“More than 70 disabled patients have died because of mistakes by hospital staff in the past decade, it was claimed. Mencap, a disability charity, described the findings in its report as damning, adding that as a result of ‘institutional discrimination in the NHS’ people were needlessly dying.’ ”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“UK-US extradition often works quicker from the US to the UK than vice versa, says the former judge who reviewed the controversial treaty. Sir Scott Baker says there is not a ’tissue paper’ between the way the treaty works in both countries. He told MPs there were human rights issues affecting the extradition of alleged hacker Gary McKinnon.”
BBC News, 20th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Children’s Commissioner publishes a series of recommendations to improve the Government’s human rights record on children.”
Children’s Commissioner, 18th december 2011
Source: www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk
“Asset-freezing powers that are exercised under counter-terrorism legislation are ‘an intrusive and humiliating experience’ for a number of British citizens, the government’s independent reviewer of anti-terror laws has warned in a report.”
The Guardian, 15th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Unmarried couples who have lived together for five years or more should be able to inherit from each other without writing a will, the Law Commission has recommended.”
The Guardian, 14th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A string of companies are facing a judge-led investigation into deals with HM Revenue and Customs which allowed them to escape paying billions of pounds in tax.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th December 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The age of criminal responsibility in England, Wales and Northern Ireland could be ‘unreasonably low’ given the emerging understanding of how slowly the brains of children mature, according to a report by the Royal Society. Widespread differences between individuals also mean that the cut-off age at which children are deemed fit to stand trial, at 10 years old, might not be justifiable in all cases.”
The Guardian, 13th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ratcliffe-on-Soar report finds that CPS did not delibrately withold information in prosecution case.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 6th December 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“The public would support reforming the penalty for murder to make life imprisonment the maximum sentence rather than mandatory, a group of penal reformers argue in a report to be published this week.”
The Guardian, 6th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Local authorities in the UK have collectively lost personal data on at least 1035 occasions in the past three years, a privacy group has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A report into how a new digital copyright exchange (DCE) could work will be submitted to the Government before Parliament breaks up for summer next year, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 23rd November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“Judges should reform court procedures to make it less harrowing for teenage victims of abuse to give evidence, a report will recommend tomorrow.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“This research assessed the strengths and skills of magistrates and District Judges to inform better deployment of the judiciary in magistrates’ courts.”
Ministry of Justice, 15th November 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A violent man with a history of mental illness went on to kill months after being released from prison without any supervision or care, says a report.”
BBC News, 17th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Iraq Inquiry has put back its report by at least six months due to a wrangle with the Government over the release of secret documents.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Damning criticism of Tony Blair and the way his government led Britain into invading Iraq, and continuing rows over the disclosure of secret documents, have delayed the report of the Chilcot inquiry until well into next summer and possibly much later.”
The Guardian, 16th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government will introduce proposals next year to regulate the banking-industry body that runs the UK’s payments system, it has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th November 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The new Civil Justice Council paper on the plight of litigants in person pulls no punches. The number of people unfortunate enough to come before the courts without a lawyer ‘will increase and with considerable scale’.”
The Guardian, 14th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An optional system of European contract law advice to the UK Government published.”
Law Commission, 10th November 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk/lawcommission
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