“Hopes that tens of thousands of GCSE English students might have their grades raised have been dashed after the high court ruled that measures exam authorities took last summer to combat grade inflation were lawful.”
The Guardian, 13th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lord Justice Goldring has been appointed by the Coroners for the South Yorkshire (East) and the West Yorkshire (West) Districts as an Assistant Deputy Coroner for the purpose of conducting the inquests into the deaths of the 96 people in the Hillsborough disaster.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 13th February 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to be expanded to deal with all serious complaints against the police, the Home Secretary announced today.”
Home Office, 12th February 2013
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Arrangements amounting to collective investment schemes within the meaning of section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, or more generally, were not inchoate or imperfect contracts that were displaced if their parties entered into a form of understanding or contract.”
WLR Daily, 8th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“FOCUS: The decision by the Supreme Court last month that legal professional privilege would not apply to advice from non-lawyers confirms how important it is for insurers to maximise the value of legal privilege.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“How the government has responded to Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations on press regulation.”
The Guardian, 12th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lindsay Sandiford, the British woman sentenced to death for smuggling just under five kilos of cocaine into Bali, has obtained sufficient funds to appeal, writes Roger Smith.”
LegalVoice, 12th February 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
“A school dinner lady who was unfairly sacked after telling a seven-year-old girl’s parents that their daughter had been tied to a fence and hit with a skipping rope has won her two-year battle for compensation.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A quarter of agencies that provide care to people in their own homes do not meet all five national standards of quality and safety, regulators said.”
The Independent, 13th February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Swiss bank UBS has been fined £9.45m and ordered to pay a similar sum in compensation for mis-selling an investment fund that took in more than £6bn from wealthy customers.”
The Guardian, 12th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man has been found guilty of murdering his friend at a house party almost 10 years after he became Britain’s youngest ever ASBO holder.”
The Independent, 12th February 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Hidden clauses in leasehold agreements cost unlucky leaseholders thousands, warns property lawyer Stephen Hill.”
The Guardian, 12th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“[The defendent] was caught racing through a Central London junction at more than double the speed limit but then spent almost a year trying to get the charge thrown out.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Thousands of teenagers are awaiting a ruling from the High Court on Wednesday over the grading of GCSE English exams sat in June last year.”
BBC News, 13th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Judges should be given the ‘maximum amount of discretion’ in deciding whether or not to order a secret court hearing under the justice and security bill, Ken Clarke has told MPs and peers.”
The Guardian, 12th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A plastic surgeon suspended for photographing a female patient’s genitalia on his phone without her consent has been allowed back to work.”
BBC News, 12th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government’s back-to-work schemes have suffered a setback after Appeal Court
judges agreed with a university graduate’s claim that unpaid schemes were
legally flawed.”
BBC News, 12th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A single mother is taking her legal battle over a north London council’s plans
to make people on benefits contribute to their council tax bill to the Court of
Appeal.”
BBC News, 12th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ali Hussein v Secretary of State for Defence [2013] EWHC 95 (Admin) –
Collins J has dismissed a claim that the MOD’s policy of allowing interrogators to shout at a captured person in order to obtain information is unlawfully oppressive. Not only did the complaint fail but it was denounced as ‘misconceived’ and one which should never have been pursued.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Bulger family still lives on a council estate in Kirkby and on the
surface of it very little has changed since Winifred last saw them two
decades ago when the children who had abducted and killed two year old
James were convicted of murder. But in the intervening years she often
reflected on the case and wondered about what had happened to the large
extended family and its campaign for justice for James.”
BBC Radio 4, 12th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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