injuries.’
The Guardian, 14th May 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A woman who supplied a friend with the gas she used to kill herself has been cleared of assisting suicide.’
The Independent, 14th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A “cavalier” lorry driver who ran a red light before killing a cyclist has been jailed for three-and-a-half years and given a 10-year driving ban.’
The Independent, 14th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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