“The Government faces overwhelming calls to scrap the compulsory retirement age of 65 after a High Court judge ruled today that in the current economic climate it was likely to be unlawful.”
The Times, 25th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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“A judgement on whether it is legal for UK employers to force workers to retire at the age of 65 is expected later.”
BBC News, 25th September 2009
Source: www.bb.co.uk
“The Attorney-General’s former housekeeper was arrested in West London by UK Border Agency officials yesterday and questioned about alleged immigration offences.”
The Times, 25th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Steps to tackle excessive legal fees in defamation proceedings were announced today by Justice Secretary, Jack Straw.”
Ministry of Justice, 24th September 2009
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Fresh doubts have emerged over proposals to limit how long the DNA profiles of innocent people can be held on the national database.”
BBC News, 25th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Britain’s most senior police officer, has criticised the increasing use of on-the-spot penalties, saying they undermine the authority of magistrates’ courts.”
The Times, 25th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) will take into account how much of a celebrity’s private life they have chosen to expose in the past when ruling on new allegations of invasion of privacy, it has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th September 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Lawyers for a terror suspect set free this week by the home secretary called for the immediate repeal of the entire control order system today, saying his three-and-a-half year ordeal had done him and his family lasting psychological harm.”
The Guardian, 24th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A British company that bribed foreign officials to win business contracts and breached United Nations (UN) sanctions in Iraq is due to be sentenced tomorrow in the first prosecution of its kind in the UK.”
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“In April 2005 an unarmed man was shot dead by police as he sat in the back of a car in north London. Four years later Azelle Rodney’s mother is still waiting for an inquest to be held.”
BBC News, 25th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Controversial public protection sentences and inadequate penal funding have combined to drive up the record numbers of people being kept in prisons, the president of the new Supreme Court has warned.”
The Independent, 25th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The number of former servicemen in prison or on probation or parole is now more than double the total British deployment in Afghanistan, according to a new survey. An estimated 20,000 veterans are in the criminal justice system, with 8,500 behind bars, almost one in 10 of the prison population.”
The Guardian, 24th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, has allowed a second terror suspect to be released from virtual house arrest rather than disclose ‘secret’ evidence against him.”
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The family of a woman who died in labour and never saw the son she had conceived after IVF treatment was awarded £410,000 damages today.”
The Independent, 24th September 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Thames Valley police force has been fined £40,000 after a firearms instructor, Pc David Micklethwaite, accidentally shot and nearly killed a former rifle marksman.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th September 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An accountant and two lawyers accused of insider dealing by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) have been committed to stand trial at Southwark Crown Court.”
The Times, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The sister of a man who died after being punched by a 15-year-old boy in South Yorkshire has attacked the two-year sentence given to the teenager.”
BBC News, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Rock god versus pop diva — the music rights debate is producing some unexpected spectacles. Is file sharing creating a generation of people who expect never to pay for music or is it opening up a whole new audience who will save the industry?”
The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The director of a food company that provided pies to Fortnum & Mason has been jailed for re-packaging cheap supermarket goods and claiming that they were organic.”
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The Times, 24th September 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A coroner today (23 September) condemned ‘appalling and unacceptable conditions’ at a privately-run prison where an inmate on suicide watch was allowed to bleed to death. Aleksey Baranovsky, 33, a Ukrainian national, died in a blood-covered cell at HMP Rye Hill, Warwickshire, in June 2006.”
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The Guardian, 23rd September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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