94 driving licences removed over test translation fraud – BBC News
“Driving licences are being stripped from dozens of people after an interpreter who gave Chinese theory test candidates the answers.”
BBC News, 8th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
BPP awarded university status – The Lawyer
“BPP has been awarded university status, following confirmation by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) that the private provider meets the criteria for the title.”
The Lawyer, 8th August 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Rise in customers winning compensation from banks that mis-sold paid-for accounts – Daily Telegraph
“Two in three customers who complain to the Financial Ombudsman about the mis-selling of paid-for bank accounts are successfully winning money back or compensation, figures show.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
RSPCA accused of using criminal prosecutions to increase revenue – Daily Telegraph
“The RSPCA is facing calls to give up its role as a criminal prosecutor following claims that it is using court cases as a means of increasing its revenue.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Simon Hall confesses to Joan Albert murder 12 years on – BBC News
“A killer who stabbed a 79-year-old woman to death has confessed to the crime after a decade claiming he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.”
BBC News, 8th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Birmingham man Vishar Jain jailed for stamping on boy’s head – BBC News
“A computer engineer from Birmingham has been jailed for nine years for an attack in which he stamped on the head of his partner’s four-year-old son.”
BBC News, 7th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Poppy Rodgers death: York man jailed for supplying drugs – BBC News
“A man has been jailed for more than six years for supplying a class A drug to a teenage girl who died after taking the substance.”
BBC News, 7th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
London man Andrzej Kulesza’s torture murderer jailed – BBC News
“The killer of a man whose remains were found in a field has been jailed for life for his torture murder and kidnap.”
BBC News, 7th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Legal challenge to zero hours contracts launched against Sports Direct – The Independent
“A legal challenge is being brought against retail giant Sports Direct over the use of zero hours contracts among its staff.”
The Independent, 7th August 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
SAS sniper Danny Nightingale appeals against sentence – The Guardian
“The former SAS sniper Danny Nightingale is to appeal against his conviction for illegally possessing a gun and ammunition.”
The Guardian, 7th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2013
The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Forms, etc.) Amendment Regulations 2013
The Firearms (Amendment) Rules 2013
The Unfair Dismissal (Variation of the Limit of Compensatory Award) Order 2013
The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2013
The Legal Officers (Annual Fees) Order 2013
The School Organisation Code (Appointed Day) (Wales) Order 2013
The Clergy Discipline Appeal (Amendment) Rules 2013
The Ecclesiastical Judges, Legal Officers and Others (Fees) Order 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Premium rate customer service phone lines to be banned – Daily Telegraph
“Premium rate customer service phone lines are to be banned in a Government crackdown, but banks, train operators and airlines have been let off the hook by ministers.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Edinburgh Woollen Mill boss Philip Day fined over wood damage – BBC News
“A tycoon has been ordered to pay almost £1m for damage caused to ancient woodland in Cumbria.”
BBC News, 2nd August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Driver caught doing 80 mph in a 30 mph zone criticised – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has criticised a man caught driving at more than 80 mph in a 30 mph zone, as she said sentencing guidelines did not cover such a gross breach of the speed limit.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Leah Grolman and Greg Weeks: Guidelines and Assisted Suicide: an Australian Perspective – UK Constitutional Law Group
“The morally and politically charged area of assisted suicide has many of the hallmarks of an insoluble problem. This has not prevented courts in some jurisdictions considering how they might ‘legalise’ assisted suicide without really legalising it. In doing so, they have raised manifold challenges in the minds of administrative and constitutional lawyers, including, in some jurisdictions, whether the prohibition on assisted suicide is itself constitutional, such as Rodriguez in Canada, Fleming in Ireland and Pretty in the ECtHR.”
UK Constitutional Law Group, 7th August 2013
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
Zero hours contracts provide flexibility for employees as well businesses but safeguards needed to prevent abuse, says expert – OUT-LAW.com
“It would be wrong for businesses to be barred from contracting with workers on ‘zero hours’ terms, an employment law expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 6th August 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Attorney general will review paedophile’s suspended sentence after prosecutor called victim ‘predatory’ – The Guardian
“The attorney general is to review the sentence of a convicted paedophile who avoided prison after his 13-year-old victim was described in court as predatory and was said to have encouraged him.”
The Guardian, 7th August 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
