“The Sentencing Council is updating guidance for courts so that all fraud offences are covered by a consistent set of guidelines that will also deal with corporate offenders.”
Sentencing Council, 27th June 2013
“Two prominent US bloggers have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has said.”
BBC News, 26th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The absence of legal representation for defendants to an action for debt who contended they could not speak English resulted in the High Court granting an application that the trial be adjourned for a second time. The judgment is a good example of the interaction of Article 6 ECHR (right to a fair trial) with the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th June 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has referred the payday lending industry to the Competition Commission because of concerns about ‘deep-rooted problems with the way competition works’.”
BBC News, 27th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Prisoners could be in line for thousands of pounds each in backdated compensation over the government’s refusal to give them the right to vote, MPs and peers have been warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th June 2013
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“A stonemason who fitted a fireplace at a house in Northamptonshire that toppled over and killed a four-year-old boy has been fined £7,500.”
BBC News, 26th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A woman who had sex with a 16-year-old school pupil has been struck off the teaching register by a disciplinary panel.”
The Guardian, 26th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Sentences for some financial crimes in England and Wales could be based on the harm to victims, under new guidelines from the Sentencing Council.”
BBC News, 27th June 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A juror was ejected from a trial involving two MI5 spies and allegations of harassment, sexual assault and violence – for falling asleep.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th June 2013
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“The high court has thrown out a damages case brought by a man convicted on terrorism charges who claimed MI5 was complicit in his alleged torture by Pakistan’s intelligence service.”
The Guardian, 26th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former airline pilot has been jailed for life for killing his wife by deliberately crashing his car into a tree after disabling her airbag.”
The Independent, 26th June 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Police are looking at tweets sent following the conviction of Jeremy Forrest to see whether those who identified his victim have broken the law.”
The Guardian, 26th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Peter Francis’s revelations show the need for a judicial inquiry – so the public can see how far our democracy has been eroded.”
The Guardian, 25th June 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In Nigel Clack v Wrigleys Solicitors LLP [2013] EWHC 413 (Ch), Mr Nicholas Strauss QC (sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court) found for the Claimant client against his former Solicitors.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 24th June 2013
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
Cusack v Harrow London Borough Council [2013] UKSC 40; [2013] WLR (D) 250
“A highway authority had power under section 80 of the Highways Act 1980 to erect barriers so as to prevent vehicular access to a frontager’s forecourt, without paying compensation, in order to safeguard users of the highway and the fact that section 66(2) of the same Act conferred an alternative power to achieve the same object, which was subject to compensation, was immaterial.”
WLR Daily, 19th June 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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