“The editor of Private Eye told peers on Tuesday that the sex lives of well-known figures can be a legitimate subject of journalistic investigation.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Police could take DNA samples from up to 13,000 people convicted of serious offences like murder, manslaughter and rape, whose profiles are not on record.”
BBC News, 11th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Not every supreme court justice need be a judge – or even a barrister.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK Supreme Court has backed the right of people in Scotland to claim damages for the asbestos-related condition pleural plaques.”
BBC News, 12th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A high court judge’s ruling reveals the importance of deciding on parental roles before embarking on artificial insemination.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has warned of the dangers of adopting a European Sales Law, the latest legislative proposal by the European Commission which would introduce a second contract law into the laws of all Member States.”
The Bar Council, 11th October 2011
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Employment contracts are distinctive. The most obvious reason for this is statutory intervention. Statute regulates both the freedom of employers to select the individuals with whom they may make contracts of employmentand the terms of employment contracts. For example, in neither respect may the employer discriminate on grounds of sex, race, disability, etc.; and the contract must provide for a rate of pay greater than or equal to the national minimum wage.”
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11 KBW, 7th October 2011
Source: www.11kbw.com
“New rules and developments in Part 36.”
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Zenith Chambers, 10th October 2011
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
“Computer simulations of designs are not ‘unpatentable’ mental acts, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 11th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Lincolnshire police will conduct ‘inquiries’ after a judge criticised a police officer for handling her own case when she fell victim to a flasher.”
BBC News, 10th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Subscribers to four of the UK’s biggest internet service providers will have to ‘opt in’ if they want to view sexually explicit websites, as part of government-sponsored curbs on online pornography.”
The Guardian, 11th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A couple said to have swapped the identity of their dead baby daughter to her twin sister in a bid to cover injuries they inflicted have been jailed for five years.”
The Independent, 10th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Who will replace Lord Phillips when he retires as the Supreme Court’s president?”
The Guardian, 10th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A pensioner was fined £75 for brushing his pet dog and leaving fur on the ground in a public park.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into how ITV mistakenly included video game footage in a documentary that supposedly showed the IRA shooting down a helicopter with weapons supplied by Muammar Gaddafi.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Organisations do not have to issue all the information stored in complaint files in order to comply with individuals’ personal data access requests, the UK’s data protection watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“An employer cannot rely ‘blindly’ on its medical advisers when deciding if an employee is eligible for an ill-health early retirement pension, the pensions watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A proposal to retain DNA samples taken from people who have been arrested but not charged with a crime for up to five years has come under criticism from the Joint Committee on Human Rights.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Conservatives want to replace the Human Rights Act with a British version. Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti and Tory MP Dominic Raab go head to head.”
The Guardian, 7th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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