‘Child killer Jon Venables has lost a Parole Board bid to be freed from jail. The 41-year-old, who tortured and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in 1993, still poses a danger to children and could go on to offend again, the Parole Board concluded.’
The Independent, 14th December 2023
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Criminal Cases Review Commission re-examines case of Wang Yam, who was convicted of 2006 murder of Allan Chappelow in London.’
The Guardian, 14th December 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Trade unions have welcomed the publication of new proposals by parliamentary authorities for the exclusion of MPs who are arrested for a violent or sexual offences.’
The Guardian, 14th December 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The official inspectorate has refused to back police use of powers to stop and search people without suspicion, finding that chiefs cannot explain why black people are 12 times more likely to be targeted.’
The Guardian, 15th December 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A council has been fined £2m after one of its employees was hit by a passing tractor and killed.’
BBC News, 15th December 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A maternity unit has failed to meet safe staffing levels for four years and had insufficient measures to stop baby abductions, a report says. A regulator highlighted “significant patient safety concerns” at the unit at Singleton Hospital in Swansea.’
BBC News, 15th December 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Two men who killed a radio DJ in an empty bar near Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium have been jailed.’
BBC News, 13th December 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A ruling by the UK’s Upper Tribunal (UT) disallowing certain types of expenditure relating to windfarm projects from qualifying for plant and machinery tax allowances has indicated the tribunal’s “strict and narrow” interpretation of the provisions for qualifying expenditure.’
OUT-LAW.com, 13th December 2023
Source: www.pinsentmasons.com
‘Eight out of 10 people in the UK caught with images of children being sexually abused avoid going to jail, the head of the National Crime Agency has revealed.’
The Guardian, 13th December 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The arrival of generative AI has turned the process of legal tech purchasing and adoption “on its head”, the head of innovation and legal technology at national firm Addleshaw Goddard has said.’
Legal Futures, 14th December 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A man who killed two brothers aged 23 months and 10 years in a car crash has been jailed.’
BBC News, 13th December 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘University staff and students can make provocative statements on subjects such as Israel and Gaza as long as they do not break laws on incitement or harassment, under proposals by the government’s campus free speech tsar.’
The Guardian, 14th December 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘One of the British Army’s first Rastafarian guardsmen has won a claim of race discrimination and harassment against the Ministry of Defence.’
BBC News, 13th December 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘This case is concerned with what a respondent needs to demonstrate to take advantage of the Defamation Act 1952 (the “1952 Act”), s 3(1), in a claim for malicious falsehood and avoid the need to prove special damage.’
UKSC Blog, 11th December 2023
Source: ukscblog.com
‘The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) still has “a long way to go” on diversity, its chief executive has said – although its gender and ethnicity pay gaps are shrinking.’
Legal Futures, 13th December 2023
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘Child serial killer Lucy Letby has been stripped of her nursing credentials after a panel ordered she be struck off from the register at a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) hearing.’
The Guardian, 12th December 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Housing Ombudsman has launched special investigations into Camden Council, Hackney Council and Hyde Group after casework showed all three landlords struggle with damp and mould, repairs and complaint handling.’
Local Government Lawyer, 12th December 2023
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been fined £350,000 over an email blunder that exposed details of interpreters fleeing Afghanistan.’
BBC News, 13th December 2023
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Police are far more likely to use a Taser electrical weapon against black people due to structural and institutional racism rather than the views of individual officers, a new report says.’
The Guardian, 13th December 2023
Source: www.theguardian.com
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