“Two trials reveal how girl’s reports of sexual contact with older men were not passed on by social care and health professionals.”
The Guardian, 8th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Royal Marine has been found guilty of murder following the killing in cold blood of a badly wounded suspected insurgent in Afghanistan. A court martial board in Bulford, Wiltshire, acquitted two other marines of the murder of the Afghan national in Helmand province in September 2011.”
The Guardian, 8th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A psychiatric patient who stabbed a woman to death in a London street has lost a bid to appeal against her conviction and sentence.”
BBC News, 8th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A nurse who worked at Stafford Hospital has been given a five year caution after she was found guilty of putting patients in danger, angering families who want ‘someone held responsible’ for the scandal.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A council acted unlawfully in 2012 when it cut youth services by more than 70% over a three-year period, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
Local Government Lawyer, 7th November 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“The Equal Treatment Bench Book, a guide for judges, magistrates and all other judicial office-holders, has been revised and updated.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 6th November 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“CF v Security Service and others and Mohamed v Foreign and Commonwealth Office and others [[2013] EWHC 3402 (QB). The High Court has today made the first court ruling on the use of the Justice and Security Act 2013 in a civil claim for damages.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th November 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Government is right to consider a review of the civil and criminal laws surrounding so-called ‘leverage campaigns’, with a view towards making it harder for trade unions to engage in ‘industrial intimidation’ during labour disputes, an expert has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th November 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Niqab-wearing defendants should be obliged to remove their veils before giving evidence say 90% of my colleagues in a poll conducted by the Bar Council for The Times (although personally I’d like to see what the participation rate was for that). Former justice secretary, Ken Clarke, agrees, likening wearing a full-face veil in the witness box to giving evidence ‘in a bag’. The Lord Chief Justice says that trial judges should be able to decide whether a defendant may give evidence wearing a face-veil or not, but promises to provide guidance.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 7th November 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Jessica Craigs, senior solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse the financial remedies and divorce news and cases published in October.”
Family Law Week, 7th November 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“A paedophile policeman who abused boys for more than a decade has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Former residents of a Catholic orphanage who claim they suffered physical and sexual abuse have expressed anger at a police decision to end an inquiry into the allegations.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The RSPCA has been accused of ‘naked political campaigning’ after its latest case involving a hunt collapsed. The charity accused Will Goffe, 33, of hunting a fox with a hound while out with the Ledbury Hunt, near Malvern in Worcestershire. However, the case was dropped due to insufficient evidence. It is the fourth failed RSPCA hunt prosecution this year.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Home Office investigates just six per cent of tip-offs from the public about suspected illegal immigrants, a new report has disclosed.
Nearly 49,000 reports were received over nine months about foreigners alleged to be living or working illegally in Britain, but officials looked into only 2,695 of them.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Industry takes case to court of appeal after high court rejected its application for an emergency injunction over new press regulator.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Serial rapist Antoni Imiela has been denied leave to appeal against his 2012 conviction for a rape attack on Christmas Day 1987.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two detectives who dealt with a sex crime allegation against Jimmy Savile in
2008 have been referred to the police watchdog.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A holidaymaker who suffered life-threatening cuts after walking into a plate glass door in her bikini has fought off a bid to strip her of her damages award, in what it has been desribed as a serious blow to the UK travel industry.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Regulators have found no evidence of price manipulation in the UK wholesale gas market after an investigation.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, the terror suspect who escaped surveillance wearing a burqa, is seeking damages from the government in a human rights legal challenge involving allegations of torture, it has been revealed at the high court.”
The Guardian, 7th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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