“The deputy prime minister has broken Government ranks to set up a Liberal Democrat review amid fears the Conservatives will not reform the controversial act. Sir Menzies Campbell, who is a QC, is to chair a panel to examine how the arrangements could be reformed.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Foreign criminals are having children with different mothers to use ‘human rights laws’ to avoid being deported from Britain, the Home Office has warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An Oxford boy left brain damaged after complications during his birth has been given £1m compensation.”
BBC News, 19th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The rights of thousands of women working as lap dancers are to be tested after a judge ruled that an appeal tribunal should establish whether Stringfellows ’employed’ its performers.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Rise in misconduct cases prompts regulator to publish advice on professional boundaries for staff.”
The Guardian, 21st November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An independent inquiry is expected to criticise failings by mental health services which could have prevented the deaths of an elderly couple from Swindon, who were killed by their son. Their bereaved daughter Janice Lawrence tells how she fears crucial lessons will not be learnt.”
Daily Teelgraph, 20th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Swearing at police is not a crime because officers hear foul language ‘too frequently’ to be offended, a judge has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Former Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammed Amir are to begin appeals against their sentences for a spot-fixing scam next week.”
BBC News, 18th November 2011
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“A driver with a history of epilepsy caused the death of a woman by playing ‘Russian roulette’ with his condition, police have said.”
BBC News, 18th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Munir Patel, a court clerk, made legal history today as he became the first person to be jailed under new bribery legislation.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The judge hit out while sentencing Damian Gough, 49, a grandfather who spent 14 years with a scout troop and an altar server who took children’s liturgy services at his local Catholic church, who was found with hundreds of child sex pictures and videos on his home computer and on DVDs at his house. He was allowed to walk free from court.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An injunction was granted to the mother of actor Hugh Grant’s baby because paparazzi were making her life ‘unbearable’, a judge has explained.”
BBC News, 18th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A cartoonist is suing the BBC for £2m over claims that the corporation copied his animations and used them in a CBeebies show.”
The Guardian, 18th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five gang members have been jailed for 26 years for possessing firearms after flaunting them in a rap video posted on YouTube.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An internet streaming company does reproduce ‘a substantial part’ of films in ‘memory buffers’ contained on its servers when it relays films to users of its service, the High Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Investment banks and financial traders in the UK must now record the mobile phone conversations of their staff following the closure of a regulatory loophole.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A Ministry of Justice report suggests the difference is less than some imagine.”
The Guardian, 17th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
” The judge in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial has asked the Attorney General to consider criminal charges over an article written by the former editor of Radio 4’s Today programme, Rod Liddle, which appears in the current edition of the Spectator magazine.”
The Independent, 18th November 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“There is no doubt that freedom of expression plays a starring role in the human rights fairy tale. While she is carried aloft on the soaring rhetoric of citizens’ rights from the newsrooms to protesters’ rallies, the right to information, her shy stepsister, is rarely allowed out. How can that be? Surely we can’t have the one without the other?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th November 2011
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A rapist who had to use a bucket as a toilet at an Isle of Wight prison has claimed a breach of his human rights.”
BBC News, 17th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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