“A Saudi businessman who is being sued over a suspected multibillion-dollar fraud is invoking English libel law in what experts say is the latest high-profile example of ‘libel tourism’.”
The Guardian, 18th April 2010
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“An award-winning composer who contracted HIV and Hepatitis C through NHS treatment with contaminated blood products today won his legal challenge over compensation payments.”
The Independent, 16th April 2010
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“Barry George, the loner cleared of the murder of the television presenter Jill Dando after spending eight years in jail, has been refused a £1.4 million compensation claim.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th April 2010
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“A couple have won a legal battle to prevent social workers taking their five-year-old son into care after the authorities claimed that his health had been damaged by a meat-and-dairy-free diet.”
The Times, 18th April 2010
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“Families that brought a class action over the biggest case of child poisoning since thalidomide were celebrating tonight after reaching an out-of-court settlement with their local council. The result ends an 11-year battle waged by the families of 19 children born with deformities caused by toxic dust from a former steelworks in Corby, Northamptonshire.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2010
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“A 48-year-old mother who ran a ‘busy and successful’ brothel was jailed for three years today.”
The Independent, 16th April 2010
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“An award-winning composer who contracted HIV and Hepatitis C through NHS treatment with contaminated blood products has won a legal challenge over compensation payments.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th April 2010
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“A woman has become the first person to be barred from all licensed premises in England and Wales under a drinking banning order.”
The Independent, 16th April 2010
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“A five-year-old girl involved in a ‘tug-of-love’ case has made legal history after being consulted by a court about which parent she wants to live with.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th April 2010
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“A man who fled civil war as a child, with the British midwife who delivered him, has been told he will be deported.”
BBC News, 15th April 2010
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“The family of a man secretly held by the Americans in an Afghanistan detention centre after his arrest by British forces six years ago has begun legal action against the UK Government to help secure his release.”
The Independent, 16th April 2010
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“Attempts to have religious rights cases heard by hand-picked judges would set a dangerous precedent, lawyers said, amid mounting unrest about legal clashes between religious representatives and equality rights campaigners.”
The Guardian, 15th April 2010
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“Female bankers should not take offence when confronted with sexist remarks in the workplace, a tribunal has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th April 2010
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“As science writer Simon Singh wins his libel case, we look at how the numbers of proceedings have changed.”
The Guardian, 15th April 2010
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“Appeal judges today halted the deportation of a convicted rapist and ordered a new hearing which must take into account his rights to family life.”
The Independent, 15th April 2010
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“A top judge was warned that court rulings against Christian workers risk causing ‘civil unrest’ as he heard the case of a relationship counsellor who was sacked after refusing to give sex advice to homosexual couples.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th April 2010
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“Nigel Pleming, QC, of ThirtyNine Essex Street Chambers, acted with others for a coalition of residents, local authorities and green groups, including Greenpeace and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, in its successful challenge to the Government’s decision to build a third runway and sixth terminal at Heathrow.”
The Times, 15th April 2010
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“Simon Singh, the science writer, today won his legal case against chiropractors who sued him for libel over his criticism of their medical claims.”
The Times, 15th April 2010
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“DNA samples of people arrested for a recordable offence, even of juveniles, may be kept indefinitely even if they are not convicted. But in December 2008 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that indefinite and blanket retention of DNA samples of persons who have not been convicted was disproportionate and contrary to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 15th April 2010
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“The Equality Act – the single biggest piece of discrimination legislation created in this country – draws together all the important anti-discrimination laws introduced in piecemeal fashion since the Seventies. Its overarching ambition is to simplify and standardise the law to make it easier for people to understand, and so, hopefully, to follow.”
The Times, 15th April 2010
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