“Professor Susan Edwards, following recent judicial guidance and debate on the wearing of the niqab, provides both expert and legal opinion on the issue.”
The Barristers’ Hub, 1st October 2013
Source: www.barristershub.co.uk
“Theresa May has promised the government will ‘deport foreign criminals first, then hear their appeals’.”
BBC News, 30th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“In July 2011, the Legal Services Board (LSB) issued guidance to regulators on diversity data collection across the legal workforce and the promotion of the transparency of this data at entity level. We have now completed a review of regulators’ progress in delivering the objectives in our guidance. The findings of this review are provided below.”
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Legal Services Board, 30th September 2013
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
“Prisoners who cause damage to prisons and prison property will have to pay for the cost of repairs under new plans announced by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.”
Ministry of Justice, 30th September 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
“As previously announced a number of changes to the Immigration Rules come into effect today, Tuesday 1 October 2013.”
UK Border Agency, 30th September 2013
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A father who has refused to arrange the return of his daughter to his ex-wife has been jailed again.”
BBC News, 30th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A 25-year-old former international hockey player has been found guilty of stealing up to £450 of groceries from Sainsbury’s by regularly self-scanning all the items in his basket as loose onions.”
The Independent, 1st October 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“In a recent interview in The Spectator, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling MP, was given another opportunity to recite the now characteristic Tory Siren call relating to the European Convention on Human Rights and the Strasbourg court.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 30th September 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“An accident and emergency nurse who took indecent photographs of young female patients has been struck off.”
BBC News, 1st October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A local authority and a finance watchdog are at loggerheads over whether certain expenditure – including the grant of an indemnity to the chief executive to bring a libel counter-claim – was unlawful.”
Local Government Lawyer, 30th September 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“A burglar who stole a kayak and tried to paddle across the Channel to start a new life in France has been jailed.”
BBC News, 30th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A crown court judge has thrown out the case against a campaigner accused of vandalising a masterpiece by the English romantic painter John Constable.”
BBC News, 30th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The General Medical Council (GMC) is to re-examine the cases of a number of doctors who committed suicide while being investigated for their fitness to practise.”
The Independent, 30th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A rapist described by police as a ‘dangerous predatory offender’ has been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 30th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The family home of a man convicted of attempting to recruit two undercover police officers to fight British soldiers in Afghanistan is set to become the first to be seized in the UK under terrorism laws.”
The Independent, 30th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A housewife is facing jail after she stole more than 900 designer handbags worth up to £500,000 in a crime spree lasting three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Home Secretary said she would end ‘abuse’ of article 8, which protects right to family life.”
The Independent, 30th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The mother of Baby P could be freed from jail within days when her case is considered by the body responsible for deciding whether prisoners can be safely released into the community.”
The Independent, 30th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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