‘The National Crime Agency has been labelled “incompetent” by an Old Bailey judge after a series of blunders led to the collapse of a £5m trial.’
The Guardian, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘European Court of Justice rules accepting video evidence in asylum cases that hinge on sexuality is a breach of human rights.’
Daily Telegraph, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The wife of an Angolan man who died as he was being deported from the UK broke down in court as a G4S guard described her husband’s last moments.’
The Guardian, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A number of women who report rapes are being ‘aggressively prosecuted’ by the police for perverting the course of justice, according to campaign group Women Against Rape.’
Daily Telegraph, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘When 16-year-old Will Cornick admitted murdering the schoolteacher Ann Maguire, the reaction was one of shock and bewilderment.’
BBC News, 3rd December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan launch judicial review after trying to hold ceremony at town hall and being turned away.’
The Guardian, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, says huge spike in sex offence cases since former BBC DJ’s crimes were exposed has put added pressure on prison service.’
Daily Telegraph, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Hate crimes motivated by racism, religion and homophobia have significantly increased in London over the past year, a new report has warned.’
The Independent, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘An advert for the weight loss programme LighterLife featuring former Coronation Street and Loose Women star Denise Welch has been banned after the actor lost weight more quickly than regulations deem to be safe.’
The Guardian, 3rd December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A decision that a Brighton peace activist’s details can be removed from an extremism database is being challenged in the UK’s highest court.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police have apologised after a woman who tore off a Sikh taxi driver’s turban and burned it in front of him, was given a caution.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
In re APCOA Parking Holdings GmbH and others [2014] EWHC 3849 (Ch); [2014] WLR (D) 499
‘The court had jurisdiction to sanction a scheme of arrangement pursuant to Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006 where, pursuant to a change of law clause in a facilities agreement governing the indebtedness of the scheme companies, a change of governing law to English law had been effected, even though the parties were incorporated in another jurisdiction and had COMI in another jurisdiction. The change of law was valid even where the original choice of law was the foundation for access to the processes and provisions of the new law chosen and those processes and provisions enabled the same parties as objected to the change of law to be placed under compulsion to accept some further change in their existing contractual rights.’
WLR Daily, 19th November 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Back to Aarhus and the constant problem we have in the UK making sure that the cost of planning and environmental litigation is not prohibitively expensive.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 1st December 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Master of the rolls Lord Dyson has told MPs that an increase in litigants in person has caused miscarriages of justice.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 1st December 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘The Employment Appeal Tribunal has recently addressed an issue that is of particular interest to technology companies: could making a PhD an absolute requirement when recruiting be indirectly discriminatory against older applicants? Unfortunately the EAT did not come up with a definitive answer, but in the best academic tradition, it has reformulated the question.’
Technology Law Update, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
‘The mother of a young woman who died in hospital is challenging the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman (PHSO) in the High Court.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The first change relates to cases when the defendant elected trial and solicitors had been restricted to the fixed fee, even though the Crown did not proceed at all, and the defendant is acquitted on the order of a judge. In these cases, provided the case goes beyond the plea and case management hearing, a cracked trial fee will be paid.’
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Law Society’s Gazette, 1st December 2014
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Law is pretty abstract. Unlike the role of a doctor or a builder, that of a lawyer is difficult to explain to a young mind. When my children eventually ask me about what I do when I “work” (confusingly simultaneously a place I seem to go to and a thing I do at home; either takes me away from them) my plan is to explain that I help strangers from far off places find new homes. Like Paddington Bear.’
Free Movement, 1st December 2014
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
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