“The new leader of the House of Lords is to ask Gordon Brown to drop plans to force through the detention of terror suspects for up to 42 days.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Controversial plans to publish complaints against solicitors online have been shelved. In a long-awaited decision, the Legal Complaints Service (LCS) this week said it still favours the idea – but passed responsibility for any scheme to its successor body, which comes into being in 2010.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th October 2008
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A cross-party group of MPs has failed to force through a ban on smacking children in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 8th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A council has been fined a maximum £45,000 after a teacher fell down a lift shaft backstage at a theatre while preparing for the Urdd eisteddfod.”
BBC News, 9th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Half of state schools in England are in breach of new rules on admissions, according to the chief adjudicator, Sir Philip Hunter.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Met police officer has accepted a public apology over a false claim that he ran down and killed a teenage thief.”
BBC News, 9th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Pensioners and their families will benefit from a new complaints system and tougher inspections for their homes.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A computer hard drive with the private details of 100,000 members of the Armed Forces is missing, the Ministry of Defence has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Victims of child sex abuse on Pitcairn island, the remote British outpost in the South Pacific, will receive compensation from the British government, the Foreign Office announced yesterday.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The NHS in England is failing to learn from more than 130,000 complaints it receives each year from patients, parliament’s spending watchdog said today.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who made more than a 100 abusive and threatening calls mainly to women has been jailed for four years.”
BBC News, 9th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has criticised sentencing guidelines which prevented him sending a serial fly-tipper to prison while ‘decent, law-abiding citizens’ fear punishment after falling foul of council bin rules.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The gunman who shot dead the former British boxing champion James Oyebola in a row over smoking was jailed for life today.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The high court ordered the BBC to pay an estimated £500,000 in costs to IVF specialist Mohamed Taranissi today in his continuing libel action over a Panorama programme.”
The Guardian, 8th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It has been a good week for the cause of diversity among Britain’s judges. Just months ago one of only three of 36 Court of Appeal judges lamented the lack of women in senior judicial posts. In the past three years, Lady Justice Arden said, only one woman had been chosen for the High Court bench compared with 29 men.”
The Times, 9th October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A clampdown on MPs’ expenses has been proposed in the wake of an investigation which cleared husband and wife Cabinet ministers Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper of breaking House of Commons rules.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A lesbian couple were left ‘humiliated’ after colleagues joked about their sexuality, an employment tribunal heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A senior civil servant who allegedly lost highly sensitive intelligence files relating to al-Qaeda and Iraq on a train has been summoned to appear in court.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A 101-year-old woman has lost her fight to stay at a Teesside care home where she is the sole resident.”
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BBC News, 8th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A teenager who stabbed a young mother to death after bingeing on drink and drugs has had her minimum sentence cut by three years at the Court of Appeal.”
BBC News, 8th October 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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