‘The High Court has denied the Lord Chancellor relief from sanctions in a case involving an attempt by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) to reclaim £160,000 plus interest from a former law firm 16 years after the final payments were made.’
Litigation Futures, 11th November 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Syvil Lloyd Morris, Director of Famil Law at Bastian Lloyd Morris Solicitor Advocates, considers the developing interrelationship between the criminal and family jurisdictions in relation to cases of domestic violence.’
Family Law Week, 6th November 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The decision to scale back the police investigation into the deaths of marchers killed by soldiers in Londonderry in 1972 will be challenged in court by victims’ relatives.’
BBC News, 11th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The former Manchester United footballer Ravel Morrison has been cleared of allegations he harassed his former girlfriend including threatening to kill her and throw acid in her face.‘
The Independent, 10th November 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A former RAF officer has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for committing 23 sex offences against boys at a German military base in the 1980s.’
BBC News, 10th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The UK’s financial watchdog is clamping down on payday loans, with new rules to ensure that borrowers are never forced to repay more than twice the sum of their original loan.’
The Guardian, 11th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Two men have been jailed for illegally distributing music through an online music forum.’
BBC News, 10th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who refused to return his child to Wales after kidnapping her and taking her to Libya two years ago has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.’
BBC News, 10th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The “fake sheikh” journalist Mazher Mahmood has failed in an appeal to the high court to prevent BBC1’s Panorama from revealing his appearance.’
The Guardian, 10th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat programme has been found in breach of broadcasting codes for a news item about Islamic State (IS) fighter Abu Summayah.’
BBC News, 10th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Two prisoners have failed in their human rights protest against prison rehabilitation courses in the United Kingdom.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th November 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The cap on the number of books inmates can have in their cells has been scrapped following pressure from a campaign backed by leading literary figures.’
The Guardian, 7th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A former Met police officer who was caught with nearly two and a half thousand indecent images and films of children has avoided a prison sentence after a judge cited “his background” as a mitigating factor.’
The Independent, 8th November 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The use of single joint experts could render the judge purely a “figure head” in proceedings, the president of the Supreme Court has warned.’
Litigation Futures, 10th November 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The government is writing to a string of high street chains urging them to improve after a BBC London investigation revealed a “depressing” failure to accommodate disabled people.’
BBC News, 10th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal heard a landmark test case this week brought on behalf of a child born with foetal alcohol syndrome against the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 7th November 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘An interesting decision about a Council not supplying some key information about a wind turbine project to the public until very late in the day. Can an objector apply to set the grant of permission aside? Answer: yes, unless the Council can show that it would have inevitably have come to the same conclusion, even if the information had been made public earlier.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th November 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘In 2007, the UK Parliament passed the Legal Services Act (LSA), with the goal of liberalizing the market for legal services in England and Wales and encouraging more competition—in response to the governmentally commissioned ‘Clementi’ report finding the British legal market opaque, inflexible, overly complex, and insulated from innovation and competition.’
OUP Blog, 8th November 2014
Source: www.blog.oup.com
‘A change in the law that will allow terminally ill people to be helped to end their lives is inevitable and will happen within as little as a couple of years, according to the deputy chair of the British Medical Association (BMA).’
The Guardian, 8th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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