‘Kent County Council has been fined £200,000 after asbestos was disturbed at a primary school.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th September 2018
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The First-tier Tribunal (FTT) has “inherent jurisdiction” to give non-parties access to documents, its tax chamber has ruled in allowing KPMG to see documents from another case involving HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).’
Litigation Futures, 12th September 2018
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A violent burglar who tried to destroy DNA evidence by clipping his victim’s fingernails has been jailed.’
BBC News, 11th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary remains a dangerous threat ahead of his imminent release from jail, the prisons minister has warned, as plans to train an “elite corps” of Muslim chaplains to de-radicalise extremist inmates were unveiled.’
The Guardian, 11th September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A convicted sex offender killed a nurse in her home weeks after he told probation staff he might rape again, a watchdog review has revealed.’
BBC News, 11th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A hair transplant conman duped two dementia patients out of their life savings so that he could buy a new £10k hairline.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Morrisons is the latest major supermarket group to be challenged over equal pay for its shop floor workers in a claim which could cost the retailer an estimated £1bn if successful. The law firm Leigh Day said it was seeking compensation for shop workers – predominantly women – who believe they are paid less than the mostly male workers in Morrisons’ warehouses.’
The Guardian, 11th September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A man has been jailed for life for strangling a colleague after becoming obsessed by the notion she was having a secret relationship with another worker.’
The Guardian, 11th September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The rise of DIY funeral directors is being investigated by the Competitions and Markets Authority, as traditional parlours have been hit by the growth of online competitors.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Self-inflicted deaths in removal centres are being kept a “state secret” by the Home Office, according to the expert commissioned by the government to carry out a review of the immigration detention estate. Former prison ombudsman Stephen Shaw, who has produced two major reports on immigration removal centres (IRCs), told MPs it was “odd and frankly self-defeating” that the department did not make the numbers of detainee deaths public.’
The Independent, 11th September 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Police officers failed to properly investigate complaints a young woman made against her former boyfriend in the days before he brutally murdered her, the police watchdog has found.’
BBC News, 12th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A British mother has admitted abducting her two children and moving to Alaska to live with her new partner without their father’s permission.’
BBC News, 10th September 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A British-born boy who was blocked from returning to the UK after a holiday has arrived home after Britain agreed to grant him an emergency passport.’
The Independent, 11th September 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Whitehall’s spending watchdog has accused the Home Office of being ignorant of the strain that police officers are under after funding cuts led to 45,000 job losses.’
The Guardian, 11th September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Sexual incidents including harassment, assaults and rapes are “commonplace” in mental health units, mainly carried out by patients, the NHS’s care regulator has reported.’
The Guardian, 11th September 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Two “cowardly, cruel and callous” men have been jailed for life for torturing and killing an elderly jeweller in a botched £300,000 robbery.’
The Independent, 11th September 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘MPs who “abuse” parliamentary privilege to break injunctions are eroding confidence in the justice system, the Lord Chief Justice has said. Lord Burnett of Maldon, the head of the judiciary, warned that the phenomenon was part of the “gentle erosion of support” for the courts.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘More than 100 pregnant women have been detained in UK removal centres in the past two years, despite a government-commissioned review recommending the Home Office ban the practice in 2016.’
The Independent, 10th September 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Director of the SFO v ENRC [2018] EWCA Civ 2006. Eurasian Natural Resources Corp, the defendant to the Serious Fraud Office’s application to enforce notices seeking to compel the production of documents, has had a chequered history in the last 10 years since it came to the London market (in January 2014 it delisted and went private). In December 2010, a whistleblower alerted the company by email to serious allegations of corruption, fraud and bribery within its group.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th September 2018
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
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