Devon paedophile police officer Danny Bryant jailed – BBC News
“A paedophile policeman who abused boys for more than a decade has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Anger as Catholic orphanage abuse inquiry ends – BBC News
“Former residents of a Catholic orphanage who claim they suffered physical and sexual abuse have expressed anger at a police decision to end an inquiry into the allegations.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
RSPCA accused of ‘naked political campaigning’ after Ledbury Hunt case collapses – Daily Telegraph
“The RSPCA has been accused of ‘naked political campaigning’ after its latest case involving a hunt collapsed. The charity accused Will Goffe, 33, of hunting a fox with a hound while out with the Ledbury Hunt, near Malvern in Worcestershire. However, the case was dropped due to insufficient evidence. It is the fourth failed RSPCA hunt prosecution this year.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Home Office fails to investigate vast majority of tip-offs about illegal immigrants – Daily Telegraph
“The Home Office investigates just six per cent of tip-offs from the public about suspected illegal immigrants, a new report has disclosed.
Nearly 49,000 reports were received over nine months about foreigners alleged to be living or working illegally in Britain, but officials looked into only 2,695 of them.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Publishers lodge appeal over ruling against judicial review of royal charter – The Guardian
“Industry takes case to court of appeal after high court rejected its application for an emergency injunction over new press regulator.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
M25 rapist Antoni Imiela denied appeal against conviction – BBC News
“Serial rapist Antoni Imiela has been denied leave to appeal against his 2012 conviction for a rape attack on Christmas Day 1987.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Jimmy Savile police officers referred to IPCC – BBC News
“Two detectives who dealt with a sex crime allegation against Jimmy Savile in
2008 have been referred to the police watchdog.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Holidaymaker who sued after walking into glass door in bikini wins case in serious blow to UK travel industry – Daily Telegraph
“A holidaymaker who suffered life-threatening cuts after walking into a plate glass door in her bikini has fought off a bid to strip her of her damages award, in what it has been desribed as a serious blow to the UK travel industry.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
UK firms cleared of gas price manipulation – BBC News
“Regulators have found no evidence of price manipulation in the UK wholesale gas market after an investigation.”
BBC News, 7th November 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Terror suspect who fled in burqa seeks damages from UK in torture case – The Guardian
“Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, the terror suspect who escaped surveillance wearing a burqa, is seeking damages from the government in a human rights legal challenge involving allegations of torture, it has been revealed at the high court.”
The Guardian, 7th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
More Tweet Trouble for Rooney and Nike? – Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
“A tweet by ‘Wayne Rooney’ landed Nike in front of the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) again last month, following a complaint by a user of Twitter that the tweet was not obviously identifiable as a marketing communication and was therefore in breach of the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) Code 2.1, 2.3 and 2.4. The ASA’s decision on this tweet is interesting in light of its previous decision in a similar case involving Nike and Mr Rooney, and is worthy of note for any lawyers involved in advising sports teams and players on devising social media policies and/or regulating their social media use on a personal level.”
Sports Law Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers,6th November 2013
Source: www.sportslawbulletin.org
Judge refuses to recuse himself in case where expert witness was his Oxford supervisor – Litigation Futures
“A High Court judge has refused to recuse himself from a case involving an expert witness who was once his academic supervisor at Oxford University.”
Litigation Futures, 6th November 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
The disunited kingdom: England, Ireland and Scotland – CrimeLine
“A Lecture to the Denning Society, at Lincoln’s Inn by Lord Sumption on 5 November 2013.”
CrimeLine, 6th November 2013
Source: www.crimeline.info
Tax avoiders don’t have human rights – Philippa Whipple QC – UK Human Rights Blog
“R (on the application of Ingenious Media Holdings plc and Patrick McKenna v Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs [2013] EWHC 3258 (Admin).
Sales J has rejected an application for judicial review by Ingenious Media Holdings plc and Patrick McKenna, who complained that senior officials in HMRC had identified them in ‘off the record’ briefings.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th November 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Sexual liaisons by undercover police officers could be authorised by RIPA – UK Human Rights Blog
“AJA and others v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2013] EWCA Civ 1342. The words ‘personal or other relationship’ in the section 26(8)(a) Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 included intimate sexual relationships so that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal had jurisdiction to hear the appellants’ claims that their human rights had been violated by undercover police officers who had allegedly had sexual relationships with them.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 6th November 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Of Superglue and Residence – NearlyLegal
“A prosecution under s.144 LASPO that came unstuck.”
NearlyLegal, 5th November 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
Accept no substitutes – NearlyLegal
“Purewal v Ealing Borough Council (2013) CA Civ Div 05/11/2013.
This was Ealing’s appeal from a s.204 appeal brought by Ms Purewal. At the s.204 appeal, the Circuit Judge had varied Ealing’s review decision that Ms P was intentionally homeless and substituted a decision that she was unintentionally homeless.”
NearlyLegal, 6th November 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
R ota Nfuni v Solihull MBC [2013] EWHC 3155 – Education Law Blog
“In this case the claimant was a failed asylum seeker. She had arrived in the UK at the age of 16. When she turned 18, the local authority continued to support her accommodation and education under section 23C of the Children Act 1989. This imposes after-care duties towards ‘former relevant children’, including by subsection (4) financial assistance in connection with education or training ‘to the extent that [her] welfare and [her] educational or training needs require it’. ”
Education Law Blog, 27th October 2013
Source: www.education11kbw.com
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v James and others (Intensive Care Society and another intervening) – WLR Daily
“When an application was made for an order that it would be lawful, as being in the patient’s best interests pursuant to section 1(5) of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, for life sustaining medical treatment to be withheld, the focus had to be on whether it would be in the patient’s best interests to give the treatment, rather than on whether it would be in his best interests to withhold or withdraw it.”
WLR Daily, 30th October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
