‘A City worker who fatally punched a friend after his shoe was thrown out of a taxi window has been jailed for three years.’
The Guardian, 10th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The decision by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to close its meetings to public and press scrutiny appears to be contrary to its obligations under the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA), a leading regulatory solicitor has said.’
Legal Futures, 13th March 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.com
‘London council is to be allowed to bury people in land on top of war graves after a Church of England court gave it permission.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th March 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Touts who use computer software to harvest concert tickets in bulk and resell them at vast mark-ups face unlimited fines as part of a crackdown on highly profitable resale sites such as Viagogo, StubHub and GetMeIn.’
The Guardian, 10th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The writer and food blogger Jack Monroe has won a libel action against the Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins and been awarded £24,000 damages, in a row over tweets suggesting Monroe approved of defacing a war memorial during an anti-austerity demonstration in Whitehall.’
The Guardian, 10th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘MPs are to be hit with tougher restrictions on employing their wives and children amid concern of a François Fillon-style scandal in Britain, The Sunday Telegraph understands.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th March 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A drug addict with more than 50 previous convictions has been jailed for 12 years for killing a child actor and his aunt when he hit them with a stolen car.’
The Guardian, 10th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Victims of serious crime should not be allowed to use the Human Rights Act to sue the police, the Home Office will argue on Monday in a landmark Supreme Court appeal.’
Daily Telegraph, 13th March 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A prison instructor who kissed and exchanged love letters with a convicted murderer has been jailed for misconduct in a public office.’
BBC News, 10th March 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A female judge’s warning that drunk women are putting themselves at greater risk of rape was “victim-blaming”, a police commissioner has said.’
BBC News, 11th March 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The government faces a last push from rebel backbenchers to guarantee a final vote in parliament on any Brexit deal before the triggering of article 50, with concerns coalescing around what would happen if no agreement was reached with the EU.’
The Guardian, 13th February 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has hit back at a campaign against new government measures to increase the sentence for online copyright infringement to 10 years.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th March 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Iqbal v Iqbal provides a salutary example of the consequences that can occur in the absence of legal representation, as Shlomit Glaser & Tim Jones report.’
New Law Journal, 9th March 2017
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘Interested parties have been given an extra month to comment on proposals for a new law to protect official secrets after an unexpected media furore. Citing a ‘large amount of interest’ the Law Commission said that its deadline for responding to the public consultation on Protection of Official Data had been extended to 3 May.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 9th March 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The deportation of thousands of British children to Australia, Canada and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), created the most catastrophic child abuse legacy in living memory, the national inquiry into child sexual abuse has been told.’
The Guardian, 9th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Preserving access to the single market in legal services is among the reasons why the government urgently needs to set out a vision for trade with the EU following Brexit, MPs say today.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th March 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Peter Vaines shares his views on Phillip Hammond’s first & last spring budget.’
New Law Journal, 9th March 2017
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘Nottingham City Council has failed in a High Court challenge to the Bus Lane Adjudicator’s decision that the local authority’s road signs for a pedestrian zone failed to provide adequate information to road users of a bus lane.’
Local Government Lawyer, 10th March 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Recent changes to the Ministerial Code, which could undermine the UK’s commitment to the rule of law, may be subject to judicial review, as Daniel Carey explains. Interview by Jenny Rayner.’
New Law Journal, 24th February 2017
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘The government could be found to have illegally detained many child asylum seekers after a landmark ruling in the court of appeal said immigration officers could not simply disbelieve the stated age of refugees.’
The Guardian, 9th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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