“After promising last year to end child detention in failed asylum cases – and closing the notorious Yarl’s Wood unit – the government opened a smart new centre for deportees. But isn’t this still detention?”
The Guardian, 17th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman who falsely accused a man of rape has been jailed for two years.”
BBC News, 17th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Controversial extradition legislation under which Gary McKinnon, who has Asperger’s syndrome, faces being sent for trial in the United States on computer hacking charges is not ‘lopsided’ or biased against British citizens, a judge-led review will report on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 18th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A ‘sexually obsessed’ police officer who sent explicit text messages to vulnerable women after his marriage fell apart has been jailed for three years and four months.”
The Independent, 17th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A court clerk has become the first person to be convicted under new UK bribery laws, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“In Flood v the Times, the supreme court has to consider questions of balance and the limits of editorial discretion.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK’s advertising watchdog may not investigate complaints businesses make about rivals’ adverts if the complaining firms have not tried to resolve the disputes with their competitors first.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Dale Farm residents are seeking a last-gasp reprieve from eviction by asking for leave to appeal against a decision last week to allow Basildon council to remove 86 families from the Essex Traveller site.”
The Guardian, 17th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two-year wait for hearings at highest court as recession sees litigants dig in for the long haul.”
The Lawyer, 17th October 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Lord Falconer has read or listened to more than 1,000 submissions, endured foul abuse from an array of angry voices and, as head of the commission examining reforms to the law on assisted suicide, is predicting trouble even from his more rational critics when the conclusions are published next month.”
The Guardian, 16th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“On 13 October 2011 Mr Justice Supperstone in the High Court held that changes to rules for calculating housing benefit were lawful and in particular did not breach equality legislation.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th October 2011
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The move to subsume the Legal Services Commission into the justice ministry shows you should be careful what you wish for.”
The Guardian, 14th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One in seven nursing homes is breaching the law by failing to ensure elderly residents have enough food and drink to prevent them becoming malnourished and dehydrated, inspectors have found.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“As many as 2,000 children a year, including many unaccompanied by an adult, could be detained each year at the UK’s borders despite government promises to end child detention.”
The Guardian, 16th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Ministry of Justice has admitted a private security firm is using black cabs to take prison inmates to court.”
BBC News, 16th October 2011
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“A barber shaved the word ‘fool’ in 1in letters on the back of the head of a man with severe learning difficulties, a court has been told.”
The Guardian, 14th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An international computer whizz-kid was jailed today after trying to bring new bank card scamming technology into Britain. German Thomas Beeckmann, 26, was stopped in June at Victoria coach station having just arrived from Holland.Police found 17 electronic circuits capable of stealing £150 million a year from chip and PIN machines.”
The Independent, 14th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has upheld a landmark ruling that gives priority to company pensioners – ahead of creditor banks and bondholders – when those companies become insolvent.”
The Independent, 14th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A 17-year-old boy who started a fire in a sheltered housing complex in Rugby has been sentenced to a hospital order.”
BBC News, 14th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Home Office has quickly rejected a call from the government’s official drug advisers to decriminalise the personal possession of all illegal drugs, including heroin and cocaine. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has said it would be better if the tens of thousands of people caught with illicit drugs were sent on drug education and awareness courses rather than punished with fines and other penalties, up to imprisonment.”
The Guardian, 14th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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