‘There are “serious staffing concerns” at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre but “not an endemic culture of abuse”, a report has found.’
BBC News, 15th January 2016
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‘Jonathan Dalton, 27, threw the single punch at Charles Bonello, 69, on a train from London Bridge on 3 July last year.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th January 2016
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‘A recent case that caught the public’s attention shows how writers’ choice of words can, however unintentionally, create a misleading impression.’
The Guardian, 18th January 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘More than 11,000 criminal trials in England and Wales had to be abandoned last year because witnesses pulled out or did not appear at court, a watchdog has said.’
BBC News, 19th January 2016
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‘Fresh claims of phone hacking by the now defunct News of the World newspaper can be heard in court, a High Court judge has ruled.’
BBC News, 18th January 2016
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‘In 2015 Scotland Yard made an apology to seven women who were deceived into ‘abusive, deceitful and manipulative’ relationships with undercover police officers’
Daily Telegraph, 18th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The legal ban on heterosexual couples entering into civil partnerships is to be challenged in the high court.’
The Guardian, 19th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Prison Officers Association (POA) is to launch a judicial review against the Prison Service to speed up an outright ban on smoking in prisons.’
BBC News, 18th January 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘After I was mugged, a suspect was arrested but the case was dropped because of ‘grave concerns’ about the credibility of my evidence. Can a new law protect thousands of women like me?’
The Guardian, 18th January 2016
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The High Court has taken the unusual step of publishing a short judgment which sets out how pension scheme trustees can use an administrative procedure to correct errors in the scheme rules in a cost effective way.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th January 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The eligibility of peripatetic workers for automatic enrolment onto workplace pension schemes in Great Britain depends on where the worker is based and not on what is set out in the worker’s contract, the High Court has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 15th January 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘The introduction of fixed recoverable costs (FRC) in clinical negligence cases is still planned for 1 October 2016, the Department of Health has confirmed.’
Litigation Futures, 14th January 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.co.uk
A decision by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) to grant retrospective anonymity to a solicitor who had only been found guilty of a technical rule breach flouted the principle of open justice, the High Court has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 18th January 2016
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Samuel Littlejohns, barrister, 1 Hare Court, considers legal, evidential and practical problems that can arise in real property disputes where family members share property based on intentions and cultural understandings which do not easily fall within the classifications of English law.’
Family Law Week, 15th January 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Andrew Powell, barrister, of 4 Paper Buildings reviews recent developments in surrogacy law.’
Family Law Week, 13th January 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Householders can use a “disproportionate” level of force to protect themselves against intruders in their home, the High Court has confirmed in a landmark ruling.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Home Office’s new extremism analysis unit has been directed by Downing Street to specifically examine the scale and origin of funding of extremist groups in the UK with a remit to follow overseas funding streams.’
The Guardian, 17th January 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘ Human rights lawyers who have brought thousands of war crimes cases against British troops will see their taxpayer-funded legal aid cut, in a new assault on “ambulance chasing” law firms. David Cameron has ordered a crackdown after becoming “very concerned” at the boom in compensation claims and investigations against soldiers over incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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