“The Law Society is set to seek a judicial review of the government’s move to drastically reduce the legal costs that defendants can reclaim if they are acquitted of a criminal offence.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A father and son have been jailed for the manslaughter of two firemen killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory.”
BBC News, 16th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge who gave a community punishment to a teenage girl for her part in a near-fatal stabbing ‘wholly failed’ in his public duty, London’s Court of Appeal has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A lorry driver who hit a line of queuing traffic on the M40 in Buckinghamshire, killing a mother-of-two, has been jailed.”
BBC News, 15th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Laws introduced to stop forced marriages are not being used widely enough and social workers’ efforts to tackle the issue are also being hampered, according to experts.”
BBC News, 17th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Europe’s foremost human rights court is in ‘crisis’, with a backlog of more than 120,000 cases waiting up to seven years to be heard, lawyers have warned.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Foreign Office has made a partial climbdown in its legal bid to suppress intelligence material relating to a British resident who claims he was tortured by American security services.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Three balaclava-clad raiders who shot dead a postmaster’s son as he tried to defend his parents in the village store are facing life sentences after their conviction for his murder.”
The Times, 16th December 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The attorney general will be asked to approve warrants before suspected war criminals can be arrested in future under a plan being negotiated by the Foreign Office in response to the row over attempts to arrest Israel’s former foreign minister.”
The Guardian, 16th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A propmaker has won a multi-million pound Appeal Court battle with the makers of Star Wars over the rights to manufacture Stormtrooper helmets.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th December 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The judiciary must ‘come off the bench’ and speak out about the ‘parlous state of family law in 2009’, lord justice Wall has said.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 17th December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A resolution is expected in the high court today of the libel action brought against the BBC by British-based oil traders Trafigura. A hearing is scheduled before Mr Justice Eady this morning.”
The Guardian, 17th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A convicted murderer has been jailed for life for raping a woman seven months after he was released from prison on parole.”
BBC News, 16th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Barry George has accepted ‘substantial’ damages over claims he was stalking women and articles suggesting he murdered Jill Dando.”
BBC News, 16th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Internet-only publications will face the same regulations as newspapers for the first time under an extension to the powers of newspaper industry self-regulator body the Press Complaints Commission (PCC).”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th December 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“The government must consider evidence that civil court costs rules and funding limitations are preventing people who have suffered human rights abuses at the hands of UK companies from seeking redress, the Joint Committee on Human Rights said today.”
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Law Society’s Gazette, 16th December 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for life for murdering one man and attempting to murder his partner in a homophobic attack in south London.”
BBC News, 16th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Supreme Court has ruled that a Jewish school in London cannot restrict admission to pupils it considers to be ethnically Jewish.”
BBC News, 16th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A group of MPs is suing the CIA in the American courts in an attempt to force the agency to hand over information about Britain’s secret involvement in its extraordinary rendition programme.”
The Guardian, 15th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A high court judge today stopped a council from removing 24-hour live-in wardens from sheltered housing in a blow to the Conservative authority’s attempt to remodel itself as ‘easyCouncil’ after the no-frills budget airline easyJet.”
The Guardian, 15th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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