“A solicitor has been jailed for stealing more than £200,000 from clients including one who had received compensation for brain damage.”
BBC News, 9th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Model and TV personality Katie Price has received undisclosed damages over phone hacking, the High Court has heard.”
BBC News, 9th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The home secretary’s attempt to deprive a man once held as a terrorist suspect of British nationality has been ruled illegal by the supreme court.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“ASA says ad by payday lender Wonga gave impression that taking out a high-interest loan could be done lightly.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The renowned artist Graham Ovenden has been jailed for two years and three months for sexual offences against children, after the appeal court ruled that an earlier non-custodial sentence was ‘unduly lenient’.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“MF (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1192. In what circumstances can a foreign criminal resist deportation on the basis of his right to family life under Article 8 of the Convention? Until 2012 this question was governed entirely by judge-made case law. Then rules 398, 399 and 399A were introduced into the Immigration Rules HC 395.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th October 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
” Currently, suspects must pose a risk of ‘serious harm’ to be handed one of the existing orders – but now the Home Office has proposed lowering the threshold to cover any kind of sexual harm. The new Sexual Risk Order will allow magistrates to impose a range of restrictions on suspected sex offenders, including banning them from travelling abroad, limiting their internet use and prohibiting them from being alone with a child.”
Daily Telegraph, 9th October 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The editor of the Times yesterday gave the clearest indication yet that a group of the country’s bestselling titles will press ahead and set up their own regulator without seeking government approval, after ministers formally rejected a Fleet Street proposal for a new system of oversight.”
The Guardian, 9th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Home Secretary Theresa May says illegal immigrants will find it much harder to set up home in the UK under new laws. The Immigration Bill will require banks to check the immigration status of people applying to open accounts, and private landlords to make similar checks on their tenants.”
BBC News, 10th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Major construction companies are to compensate workers whose names were on a secret industry blacklist. The dramatic development follows years of campaigning by unions after it was discovered that more than 3,200 names, mainly of building workers, were kept on the list, drawn up by a shadowy organisation called the Consulting Association.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Finnigan v Northumbria Police [2013] EWCA Civ 1191 (08 October 2013)
MF (Nigeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWCA Civ 1192 (08 October 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Sargespace Ltd v Eustace [2013] EWHC 2944 (QB) (03 October 2013)
Cuccolini S.R.L v Elcan Industries Inc [2013] EWHC 2994 (QB) (08 October 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Walton Homes Ltd v Staffordshire County Council [2013] EWHC 2554 (Ch) (08 October 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
“An action for annulment of a ‘regulatory act’ within the meaning of the fourth paragraph of article 263FEU of the FEU Treaty was available to an individual with a direct concern in an act of general application which was not a legislative act.”
WLR Daily, 3rd October 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Supreme Court, 9th October 2013
Supreme Court, 9th October 2013
“The official website for HMP Oakwood says that it wants to ‘inspire, motivate and guide prisoners to become the best they can be.'”
BBC News, 8th October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A High Court judge has granted an energy company an injunction preventing a waste authority from entering into a £1bn+ resource recovery contract (RRC) with a rival business.”
Local Government Lawyer, 8th October 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
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