“A judge was forced into an embarrassing retreat after he sentenced a teenager for the wrong crime, it emerged today.”
The Independent, 8th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A legal attempt by a chief constable to block the recruitment of his successor has been thrown out by the high court in London.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The judge leading a review of an inquiry into sexual abuse at care homes in north Wales has appealed for witnesses to come forward.”
BBC News, 8th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Kate Winslet’s husband, Ned Rocknroll, has won his high court bid to prevent the Sun from publishing ’embarrassing’ pictures of him partly naked at a fancy dress party.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Saying you’re going to end the legal world’s reliance on paper sounds almost as audacious a claim as announcing you’re going to stop banks paying bonuses. Graham Smith, however, believes his small London-based business is set to revolutionise the way trials and other hearings are managed all over the world by doing exactly that.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The financial sector will no longer be allowed to use gender as a determining factor in the assessment of risk and therefore the price of premiums and benefits from Friday 21 December 2012.”
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Cloisters, 19th December 2012
Source: www.cloisters.com
“The introduction of the Equality Act 2010 was a landmark in non-discrimination law, bringing together (and making some amendments to) a myriad of different statutory regimes covering various types of protected characteristics. However, such is the nature of litigation, that very little appellate case law has, as yet, had cause to consider the provisions of the Equality Act in any detail. As a result, the very substantial developments which have taken or are taking place recently in the equalities field have tended to arise out of the previous legal regimes, or related regimes such as the European Convention on Human Rights.”
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11 KBW, 20th December 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“Clive Anderson and top lawyers and judges reveal why the wheels of our legal system turn so slowly and discuss concerns that Government proposals to speed up proceedings in our criminal courts could lead to injustices.”
BBC Radio 4, 2nd January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A landlord who forced a teenage girl to ‘pay’ for her rent with sexual favours has been jailed for four years.”
BBC News, 7th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Women and children awaiting trial are being kept too close to men in court custody suites, a watchdog has found.”
BBC News, 8th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Some 1,400 soldiers who were cautioned by the police may have been unfairly penalised after an error by the Army led to them being wrongly disciplined.”
BBC News, 7th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A mother who beat her seven-year-old son to death for failing to learn the Qur’an by heart and then burned his body in an attempt to hide her crime has been jailed for life.”
The Guardian, 7th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Communities across the country will be benefitting from swift and effective justice as thousands more court appearances will take place via video-link technology, Justice and Policing Minister Damian Green said today [3 January].”
Ministry of Justice, 3rd January 2013
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Anna Heenan, solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse December’s financial remedies and divorce news and cases.”
Family Law Week, 4th January 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Following the return of Rumpole to Radio 4, Clive Anderson and his guests discuss how accurately the legal world is depicted in stage and screen dramas. And they discuss the issues which arise when the distinctions between fiction and fact – between Rumpole and reality – become blurred in the public’s mind.”
BBC Unreliable Evidence, 29th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“What changes can workers expect from their employers in the coming year? Employment law expert Edward Goodwyn of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, looks ahead to some significant changes.”
OUT-LAW.com, 4th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A man once described as the ‘terrorists’ favourite bookseller’ has had his conviction for selling books about Jihad quashed.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A senior judge has warned magistrates to maintain their distance from police and crime commissioners (PCCs), in the latest demonstration of unease about the recently elected new posts.”
The Guardian, 5th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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