Strict new code to prevent powers of entry being abused – Home Office
“Strict new guidelines are to be established to prevent public bodies abusing powers to enter homes and businesses.”
Home Office, 22nd January 2013
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
A balanced approach to the challenges of economic crime – Attorney General’s Office
“Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP outlined steps taken to prosecute economic crime at the Cityforum round table. Originally given at City of London Guildhall. This is the text of the speech as drafted, which may differ slightly from the delivered version.”
Attorney General’s Office, 21st January 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/ago
Monkey on my back – NearlyLegal
“Even since McCann v. UK (2008) 47 EHRR 40, a lot of people (around these parts) have been waiting for a case on Article 8 and the rule in Hammersmith v Monk (Hammersmith and Fulham LBC v. Monk [1992] AC 478) to reach the higher Courts. Is the rule that notice by one joint tenant determines the tenancy for both/all compatible with Article 8 (or Protocol 1 Article 1)? Now one case has got to a higher stage. In a somewhat eccentric fashion, the Court of Appeal has given a distinctly forthright view, even if what the Court could actually do with the appeal was, more or less, nothing at all.”
NearlyLegal, 25th January, 2013
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
Silk cut: are QCs a luxury we can’t afford? – LegalVoice
“Criminal defence silk’s earnings from legal aid came into focus this week after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling gave strong indications he is considering targeting QCs, writes Elizabeth Davidson.”
LegalVoice, 25th January 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
Plebgate: Met police calls in external force to review Scotland Yard inquiry – The Guardian
“The Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has called in an external force to review Scotland Yard’s criminal investigation into the plebgate saga.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
OFT warns significant change needed in current account market – The Guardian
“More competition is needed among providers of current accounts, the Office of Fair Trading said on Friday after finding the major banks had increased their dominance in the £9bn market. The OFT said ‘significant further’ changes were required as it warned that the market was not ‘working well for consumers or the wider economy’but decided against a full referral to the Competition Commission. It will conduct another review in 2015.”
The Guardian, 25th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Mother of wandering Flintshire street boy, 5, is warned – BBC News
“The mother of a five-year-old boy found wandering a Flintshire street at night
has been given an eight week suspended prison sentence.”
BBC News, 24th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Briton who took on Sergei Magnitsky network faces libel case in UK – The Independent
“A former Moscow police officer is suing a British businessman who exposed how a network of corrupt officials and shadowy criminal underworld figures were behind the largest tax fraud in Russian history. Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Karpov has launched libel and defamation proceedings in the High Court against William Browder, a millionaire hedge-fund magnate who has campaigned against corruption within the Russian government after his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was tortured and died in police custody.”
The Independent, 24th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
New rules for bailiffs industry – The Independent
“Bailiffs will be regulated under new laws to ‘clean up’ the industry and protect vulnerable debtors, the Government has announced.”
The Independent, 25th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Police exaggerating fall in crime rate – Daily Telegraph
“Police have exaggerated the fall in crime by downgrading hundreds of thousands of offences to meet targets, the Office for National Statistics has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Earl of Cardigan acquitted of assault – Daily Telegraph
“The Earl of Cardigan, whose family name is famed for its link to the Charge of the Light Brigade, was also found not guilty of a charge of criminal damage. Salisbury Magistrates’ Court heard the earl, 60, was accused of assaulting John Moore by beating on April 29 last year – just over a week after he lost a legal row with Mr Moore over ancestral portraits at the 4,500-acre Savernake Estate, near Marlborough, Wiltshire.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Damages claims “inevitable consequence” of Government’s confused approach to solar, says expert – OUT-LAW.com
“Reports that some companies involved in solar energy are pursuing claims for damages against the Government are the ‘inevitable consequence of its hitherto confused’ approach to subsidies, an expert has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 24th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
Businessman spared jail over child porn – The Independent
“An MP’s son who joined an online ‘club’ of perverts who shared sickening images of child abuse has been handed a suspended jail term.”
The Independent, 24th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Anonymous hacker group: Two jailed for cyber attacks – BBC News
“Two men who carried out cyber attacks for the Anonymous hacking group have been jailed.”
BBC News, 24th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Google, Facebook and Twitter may ‘face EU defamation and privacy cases’ – The Guardian
“Google, Facebook and Twitter’s decision to establish their European bases in Dublin has opened the internet giants up to EU defamation and privacy laws like never before, a libel lawyer has warned.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal advice privilege should not extend to accountant’s advice, says Supreme Court – UK Human Rights Blog
“The Supreme Court has ruled that legal advice privilege should only apply to advice given by a member of the legal profession; that this is what the common law has always meant, and that any wider interpretation would lead to uncertainty. Two strong dissents do not find any principled underpinning for the restriction of the privilege to advice from solicitors or barristers.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Ministers consider clampdown on ‘industrial users’ of Freedom of Information – BBC News
“The government is considering how to curb repetitive and overly expensive Freedom of Information requests, a justice minister has said.”
BBC News, 24th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Secret courts ‘unjust’ warns Law Society – Law Society’s Gazette
“Extending secret courts to ordinary civil justice cases would see the UK ‘stoop to the level of repressive regimes’, the Law Society warns today.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 24th January 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Media law trends in 2013: what’s on the horizon – The Guardian
“From libel reform to ambush marketing, our experts highlight the key media law trends in 2013.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
