Doctors Prana and Nishebita Das robbery: Two jailed – BBC News
“A woman and a man have been jailed for assaulting and robbing two married doctors in their home, leaving one brain damaged.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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Horsewoman who appeared in Queen’s Diamond Jubilee exaggerated injuries for compensation – Daily Telegraph
“A horsewoman who appeared in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee pageant exaggerated
injuries she suffered in a fall to try to win a big compensation pay-out, a
court heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Girl, 14, forced to become pregnant with donor sperm bought by mother – The Guardian
“A mother forced her 14-year-old adopted daughter to inseminate herself with donor sperm to provide a baby for her after she was prevented from adopting any more children, it can be revealed. The daughter, a virgin, is believed to have miscarried at 14, but went on to have a baby at 16 after regularly inseminating herself with sperm bought over the internet by her ‘domineering’ mother because she was too scared to refuse. Details of the shocking case have emerged in a previously secret court judgment, which can be reported today for the first time and which raises serious questions over loopholes in international adoptions and the regulation of the global traffic in gametes.”
The Guardian, 28th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Junk foods avoid ad ban by targeting children online – The Guardian
“Advertising regulators have been accused of failing to protect children from aggressive online marketing by food companies using internet games and advertising. The Children’s Food Campaign has called on ministers to introduce statutory regulation to close loopholes allowing ads that are banned from children’s television to be shown on manufacturers’ own child-friendly websites.”
The Guardian, 29th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Collette Elliot wins pay-out from Birmingham council – BBC News
“A woman is to receive compensation from a council after social services failed
to take her into care while she was being abused as a child.”
BBC News, 28th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Police watchdog to investigate Taser use in burns death of man doused in flammable liquid – The Independent
“A watchdog is to investigate whether the firing of a Taser by a police officer
at a man doused in flammable liquid caused fatal burns.”
The Independent, 27th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
New legal aid reforms end ‘justice for all’, lawyers warn – The Independent
“England’s 800-year-old tradition of fair and open access to justice for all will
be destroyed by sweeping Government plans to reform criminal legal aid, senior
judges and magistrates warn today.”
The Independent, 28th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Judge: parents were too besotted to hurt children – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has refused to allow social workers to take three children with serious
and apparently unexplained injuries into care after seeing that their parents
were ‘simply dotty about them’.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Home Office fury as drug dealer immigrant wins right to stay in UK – Daily Telegraph
“A judge’s decision to allow a convicted drug dealer who abandoned his children
the right to stay in Britain over his ‘human rights’ is at the centre of
mounting political protest.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Bulger killers’ images’: Two jailed for contempt – BBC News
“Two men who published photographs on Twitter and Facebook said to show the
killers of James Bulger have been jailed for being in contempt of court.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Ipswich sex slave teenager case: London men jailed – BBC News
“Three men from east London who abducted a 13-year-old girl from the streets of
the city and forced her to become their sex slave have been jailed.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BT wins right to take Sky Sports price ruling to court of appeal – The Guardian
“BT has won the right to take a competition regulator ruling that stopped BSkyB being forced to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 to rival TV services at a discount of up to 23% to the court of appeal.”
The Guardian, 26th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Birmingham terror ringleader gets five life sentences for plot – Daily Telegraph
“The ringleader of a Birmingham terror cell who plotted for the worst attack on
UK soil was today given five life sentences.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Commonwealth Law Conference: Equality before the law – Speech by Lord Judge
“Commonwealth Law Conference: Equality before the law – Speech by Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, 18th April 2013.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 24th April 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Whether a property is a ‘flat’ depends on actual use, says county court – OUT-LAW.com
“Whether a property can be considered as a residential ‘flat’ for the purposes of
property litigation will depend on how it is actually used, a county court has
ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th April 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Judicial Review reform: What does “totally without merit” mean? – Paul Bowen QC – UK Human Rights Blog
“What is the test the Court should apply in deciding whether an application is ‘totally without merit’? The question is prompted by the Lord Chancellor’s announcement on 23 April 2013 that he will press ahead with plans to reform judicial review procedure to target ‘weak, frivolous and unmeritorious cases’. A key change will be to give judges of the Administrative Court, when refusing permission to apply for judicial review on the papers, the power to certify a claim as ‘totally without merit’ (TWM), thus depriving the claimant of the right to renew the application before the court at an oral hearing.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th April 2013
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The felling of a tree might breach occupier’s right to respect for a home – UK Human Rights Blog
“Lane v Kensington & Chelsea Royal London Borough Council (19 April 2013) – extempore judgement by Sir Raymond Jack QBD.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Jeff King: Deference, Dialogue and Animal Defenders International – UK Constitutional Law Group
“In Animal Defenders International, the European Court of Human Rights upheld the British ban on political advertising in the broadcast media (s.321 Communications Act 2003), consistently with the judgments of the UK House of Lords and High Court, but in an apparent departure from its previous caselaw in the VgT (Verein gegen Tierfabrik v. Switzerland, no. 24699/94 ECHR 2001‑VI) case. The key issue in the case was whether a blanket ban (or ‘general measure’) was a proportionate restriction of the freedom of expression, or whether some class of exception (a ‘case-by-case’ approach) for groups such as the NGO in this case ought to be recognized.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 25th April 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org/blog
