“A former partner at Cazenove, the Queen’s stockbroker, who is due to stand trial on insider-dealing charges next week appeared in court for a pre-trial hearing yesterday.”
The Times, 11th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A householder who faced a possible eight-year jail sentence for attacking an intruder with a samurai sword said today he just wanted to stop him getting into his house. David Fullard, 46, from Brough, East Yorkshire, was charged with unlawful wounding but walked free when a jury found him not guilty, according to the Sun.”
The Independent, 11th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A jealous woman who killed her former lover by lacing his curry with an ancient poison has been convicted of murder.”
The Independent, 11th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Appeal Court decided that inequality between the pay of mainly female carers working for Sheffield City Council and their predominantly male colleagues doing equivalent jobs, like gardening and rubbish collection, was ‘tainted by sex’.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Gordon Brown’s plan to hold a referendum next year on scrapping the first-past-the-post system for elections for Westminster won a convincing majority last night in the Commons.”
The Independent, 10th February 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A paedophile, Owen Baxter, who volunteered as a church youth worker so he could sexually abuse young boys before boasting about it on the internet, has been jailed.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An advertisement for tablets that guaranteed ‘the sex life of your dreams’ has been banned after a man complained that it didn’t work and demanded his money back.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Trevor Phillips, the head of the equalities watchdog, was today accused of attempting to influence an official inquiry into his work and may face a high-level investigation into allegations that his actions amount to contempt of both houses of parliament.”
The Guardian, 10th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Legal defeat plunges Security Service into crisis over torture evidence, and it is revealed that judge removed damning verdict after Foreign Office QC’s plea.”
The Guardian, 1oth February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It is the ultimate twist in the expenses scandal that the three MPs who, with one peer, face charges under the Theft Act 1968 are now invoking parliamentary privilege as their defence. It is also a lawyers’ field day: even before any trial starts, a court will have to rule on whether the Bill of Rights 1689 means that they cannot be questioned about the expenses rule book — and so be unable properly to defend themselves.”
The Times, 11th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Hindus and Sikhs in Britain won a landmark court victory yesterday that will allow mourners to cremate their dead on funeral pyres.The Court of Appeal ruling follows a lengthy battle waged by a devout 71-year-old Hindu for the right to be cremated by ‘sacred fire’ according to the ancient diktats of his religion.”
The Times, 11th February 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“On 9 February 2010 the Sentencing Guidelines Council published its definitive guideline ‘Corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences causing death’.”
Guideline on Corporate Manslaughter (PDF)
Sentencing Guidelines Council, 9th February 2010
Source: www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk
“The foreign secretary has lost a bid to prevent the disclosure of secret information relating to the alleged torture of a UK resident.”
BBC News, 10th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Labour breached privacy rules by making unsolicited automated phone calls to almost half a million people without their consent, the Information Commissioner’s Office has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th February 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A House of Lords standards watchdog is to look into a complaint over the expenses of former Labour chairman Lord Clarke of Hampstead, it was announced today.”
The Guardian, 9th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who admitted trying to ‘sell’ his vulnerable sister into a sham marriage as part of a Chinese immigration scam has been jailed.”
BBC News, 9th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“More than half the candidates selected in the last recruitment round for fee-paid employment tribunal judge positions were women, statistics have shown, while three-quarters of selected candidates were solicitors.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th February 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal is to decide whether to release documents detailing the alleged torture of a UK resident.”
BBC News, 10th February 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The pressure of motherhood is the reason that 20 per cent of all female departees decide to leave some of the UK’s top 50 firms.”
The Lawyer, 8th February 2010
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The Guardian once described Lord ‘call me Tom’ Bingham as ‘the radical who is leading a new English revolution’. That would not necessarily be your impression on meeting the gentlemanly, old-school 76-year-old who, when I arrive at his tall-ceilinged, book-lined, art-filled mansion flat in Notting Hill, west London, immediately makes me coffee, served in a silver pot. If this is revolution, it will not be instant.”
The Guardian, 8th February 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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