‘The justice secretary is to prevent prisoners who have absconded from being placed in open prison conditions after a convicted murderer went on the run for the third time.’
The Guardian, 19th May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor, and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law, both of Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published in April.’
Family Law Week, 17th May 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Outsourcing giant Serco is to be investigated by MPs after it was forced to publish an internal report into claims of repeated sexual assaults at one of its immigration detention centres.’
The Independent, 18th May 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has reversed the robustly expressed view of Haddon-Cave J (see my post here) that the grant of planning permission to a proposed “exclusive” golf club in Surrey should be quashed.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th May 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.co.uk
‘When a notice is served under Section 8 Housing Act 1988, how precise does the wording of the ground(s) under which possession will be sought have to be?’
NearlyLegal, 18th May 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Patients and the public are being urged to have their say over what standards nurses and midwives should abide by.’
BBC News, 19th May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The supreme court will hear a challenge by four offenders on Monday who allege that indeterminate sentences infringe the rights of prisoners if they are unable to get on to rehabilitative courses.
The Guardian, 19th May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Motorists who use their mobile phones to take photographs of crash scenes while driving could face prosecution, police have said.’
The Independent, 18th May 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A man who killed his abusive former stepfather by running him over in his car has been jailed for three years.’
BBC News, 16th May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Blue badge fraud prosecutions have doubled over three years, figures from English councils have revealed.’
BBC News, 17th May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman was “unlawfully deprived of her” liberty and her right to family life breached when she was removed from her home by a local council, a judge has ruled.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th May 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A motorist who ploughed into a lollipop lady and a group of children outside a primary school during a coughing fit has been found guilty of driving without due care and attention.’
The Guardian, 16th May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A former head teacher who gave a girl at a special school equipment for self-harming has been cleared of unacceptable professional misconduct.’
BBC News, 16th May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Lawyers and fellow judges have queued up to sing the praises of Sir Alan Moses, inaugural chair of the new press regulator.’
The Guardian, 16th May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘‘As a campaign meeting, it must have been one of the biggest yet, a hundred National Front supporters, three and a half thousand police and thousands of Asian demonstrators.’ This was the way News at Ten began its report of the clashes in Southall on 23 April 1979, midway through the general election campaign that would end with the victory of Margaret Thatcher. The report contained footage of police officers arresting middle-aged men in turbans, women sitting down in the road and demonstrators with their heads swaddled in bandages. The final images showed around twenty NF supporters, all men, giving Nazi salutes as they went into Southall Town Hall.’
London Review of Books, 22nd May 2014
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
‘A costs judge is entitled to consider if individual items of costs claimed are proportionate and necessary even if the costs of the litigation overall appear proportionate, the High Court has decided in the first ruling on the issue.’
Litigation Futures, 16th May 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Not Albert Square, but it could be. The Crown Prosecution Service suspect two individuals of a massive duty/VAT fraud in their cash and carry businesses. The CPS go to the Crown Court (in the absence of the individuals) and get an order to appoint a receiver (i.e. a paid manager) to run the affairs of companies (Eastenders) in which the individuals are involved, as well as a restraint order against the individuals. Both receivership and restraint orders are set aside some months later by the Court of Appeal, on the basis that the HMRC investigator’s statements were largely “broad and unsupported assertions”. Problem: by then the receiver had run up £772,547 in fees.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th May 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The Government has been called upon to rethink immigration policy and remove non-EU students from net migration figures in a report published by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee. The Committee looked specifically at the number of international students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and whether the UK’s immigration policy has any impact on these numbers. It concludes the Government is simultaneously committed to reducing net migration and attracting increasing numbers of international students, a contradiction which could be removed by excluding students from net migration figures.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 15th May 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘Damian Green, the justice minister, says courts should take account of new statements by children and young people setting out how burglary affects them.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th May 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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