Sheep rustlers jailed for three years after stealing from 14 farms across the North – Daily Telegraph
‘The thieves cost farmers thousands and disrupted pedigree bloodlines.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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‘Going into legal aid work now is career suicide’ – The Guardian
‘Government cuts to legal aid means social welfare lawyers are a dying breed. So where will the next generation come from? Step up the Justice First Fellowship.’
The Guardian, 6th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Housing bill will do nothing for many of those in need of a decent home – The Guardian
‘New housing legislation fails to address the problem of affordable rented housing, and there may be little that we in the House of Lords can do to improve it.’
The Guardian, 5th January 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Council wins Planning Court battle over former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Local Government Lawyer
‘A High Court judge has dismissed a judicial review challenge to a council’s grant of planning permission for a change of use to the house where Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles.’
Local Government Lawyer, 4th January 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
CA: Courts must consider “all the circumstances” before imposing part 36 penalties – Litigation Futures
‘Courts must consider “all the circumstances” before deciding whether it would be unjust to impose costs penalties on claimants who fail to beat offers made under part 36, appeal judges have ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 5th January 2015
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
You don’t know what you’re doing – Nearly Legal
‘January 5, 2016, sees the Housing and Planning Bill return to the House of Commons for the Report stage (if you want to read about how the Committee stage went, the excellent House of Commons library analysis is here and our comments are here).’
Nearly Legal, 4th January 2016
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
New vaping laws: Everything you need to know – The Independent
‘From 20 May, how you vape will change.’
The Independent, 4th January 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
St William’s Catholic care home child sex abusers jailed – BBC News
‘A former chaplain and ex-principal of a Roman Catholic children’s care home have been jailed for abusing boys.’
BBC News, 5th January 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
British American Tobacco e-cigarette wins UK medicine licence – The Guardian
‘Britain’s drug regulators have given the go-ahead for a British American Tobacco (BAT) e-cigarette to be sold as a medicine for quitting smoking, the first such product to be given a drug licence in the UK.’
The Guardian, 4th January 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Trojan horse’ headteacher receives lifetime ban for professional misconduct – The Guardian
‘A headteacher who was accused of misconduct in the so-called Trojan horse scandal in Birmingham has been banned indefinitely from teaching after being found guilty of professional misconduct.’
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The Guardian, 4th January 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Footage of Supreme Court hearings proves an unlikely hit with the public – The Independent
‘It was expected to be little more than an iPlayer for law students: more than 900 hours of footage from inside the Supreme Court, offering a window on the often dry and sometimes fiendishly complex legal deliberations.’
The Independent, 3rd January 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Triple killer given £1,000 compensation after prison guard squirts shampoo on his CDs – The Independent
‘A three-time killer has won £1,000 compensation from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) after a judge ruled that a guard squirted shampoo on his CDs during a prison transfer.’
The Independent, 3rd January 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Publisher of The Daily Telegraph fined £30,000 for general election email campaign – RPC Data and Privacy Law
‘On 15 December 2015 the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued Telegraph Media Group Limited (the Telegraph) with a Monetary Penalty Notice (see here) under section 55A of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA 1998) following a “serious contravention” of Regulation 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR 2003).’
RPC Data and Privacy Law, 30th December 2015
Source: www.rpc.co.uk
Mortgage possession and disability discrimination – Nearly Legal
‘This is county court case, but a very interesting one on the issue of disability discrimination in mortgage possession proceedings.’
Nearly Legal, 3rd January 2016
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
New CPS powers to tackle domestic abuse – Law Society’s Gazette
‘Controlling a partner’s social media account or surveilling them through mobile phone tracking apps could see domestic abusers jailed for up to five years under new legislation that comes into force today.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 29th December 2015
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Just walk away (beforehand) – Nearly Legal
‘Briefly, the issue was that lease clauses for some (but not all) holiday chalet leases in the Gower effectively provided for a 10% per annum increase in fixed charges for maintenance etc. The compound effect of this was that leases that started with a £90 pa service charge in 1974 would have a charge of £1,025,004 pa by the end of the term in 2072. Even by 2012, the amount payable was considerably in excess of the actual costs to the landlord of the services.’
Nearly Legal, 1st January 2016
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
10 human rights cases that defined 2015 – UK Human Rights Blog
‘It has been a fascinating year in which to edit this Blog. Political and social challenges – from continued government cuts to the alarming rise of Islamic State – have presented new human rights conundrums that have, as ever, slowly percolated to the doors of the country’s highest courts. And all this during the year of an astonishing General Election result and amid continually shifting sands around the future of the Human Rights Act.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 23rd December 2015
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Privatise Britain’s border controls, says new report – Daily Telegraph
‘Think-tank says UK Border Force – set up only four years ago – is failing and should have passport control functions put out to contract.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Christmas Break
There will be no posts during the Inner Temple Library’s Christmas closure period which starts at 2pm on 21st December. We will resume posting on 4th January 2016.
Happy Christmas and thanks for reading!
Drivers caught using mobile phones face £150 fines – Daily Telegraph
‘Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin plans to hit drivers who flout the law with higher fines, rising from £100 to £150, and more penalty points on their licences’
Daily Telegraph, 20th December 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
