“Nearly half of all crimes — or 700,000 a year — are handled outside the courts, including shoplifting, burglary and assault. Under a drive in the past decade towards swift, summary justice, police have been given wide powers to impose cautions and fines (fixed penalty notices), and prosecutors can impose conditional cautions.”
The Times, 9th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“British citizens who have been forced into marriages overseas are being asked to cover the costs of their repatriation to the UK, The Independent has learnt.”
The Independent, 9th November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Legal Services Board’s new consumer panel will examine referral fees as the very first item on its agenda when it meets for the first time later this month, the Gazette has learned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th November 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Concern is increasing among judges and magistrates that thousands of cautions are being handed out by police or prosecutors for violent assaults that should come before courts.”
The Times, 9th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“MPs who refuse to repay excessive or incorrect expenses claims could be forced to appear in public before a High Court judge to plead their case.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Media Legal Defence Initiative, launched last week, aims to help journalists around the world by providing lawyers willing to fight for media freedoms.”
The Guardian, 9th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A soldier has avoided jail because of ‘his service to his country.’ ”
BBC news, 6th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man overheard praying for forgiveness after murdering his pregnant girlfriend’s mother has been jailed for life by a judge at the Old Bailey.”
BBC News, 6th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Wording in a contract that seeks to exclude liability in a contract is more vulnerable to being struck out than lawyers previously thought. A ruling suggests that exclusion clauses are more likely to be effective when broken into separate terms.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th November 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“An advertiser broke the rules when it used better lighting, posing and colours in the ‘before’ than the ‘after’ pictures in a cosmetics ad, regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 5th November 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Nottingham firm Paragon Law has forced West Bromwich and Peterborough firm Paragon Solicitors to change its name and pay legal costs after a trade mark dispute.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 5th November 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“What is the point of the Bar? As several hundred barristers meet in London this Saturday for their annual conference, it is a question they — as well as the public — might well ask. In the present recession their profession looks like becoming an enclave for the rich, both for those joining it and those using its services.”
The Times, 4th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A man who set fire to a train passenger’s beard as he slept has been convicted of grievous bodily harm.”
BBC News, 6th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Controversial new European working laws mean all doctors, including surgeons, are allowed to work only 48 hours a week. Introduced in August they have provoked fierce criticism from surgeons who say that new trainees will struggle to master their complex specialism in such a restricted time.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th November 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Swiss bank UBS has been slapped with an £8m fine, the third-largest ever levied by the City regulator, after it was discovered that four of the bank’s employees were able to use customer money to trade in currencies and metals markets.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The family of Ian Tomlinson, the man who died at the G20 protest after being attacked by the police, has been told it would be ‘inappropriate’ for an official watchdog to consider whether officers were involved in a cover-up.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Would-be judges will no longer have to declare if they are Freemasons, the Government said yesterday. The policy reversal was announced by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, after a threat of legal action forced a review. He said that it would be ‘disproportionate’ to continue with the practice.”
The Times, 6th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A worker in a care home for severely disabled adults has been jailed for 12 years for sexual assault after one of his victims gave evidence by blinking her eyes.”
The Times, 6th November 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for more than two years for setting up secret cameras to spy on people renting his cottage.”
BBC news, 5th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A pet food firm has been fined £100,000 after one of its workers was crushed to death in a machine at a Northamptonshire factory.”
BBC news, 5th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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