‘A gambling addict has been found guilty of murdering a 77-year-old grandmother in east London. Thomas Blazquez, 51, from South Woodford, killed Rosemary Shearman in her Hornchurch home on 3 September.’
BBC News, 1st May 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A Nazi sympathiser who planned to blow up mosques in Merseyside has been jailed for 10 years. Ian Forman, 42, from Birkenhead, was convicted of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts following an 11-day trial in March.’
The Guardian, 1st May 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The mother of two, who was prosecuted for taking her two children out of school for five days to go to a UK holiday camp, does not have to pay a fine because the children’s education is “well up to standard”, court hears.’
Daily Telegraph, 2nd May 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Evolution or revolution – are we ready for a single legal services regulator? (PDF)
David Edmonds, Chairman, Legal Services Board
Modern Law Magazine Conference, 29th April 2014
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
‘“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant… Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
The above principle laid down by John Stuart Mill is a cornerstone of liberal political and jurisprudential thought. Mill argued that, provided you cause no harm to others, you should be free to do what you like with your own body and life. This is what the right to personal autonomy and self-determination means; and it is a right which is being steadily, and quietly, eroded. If liberty, as Mill said, consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else, then we are already not free – and if the current trend of legislating on public health and morals continues the residual liberty we do enjoy will be diminished.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 30th April 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘The release of confidential patient details to a state medical institution in the course of her negotiations with a hospital over a lawsuit was an unjustified interference with her right to respect for private life under Article 8.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th April 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Stop and search powers are to be overhauled after Theresa May warned police abuse of the power was an “unacceptable affront to justice”.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Nearly a million criminal offences including rape have gone unrecorded by police in a single year, according to a damning report that could see the 20-year decline in recorded crime reversed when accurate statistics are calculated.’
The Independent, 1st May 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
The Family Justice Reforms (PDF)
Remarks by Sir James Munby
Judiciary of England and Wales, 29th April 2014
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘Angela Patrick, Director of Human Rights Policy at JUSTICE, summarises the important Joint Committee on Human Rights report “The implications for access to justice of the Government’s proposals to reform judicial review”.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th April 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘An armed gang who crashed a car into a prison van to free two men have been jailed by Manchester Crown Court.’
BBC News, 29th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A teenager who was jailed for 49 sexual offences involving 13 boys could have been prosecuted earlier, a report has said.’
BBC News, 29th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A public inquiry ruled his death unlawful, but his family is still in a ‘black hole’.’
The Independent, 29th April 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Couples agreeing to divorce by consent should be able to arrange their own separations with a trip to the registrar rather than having to go to court, the most senior family judge in England and Wales says.’
The Guardian, 29th April 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
What is Crime?: The Limits Of Criminalisation Conference (PDF)
Speech by Senior Presiding Judge, Lord Justice Gross
Judiciary of England and Wales, 31st March 2014
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
‘The first ever case allowing vulnerable victims and witnesses to give evidence ahead of the trial will start tomorrow.’
Ministry of Justice, 28th April 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
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