“Lady Greenfield has dropped a sex discrimination case against the Royal Institution in an undisclosed out-of-court settlement.”
The Guardian, 28th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two banks face a financial penalty for poor complaints handling after the Financial Services Authority (FSA) identified weaknesses in how they handled customer problems.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Hundreds of female council employees who took their claims for equal pay to an employment tribunal have won their case.”
BBC News, 27th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor accepted ‘substantial’ libel damages at the high court today over false allegations in the Sun linking him to terrorism.”
The Guardian, 27th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An England football fan has lost his fight to avoid being extradited to serve a jail term for his involvement in a riot during Euro 2004.”
BBC News, 27th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The anti-fascist protester Blair Peach was almost certainly killed by police at a demonstration in 1979, according to a secret report released today.”
The Guardian, 27th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Some 98% of new laws introduced by the government in 2009 were brought in as statutory instruments without full parliamentary debate, research has revealed today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 26th April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Scottish National party will go to court today in an attempt to force the BBC to give its leader Alex Salmond a place in the final leaders’ debate later this week.”
The Guardian, 27th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Football fan Garry Mann’s hope of avoiding two years in a Portuguese jail rests with a ruling by human rights judges today.”
The Independent, 27th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A senior lawyer, Deidre Clark, sacked from a leading city firm after she wrote a sexually explicit online novel is suing her former employers for £3.5 million.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Police insisted today they are doing all they can to monitor sex offenders as it was revealed more than 300 are missing in the UK.”
The Independent, 26th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Jack Tweed, the widower of the reality TV star Jade Goody, was today cleared of raping a teenager he had met in a London nightclub.”
The Guardian, 26th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Media organisations are to challenge a reporting ban on a landmark hearing at which four politicians accused of fiddling their expenses will claim they cannot be brought to trial.”
The Times, 27th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A number of High Street chains has been ordered to pay up to £20m ($31m) to 2,000 people who received chemical burns from sofas.”
BBC News, 26th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former Cazenove partner serving a 21-month jail sentence for insider dealing should forfeit £956,863 in a confiscation and costs order, his prosecutors said yesterday.”
The Times, 24th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The prison population has hit a record 85,000 after Labour’s decision to end the 18-day early release scheme just before the election campaign got under way.”
The Guardian, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Much has already been said about Lord Justice Jackson’s proposals for success fees, after-the-event insurance, costs shifting and the like, but much less, if anything, about litigation processes, and their impact on costs. Yet it is surely unarguable that a streamlining or simplification of the litigation process would result in a reduction in costs.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 26th April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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