“A woman walks into a jeweller’s shop and pockets a ring worth £10,000. As she leaves, she is arrested by store detectives. They retrieve the ring. The woman is prosecuted and convicted of theft. Even though the ring has been recovered the court makes a confiscation order against her for £10,000. Where is the justice in that? ”
The Times, 14th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A dispute between oligarchs leads to questions over how far the courts are willing to go in passing judgment over another jurisdiction.”
The Times, 12th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Coming out of hospital with an injured finger could earn you £75,000. The NHS may have to cough up £9 billion in lawsuits. Is compensation culture killing our health service?”
The Times, 3rd August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Is the credit crunch going to crack open the legal business and hack back the ambitions and prospects of lawyers? ”
The Times, 31st July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Our shy and retiring privacy law is rarely out of the media spotlight. The media lawyer Amber Melville-Brown suggests why we should be grateful that it exists.”
The Independent, 30th July 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Government guidance on cohesion is thought to have spurred some councils to stop funding black and minority ethnic charities. But now a high court victory could force a serious rethink. Saba Salman reports.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Where do the plans for new rules come from? Earlier this year, Tanya Byron, a psychologist advising the Government, said that video game ratings should to be overhauled to make them easier for parents and children to understand.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A ‘dangerous’ precedent of which the victim is public morality; a ruling that trivialises ‘unspeakable and indecent behaviour’ that is ‘depraved, brutal and repugnant’, thundered Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, this week.”
The Times, 29th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The minister for police, security and community safety tells Julie Bindel how he wants men to take a more responsible attitude towards domestic and sexual violence against women – and to spread the word to others.”
The Guardian, 29th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The European Court of Justice (ECJ) recently gave judgment in Coleman v Attridge Law (2008). In so doing, it clarified the remit of the Framework Directive (2000/78/EC), which was adopted in November 2000 to combat discrimination in the workplace on grounds of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.”
The Lawyer, 28th July 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The News of the World editor, Colin Myler, will this week be examining the complex balance sheet resulting from his near-£1m legal battle with Max Mosley. But the financial penalties are by no means fatal, either for Myler’s career or for the fortunes of his paper. In short, this is very far from the end of the world for the News of the World. Or the end of the line for kiss and tell.”
The Guardian, 28th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Mr Justice Eady has created almost single-handedly what is now a privacy law in Britain through a series of recent rulings that he sees as remedying a ‘glaring deficiency in our law’. ”
The Times, 25th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Are we just starting to see the true Richard Alderman? There were suspicions that he was hired as a hatchet man to carve up the Serious Fraud Office or oversee its demise. He was, after all, instrumental in creating the Assets Recovery Agency, becoming its first legal director. Within just five years it had been absorbed into the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).”
The Times, 24th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“With the misery of mortgage repossession returning to haunt us Law In Action visits the courts where these devastating dramas are played out.”
BBC Law in Action, 22nd July 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“As a man dies close to where Ben Kinsella was killed, beat officers warn that they are struggling to win the war against knife crime.”
The Observer, 20th July 2008
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
“Scotland Yard still does not know the cause of catastrophic errors made three years ago by its officers which led to the killing of an innocent man who was mistaken for a terrorist, an official report reveals today.”
The Guardian, 18th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The much vaunted indeterminate public protection sentence was brought in two years ago, but the system couldn’t cope, says Robert Verkaik, Law Editor.”
The Independent, 18th July 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Last month marked 793 years since Magna Carta was signed, a great step forward for the cause of liberty in Britain. Yet although there has been much progress over these eight centuries, there is one area of shame for lawyers like myself — that opportunities for high-flying women in our profession seem more suited to the 13th than the 21st century.”
The Times, 17th July 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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