“The Ministry of Justice has invited interested parties to respond to the legal services section of the Government’s ‘Red Tape Challenge’ consultation, identifying which regulations they believe should be improved, retained or scrapped.”
Ministry of Justice, 8th June 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“An employment judge has become the first to be publicly censured under new rules that will see all judges and magistrates who are disciplined for misconduct have their cases publicised by the Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC).”
The Lawyer, 11th June 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Ministers are planning to grant legal rights for the first time to people in England who spend hours caring for elderly or disabled relatives.”
BBC News, 9th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The Police and Crime Panels (Nominations, Appointments and Notifications) Regulations 2012
The Relevant Authorities (Disclosable Pecuniary Interests) Regulations 2012
The National Health Service (Local Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 2012
The Penalties for Disorderly Behaviour (Amount of Penalty) (Amendment) Order 2012
The Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (Amendment) Order 2012
The Mink Keeping (Prohibition) (Wales) Order 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“Rules making it easier for companies to sack their workers by offering them immediate payouts if they agree to leave without any fuss will be unveiled this week as part of the government’s controversial overhaul of employment law.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“British citizens with foreign-born partners are to be given the choice of indefinite ‘exile’ in countries including Yemen and Syria or face the breakup of their families if they want to remain in the UK, under radical immigration changes to be announced next week, MPs have been told.”
The Guardian, 8th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Tomorrow, the Home Secretary will announce to Parliament plans to give judges guidance on how to interpret Article 8 ECHR (the right to private and family life) in foreign criminal deportation cases. There has been already significant speculation as to whether the long-heralded changes will make much or even any difference.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th June 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Metropolitan police is reviewing 63 sex-crime investigations dating back more than two years after a detective on its specialist rape-inquiry team was arrested over allegations of falsifying crime records.”
The Independent, 9th June 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who told police his online girlfriend was going to blow up a plane after she deleted him from her Facebook account has been jailed for 16 weeks.”
The Guardian, 8th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Doctors involved in fitness to practise hearings will now be referred to a new independent tribunal service set up as part of government-led reforms.”
BBC News, 11th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Members of a multi-million pound organised crime gang specialising in providing fake identities and documents to thousands of customers were jailed today.”
The Independent, 9th June 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Theresa May is heading for a renewed showdown with the courts over the rights of foreign prisoners battling to avoid deportation after signalling that she would bring in primary legislation if judges failed to implement new rules.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Corporate hospitality might have been expected to have a bumper season this year. But apparently such is not the case. A number of companies, it is reported, are refusing to allow their staff to accept ticketsto the Olympics, lest they fall foul of the Bribery Act 2010. Commendable restraint, one might think, but let’s take a closer look.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 8th June 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“As usual, the current crop of recent decisions in this area contain a real mix of the orthodox and the heterodox approach to the doctrine of restraint of trade, frequently within the same case. A good illustration of this is the case of Caterpillar Logistics Services (UK) Ltd v Paula Huesca De Crean [2012] EWCA Civ 156 which will be extensively covered in the talk to be delivered by Simon Forshaw on Confidential Information. I confine myself to observing that the ‘barring out’ injunction sought on the
basis of supposed fiduciary obligations was a restraint on working on a particular contract for a customer and not for a competitor.”
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11 KBW, 1st June 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
The National Patient Safety Agency (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Traffic Management (Sheffield City Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012
The Traffic Management (Leeds City Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012
The National Patient Safety Agency (Establishment and Constitution) (Amendment) Order 2012
The Iran (Restrictive Measures) (Overseas Territories) (Amendment) Order 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“Organisations will be able to obtain free access to some publishers’ digital content through their law firm under a new licensing option on offer by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA).”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th June 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Recently on Halsbury’s Law Exchange Simon Hetherington wrote a thoughtful piece on boxing. He stated candidly at the outset that he was not a boxing fan. For my own part, I admit to being an inveterate fan of the sport, although I haven’t followed it closely for a few years now. Even the most avid boxing fan, however, has to admit that the activity gives rise to serious moral and legal questions. And even if one finds satisfactory answers to those questions in principle, no-one can be happy – from a legal, moral or sporting perspective – with the way in which boxing is run, as the embarrassing saga of the planned fight between David Haye and Dereck Chisora demonstrates.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 7th June 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“NHS payouts to patients whose conditions were misdiagnosed by medics increased by three-quarters in the last year to nearly £100 million.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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