‘Drivers who would have been prosecuted over the Sheppey crossing crash that injured more than 200 people are being offered a course instead, police said.’
BBC News, 20th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Marc Willers analyses the impact of a High Court ruling which gave an important judgment on the provision of care for nomadic Gypsy and Traveller children.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 17th January 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.com
‘Google is to face a claim for damages before the High Court from three individuals who claim the company breached UK data protection laws by circumventing privacy settings deployed on their web browsers to serve them with personalised adverts.’
OUT-LAW.com, 17th January 2014
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A former worker at the high-security Broadmoor hospital has been given a suspended prison sentence after passing information to tabloid newspapers.’
BBC News, 20th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘When an identifiable individual has been the subject of a formal complaint about their competence or conduct, that fact constitutes their personal data. In terms of privacy/publicity decisions, such situations are often approached in this way: where the complaint is well founded or at least merits serious consideration, publication is warranted, but otherwise confidentiality is maintained, lest unjustified aspersions be cast against that person.’
Panopticon, 17th January 2014
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
‘The Strasbourg Court has ruled that the inability of four men to bring torture compensation claims against Saudi Arabia in UK courts did not breach the Convention. The Court held that a “grant of immunity to the state officials in the present case reflected generally recognised rules of public international law” and that there had been no violation of Article 6 (right of access to court).’
UK Human Rights Blog, 18th January 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A rail firm has been told a £500,000 fine imposed after a boy was seriously injured in a crash on a Suffolk level crossing could have been much higher.’
BBC News, 17th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A costs judge has granted relief from sanctions in a case where the failure to serve notice of funding occurred some 15 months before the introduction of the Jackson reforms.’
Litigation Futures, 20th January 2014
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘This appeal by Dr Chhabra was concerned with the roles of the case investigator and the case manager when handling concerns about a doctor’s performance under the disciplinary procedures introduced over eight years ago for doctors and dentists in the National Health Service. The national policy framework is known as ‘Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS’ (MHPS), which the Trust had implemented through its own policies.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th January 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A law firm whose clients were unaware of the true cost of their conveyancing after being reeled in with low quotes did not take unfair advantage of them, the High Court has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 20th January 2014
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The Government is updating rules on downloading indecent images of children which will mean teachers found cautioned or convicted will be banned from the profession.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A cattle farmer who ran a “death camp for animals” has been jailed for 12 months after abandoning his herd to go skiing.’
BBC News, 17th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Rosie-Ann Stone is cleared of causing the death of her sister Jennie by careless driving in an accident months after their brother, Private Gregg Stone, was killed in Afghanistan.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th January 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Police and MI5 will put “tailored plans” in place to manage the risks posed by terror suspects when existing supervision measures expire later this month, the Home Office has insisted.’
The Guardian, 18th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A painting belonging to an elderly man has been sold for £24,000 to help pay for his care home fees, a council said.’
The Independent, 17th January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Seven members of a nine-strong drug smuggling gang have been jailed for between eight and three years each.’
BBC News, 18th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A divorced couple have been jailed after they stole almost £500,000 from their severely brain damaged daughter’s £2.6 million compensation fund, to finance their “greed and indulgence”.’
The Independent, 17th January 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The defence of marital coercion, unsuccessfully used by Chris Huhne’s former wife Vicky Pryce at her trial last year, is to be abolished.’
The Guardian, 17th January 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Criminals who go on the run to avoid being sent back to prison could face an extra two years in custody under plans announced by the government.’
BBC News, 18th January 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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