‘The Legal Services Board Chief Executive Richard Moriarty spoke at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum event: Innovation in legal services market – growth, skills and new business models.’
Legal Services Board, 9th July 2015
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘An independent inquiry is to look into the continued use of Taser stun guns by police in England and Wales after an inquest verdict earlier this week linking their use to the death of a factory worker in Manchester.’
The Guardian, 9th July 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A Berkshire-based fancy-dress retailer is being made to surrender the starwars.co.uk web address after feeling the force of Disney’s wrath.’
BBC News, 9th July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘More than 11,000 cases of so-called honour crime were recorded by UK police forces from 2010-14, new figures show.’
BBC News, 9th July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Inspection of response to paedophilia and other types of abuse a ‘damning indictment’ of police.’
Daily Telegraph, 2nd July 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Northumbria Police unveil a pilot scheme that will allow victims of domestic abuse to be warned when there ex-partners are close by.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Essop and others v Home Office (UK Border Agency) [2015] EWCA Civ 609; [2015] WLR (D) 269
‘In order to succeed in claims of indirect discrimination under section 19 of the Equality Act 2010 based upon the protected characteristics of race and/or age the claimants had to prove the nature of the group disadvantage for the purposes of surmounting the section 19(2)(b) hurdle and each claimant had also to prove that he had suffered the same disadvantage for the purposes of surmounting the section 19(2)(c) hurdle.’
WLR Daily, 22nd June 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Hundreds of failed asylum seekers in immigration detention centres will be able to apply to be freed on bail, the Home Office is expected to confirm shortly.’
The Guardian, 29th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Changes in the law have made it easier to prosecute men for domestic abuse and leading to a rise in the number of successful prosecutions.’
The Guardian, 25th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Metropolitan police are to step up their use of targeted stop-and-search operations in high knife-crime areas of London due to a recent rise in stabbings in the capital.’
The Guardian, 22nd June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘New immigration rules that will mean lower-earning non-EU workers being deported will exacerbate the shortage of nurses in the UK and cost the NHS tens of millions in recruitment, the government has been warned by nursing leaders.’
The Guardian, 22nd June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘More than 600 new victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) have been identified in seven months in the West Midlands.’
BBC News, 22nd June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police are recording 85 sexual assaults on children each day after an increase of more than a third in reports of abuse and exploitation, new figures have revealed.’
The Guardian, 17th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘New laws aimed at preventing young girls being taken abroad to undergo female genital mutilation are to be fast-tracked within weeks, amid fears that the number of cases could soar during the summer holidays.’
The Guardian, 13th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The British government has been criticised by the UN for lacking “a consistent and coherent” approach to tackling violence against women, warning that its austerity agenda will further undermine the safety of vulnerable individuals.’
The Guardian, 14th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Older people are not being protected by the legal system against abuse, neglect and other crimes, their commissioner for Wales has said.’
BBC News, 15th June 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The number of prisoners who take their own lives in solitary confinement has reached a nine-year high with the death toll including a man who hanged himself after officers refused to give him a book, a report has disclosed today.’
The Independent, 9th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Solicitors were the least successful group of people applying for judicial appointment over the last six months, and the situation is getting worse, the latest figures from the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) have shown.’
Litigation Futures, 4th June 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
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