‘Seven men who were detained after shots were fired at police during riots have had appeals against their sentences and convictions dismissed.’
BBC News, 21st January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Plans by Theresa May to reform controversial police “stop and search” powers are being held up by wrangling between the Home Office and Downing Street, government sources have confirmed.
The Guardian, 22nd January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘More could have been done to help three children who were found drowned after their mother fell to her death from a car park, a report has found.’
BBC News, 22nd January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Michael Cope jailed for life after evading police for a month on the run over murder of Linzi Ashton, who suffered 108 separate injuries in an hour-long attack at her home.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A private company which provides court interpreters in England and Wales has lost thousands of pounds in penalties for its poor performance.’
BBC News, 22nd January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man jailed for life last year after being convicted of raping a woman in her bedroom in 1997 has won a two-year reduction in his minimum term.’
The Guardian, 21st January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal (CoA) has thrown out a claim challenging the legality of British involvement in US drone strikes because any judgment would be a condemnation of US foreign policy.’
The Lawyer, 21st January 2014
Source: www.thelawyer.com
‘Twenty-nine people sentenced after a power station protest where an undercover police officer was working have had their convictions quashed.’
BBC News, 21st January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘In the world of Formula 1 (“F1”), millions of pounds can be won or lost over the matter of a few seconds. Mega-rich companies compete to create faster cars, carefully guarding any information that might shave a few moments off a model’s time. The aerodynamism of a F1 model is crucial to this time performance, and it transpires, also useful for generating questions on the misuse of confidential information.’
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 21st January 2014
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014
The Non-Domestic Rating (Small Business Rate Relief) (England) (Amendment) Order 2014
The Billing Authorities (Anticipation of Precepts) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Secretary of State for the Home Department v Rodriguez [2014] EWCA Civ 2 (20 January 2014)
Thevarajah v Riordan & Ors [2014] EWCA Civ 15 (16 January 2014)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Vidal -Hall & Ors v Google Inc [2014] EWHC 13 (QB) (16 January 2014)
Sardar v NHS Commissioning Board [2014] EWHC 38 (QB) (16 January 2014)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Dinsdale Moorland Services Ltd v Evans & Ors [2014] EWHC 2 (Ch) (16 January 2014)
Enasarco v Lehman Brothers Finance SA & Anor [2014] EWHC 34 (Ch) (16 January 2014)
High Court (Family Division)
Practice Guidance (Transparency in the Family Courts) [2014] EWHC B3 (Fam) (16 January 2014)
H v W [2013] EWHC 4105 (Fam) (20 December 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
‘Where the revenue gave notice of its withdrawal of approval of a pension scheme under section 591B(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988, the date for the purposes of section 591C(1) when the charge to tax arose in respect of that scheme was the date when approval of the scheme was withdrawn and not the date from which approval ceased to continue.’
WLR Daily, 19th December 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘In determining whether an adolescent child had achieved a sufficient degree of integration into a social and family environment in a country in which she was living, so as to be habitually resident there, a relevant factor was her state of mind during that residence.’
WLR Daily, 15th January 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘An 88% rise in the number of workers in the financial services sector ‘blowing the whistle’ on white collar crime could lead to an increase in prosecutions in 2014, an expert has said.’
OUT-LAW.com, 20th January 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Tony Nicklinson lost his legal battle in 2012 for a judicial ruling that, were his wife to administer life-ending drugs to him at his express request, she would not be liable to prosecution for murder.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 20th January 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
‘The replacement of Directive 95/26/EC – the bedrock of data protection in Europe – with a new Regulation is intended as a radical overhaul, making protections for personal data fit for the digital world. It has now been over two years since the first substantive draft of that Regulation was made public.’
Panopticon, 20th January 2014
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘Chantelle McCluney, 23, watched on as her boyfriend and another lover tortured and humiliated their victim’
Daily Telegraph, 20th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The justice secretary, Chris Grayling, has announced a two-month delay in the timetable for privatising 70% of the probation service after his most senior officials advised there would be public safety issues if he pressed full steam ahead.’
The Guardian, 20th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Proposed EU laws could render £50 million NHS database illegal, senior officials warn.’
Daily Telegraph, 20th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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