“It has long been accepted that a failure to wear a seatbelt will affect proportion of damages that a Claimant can receive for an accident, if that failure caused or contributed to his injury. This new case from April 2012 applies the same reasoning to the use of child seats and the apportionment of liability.”
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Zenith Chambers, 22nd October 2012
Source: www.zenithchambers.co.uk
“The proposals set out in this consultation paper seek to improve the effectiveness of the Crown Court means testing scheme of criminal legal aid.”
Ministry of Justice, 30th October 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Deirdre Malone on an inquest into the tragic deaths of family members killed in a house fire, and the lessons to be learned.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 30th October 2012
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“Criminals who collectively owe millions of pounds in legal aid could have their assets seized under government plans.”
BBC News, 30th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“There’s an urgent need for independent oversight of incidents of malpractice – and the Hillsborough panel could provide a model.”
The Guardian, 29th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers are preparing for a possible surge in the divorce rate as the economy moves out of recession.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The High Court has made an important ruling about the disclosure of information under the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme (CSOD).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 29th October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says urgent retrospective legislation is needed to correct a ‘technical error’ affecting up to 5,000 patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act since 2002.”
BBC News, 29th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The constitutional crisis predicted for years by Professor Vernon Bogdanor is upon us. He warned that the human rights reforms of the 1990s created a potential conflict between the sovereignty of parliament and the rule of law. ‘What happens if there is a clash between the two principles?’ he asked in his Magna Carta lecture of 2006. A very senior judge to whom he had posed the conundrum had replied ‘That is a question that ought not to be asked.'”
The Guardian, 29th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former Metropolitan Police detective constable who specialised in rape cases has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for faking police records.”
BBC News, 29th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“More offenders will have to meet their victims and apologise before being sentenced under a rapid expansion of restorative justice unveiled on Tuesday.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Cutting child benefit for middle-class parents breaks European laws by discriminating against Britons and is open to legal challenge, ministers have been told.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Market impacts of the Legal Services Act 2007 – Baseline Report (Final) 2012 (PDF)
Legal Services Board, 25th October 2012
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
“11 people have been sentenced for ill-treating patients at the Winterbourne View care home near Bristol.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 26th October 2012
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
“A gay man from Essex who donated his sperm to enable a lesbian couple to have two children, but who was never named on their birth certificate and had no role in their upbringing, is being forced by the Child Support Agency to pay for their support – 13 years after the first child was born.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Insolvency cases should not be treated differently to other cases when it comes to deciding what foreign judgments can be enforced in the UK, the Supreme Court has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th October 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The advertising watchdog will launch a crackdown next year on businesses that run misleading internet ads that rip off consumers.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In its foreign policy, the UK Government is a keen advocate of national human rights institutions (NHRI’s). The Brighton Declaration, drafted by the UK, encourages Council of Europe States to consider ‘the establishment, if they have not already done so, of an independent National Human Rights Institution’. In June 2012 the UK signed a UN General Assembly resolution ‘Reaffirming the important role that such national institutions play and will continue to play.’”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
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