“Sentences for criminal bosses who use forced labour are ‘unduly lenient’ and do not deter modern slavery, the head of Britain’s worker exploitation watchdog believes.”
The Independent, 23rd June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Women worried about potentially violent partners are being urged to contact the police following the low take-up of a scheme designed to reveal the histories of domestic abusers.”
The Independent, 24th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“More than two decades after the Runciman Commission was set up following high-profile miscarriages of justice, the chairman of the Bar Council has called for a royal commission to conduct a root-and-branch review of the criminal justice system.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th June 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Court of Protection is facing fresh questions about transparency, as The Independent reveals that its judges are making life-or-death decisions over the phone, with incomplete evidence, in proceedings that are not always recorded.”
The Independent, 24th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Home owners have been warned that they could face prosecution if their dog scares a child that strays into their garden to retrieve a football.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The woman appointed by David Cameron to represent victims of crime, whose husband was killed by a gang of youths, has criticised two key aspects of the Government’s new antisocial behaviour reforms.”
The Independent, 23rd June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has withheld from MPs information about the criminal activity of large British firms, it has been alleged.”
The Guardian, 22nd June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Victims of the ‘vile’ offence of human trafficking who become involved in crime should have their cases dealt with by the justice system with the ‘greatest sensitivity’, leading judges said today.”
The Independent, 21st June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Two television channels have been fined a total of £22,500 after they featured psychics making claims about Michael Jackson and Milly Dowler. Psychic Today and Big Deal were in breach of broadcasting rules after they showed a psychic telling viewers she had been involved in the police investigation into the death of the murdered schoolgirl, the regulator, Ofcom, said.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A driver who killed one of England’s top veteran cyclists when he ploughed into him during a race has been spared jail after a court heard how his brief lapse of concentration led to a devastating accident that ‘could have happened to anybody’.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three people have been found guilty of killing a homeless man in Southampton and burning his body in a bin.”
BBC News, 21st June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Google has been threatened with criminal proceedings by the information commissioner’s office (ICO) over data secretly collected by its Street View cars in the UK.”
The Guardian, 21st June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teacher has been jailed for five and a half years for abducting and having sex with a 15-year-old pupil he ran off with to France.”
BBC News, 21st June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three children from Vietnam who were trafficked to the UK and forced to work for criminal gangs have had their criminal convictions quashed.”
BBC News, 21st June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An extradition treaty to pave the way for Abu Qatada’s removal from Britain
after a near decade-long saga has been approved by Parliament.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st June 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Clarke Investments Ltd v Pacific Technologies [2013] EWCA Civ 750 (21 June 2013)
Cruddas v Calvert & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 748 (21 June 2013)
Kyla Shipping Company Ltd v Bunge SA [2013] EWCA Civ 734 (20 June 2013)
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
L & Ors v The Children’s Commissioner for England & Anor [2013] EWCA Crim 991 (21 June 2013)
Hoggard, R. v [2013] EWCA Crim 1024 (20 June 2013)
ZN, R v [2013] EWCA Crim 989 (18 June 2013)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Tuba v County Regional Court of Gyor-Monson-Sopron, Hungary [2013] EWHC 1767 (Admin) (21 June 2013)
Mohammed v The Court of Appeal, Paris [2013] EWHC 1768 (Admin) (21 June 2013)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Apex Global Management Ltd v (Fi Call Ltd & Ors [2013] EWHC 1652 (Ch) (20 June 2013)
Barden v Commodities Research Unit & Ors [2013] EWHC 1633 (Ch) (18 June 2013)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Bedford v Bedfordshire County Council [2013] EWHC 1717 (QB) (21 June 2013)
Source: www.bailii.org
“Professionals using cloud services will have to guard against the danger of patients and clients being snooped on.”
The Guardian, 20th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Emptage v Financial Services Compensation Scheme Ltd: [2013] EWCA Civ 729; [2013] WLR (D) 242
“Where a broker had negligently advised a client to take out an interest-only mortgage and make an investment in foreign property in the expectation that the investment would pay off the entirety of the mortgage, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme Ltd was required to take into account both elements of the advice when assessing the client’s compensation for the broker’s breach of duty as a mortgage adviser under the scheme’s rules.”
WLR Daily, 18th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Where there were intermediate leases which subsisted between the freehold and the leases of the participating tenants and which were to be acquired by the nominee purchaser on the collective enfranchisement, and a single owner of those leases or of those leases and the freehold could realise development value by developing the property for use other than as a building containing separate flats, the hope of realising such development value had to be taken into account in fixing the price to be paid for the intermediate leases.”
WLR Daily, 19th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
© Inner Temple Library 2025