‘The government will consider a domestic violence campaigner’s proposal for new laws to allow victims to keep their safe house addresses secret in court.’
BBC News, 17th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins will be sentenced today for a string of child sex offences – including the attempted rape of a baby.’
The Independent, 18th December 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Confiscation orders designed to ensure crime does not pay provide neither value for money nor a credible deterrent as perpetrators keep all but 26p in every £100 generated by the criminal economy, according to a damning report.’
The Guardian, 17th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has been disciplined for voicing his views on marriage through national newspapers.’
BBC News, 17th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and now the Court of Appeal have all agreed that an employer was justified in requiring a Christian to work on Sundays in Mba v London Borough of Merton.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 17th December 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘A Nigerian asylum seeker who starved himself for three months has lost his legal bid to stay in the UK.’
BBC News, 17th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘School staff missed repeated opportunities to blow the whistle on inappropriate conduct between the maths teacher Jeremy Forrest and the teenage schoolgirl he went on to abduct, a damning review has found.’
The Guardian, 16th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man jailed for murdering a father-of-two with a bottle at an event where singer Jessie J was performing has lost his conviction and sentence appeal.’
BBC News, 16th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The right to manage provisions in Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 have been an incredibly fertile source of litigation. Thanks Parliament. No, really, thanks a lot. One reason might be the drafting of the legislation itself (as J has said, you could never accuse it of being user friendly) The challenges have focused on the two key elements – the qualifying criteria (or what I am loosely calling “qualifying criteria”) and the procedural requirements. The judicial trend in respect of both has been in favour of allowing the right to manage to be acquired, so far as possible (Exhibit 1 for qualifying criteria: Gala Unity v Ariadne Road; Exhibit 2 for procedure: Avon Freeholds v Regent Court RTM).’
NearlyLegal, 16th December 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Efforts to stop prisoners reoffending are “not working” and should be the subject of a major policy review, two senior inspectors have said.’
BBC News, 17th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Moral questions of right and wrong cannot be “ignored” when deciding whether to allow assisted suicide, senior judge says in landmark challenge to Britain’s euthanasia laws.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th December 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Car insurance premiums are too high and should be reduced through far-reaching reforms, the competition watchdog has said.’
The Guardian, 17th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Ex-offenders who’ve turned away from crime would be ideally suited to help deal with low-level offenders.’
The Independent, 17th December 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The College of Policing is reviewing its training to try to prevent more people dying in police custody in England and Wales, the BBC has learned.;
BBC News, 17th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘One Direction’s Harry Styles has won a court order banning the paparazzi from pursuing him in the street or waiting outside his house.’
The Guardian, 16th December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘BT has announced the launch of a new internet filter designed to protect children online.’
BBC News, 16th December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A flagship Bill to tackle modern slavery, the first of its kind in Europe, was published today by the Home Secretary Theresa May.’
Home Office, 16th December 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘All areas should have a dedicated traffic court within the next 6 months Justice Minister Damian Green said today (13 December 2013).’
Ministry of Justice, 13th December 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘Two interesting recent blog posts dealt with the meaning of public and private under s. 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998. They were motivated by injunction proceedings in the High court whereby the Olympic Delivery Authority, (ODA) the body charged with the logistics and infrastructure of the London Olympic Games, had sought injunctions to restrain protestors from entering and occupying land which was to be developed as part of the Olympic site. The main issues emerging from this case discussed in the two posts was whether the ODA constituted a ‘core’ or ‘hybrid’ public authority under s. 6 HRA; whether it could itself enjoy human rights to defeat or counter any human rights obligations it may hold in its capacity as a ‘hybrid’ body exercising public functions; and where the ‘centre of gravity’ for determining the human rights obligations of hybrid bodies lay under the Act; under the s. 6(3)(b) ‘public function’ test or the definition of ‘private act’ under s. 6(5).’
UK Constitutional Law Group, 13th December 2013
Source: www.ukconstituionallaw.org
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