“The legal profession has become increasingly elitist over the past 20 years, with 15 per cent of lawyers being public school educated while just 2 per cent of the population is.”
The Lawyer, 15th November 2010
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, worked hard today to try to remove some of the political sting from his much-anticipated unveiling of swingeing legal aid cuts. The scale of the reductions – £350m a year to be taken out of a £914m-a-year civil and family legal aid budget by 2014 – had been widely anticipated.”
The Guardian, 15th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for 15 months for uploading racist video clips on to YouTube.”
BBC News, 15th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government will announce today that it will pay millions of pounds in compensation to former Guantánamo Bay detainees following weeks of negotiations between lawyers for the government and the former prisoners.”
The Guardian, 16th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A referendum on whether to ditch the first-past-the-post voting system will go ahead next May after Labour peers failed narrowly in an attempt to derail the Government’s timetable.”
The Independent, 16th November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Appeal court says a strict interpretation of Housing Act allows landlords to disregard deadlines for tenant deposit schemes.”
The Guardian, 15th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Former Labour immigration minister Phil Woolas will begin a legal bid to overturn a ruling that he should be banned from politics for three years.”
BBC News, 16th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The partner of murdered Rachel Nickell today said he would take his compensation claim against the Metropolitan Police to the European Court of Human Rights.”
The Independent, 16th November 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Hundreds of thousands of people with family and housing law problems will no longer have access to free legal advice under government proposals announced today (15 November).”
The Guardian, 15th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Five years of celebrations leading up to the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta have been publicly launched.”
BBC News, 12th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A collection of peers has criticised the government’s proposed constitutional changes, concluding that the reforms will strengthen the executive’s grip on parliament.”
The Guardian, 12th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The support people with autism get from the police and criminal justice system could be hit by Home Office cuts, a senior legal figure has warned.”
BBC News, 15th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teacher with severe post-natal depression smothered her 10-day-old son after her medication was taken away, it emerged today.”
The Guardian, 12th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Information commissioner Christopher Graham is pressing ministers for new privacy safeguards in the wake of a report that suggests moves towards a surveillance society are expanding and intensifying.”
The Guardian, 11th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A paediatrician who claims she was driven out of her job because of her Christian views will today start a legal battle over what rights doctors have to intervene in homosexual adoptions.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Lawyers must consider whether their voluntary work should be about securing access to justice for those failed by a shrinking legal aid system.”
The Guardian, 12th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Government plans for a referendum in May on changing the voting system could be at risk if peers vote later to refer them to a Lords committee.”
BBC News, 15th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The credibility of the Chilcot inquiry into the invasion of Iraq is ‘on the edge of an abyss’ because of its lack of transparency, a leading international lawyer warned today.”
The Guardian, 14th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two men have been jailed for 13 years and four months each after they admitted possession of heroin with an estimated street value of £3.5m.”
BBC News, 12th November 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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