“Recently Halsbury’s Law Exchange (HLE) concluded its student competition by asking the five finalists to provide a video submission on whether or not assisted suicide should be legalised. The videos were all of a high standard and can be viewed on YouYube here.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 14th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“MPs will face a ‘rising tide of need’ from constituents with unmet legal needs if the government’s legal aid cuts are implemented, according to a report published today [14 March] by the Young Legal Aid Lawyers (YLAL) group.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th March 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reduced fines for organisations that have breached data protection law in half of the cases in which it has issued direct fines, Out-Law.com can reveal.”
OUT-LAW.com, 15th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The police power to contain large numbers of people at protests, the tactic known as kettling, could be called into question on Thursday by a ruling at the European court of human rights.”
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The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A solicitor from Swansea jailed for fraud and money laundering has had his conviction quashed and been set free.”
BBC News, 14th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP: The role of UK law as a model for combating human trafficking and slavery. Lecture to the City Law School, London.”
Attorney General’s Office, 13th March 2012
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“The government is to press ahead with its plans to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry despite criticism from leading figures in the Church of England and the Roman Catholic church.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The gay father of a two-year-old boy living with his lesbian mother and her partner has won the right to be involved in his life in a landmark ruling that could have significant implications for ‘alternative families’.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A severely autistic epileptic teenager who was pulled out of a swimming pool and restrained after he jumped in fully clothed during a school trip has won £28,250 damages from the Metropolitan police.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who did not report the death of his father for nearly five months and claimed his benefit payments has been jailed for three years.”
The Independent, 14th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“It’s always, and only, simple propositions that matter. But often, in the law, only big judges have the confidence to utter simple things. That was what happened in Helmot v Simon [2012] UKPC 5 (7 March 2012), an appeal to the Privy Council by an optimistic defendant who sought to overturn a decision of the Court of Appeal of Guernsey, (whose judgment had been delivered by a judge by the name of Sumption).”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 14th March 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“It has been a catastrophic case for both ‘Sarah’ the victim and the public. Here are the key questions that need answering.”
The Guardian, 14th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Anger over votes for prisoners and the release of Abu Qatada shows just what a toxic issue human rights law has become. In this provocative film, Andrew Neil travels to Europe and across Britain to find out why Britain follows these laws and asks can anything be done to restore our faith in them?”
BBC Two, 14th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Options for regulators to consider when deciding how best to prevent risks to, and improve, the quality of legal services consumers receive are outlined today [13 March] by the Legal Services Board (LSB).”
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Legal Services Board, 13th March 2012
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
“Hundreds of ex-servicemen exposed to radiation in British nuclear weapons tests have lost a Supreme Court bid to launch damages claims against the MoD.”
BBC News, 14th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“‘Will both teacher and pupils simply become the next victims of the tyranny of tolerance, heretics, whose dissent from state-imposed orthodoxy must be crushed at all costs?’, asked Cardinal O’Brien in his controversial Telegraph article on gay-marriage. He was suggesting that changing the law to allow gay marriage would affect education as it would preclude a teacher from telling pupils that marriage can only mean a heterosexual union. He later insinuated that the change might lead to students being given material such as an ‘explicit manual of homosexual advocacy entitled The Little Black Book: Queer in the 21st Century.'”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Strasbourg court is in a mess. It doesn’t help human rights to damn our eminently sensible reforms as reactionary.”
The Guardian, 13th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no ‘near miss’ principle in the application of the Immigration Rules. People who miss the five years’ continuous residence requirement – even if by two weeks – will not have met the rules. There is no exception.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
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