“Ministers have been forced to hire more than 80 new judges in a multi-million pound effort to address appeals by welfare claimants who dispute the loss of their benefits.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Solicitors for the family of a Cardiff woman murdered by her ex-partner say a judge has ruled a damages claim against two police forces can continue.”
BBC News, 26th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The 1.2m records released this week are an unprecedented exercise in open data, especially for a courts system long accused of operating a Victorian method of closed information.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Criminals who commit offences online and cyber bullies will be banned from the internet as part of the Government’s new cyber security strategy, announced today.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Immigration officer falsely granted indefinite leave to remain to 44 non-EU nationals who were not entitled to stay in the UK.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A serial rapist and paedophile who tried to evade justice by going on the run has been jailed for 18 years at Cardiff Crown Court.”
BBC News, 25th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Offenders from ethnic minorities are more likely than their white counterparts to be sentenced to prison for certain categories of crimes, according to an analysis of more than one million court records.”
The Guardian, 26th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK High Court has banned paparazzi photographers and other media from harassing an actor’s baby and her mother.”
OUT-LAW.com, 25th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Scores of MPs, from millionaire Tory cabinet members to Labour backbenchers, may have broken minimum wage law by taking on unpaid interns, according to legal advice to ministers.”
The Guardian, 27th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An independent panel examining the summer riots which hit cities in England has said the scheme designed to pay out compensation needs an overhaul.”
BBC News, 28th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The one-time gangland boss Terry Adams paid £7,500 for a Harley Street facelift during a spending spree that he hid from the authorities, a court heard.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The victims of human trafficking, including women forced into the sex industry or trapped as unpaid domestic servants, are being unfairly treated as criminals and illegal immigrants, an inquiry has found.”
The Guardian, 27th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A ‘wicked’ stepmother and father have been jailed for stealing their schoolgirl daughter’s inheritance left by her wealthy grandad.”
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 25th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
McGowan v B [2011] UKSC 54; [2011] WLR (D) 339
“There was no rule of the European Court of Human Rights that a suspect in police custody could only waive his right of access to legal advice before and during police questioning if he had first received legal advice as to whether he should do so.”
WLR Daily, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A 14-year-old boy caught with two handguns and live ammunition has walked from court after a judge said he could not impose a custodial sentence because Parliament had ‘tied his hands’.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“I had intended to entitle this post ‘Bratza goes ballistic’ which would, for reasons I will explain, have been unfair. However, as reported by guardian.co.uk, the new British president of the European Court of Human Rights has pushed back strongly against ‘vitriolic and – I am afraid to say, xenophobic – fury’ of the reaction to recent rulings by the UK government and press, which he says is ‘unprecedented in my experience, as someone who has been involved with the Convention system for over 40 years.'”
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th November 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Courts should be able to use their discretion to refuse extradition requests from the United States and European countries, MPs have been told.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The army’s former chief legal adviser in Iraq has accused the Ministry of Defence of moral ambivalence and a cultural resistance to human rights that allowed British troops to abuse detainees and beat the Basra hotel worker Baha Mousa to death.”
The Guardian, 24th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted it has never seen much of the evidence prosecutors are using against Babar Ahmad, who has spent seven years in prison, Green MP Caroline Lucas has revealed.”
The Independent, 25th November 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Network Rail is to be prosecuted over the deaths of two teenagers at a level crossing, the father of one of the girls has said.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
© Inner Temple Library 2024