‘The average time for the disposal of a care or supervision application made in April to June 2016 in England and Wales was 27 weeks, remaining steady over the past year, the latest quarterly report on family court statistics has revealed.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th October 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A doctor has successfully prevented the General Medical Council (GMC) from disclosing a report concerning an investigation in his professional competence to one of his patients.’
OUT-LAW.com, 4th October 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A conman who was found to be selling washing powder as cocaine has ended up in court for fraud.’
Daily Telegraph, 4th October 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A senior officer involved in a Met operation in which a man was shot dead by police is being allowed to retire, despite being under investigation.’
BBC News, 4th October 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A woman from Rhondda Cynon Taff who murdered her husband in a “sustained, nasty and brutal” attack with her son has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 3rd October 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The historic proposal aims to end the European Union’s legal supremacy in the UK by converting all EU requirements into British law as soon as Britain exits the bloc.’
The Independent, 3rd October 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Controversial plans for the military to opt out from the European convention on human rights (ECHR) during future conflicts will be introduced by ministers, to see off what the prime minister described as an “industry of vexatious claims” against soldiers.’
The Guardian, 4th October 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Government is pledging £14m to pay for 400 prison officers who will help tackle drugs and violence in the country’s toughest prisons.’
The Independent, 4th October 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Allocation of Housing and Homelessness (Eligibility) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 have (finally) been made to come into force on 30 October 2016. These sort out the anomaly highlighted in Romans v Southwark LBC and SSDCLG and Alabi v SSDCLG about those with leave to remain granted under Appendix FM. Their eligibility for housing and homeless assistance is confirmed. A number of appeals have been stayed pending the regulations, which should now be resolved.’
Nearly Legal, 3rd October 2016
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘A flagship government policy to support and supervise inmates leaving jail has been severely criticised by inspectors.’
BBC News, 4th October 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police, prosecutors and the courts in Britain are “filtering out” racial elements in hate crime cases, half of reported hate crime is not prosecuted and judges are underusing heavier sentences for hate crime, say Council of Europe anti-racism experts.’
The Guardian, 4th October 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The number of criminal investigations into cases of insider dealing opened by UK regulators increased by 175% over the last financial year and early figures indicate the total for 2016/17 will be higher still, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd October 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A disgraced doctor has avoided prison after being convicted for a second time of having a stash of “extreme” pornography, including a video of a man having sex with a snake.’
Daily Telegraph, 30th September 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The use of artificial intelligence is more widespread in the law than in other sectors, and IT chiefs see more applications for it in the future, a survey has found.’
Legal Futures, 3rd October 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The way price comparison websites work is to be examined by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).’
BBC News, 29th September 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The medical profession is only too used to the occasional outbreak of SARS. It is perhaps a little less used to an influx of SARs, as made under section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998. In the case of the General Medical Council, requests for personal data will involve very sensitive data and just as sensitive issues of balance and extraction of the data of different parties. So it was in Dr DB v General Medical Council [2016] EWHC 2331 (QB).’
Panopticon, 28th September 2016
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘Tenants and landlords are “being let down by local authorities who are failing to use powers to tackle criminal landlords”, the Residential Landlords Association has claimed.’
Local Government Lawyer, 28th September 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘UK air quality law now finds itself at a crossroads. Air quality law is a well-established area of environmental law, having been at the vanguard of much of it. It is a well-established area across multiple levels of governance, with local and national regulation in the UK operating against a backdrop of binding EU standards and an international law framework for transboundary air pollution (the 1979 Geneva Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP)). This multilevel body of law highlights that air pollution is a problem that has many sources – local, transboundary, stationary, mobile, manmade, natural – which act and interact via complex pollution pathways, leading to a range of regulatory responses within and beyond jurisdictional boundaries.’
OUP Blog, 3rd October 2016
Source: www.blog.oup.com
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