“A rugby league star sacked by his club after a photo of a team-mate’s bottom was posted on his Twitter account was unlawfully dismissed, a judge ruled.”
BBC News, 18th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An employee working for the Crown Prosecution Service added a defendant on Facebook, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.”
BBC News, 10th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A police constable who was secretly recorded using a racial slur against a young black man under arrest in front of several colleagues has been sacked.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman who had sex with a 16-year-old school pupil has been struck off the teaching register by a disciplinary panel.”
The Guardian, 26th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In Nigel Clack v Wrigleys Solicitors LLP [2013] EWHC 413 (Ch), Mr Nicholas Strauss QC (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court) found for the Claimant client against his former Solicitors.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 24th June 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Allegations that undercover officers were used to smear reputations of Stephen Lawrence’s family will be investigated, says Home Secretary.”
Ministry of Justice, 24th June 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
The Crown Prosecution Service has been criticised by two separate Crown court judges after sending an ‘incompetent’ advocate to prosecute a murder trial and for ‘lamentable failures’ that delayed a rape trial.
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th June 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Bankers should be subject to a new code of conduct overseen by a body similar to the General Medical Council, a consumer watchdog has claimed.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The home secretary, Theresa May, came under pressure from the father of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence to set up an independent inquiry into the Guardian’s revelations that undercover police spied on and attempted to smear his family.”
The Guardian, 24th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A magistrate has been reprimanded for highlighting the dangers of cannabis after her own brother’s addiction to the drug led to his death.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A paramedic who told a vulnerable man suffering a seizure to ‘have a drink and a fag’ has been struck off.”
BBC News, 20th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The pathologist who botched the post-mortem of a man struck by a policeman at G20 protests in 2009 has abandoned his appeal against being struck off.”
The Independent, 19th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Law firms must not allow arrangements with debt recovery companies to compromise their independence, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has warned, after two solicitors were fined heavily for allowing litigation to be carried out in their name.”
Legal Futures, 17th June 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“The answer of the Court was that clear and express words in the contract would be required in order to confer a power to increase a sanction on an Appeal Panel.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A teacher sacked for possessing indecent images of children should be allowed to return to work in schools, a panel has ruled.”
The Guardian, 6th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The concept of fairness embodied in the different strands of natural justice have to be seen as flexible and as not requiring the courts to lay down over rigid rules, so that where it had been agreed that a tribunal member could be temporarily absent for part of the hearing, there had been no breach of the rules of natural justice.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 5th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A key adviser to the Leveson report, the civil rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, has hit out against politicians and newspaper barons, accusing them of letting down the public over promises to set up a new press watchdog.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This is a consultation on minimum standards for expert witnesses providing evidence in the family courts in proceedings relating to children in England and Wales.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th May 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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