“Thousands of probation workers will join nationwide protests today to claim that public safety will be jeopardised by the Government’s plans to transfer the community supervision of most former offenders to private companies.”
The Independent, 19th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Charitable sector faces dilemma of how to continue helping vulnerable people as funding for many cases dries up.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.com
“A banned driver who caused the death of a 16-year-old girl in a road crash and then tried to cover up his involvement has been jailed for six years.”
BBC News, 18th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former undercover police officer who blew the whistle on a covert Scotland Yard squad has been denied immunity from prosecution for potential breaches of the Official Secrets Act.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.com
“One-third of councils previously judged by inspectors to have child protection weaknesses are still failing to meet minimum requirements, figures show.”
BBC News, 18th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The National Crime Agency (Limitation of extension to Northern Ireland) Order 2013
The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2013
The Welfare Benefits Up-rating Act 2013 (Commencement) Order 2013
The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (Transitional Provision) Order 2013
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2013
The Sustainable Communities (Parish Councils) Order 2013
The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Automatic Enrolment) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Public Bodies (Merger of the Gambling Commission and the National Lottery Commission) Order 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“A convicted paedophile has lost a legal challenge against rules requiring him to disclose bank details to police.”
BBC News, 18th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“In this most recent case concerning access by private individuals to environmental information held by public authorities, the AG grasps the nettlish question of what precisely a public authority is. The issue was a subject of debate because the request for information had been addressed to private companies which manage a public service relating to the environment. The question therefore was whether, even though the companies concerned are private, they may be regarded as ‘public authorities’ for the purposes of the Directive governing access to environmental information (Directive 2003/4).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th September 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Government is not guaranteed a ‘favourable outcome’ in its appeal of a tribunal’s finding that consultation requirements under the collective redundancy rules were triggered when retailers made redundancies in multiple shops, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th September 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“To observe that substantive judicial review—and the notions of proportionality and deference in particular—constitute well-trodden ground would be to engage in reckless understatement. And that, in turn, might suggest that there is nothing more that can usefully be said about these matters. Yet the debate in this area of public law remains vibrant—and for good reason. Like the controversy about the foundations of judicial review in which many public lawyers engaged energetically over a decade ago, the controversy about substantive review is ultimately a manifestation of underlying disagreements concerning the nature, status and interaction of fundamental constitutional principles, including the rule of law, the separation of powers and the sovereignty of Parliament. It is hardly surprising, then, that questions about the intensity of review and (what amounts to the reverse side of the same coin) deference remain under active discussion long after the debate was ignited by the entry into force of the Human Rights Act 1998.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 17th September 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
“The case of Saha v Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine [2013] EWHC 2438 (QB) concerned a £1.5m claim for harassment by a doctoral student against her supervisor Following a hearing that lasted 7 days, with the claimant acting in person, Hamblen J dismissed the claim in its entirety, summarising his conclusions at [160] as follows:
‘I find that a number of the alleged incidents are not proven, and those that are proved do not involve harassment. At most they involve treating Miss Saha in an abrupt, peremptory and at times vexed manner. They do not involve aggressive, bullying or threatening behaviour.'”
Education Law Blog, 18th September 2013
Source: www.education11kbw.com
“The European Union could be given powers to ban dangerous psychoactive substances known as ‘legal highs’ within weeks of them hitting the market, under new proposals unveiled by the bloc’s legislative branch today.”
The Independent, 17th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Yesterday, before His Honour Judge Peter Murphy ruled that a female Muslim defendant in a criminal trial must remove her face-covering veil (niqaab) whilst giving evidence, Home Office Minister Jeremy Brown said he was ‘instinctively uneasy’ about restricting religious freedoms, but that there should be a national debate over banning the burka.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th September 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Wormwood Scrubs, the west London prison, is on a ‘knife-edge’, an official watchdog has warned, with an alarming 50% growth in the use of force or restraining measures to control prisoners in an increasingly violent, gang-dominated jail.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government should not tell women what to wear, the home secretary has said, amid ongoing debate over the use of full-face veils.”
The Guardian, 17th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.com
“The chief executive of Britain’s biggest abortion charity has said women are legally free to arrange an abortion because they are unhappy with the sex of their unborn baby.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Six men have been sentenced to more than 800 hours of community service for using their dogs to kill other animals.”
BBC News, 17th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A conman with an ‘addiction’ to swindling money from vulnerable women on dating websites has been jailed for four years.”
The Independent, 17th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Public bodies often report that they are not always able to share the data they need to and, as a result, miss out on opportunities to provide better services to citizens. At the same time, there is a need to ensure that the security of data and privacy of individuals are not put at risk. In a consultation opening today, the Law Commission asks what are the obstacles to sharing data between public bodies, and are those obstacles desirable?”
Law Commission, 16th September 2013
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
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