“The home secretary’s attempt to deprive a man once held as a terrorist suspect of British nationality has been ruled illegal by the supreme court.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“ASA says ad by payday lender Wonga gave impression that taking out a high-interest loan could be done lightly.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The renowned artist Graham Ovenden has been jailed for two years and three months for sexual offences against children, after the appeal court ruled that an earlier non-custodial sentence was ‘unduly lenient’.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“MF (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1192. In what circumstances can a foreign criminal resist deportation on the basis of his right to family life under Article 8 of the Convention? Until 2012 this question was governed entirely by judge-made case law. Then rules 398, 399 and 399A were introduced into the Immigration Rules HC 395.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
” Currently, suspects must pose a risk of ‘serious harm’ to be handed one of the existing orders – but now the Home Office has proposed lowering the threshold to cover any kind of sexual harm. The new Sexual Risk Order will allow magistrates to impose a range of restrictions on suspected sex offenders, including banning them from travelling abroad, limiting their internet use and prohibiting them from being alone with a child.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The editor of the Times yesterday gave the clearest indication yet that a group of the country’s bestselling titles will press ahead and set up their own regulator without seeking government approval, after ministers formally rejected a Fleet Street proposal for a new system of oversight.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Home Secretary Theresa May says illegal immigrants will find it much harder to set up home in the UK under new laws. The Immigration Bill will require banks to check the immigration status of people applying to open accounts, and private landlords to make similar checks on their tenants.”
BBC News, 10th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Major construction companies are to compensate workers whose names were on a secret industry blacklist. The dramatic development follows years of campaigning by unions after it was discovered that more than 3,200 names, mainly of building workers, were kept on the list, drawn up by a shadowy organisation called the Consulting Association.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The official website for HMP Oakwood says that it wants to ‘inspire, motivate and guide prisoners to become the best they can be.'”
BBC News, 8th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A High Court judge has granted an energy company an injunction preventing a waste authority from entering into a £1bn+ resource recovery contract (RRC) with a rival business.”
Local Government Lawyer, 8th October 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“Parties to litigation in the civil courts need more guidance about what constitutes an ‘appropriate’ costs budget and the consequences of not meeting the requirements of the new costs management regime, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th October 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Public authorities may need to maintain a record to justify why they are unable to respond to freedom of information (FOI) requests more promptly than within 20 working days after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) released new guidance.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th October 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The use of ‘gagging clauses’ risks stopping employees from speaking out about failures in the public sector, the National Audit Office has warned.”
BBC News, 8th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An extraordinary story which would have raised our eyebrows at its implausibility had it come from our spy novelists. In late 2006, Alexander Litvinenko was murdered by polonium-210 given to him in London. He was an ex-Russian Federation FSB agent, but by then was a UK citizen. He had accused Putin of the murder of the journalist Anna Politovskaya. He may or may not have been working for MI6 at the time of his death. The prime suspects for the killing are in Russia, not willing to help the UK with its inquiries. But rightly, in one form or another, we want to know what really happened.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The latest High Court decision refusing relief from sanctions shows how tough the courts are becoming in implementing the Jackson reforms, a QC has warned.”
Litigation Futures, 9th October 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“A serial sex attacker, who went looking for a woman to rape before murdering the wife of a Gurkha soldier, has been jailed for life by a judge who described him as a ‘very dangerous man’.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“When the House of Lords returns from recess in October, they will begin to welcome the 30 new peers announced at the beginning of August, including such diverse figures as paralympian Chris Holmes, racism campaigner Doreen Lawrence and Ministry of Sound co-founder James Palumbo. These 30 new peers (14 Conservative, ten Liberal Democrats, five Labour and one Green) will see the Conservatives again become the biggest bloc (with 222 peers, one ahead of Labour) and take the number of currently eligible sitting peers to 783. While such a size led to many comments about the ballooning size of the House (such as ‘New faces push the supersized House of Lords towards 1,000’ The Times August 2, 2013), this figure – which excludes those on leave of absence and those ineligible due to offices held – is actually lower than the figures as at March 2011 and March 2012. However, the annual reports of the House do show average attendance has increased by over a third in the last decade (from the mid-300s to the high 400s) and reflecting changing party balance in the House of Commons through creations is undoubtedly set to increase the size of the House of Lords (particularly if the parties fortunes ebb and flow; on this point see, eg, Michael White (Guardian, 17/5/2010) and the Electoral Reform Society 2013 report ‘The Super-Sized Second Chamber’). Thus among the Bills set to be scrutinised in the remainder of this session are no fewer than three House of Lords Reform Private Members’ Bills (PMBs) which seek to restrict the size of the House, Nick Clegg’s revolutionary – and much criticised – reform having been abandoned last year (at least until the next election).”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 8th October 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
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