“But if you can handle the inevitable knock backs, you’ve got a chance, says Field Court Chambers barrister Ayeesha Bhutta.”
Legal Week, 6th July 2009
Source: www.legalweek.com
“Directors will be legally forced to ensure good health and safety management and gangmaster licensing will be extended to the construction industry as the centrepiece of a hard-hitting government inquiry into the high number of fatalities on Britain’s building sites published today.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Regulatory fines could double or treble in size under a new framework for calculating financial penalties proposed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) yesterday.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th July 2009
Source: www.outlaw.com
“The Law Commission’s Annual Report for 2008-09”
Law Commission, 8th July 2009
Source: www.lawcom.gov.uk
“An online news story that described a bank’s method for authenticating website visitors was valid evidence of prior art, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has ruled. The date on the web page could be taken at face value, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 7th July 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK Government will appoint a Consumer Advocate with powers to sue on behalf of consumers, the rules for selling digital downloads will change and the law of misrepresentation will be simplified, according to plans published on Thursday.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th July 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Denis O’Connor, said senior officers were too focused on dealing with disorder, and not enough on allowing peaceful protest.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The radical Islamic preacher Abu Izzadeen has been recalled to jail after breaking the terms of his release, prison sources said today.”
The Independent, 8th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman was jailed for 20 months yesterday for what is believed to be the first case of an adult female grooming a schoolgirl for sex.”
The Independent, 8th July 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Court rules in favour of government after Georgina Downs last year won case based on ‘solid evidence’ of harm from crop spraying.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“War crime suspects who have fled to Britain after being involved in genocide or crimes against humanity dating back to 1991 will face prosecution in UK courts under proposals announced by the justice secretary, Jack Straw yesterday.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A move to relax the law on assisted dying was thrown out by the Lords on Tuesday night. Peers voted by 194 to141 to reject a proposal to allow people to help someone with a terminal illness travel to a country where assisted suicide is legal.”
The Times, 8th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Banking executives will have their pay linked to long term profitability under new rules designed to prevent a repeat of last year’s financial meltdown.”
The Times, 8th July 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Figures put before Parliament by the Treasury show that the judicial pension pot rose from £62 million in the financial year 2004/5 to £131m last year.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than half the 114 people arrested in Nottingham over a suspected demonstration at a power station will not face charges, police have said.”
BBC News, 6th July 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Former cabinet ministers, senior lawyers and a prominent campaigner for older people will today try to lift the threat of imprisonment hanging over relatives accompanying loved ones who go abroad to kill themselves.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An anti-airport protester who sent a series of bomb hoaxes and threats to Gatwick airport over five years was yesterday jailed for three and a half years.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“MPs tonight [6th July] approved fines of up to £1,000 for those who fail to tell the passport and identity service of changes in their personal details including address, name, nationality and gender.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Richard Desmond, owner of Express Newspapers, is suing investigative biographer Tom Bower for suggesting he made a ‘humiliating’ apology to Conrad Black, the former proprietor of The Daily Telegraph.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An official inquiry into the way the G20 demonstrations were policed is expected to call for urgent reform today, amid concerns that police are failing in their duty to facilitate lawful protest. ”
The Guardian, 7th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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