“With not enough training contracts for all its students, the legal practice course needs to find ways of reducing its intake.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Under half of the general public trust lawyers, according to the results of a survey commissioned by consumer watchdog the Legal Services Consumer Panel.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Businesses will be able to register website domain names with almost any ending and in any language from next year under plans approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).”
OUT-LAW.com, 20th June 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The High Court has rejected legal challenges to the closures of Sittingbourne and Barry magistrates’ courts.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 20th June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The former chief executive of the £357m shell company Langbar International, which collapsed six years ago leaving shareholders with big losses, has been sentenced to 12 months in jail and banned from being a company director for five years. The Serious Fraud Office said he was guilty of ‘fraud on a grand scale’.”
The Guardian, 20th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Members of the public have little confidence in the criminal justice system and feel the rights of the accused outweigh their own, a new survey suggests.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 21st June 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The European commission’s own lawyers have warned that a joint US-European agreement to store the personal data, including credit card details, of millions of transatlantic air passengers for 15 years is unlawful.”
The Guardian, 20th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One in six young offenders are back behind bars within a month, according to the chief inspector of prisons.”
BBC News, 21st June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A Cadbury’s advertising campaign which compared Naomi Campbell to a bar of chocolate was not racist, the industry’s watchdog has ruled.”
The Independent, 21st June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“David Cameron has forced Kenneth Clarke to abandon all plans for 50% sentence discounts for early guilty pleas, after an outcry on the Tory right and in the tabloids.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“British Gurkhas are taking their battle for equal pension rights to the European Court of Human Rights, it was announced today.”
The Independent, 20th June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A libel case brought by Cherie Blair’s lifestyle guru Carole Caplin over her alleged portrayal as ‘some sort of sexpot or randy masseuse’ got the go-ahead today.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th June 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A drink-driving milkman arrested while in his float on an early morning round has been banned for 18 months.”
BBC News, 20th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who killed his friend with a single blow to the head has been jailed.”
The Independent, 20th June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“When Baroness Cox takes up a cause, she invariably courts controversy. Her latest – a campaign against sharia law – is no exception. Jerome Taylor meets her.”
The Independent, 20th June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Indefensible legal claims for mistakes by doctors and nurses are being contested unnecessarily by ‘macho’ NHS lawyers, the head of the Law Society warned as the bill for damages exceeded £1bn for the first time.”
The Independent, 19th June 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Government plans to curb illicit filesharing under the Digital Economy Act will have cost rights holders, Ofcom and internet providers almost £6m by the time the controversial legislation is implemented next year, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man has been cleared of harassing his wife’s millionaire lover on the internet in ‘a victory for free speech and the small man’.”
The Guardian, 17th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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