“A video game banned for its ‘casual sadism’ will be released in Britain after its makers yesterday won an appeal against censors. Manhunt 2, the first game in a decade to be banned, was prohibited by the British Board of Film Classification in June for its ‘unrelenting focus on brutal slaying’.”
The Guardian, 11th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge has dashed the hopes of a mother who wanted compensation for her years in prison after she was cleared of killing her four-month-old son.”
BBC News, 10th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Gordon Brown faces a dilemma on energy policy after a legal warning from Greenpeace, the environmental group, that a decision to approve a new generation of nuclear power stations would ‘not be lawful’.”
Financial Times, 10th December 2007
Source: www.ft.com
“A woman who claims she was healed by prayer had to battle the benefits system to stop her disability payments.”
BBC News, 11th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Santa Claus’s failure to alert children to their rights to full refunds within seven working days under the Distance Selling Regulations is in breach of those rules, an expert has warned.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th December 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Sun and The News of the World were forced to pay the actress Sienna Miller damages yesterday for publishing nude photographs taken against her will during the filming of a movie.”
The Independent, 8th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Plans which would have forced judges in civil courts to ditch their wigs have been postponed.”
The Independent, 8th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Pensioners are launching a legal battle against a smoking ban which stops them lighting up in the communal room of their sheltered housing.”
BBC News, 10th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Rogue employers could face unlimited fines and agency workers will enjoy stronger protection under a new Employment Bill published by the Government on Friday. The reforms also abolish the current statutory disciplinary procedures.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th December 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“A law to cut red tape – hailed by Gordon Brown as a crucial means of reducing the burden on business – has failed to axe or even amend a single regulation in the first year of its existence.”
Financial Times, 9th December 2007
Source: www.ft.com
“Two men caught taking rabbits and trespassing could have been deported overseas for seven years had an old English poaching law been upheld.”
BBC News, 7th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The national security effort focuses too heavily on terrorism at the expense of fighting organised crime, securing energy supplies and tackling other international threats, a report states today.”
The Times, 10th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Santa Claus could be breaking privacy laws in his collection and use of data about British children, experts have warned. Yuletide cheer-bringer Claus could be putting the personal data of millions of children at risk.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th December 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Government should launch a ‘serious renewed debate’ on ID cards or scrap the scheme, a thinktank report says.”
The Independent, 8th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The grim pattern to Louise Giles’s short life was set at the age of 13 when she took her first overdose.”
The Independent, 8th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Four British residents held without charge at the American detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba are to be released, reducing the UK involvement with the camp to just one inmate.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A key element of the government’s family justice policy is failing the children it was intended to help, a two-year study funded by the Ministry of Justice has concluded.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two-thirds of law firms have poached a team from a rival practice, according to research by Smith & Williamson.”
The Times, 7th December 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“One of Britain’s leading art galleries faces the threat of legal action over three paintings by the 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens from the granddaughter of the works’ former owner who was murdered by the Nazis.”
The Independent, 9th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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