TV death baby: Kian McMillan’s mother jailed – BBC News
“The mother of a four-month-old boy who died when a television fell on his head has been jailed.”
BBC News, 31st January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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Prisoners’ rights: no tea bags please! – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“Was challenging the decision for prisoners having the right to vote a step too far?”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 31st January 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Naomi Campbell wins damages from Telegraph over ‘elephant polo’ claims – The Guardian
“Naomi Campbell has received an apology and ‘substantial’ libel damages from the Daily Telegraph over an article that wrongly claimed she organised an elephant polo tournament in India.”
The Guardian, 31st January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
EU Court annuls EU freezing orders on Iranian bank – and Wikileaks again – UK Human Rights Blog
“In October 2009, Bank Mellat, an Iranian bank, was effectively excluded from the UK financial market by an Order made by the Treasury, on the basis that it had or might provide banking services to those involved in Iran’s nuclear effort. The Bank challenged the Order, and the challenge failed in the Court of Appeal, albeit with a dissent from Elias LJ: see Rosalind English’s post and read judgment. The Bank’s appeal to the Supreme Court is due to be heard in March 2013; it raises some fascinating issues about common law unfairness, Article 6, and the right to property under A1P1 , given that the Bank was not told of the intention to make the Order prior to its making.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Blanket disclosure requirement for minor past convictions breaches Convention – UK Human Rights Blog
“The Court of Appeal has ruled that the statutory requirement that criminal convictions and cautions must be disclosed in an enhanced criminal record check (‘ECRC’) in the context of particular types of employment interfered with the appellants’ right to respect for private life under Article 8.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
TV cameras to be allowed into court of appeal – The Guardian
“TV cameras will be allowed into the court of appeal for the first time from October and senior judges will be offered training before appearing on camera, the lord chief justice has revealed.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
UK criminal record disclosure laws deemed to infringe individuals’ privacy rights – OUT-LAW.com
“UK laws that set out a ‘blanket’ requirement that job applicants disclose to employers all of the ‘recordable’ criminal convictions and police warnings they have been given are incompatible with individuals’ right to privacy, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 31st January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
B (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
B (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] UKSC 4; [2013] WLR (D) 29
“Where a person held by a civil court or tribunal to be in contempt of court appealed against a sentence of imprisonment imposed for the contempt and the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) found that the lower court’s factual findings had been flawed but that nevertheless, on the basis of the true facts, there had still been contempt requiring imprisonment, it could decide for itself what the appropriate sentence should be by asking whether the lower court’s sentence had been manifestly excessive, provided that the lower court’s decision had not been influenced by its flawed findings of fact.”
WLR Daily, 30th January 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Butler-Sloss condemns advice cuts – Law Society’s Gazette
“Removing funding for a service that helps litigants in person on the day wide-ranging legal aid cuts take effect will create ‘absolute disarray’ in the courts, a former head of the family division has warned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 30th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Justice and Security Bill: no balance, no public interest – UK Human Rights Blog
“The government’s Justice and Security Bill has this week entered a new phase of debate in the House of Commons as it is considered in detail by a 19-member Public Bill Committee over the next month. The critics of this Bill – and there are many – argue that it will make ‘secret justice’ a standard part of our legal process. The latest set of amendments proposed by the government were revealed yesterday and within them lies a crucial and unjustifiable secrecy provision. The significance of the amendments becomes apparent when one looks at how the Bill has progressed so far.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th Janaury 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Lord chief justice: changes to judiciary ‘eroding something important’ – The Guardian
“Constitutional reforms that have taken effect over the past seven years ‘may be eroding something rather important’, the lord chief justice of England and Wales told peers on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
What is a false allegation of rape? – OUPblog
“What is a false allegation of rape? At first, this might appear to be a daft question. Reflecting the general tendency to think of the truth or otherwise of allegations in reductive terms of being either true or false, the meaning of “false allegation” is commonly taken to be self-evident. A false allegation of rape is an allegation that is false; the rape alleged did not, in fact, occur. In the abstract, this seems a perfectly logical and sensible approach.”
OUPblog, 31st January 2013
Source: www.blog.oup.com
No anonymity for bankers involved in Libor scandal – UK Human Rights Blog
“The Commercial Court has resisted an application to anonymise those individuals at Barclays involved in the LIBOR scandal.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
EastEnders actor Gemma McCluskie’s brother jailed for her murder – The Guardian
“The brother of the former EastEnders actor Gemma McCluskie, whose mutilated remains were found in a London canal, has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years after being convicted of her murder.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judge pays thief’s £1 debt to court out of his own pocket – Daily Telegraph
“A Judge has paid a thief’s £1 debt to the court out of his own pocket because he does not agree with the rules.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Deaths of prisoners in British custody in Iraq to be re-investigated, court told – The Guardian
“Fresh investigations have been ordered into the deaths of several prisoners who died in suspicious circumstances while under British military custody in Iraq, the high court has been told.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Three notorious Court of Protection hearings – The Independent
“After doctors today told the High Court that an Iranian immigrant on hunger strike must be force fed because a ‘delusional disorder’ renders him incapable of a decision on starvation, we look back at three other notorious Court of Protection hearings.”
The Independent, 30th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
