“A High Court judge struck out the American company’s allegations of libel and malicious falsehood, which were based on a stunt in the television series.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Facebook user who urged young people to ‘put Manchester on the map’ by rioting during the summer disturbances has been jailed for three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The justice secretary has confirmed that a rule banning the payment of referral fees in personal injury cases will be introduced into the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill and debated next week in parliament.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 26th October 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Developer Taylor Wimpey has won a High Court planning case against the Secretary of State to build more homes on its greenbelt development in Surrey.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A woman who drove her car into her husband in Suffolk, killing him, has been given a suspended jail sentence.”
BBC News, 27th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Ministers have said attempts to reform the European Court of Human Rights will ‘take time’ as the UK must persuade 46 other nations of the need for change.”
BBC news, 27th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“In his speech earlier this week the Attorney General announced that he would appear in person before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in two weeks’ time, when it hears Scoppola v Italy No2, a case concerning prisoner voting. The United Kingdom is due to intervene in this case, for reasons that readers of this blog will be fully aware of.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th October 2011
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Watchdog publishes damning report into deaths at two London hospitals, Queen’s in Romford and King George’s in Goodmayes.”
The Guardian, 27th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Britain’s most senior police officer has defended the practice of undercover officers using fake identities in court, claiming there is no specific law forbidding it. Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, made the comments as he announced that Scotland Yard has begun two new inquiries.”
The Guardian, 27th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers were overpaid by more than £50 million for legal aid work last year, auditors have discovered.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Heralding an end to more than 300 years of English constitutional tradition, the Prime Minister will urge Commonwealth leaders to end laws that pass the Crown to the oldest male heir. Under the current rules of primogeniture, any male child takes precedence in the order of succession over his sisters. That would mean that any son born to Prince William would become King even if he had an older sister.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The first psychiatric patient to have an appeal against detention heard in public lost his legal battle to be freed from Broadmoor hospital on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Litigators may face a tough new rule on the ‘proportionality’ of their costs that could fuel satellite litigation and uncertainty, experts warned last week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 27th October 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Metropolitan police and the Crown Prosecution Service fear suspects in the phone-hacking criminal investigation could try to sabotage prosecutions, it has emerged.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK’s supreme court is not always ‘supreme’ because it has to follow the lead of the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, whose rulings are sometimes too narrow in scope, according to the country’s most senior judge, Lord Phillips.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two brothers jailed after being accused of conning thousands of customers into visiting what they claimed was a Lapland-style theme park had their convictions overturned by appeal judges today.”
The Independent, 26th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“People who feel threatened in their own homes will no longer have to flee and can stay to defend both themselves and their property under Government plans.”
The Independent, 27th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke announced tough measures to better protect people from intruders, dangerous criminals and excessive no-win no-fee legal costs.”
Ministry of Justice, 26th October 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“An insurer cannot refuse to pay fees for an insured’s choice of solicitor solely because the solicitor’s rates are higher than a limit stipulated by the insurers, a court has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th October 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
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