“Environmental campaigners have condemned the coalition’s inclusion of all of Britain’s 278 environmental laws in a list of ‘red tape’ regulations considered by the public for the axe.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Department of Health is making a High Court challenge today to stop figures being published on the number of late abortions on ‘less than perfect’ foetuses with physical abnormalities, including cleft palate and club foot.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“‘Substantive’ changes are to be made to the controversial NHS bill which is going through parliament, Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin says.”
BBC News, 16th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The rate of jail sentencing is ‘financially unsustainable’, the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, has said, delivering a defiant riposte to critics within his own party and the tabloid press who have suggested that his plans to overhaul the penal system are soft on crime.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In what has become one of Britain’s most acrimonious and high-profile divorce battles, including walk-on roles for Simon Cowell and Sir Philip Green, a couple at war over a £400m ‘missing fortune’ has been given six months to ‘cool off’ after a week of bitter exchanges in the High Court.”
The Independent, 16th April 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An MP who is launching an inquiry into excessive and possibly unlawful court secrecy says a new type of gagging order is hampering the work of investigative journalists.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two national firms have separately lost appeals in the employment tribunal over their redundancy selection procedures.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 14th April 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A pilot has been convicted of threatening to kill UKIP leader Nigel Farage following a plane crash.”
BBC News, 14th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Lancashire man has been jailed for life for a rape in Canterbury more than 20 years ago after latest scientific techniques helped to find a DNA match.”
BBC News, 14th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to examine whether extended warranties for domestic electrical goods, a market worth more than £750m a year, offer consumers value for money.”
The Guardian, 14th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Great Ormond Street being sued by 11-year-old after operation left her with extensive brain damage.”
The Guardian, 15th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman has received compensation from Essex Police after a series of errors led to her being arrested and imprisoned.”
BBC News, 12th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for life for murdering his wife and dismembering her body at their Norfolk home.”
BBC News, 12th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge today condemned a ‘deplorable’ legal dispute between church leaders and parents over control of a top Roman Catholic comprehensive.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The mother of a brain-damaged woman has asked a judge to allow her daughter’s life support to be switched off, in the latest of a series of controversial cases to come before one of the country’s most powerful courts.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The latest annual statistical report from The Law Society has confirmed the extent to which law firms have so far failed to react to the increase in women in the profession, with the number of female solicitors nearly doubling over the last 10 years.”
Legal Week, 14th April 2011
Source: www.legalweek.com
“The use of ‘yellow pages’ in the domain www.transport-yellow-pages.com breached trade mark regulations, a court has ruled. A person finding the website in the UK could think it belonged to Yell, the England and Wales Patent County Court said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th April 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The high court has ruled that the Metropolitan police broke the law in the way they ‘kettled’ protesters at the G20 demonstrations in 2009.”
The Guardian, 14th April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This year’s London Legal Walk has already attracted an unprecedented level of support, with 61 teams signed up so far, 19 of which are joining us for the first time. If you would like to walk 10km to raise funds for free legal advice providers and the vulnerable people they support, please click here for more information or contact natalia@barprobono.org.uk.”
The Bar Council, 13th April 2011
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
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