‘Oral Statement on prisoner communications by the Secretary of State for Justice, 11 November 2015.’
Ministry of Justice, 11th November 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘A landlord who built an outbuilding and converted it into six small flats without planning permission has been ordered to pay more than £280,000.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th November 2014
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Part of an allocation scheme adopted by a London council was unlawful, the Court of Appeal has ruled. In Jakimaviciute, R (On the Application Of) v Hammersmith And Fulham London Borough Council [2014] EWCA Civ 1438 the claimant challenged the legality of Hammersmith & Fulham’s scheme, which was adopted with effect from April 2013.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th November 2014
Source: www.localgovernment lawyer.co.uk
‘The government is set to give claimants and their solicitors a random selection of medical experts to choose from as part of the next stage of whiplash reform, it has emerged.’
Litigation Futures, 12th November 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The High Court has ruled that a law firm cannot escape responsibility for handling complaints relating to a sole practice with which it merged.’
Legal Futures, 12th November 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that a TV medical negligence advert for Merseyside personal injury specialists Michael W Halsall Solicitors was “likely to cause undue distress to pregnant viewers”.’
Legal Futures, 12th November 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Lance Dodgson, barrister of Bank House Chambers, considers the changes concerning post-adoption contact made by the Children and Families Act 2014 and asks what effect they will have in practice.’
Family Law Week, 11th November 2014
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘A talented young powerboater who suffered catastrophic head injuries when two boats collided during a race has been awarded £5.5 million High Court damages.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th November 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A thief who avoided prison by lying to court about being pregnant, later showing suspicious probation staff photos of a child she claimed was her baby, has been jailed for five months for perverting the course of justice.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th November 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The pair of underage girls groomed for sex by a 50-year-old paedophile, Peter Mitchell, could not attend his sentencing at Derby crown court on Tuesday for one simple reason: they did not exist. The satisfaction of justice was instead enjoyed by a middle-aged married couple who have become the latest in a wave of vigilante “hunters” who are so frustrated at police inaction to stop online grooming of children that they are taking the law into their own hands.’
The Guardian, 11th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The European Court of Justice has issued a historic ruling against Romanian woman living in Germany that could set a major precedent blocking so-called “benefits tourism” across the continent.’
The Independent, 11th November 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Private conversations between MPs and prisoners from their constituencies may have been recorded and monitored in jails, Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary has announced. The minister issued an apology to the House of Commons after disclosing that communications by at least 32 current MPs were thought to be involved.’
Daily Telegraph, 11th November 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A woman’s refusal to move a pushchair with a sleeping baby from a bay on a bus used by wheelchair passengers – causing a disabled man to have to leave the vehicle – is at the centre of a test-case legal battle in the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 11th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A Metropolitan Police officer who punched a suspected shoplifter before pinning her to the ground has been dismissed from the force.’
BBC News, 11th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Notorious police killer Harry Roberts has been released from prison. Roberts, now 78, was jailed for life for murdering three unarmed officers in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, in 1966.’
BBC News, 12th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Regulators on both sides of Atlantic impose fines totalling £2bn on HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS, JP Morgan and Citigroup.’
The Guardian, 12th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man found guilty of attempting to murder two trainee nurses who were stabbed, doused with petrol and almost set on fire has been jailed for life.’
BBC News, 11th November 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The highly secretive trial of a man accused of plotting a terrorist attack in London is to be re-run after an Old Bailey jury was discharged. Erol Incedal, 26, is expected to appear in court for a second time next year. He had pleaded not guilty to a charge, brought under the Terrorism Act 2006, that he intended to commit acts of terrorism or assist another to commit them between 1 February 2012 and 14 October last year.’
The Guardian, 11th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘In his lecture to the Administrative Law Bar Association earlier this month, Lord Sumption surveys the concept of “anxious scrutiny” – a judicial method which he characterises as a forerunner to the principle of proportionality. The term was actually coined by Lord Bridge in Bugdaycay (1986), and was meant to apply where the rights engaged in a case were sufficiently fundamental, and stretched the traditional “Wednesbury” test to public authority decisions or actions which were not, on the face of it, irrational. (The citation given in the PDF of the speech incidentally is incorrect). The same way of thinking had been arrived at in the US courts a few years earlier, with their “hard look” doctrine, but to Lord Sumption there was something peculiarly English about the “crab-like” way in which our courts approached and eventually acknowledged this doctrine, hitherto alien to the judicial toolbox.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th November 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘The former chief executive, finance director and marketing director at a UK insurance provider have been served with fines by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and banned from taking senior positions at other financial services companies in the future.’
OUT-LAW.com, 10th November 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
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