“The extradition to South Africa of Shrien Dewani, the man accused of murdering his wife on honeymoon there in 2010, has been delayed pending an improvement in his mental health.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Ministers are to introduce a new law allowing police and security services to extend their monitoring of the public’s email and social media communications, the Home Office has confirmed.”
The Guardian, 1st April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Magistrates’ courts are to be ordered to sit in then early mornings, evenings and at weekends under plans to deliver a ‘short, sharp shock’ to youths who get drunk and commit offences on Friday and Saturday nights.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The most significant cause of delay for children needing adoption in England is the length of time taken by court proceedings, a report by Ofsted says.”
BBC News, 2nd April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Thomas Hammarberg, the European commissioner for human rights, calls Liam Stacey’s 56-day sentence excessive.”
The Guardian, 1st April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former deputy head has been banned from state schools after stealing £13,000 from an after-school club.”
BBC News, 29th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A doctor who failed to tell his police and NHS employers about a manslaughter conviction acted dishonestly, a watchdog has found.”
BBC News, 30th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Military commanders have disciplined a further four British soldiers accused of killing or wounding Afghan civilians. The disclosures come at a time of heightened tension after a series of incidents involving foreign troops, and the killing on Monday of two British soldiers by a member of the Afghan security forces. The Guardian has learned that a British soldier was given an unspecified punishment after an Afghan was fatally shot in the neck while praying in a field. In other cases, a soldier punched and knocked out an Afghan, and another fired a flare into an Afghan’s face.”
The Guardian, 30th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“It may not be slave labour, but forcing people to work for free could breach human rights laws.”
The Guardian, 30th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A student has lost his appeal after being sent to jail for posting racially offensive comments on Twitter about footballer Fabrice Muamba.”
BBC News, 30th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
” Ten men and one woman including a former IT teacher have been given jail terms, suspended prison sentences and community service for their part in a £1m ‘fake royalties’ fraud of iTunes and Amazon.”
The Independent, 30th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two judges in London ruled that it would be ‘unjust and oppressive’ to order the removal of Dewani, who is accused of arranging the contract killing of wife Anni in Cape Town in November 2010 during their honeymoon.”
Daily Telegraph, 30th March 2012
Soruce: www.telegraph.co.uk
Haringey London Borough Council v Mountplace Ltd: [2012] EWHC 698 (Admin); [2012] WLR (D) 100
“The duty of care imposed on a producer of waste (or anyone else who fell within one of the different categories of waste holder) by section 34(1)(c) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 was a duty to secure the results set out in the subsection which fell to complied with on the occasion of a given transfer of waste, and the question as to what were the reasonable measures applicable to him ‘in that capacity’ to secure those results fell to be answered by reference to his capacity on that occasion in the circumstances prevailing at that time. However, that did not mean that a waste holder could not comply with that duty on the occasion of the transfer by having reference to measures he had already taken on days prior to that occasion in anticipation of that occasion, nor did it preclude the court from considering such measures, or the absence thereof, in determining whether the duty had been complied with.”
WLR Daily, 28th March 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The CA has just held that Collins J was wrong to hold (per my previous post) that the local NGO had a legitimate expectation that the Secretary of State would decide an air pollution issue, rather than leave it to the Environment Agency. In a nutshell, the Inspector (and hence the Secretary of State) was entitled to change his mind on this issue. So the expectation crumbled, and so did this judicial review to quash a decision to allow a waste incinerator to proceed.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 30th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Organisations should have the ability to search their computer systems for records of personal data they store and should have transparent policies and practices if they delete that information, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A legal anomaly that continues to cause injustice may be preventing an inquest into Mark Duggan’s death.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man has been jailed for life and must serve at least 30 years for the ‘brutal and heartless murder’ of his mother’s next-door neighbour at her home.”
BBC News, 29th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The education secretary, Michael Gove, is challenging a ruling by the information commissioner that he used a private email account for departmental business.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The City watchdog has warned that many banks are failing to provide proper controls to prevent bribery and corruption despite the high profile introduction of the Bribery Act last year.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A council has been left with a multi-million pound compensation bill after a High Court judge ruled that it was responsible for causing a serious crash by failing to repair a pothole.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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