‘There has been a “significant” and worrying deterioration in the standards of British jails, the chief inspector of prisons in England and Wales says.’
Full story
BBC News, 9th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Tougher penalties may be needed to deal with Twitter and Facebook users who are “deliberately naming and abusing” rape victims online, a legal adviser to the Crown Prosecution Service has said.’
The Guardian, 9th July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal is to hear a disciplinary case which led to the Bar Standards Board being accused by Lord Justice Moses of “misleading conduct”.’
Legal Futures, 10th July 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A Hillsborough-style inquiry to investigate up to 100 suspicious deaths at a Hampshire hospital during the 1990s is set to be announced by the Government today [9 July].’
The Independent, 9th July 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A GP who sexually abused patients over more than 25 years is serving a lengthy jail sentence, it can now be reported.’
BBC News, 9th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Controversial emergency laws will be introduced into the Commons next Monday to reinforce the powers of security services to require phone companies to keep records of their customers’ calls.’
The Guardian, 10th July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, says sex offenders found guilty of historical crimes are partly to blame for a 1,600 year-on-year rise in prison numbers.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A High Court judge has ruled that a system for fast-tracking asylum claims has “serious failings” and is being operated unlawfully by the Government.’
Full story
The Independent, 9th July 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘A man has been found guilty of murdering his wife by shooting her twice in the back after she left him.’
BBC News, 9th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The parents of Amelia Rose claim a hospital ethics committee ruled staff can refuse to send the 23-month-old to the intensive care unit if her condition deteriorates.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Supreme Court, 9th July 2014
Supreme Court, 9th July 2014
‘A man has been jailed for eight years for killing his five-week-old daughter after becoming frustrated by her screaming as he played a video game.’
BBC News, 9th July 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Attorney General’s Reference No 29 Of 2014 [2014] EWCA Crim 1314 (18 June 2014)
Aslam, R v [2014] EWCA Crim 1292 (03 July 2014)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Akhtar v Boland [2014] EWCA Civ 943 (08 July 2014)
Q (Children) [2014] EWCA Civ 918 (08 July 2014)
Colefax v First Tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) & Anor [2014] EWCA Civ 945 (08 July 2014)
Qongwane & Ors v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] EWCA Civ 957 (08 July 2014)
Caldero Trading Ltd v Leibson Corporation Ltd & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 935 (08 July 2014)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
McGartland & Anor v The Attorney General [2014] EWHC 2248 (QB) (08 July 2014)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Pall Mall Investments (London) Ltd v Gloucester City Council [2014] EWHC 2247 (Admin) (08 July 2014)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Saipol S.A. v Inerco Trade S.A. [2014] EWHC 2211 (Comm) (20 June 2014)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘As part of the current debate on identifying the best values of British culture and society, the proper workings of the British legal system, would surely have to occupy a prominent place. After all, it is the judiciary that would enhance the sense of wellbeing of its citizen every time that justice is felt to have been established.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 9th July 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘Under the Water Industry Act 1991 sewerage undertakers were impliedly empowered to discharge surface water and other non-pollutant water into private watercourses to which they were already discharging at the time the Act came into force, but had no right to create new outfalls into such watercourses without the agreement of their owners.’
WLR Daily, 2nd July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A dispute resolution clause in an existing and enforceable contract which required the parties to seek to resolve a dispute by friendly discussions in good faith and within a limited period of time before the dispute could be referred to arbitration was enforceable.’
WLR Daily, 1st July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Novoship (UK) Ltd and others v Nikitin and others [2014] EWCA 908; [2014] WLR (D) 297
‘The remedy of an account of profits was available against one who dishonestly assisted a fiduciary to breach his fiduciary obligations, even if that breach did not involve a misapplication of trust property.
WLR Daily, 4th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The ordinary meaning of paragraph 18(b) of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2008, which provided that a claims officer could waive the two-year time limit, from the date of the relevant incident, for the making of an application for compensation in respect of a criminal injury where, in the particular circumstances of the case, it would not have been reasonable to expect the applicant to have made an application within the two-year period, required the late applicant to show that it was not reasonable to expect him to make any application for compensation within time thereby placing the burden on the late applicant to show that he did not fail to comply with a reasonable expectation that he would pursue his compensation rights in a timely manner.’
WLR Daily, 8th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Pregnant woman has an irrational fear of hospitals but could die in child birth. Her third child was delivered using barbecue tongs and was found severely malnourished’
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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