“Four senior members of Unison have been awarded almost £50,000 in compensation after a panel ruled their use of a cartoon of a 17th century proverb on leaflets was not racist.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A year after the exposure of a police cover-up that followed the 1989 tragedy, no one has yet been held to account, and victims’ families are losing hope of seeing justice.”
The Idnependent, 12th September 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Murderers, rapists and other life prisoners are being allowed out on day release without being properly risk assessed, two watchdogs have warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former head teacher of a private girls’ school in Denbighshire has been awarded £216,898 for unfair dismissal.”
BBC News, 11th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Chris Grayling says it is absurd that benches of three magistrates are required to rubber-stamp ‘foregone conclusions.’ ”
The Guardian, 11th September 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Statements of a further 74 police officers involved in the Hillsborough stadium disaster ‘may have been amended’, the police watchdog has said.”
BBC News, 11th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The government has failed to overturn a European Court ruling blocking the extradition of a British terror suspect accused of conspiring with Abu Hamza.”
BBC News, 11th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government has proposed further reforms to the judicial review process in order to prevent those who do not have a direct interest in a case from exploiting the process for ‘campaigning or publicity purposes.’ ”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th September 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“A council has been fined £5,000 and ordered to pay costs after an 82-year-old vulnerable woman was injured in a fall at one of its care homes.”
Local Government Lawyer, 10th September 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“LSB responds to MoJ review of legal services regulations with a blueprint for deregulation.”
Legal Services Board, 10th September 2013
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
“A single system of fee remission, based on a combination of claimants’ income and ‘disposable capital’, will be introduced across all courts and tribunals, including employment tribunals, the Government has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th September 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Legal Action Group has warned that what remains of civil legal aid could just ‘wither away’ as new research reveals ‘a disturbing reduction’ in the take-up of cases, writes Jon Robins. According to the group, there has been a marked drop off even for the cases still covered by legal aid.”
LegalVoice, 11th September 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
The BRB (Residuary) Limited (Tax Consequences) Order 2013
The Food Additives, Flavourings, Enzymes and Extraction Solvents (England) Regulations 2013
The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Local Elections (Ordinary Day of Elections in 2014) Order 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“The High Court of England and Wales had jurisdiction to order the ‘return’ to this country of a small child who had never lived or even been here, on the basis that he had British nationality.”
WLR Daily, 9th September 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina (Gibson) v Secretary of State for Justice: [2013] EWHC 2481 (Admin); [2013] WLR (D) 344
“Where the Crown Court fixed a term of imprisonment in default of a sum recoverable under a confiscation order the words ‘at the time the period of detention was imposed’ in section 79(2) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 meant the time when the default term was activated by the magistrates’ court, not the time when it was fixed by the Crown Court, for the purposes of calculating a reduction in the term of imprisonment.”
WLR Daily, 4th September 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A retired general will lead an inquiry into whether an association for senior police officers is fit for purpose.”
BBC News, 10th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Prosecutors last night defended the decision to put Michael Le Vell on trial insisting it was in the public interest to let the jury decide on his guilt or innocence.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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