Use of force in self defence at the place of residence – Ministry of Justice
“This circular describes the intended purpose of changes to the law on the use of force in self defence in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 and the Crime and Courts Bill and outlines the arrangements for their commencement.”
Ministry of defence, 29th April 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
Chagossians: Wikileaks cables not admissible in court – UK Human Rights Blog
“Bancoult v. Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Divisional Court, Richards LJ and Mitting J, 16-24 April 2013, judgment awaited. A quick update at the end of the recent judicial review on 24 April by Mr Bancoult on behalf of the Chagossian islanders, but before judgment. The challenge was to the designation of the waters around their islands as a ‘no take’ Marine Protected Area, i.e. one which could not be fished.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Genetic testing of children up for adoption – UK Human Rights Blog
“Y and Z (Children), 25 April 2013 [2013] EWHC 953 (Fam). Having children is a lottery. No judge or court in the land would sanction the regulation of childbearing, however feckless the parents, unsuitable the conditions for childrearing, or unpromising the genetic inheritance. Adoption on the other hand is stringently regulated, set about with obstacles for prospective parents, and strictly scrutinised by an army of authorities backed up by specialist family courts and a battery of laws, statutory instruments and guidance papers. Usually the filtering is in one direction only: the suitability of the parents to the child or children up for adoption. But sometimes it goes the other way, and this case raises the fascinating and somewhat futuristic question of whether children’s chance of finding a suitable home might be increased by genetic testing.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 26th April 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Does browsing the web make you a copyright infringer? – Technology Law Update
“The UK Supreme Court recently considered an interesting appeal in Public Relations Consultants Association Limited v The Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited and others, concerning the status in copyright law of temporary copies of web pages held in an internet browser cache or on the screen of end users reading those pages.”
Technology Law Update, 26th April 2013
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
Child Support: Here Comes the New Gross Income Scheme – Family Law week
“Jody Atkinson TEP, barrister at St John’s Chambers, Bristol considers the new Child Support Gross Income Scheme.”
Family Law Week, 26th April 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
Murder victim Carole Waugh impersonator sentenced – BBC News
“A woman who admitted impersonating a murdered former oil company worker has been given a community order.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Doctors Prana and Nishebita Das robbery: Two jailed – BBC News
“A woman and a man have been jailed for assaulting and robbing two married doctors in their home, leaving one brain damaged.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Horsewoman who appeared in Queen’s Diamond Jubilee exaggerated injuries for compensation – Daily Telegraph
“A horsewoman who appeared in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee pageant exaggerated
injuries she suffered in a fall to try to win a big compensation pay-out, a
court heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Girl, 14, forced to become pregnant with donor sperm bought by mother – The Guardian
“A mother forced her 14-year-old adopted daughter to inseminate herself with donor sperm to provide a baby for her after she was prevented from adopting any more children, it can be revealed. The daughter, a virgin, is believed to have miscarried at 14, but went on to have a baby at 16 after regularly inseminating herself with sperm bought over the internet by her ‘domineering’ mother because she was too scared to refuse. Details of the shocking case have emerged in a previously secret court judgment, which can be reported today for the first time and which raises serious questions over loopholes in international adoptions and the regulation of the global traffic in gametes.”
The Guardian, 28th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Junk foods avoid ad ban by targeting children online – The Guardian
“Advertising regulators have been accused of failing to protect children from aggressive online marketing by food companies using internet games and advertising. The Children’s Food Campaign has called on ministers to introduce statutory regulation to close loopholes allowing ads that are banned from children’s television to be shown on manufacturers’ own child-friendly websites.”
The Guardian, 29th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Collette Elliot wins pay-out from Birmingham council – BBC News
“A woman is to receive compensation from a council after social services failed
to take her into care while she was being abused as a child.”
BBC News, 28th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Police watchdog to investigate Taser use in burns death of man doused in flammable liquid – The Independent
“A watchdog is to investigate whether the firing of a Taser by a police officer
at a man doused in flammable liquid caused fatal burns.”
The Independent, 27th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
New legal aid reforms end ‘justice for all’, lawyers warn – The Independent
“England’s 800-year-old tradition of fair and open access to justice for all will
be destroyed by sweeping Government plans to reform criminal legal aid, senior
judges and magistrates warn today.”
The Independent, 28th April 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Judge: parents were too besotted to hurt children – Daily Telegraph
“A judge has refused to allow social workers to take three children with serious
and apparently unexplained injuries into care after seeing that their parents
were ‘simply dotty about them’.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Home Office fury as drug dealer immigrant wins right to stay in UK – Daily Telegraph
“A judge’s decision to allow a convicted drug dealer who abandoned his children
the right to stay in Britain over his ‘human rights’ is at the centre of
mounting political protest.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th April 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Bulger killers’ images’: Two jailed for contempt – BBC News
“Two men who published photographs on Twitter and Facebook said to show the
killers of James Bulger have been jailed for being in contempt of court.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Ipswich sex slave teenager case: London men jailed – BBC News
“Three men from east London who abducted a 13-year-old girl from the streets of
the city and forced her to become their sex slave have been jailed.”
BBC News, 26th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
