“Concerns over the leniency of the courts deepened yesterday after almost three quarters of sentences suspected of being too soft were increased on appeal.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government is to consider giving time for a bill to allow assisted dying if the director of public prosecutions fails to come up with clearer advice on when it is legal or illegal to help someone to die.”
The Guardian, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A lorry driver lost his bid to overturn a smoking fine despite claiming he was using an ‘electric’ cigarette.”
BBC News, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Why are we asking this now?
Because Gary McKinnon has been fighting the United States’ plans to have him extradited on hacking charges for the best part of seven years.”
The Independent, 4th August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A drugs charity director is suing British Transport Police after he was wrongly targeted by sniffer dogs at an Underground station.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Europe’s largest Jewish school succeeded today in winning leave to appeal against a court judgment that said its entry policy was racist.”
The Guardian, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A series of emails and phone calls were not sufficient to establish a contract, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The communications did not contain enough information or the formal qualities necessary for a contract to have been made, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“A man who was found guilty of raping a 41-year-old woman near Manchester city centre more than 11 years ago has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Criminals have been using EU green schemes to commit VAT carousel fraud, the Government has said. It has put an end to the charging of VAT when carbon emissions are traded to stop the activity, it said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.out-law.com
“The records, published in a collaboration between the website and the National Archives, include every criminal trial in England and Wales that was reported to the Home Office between 1791 and 1892.”
The Times, 3rd August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Joint Commons and Lords committee expected to issue damning report on MI5’s part in the rendition of terror suspects.”
The Independent, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The family of a wealthy philanthropist have won a High Court battle to reclaim their inheritance after she left her estate to a man she might never have known.”
The Times, 1st August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The former Head of the Army, General Sir Mike Jackson, has said he wants a review into compensation for injured troops to be independent.”
BBC News, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The multimillionaire businessman Vivian Imerman won a court order yesterday preventing his estranged wife’s brothers – property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz – from using confidential information about his financial assets.”
The Independent, 1st August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Debbie Purdy was ‘ecstatic’. It was a strange reaction to the news that it had suddenly become easier to be killed in Zurich. But the real reason for her elation was that the news also meant it might soon become easier to be killed in Britain.”
The Times, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Schools are paying out £16,000 a day in compensation to pupils injured in the playground and PE lessons, new figures show.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Pressure mounts for assisted suicide to be allowed on the NHS after MS sufferer’s landmark legal victory.”
The Independent, 1st August 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A former Lord Chancellor has warned that new guidelines on assisted suicide will expose the Director of Public Prosecutions to challenge in the courts.”
The Times, 1st August 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Judges in the case of a girl who was kicked and slapped by her parents have drawn a line at which disciplining children becomes physical abuse.”
BBC News, 1st August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“More than 1,500 people have been wrongly branded as criminals or mistakenly given a clean record by the government agency set up to vet those working with children, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”
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Daily Telegraph, 2nd August 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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