Herbie Hide jailed for conspiracy to supply cocaine – BBC News
‘Former world champion boxer Herbie Hide has been jailed for 22 months after admitting selling cocaine.’
BBC News, 29th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
UK terror law watchdog calls for end to detention at borders without suspicion – The Guardian
‘Britain’s anti-terror law watchdog has said police should no longer be able to detain people at the UK’s borders without any suspicion of wrongdoing, following the detention of David Miranda in August.’
The Guardian, 1st December 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
South Yorkshire Police investigated over Ian Watkins – BBC News
‘A watchdog is investigating South Yorkshire Police’s handling of complaints about a rock star who has admitted child sex offences.’
BBC News, 30th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Child taken from womb by social services – Daily Telegraph
‘Essex social services have obtained a court order against a woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and for her child to be taken from her womb by caesarean section.’
Daily Telegraph, 30th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Mairead Philpott loses appeal against 17-year sentence for manslaughter – The Guardian
‘Mairead Philpott has had her 17-year prison sentence for killing her six children in a house fire in Derby upheld by the court of appeal.’
The Guardian, 29th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Rape prevention work needed, says senior police officer – BBC News
‘Police in England and Wales are being urged to be more proactive in their efforts to prevent rapes.’
BBC News, 2nd December 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Sex offender Leslie Whiting who breached injunction ‘should be jailed’ – The Independent
‘A sex offender should be jailed for allegedly defying the orders of a court to stay away from a former girlfriend who has a learning disability, a judge was told yesterday.’
The Independent, 29th November 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Regina (Members of the Committee of Care North East Northumberland) v Northumberland County Council – WLR Daily
“The Court of Appeal gave guidance as to how to assess whether a local authority had (i) complied with its statutory duty to provide accommodation and social care services to adults in its area who, by reason of age, illness, disability or any other circumstances, were in need of care and attention which was not otherwise available to them, and (ii) followed guidance contained in a local authority circular, by having ‘due regard’ to the actual costs of providing care and other local factors.”
WLR Daily, 27th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Isis Investments Ltd v Oscatello Investments Ltd and others – WLR Daily
Isis Investments Ltd v Oscatello Investments Ltd and others [2013] EWCA Civ 1493; [2013] WLR (D) 459
“Articles 10(2)(e) and 32 of Council Directive 2001/24/EC required a careful construction of the phrases ‘lawsuits pending’ and ‘pending lawsuit’ if one were to rely on the provisions in order to permit a departure from the general principle contained within article 10(1) that a credit institution should be wound up in accordance with the laws of its home member state.”
WLR Daily, 27th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Zoumbas v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
Zoumbas v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] UKSC 74; [2013] WLR (D) 458
“The fact that the children of failed asylum seekers were not British citizens, and therefore had no right to education and health care in the United Kingdom, was relevant when assessing whether it was reasonable to expect them to live in another country if their parents were removed from the United Kingdom.”
WLR Daily, 27th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Zoumbas (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – Supreme Court
Zoumbas (Appellant) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] UKSC 74 | UKSC 2013/0100 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 27th November 2013
Bull and another (Appellants) v Hall and another (Respondents) On Appeal from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) (England and Wales) – Supreme Court
Bull and another (Appellants) v Hall and another (Respondents) [2013] UKSC 73 | UKSC 2012/0065 (YouTube)
Supreme Court, 27th November 2013
Mairead Philpott appeals against length of sentence for killing children – The Guardian
“A woman jailed for 17 years for killing her six children in a house fire is to launch another attempt to challenge the length of her sentence.”
The Guardian, 29th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
NEW series: “The advocate, the regulator, the TV maker and the client” – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
“Advocacy is a skill that exposes truth or lies in the court process. It is a forensic challenge that doesn’t depend on the colour of the advocate’s lipstick or the lining of Queen’s Counsel’s suit, but on ability.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 28th November 2013
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
For Whom the Bell Tolls – NearlyLegal
“This is a brief note on an important Court of Appeal judgement. Mitchell v News Group Newspapers Ltd is actually a defamation case but it is an essential point of reference for anybody involved in civil litigation.”
NearlyLegal, 28th November 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
Letter led to Michael Batten, 70, being jailed for abuse – BBC News
“A woman who wrote to a man who abused her as a child called in the police when his reply showed no remorse.”
BBC News, 28th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Coroner Alan Crickmore jailed for eight years over £2m theft – BBC News
“A former Gloucestershire coroner has been jailed for eight years for stealing £2m from clients, some of whom had died, at his solicitors practice.”
BBC News, 28th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
More laws are needed as religion declines, top judge says – Daily Telegraph
“One of Britain’s most senior judges said the rapid rise in the number of laws in recent years had been necessary as other modes of social control such as religion and old fashioned morality declined.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Idiots’ cleared of threatening to blow up Manchester-bound plane – The Guardian
“The trial of two men for allegedly threatening to blow up a Pakistani plane in mid-air has been abandoned after the court heard they were ‘idiots’, not terrorists.”
The Guardian, 28th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
