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
“A man who posted video on the internet of his stepmother dancing on seats in the lobby of a court in Cornwall has apologised to a judge.”
BBC News, 24th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Court injunctions that force internet service providers (ISPs) to filter and monitor user traffic in order to prevent illegal file-sharing are contrary to EU law and fundamental rights, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The police watchdog has said it was ‘disappointing’ members of a panel set up to oversee its inquiry into Mark Duggan’s shooting recently quit.”
BBC News, 24th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The 90 day minimum consultation period for collective redundancies may be restricting business and could be reduced as part of the most radical reform to employment law for decades, the Government has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A new code of conduct and central membership body for third party litigation funders has been launched in response to the increasing number of suppliers in the market.”
Legal Week, 24th November 2011
Source: www.legalweek.com
“In the administrative court, the decisions of two local authorities to withdraw funding for library services were held to be unlawful.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th November 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“One of Europe’s largest banks, Société Générale, has begun defamation proceedings against Associated Newspapers over a Mail on Sunday article which falsely claimed the bank was in a ‘perilous’ state and on the ‘brink of disaster’.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Local authorities in the UK have collectively lost personal data on at least 1035 occasions in the past three years, a privacy group has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“England and Wales’s judicial system are to change their websites so that they end with the domain name judiciary.uk.”
BBC News, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Europe’s most powerful judge has publicly complained about ‘senior members’ of the UK government fostering hostility towards the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Guardian, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A judge has praised the courage of a four-year-old boy for giving evidence in a trial which led to his ‘vicious’ attacker being jailed for 13 years.”
BBC News, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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