“People who wish to die through assisted suicide will this week have guidance for the first time on whether their partners, relatives or friends risk being prosecuted.”
The Guardian, 20th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Rape claims are being left off official crime records, the BBC has learned.”
BBC News, 21st September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, is to call for Britain’s libel laws to be reformed following a string of cases in which science researchers and writers have been sued for criticising health therapies they felt to be unreliable.”
The Times, 20th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Nearly 2,000 people have had personal information about themselves lost by the Ministry of Justice over the past year, in a series of incidents listed in the department’s accounts, published last week.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th September 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A police watchdog is to start an independent inquiry into an incident when CS spray appeared to be used by police on a man at close quarters.”
BBC News, 17th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has upheld a government decision to allow construction of a controversial 43-storey tower block on London’s South Bank.”
BBC News, 17th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A classroom supervisor who had an affair with a pupil aged 15 may face a retrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict on charges against him.”
The Times, 18th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A Sikh police officer was ‘humiliated’ by his Greater Manchester Police colleagues after refusing to remove his turban for training and undergoing practices that would breach his faith, an employment tribunal heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A mother who apparently killed herself and her disabled daughter by setting fire to their car had faced years of abuse from youths and children, but police ‘did nothing’ despite her repeated pleas for help, an inquest heard today.”
The Guardian, 17th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Baroness Scotland of Asthal, the Attorney-General, has been placed under investigation after she admitted that she had employed an illegal migrant. Britain’s most senior law officer sacked Loloahi Tapui after the 27-year-old Tongan was revealed by the Daily Mail to have overstayed her student visa.”
The Times, 18th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“On the night of December 7, 1988, almost exactly nine years after raping and murdering Teresa de Simone, David Lace ended his own life in a seaside bedsit.
Lace’s remains were exhumed during the police inquiry and a ‘billion-to-one’ DNA match to the murder of Ms de Simone, 22, in Southampton on December 5, 1979, was established. It confirmed him as the killer and proved beyond any lingering doubt that Sean Hodgson, who spent 27 years in prison before being freed in March this year, was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.”
The Times, 18th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Government could scrap a part of defamation law that makes newspapers liable many times for material in a single article. The Government may prevent people suing every time a web page ‘publishes’ an article.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th September 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Measures to curb binge drinking top a list of regulations to be shelved in the latest U-turn forced on Labour by the economic downturn.”
The Times, 17th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The control orders regime for detaining suspects who have been neither charged nor prosecuted has been widely discredited.”
The Times, 17th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A jury took just 45 minutes today to clear two teenagers of plotting to carry out a Columbine-style massacre at their school, prompting claims that the prosecution was a waste of public money.”
The Guardian, 16th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fake video footage can persuade almost half of viewers to accuse people of crimes they have not committed, new research suggests.”
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 17th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Proposals to overhaul the libel laws and update them for the internet age have been revealed by the government.”
BBC News, 16th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Journalism is changing faster than at any time in its history but still not as frequently as the law. The editors of McNae’s Essential Law for Journalists need to revise their textbook roughly every two years which, since an up-to-date edition is required reading for media students, must be fine for royalties but involves constantly beating deadlines. As journalists turned academics they should feel comfortable with that.”
The Times, 17th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Hundreds of convicts who could be released are being held in jails because the Government has failed to pay for enough drug treatment and rehabilitation courses, a leading prison governor warned yesterday.”
The Independent, 17th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A number of terrorist suspects will be freed from the restraints of control orders despite posing a danger to the public, the Government admitted yesterday.”
The Times, 17th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
© Inner Temple Library 2024