“A glaring error by judges in the case of a man accused of killing his wife by faking her suicide is to be used in a fresh attempt to clear his name.”
The Times, 4th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An abusive father killed himself in the dock of a court after being found guilty of a brutal assault on his baby daughter.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Websites that encourage people to commit suicide could be shut down under changes to the law, it was disclosed today.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Detectives have launched an investigation into the death of a police and prison informant who was found hanged in his jail cell. The probe into Paul Day’s suicide, shortly after he told a solicitor he wished to retract false evidence he gave in a series of high-profile cases, including the 1996 murders of Lin and Megan Russell, raises the prospect of manslaughter charges and the possible unravelling of some major criminal cases.”
The Independent, 1st June 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The way in which the apparent suicides of young people in Bridgend was covered by the media is to be debated later.”
BBC News, 16th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Corr v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13; WLR (D) 62
“Where the deceased’s suicide had been the direct result of a depressive illness from which he had been suffering, which had been the direct and foreseeable consequence of an accident for which his employer was liable, his widow was entitled to claim damages under s 1 of the Fatal Accidents Act 1976. No reduction should be made for contributory negligence.”
WLR Daily, 27th February 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“The widow of a man who killed himself six years after an industrial accident should be compensated by his former employers, the House of Lords said this morning.”
The Times, 27th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Experts are to be sent into every school in Bridgend as part of an urgent strategy drawn up to halt the spate of suicides in a small area of South Wales that claimed a 17th young victim yesterday.”
The Times, 20th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The brother of a man who is thought to have killed himself and his mother-in-law while awaiting trial will not lose his £200,000 bail bond.”
BBC News, 18th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A task force is to look at ways to tackle illegal and undesirable content on the internet and to consider action against websites that encourage suicide and self-harm.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The coroner investigating the suicides of 13 young people in and around Brigend has said he does not believe the deaths are connected.”
BBC News, 8th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Petra Blanksby killed herself aged 19 after she was jailed for arson – she had tried to burn herself following years of abuse. Now the coroner at her inquest is urging changes in the prison service.”
The Observer, 3rd February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An official review of internet sites which encourage suicide is expected to include an examination of a recent cluster of deaths in south Wales.”
BBC News, 27th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Extensive coverage last week of the suspected ‘copycat’ suicides of seven young people in Bridgend, south Wales – and the publication in one paper earlier this month of the picture of a young City banker as he leapt to his death from a hotel window – have reignited concerns about how suicide is reported.”
The Guardian, 28th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A specialist investigation team is to be sent into one of Britain’s high-security jails after five of its prisoners committed suicide in just over a year.”
The Observer, 20th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The father of an 18-year-old man who accessed ‘suicide chatrooms’ on the internet before killing himself, has called for a law to close them down.”
BBC News, 18th January 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Ministry of Justice said last night it will urgently review its guidance to judges in the wake of the tragic consequences of a decision to grant bail to a senior police officer accused of murdering his wife.”
The Guardian, 14th January 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Court of Appeal
“To establish that a hospital at which a suicide had been a detained mental patient was in breach of the right to life guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, the claimant had to show that at the time of the suicide the hospital knew or ought to have known of the existence of a real and immediate risk to her life from self-harm and that it failed to take measures which reasonably might have been expected to avoid that risk.”
The Times, 9th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“A man has been jailed for four years for a sex attack on a single mother who killed herself after seeing footage of the attack on a mobile phone.”
BBC News, 19th December 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The grim pattern to Louise Giles’s short life was set at the age of 13 when she took her first overdose.”
The Independent, 8th December 2007
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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