‘A church warden who manipulated two elderly neighbours in order to benefit from their wills, has today been convicted of murder.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 9th August 2019
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘Employees who research how to blow the whistle can rely on the same legal protections as actual whistleblowers, a tribunal has found.’
Law Society's Gazette, 9th August 2019
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Britain’s biggest budget airline, easyJet, is refusing to comply with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) rules on cancelled flights by failing to book seats on rival carriers where necessary.’
The Independent, 12th August 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Crown Prosecution Service will receive an extra £85m over the next two years, to help deal with a rise in violent crime in England and Wales. It comes as Boris Johnson launches a review of sentencing of some dangerous and prolific offenders.’
BBC News, 12th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Criminal “chicken shop gangs” are recruiting children to deal drugs with the offer of free food, a parliamentary investigation has found. So-called chicken shop grooming was described in written evidence submitted to the youth select committee, which is investigating the UK’s knife crime epidemic.’
The Guardian, 12th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An extra 10,000 new prison places will be created and stop-and-search powers expanded, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised.’
BBC News, 11th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court ruling that Welsh ministers and the quango Careers Wales did not act unreasonably when they decided not to reassess the educational and training needs of a young man with a learning disability.’
Local Government Lawyer, 8th August 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A girl at potential risk of female genial mutilation (FGM) may be taken on a trip to Egypt to visit her father but only in strictly controlled circumstances, a High Court judge has ruled.’
Local Government Lawyer, 8th August 2019
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A man does not have to continue making payments after he was discharged from a first bankruptcy and made bankrupt for a second time, the Court of Appeal in England has ruled.’
OUT-LAW.com, 8th August 2019
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
High Court (Chancery Division)
Willers v Joyce & Ors [2019] EWHC 2183 (Ch) (08 August 2019)
Webster v Ashcroft [2019] EWHC 2174 (Ch) (08 August 2019)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘There is as yet “no clear answer” to the question of whether an online court will facilitate easier access to the court system, research has found.’
Legal Futures, 9th August 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Cannabis-based drugs controversially legalised by the government have been blocked by NHS watchdogs because there is insufficient evidence they are safe.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has rejected an application by the Home Office to conduct an inquiry into claims of systemic abuse at an immigration detention centre in private, rejecting the claims that public hearings would be prohibitively expensive.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A pro-Brexit war veteran who menaced a Remain-supporting MP with “terrifying” online posts has been jailed.’
BBC News, 8th August 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police officers have been told not to hand out fixed penalty notices in stalking and harassment cases after the teenager Shana Grice was fined for wasting police time before she was murdered.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A senior police officer who smashed into an oncoming car while trying to make a hands-free phone call to her MP husband escaped a driving ban today.
Daily Telegraph, 8th August 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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