“‘The scheme’ named in the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) Regulations 2011 did not comply with the requirements of section 17A of the Jobseekers Act 1995 and was unlawful.”
WLR Daily, 12th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The government is proposing to make it easier for the police to seize confidential material from journalists, it emerged on Wednesday night. Legal experts warned that the plans risked trampling on long-standing protections from the state.”
The Guardian, 13th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A photograph posted on Twitter that may have exposed the new identity of James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables was on Wednesday night being investigated by the Attorney General’s office as a possible contempt of court.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Divisional Court has dismissed the claims for judicial review of the award of GCSE English qualifications in summer 2012.”
Education Law Blog, 13th February 2013
Source: www.education11kbw.com
“Relations between the UK and Saudi Arabia will suffer if what are said to be highly damaging allegations about business deals surface during a London trial, lawyers for two Saudi princes have warned the high court.”
The Guardian, 13th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Financial advisers cannot be said to be ‘independent’ if they offer retail investment advice to clients based solely on their assessment of ‘passive investments’, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“Supreme court president and deputy strongly defend access to legal process as fundamental to rule of law.”
The Guardian, 13th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The terrorism watchdog yesterday criticised the ‘bewildering’ range of anti-terror powers in the UK and said he wished the ‘evocative’ phrase had never entered the law.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th February 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is assessing the cyber security plans of 30 major financial firms.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“This decision upholding an award of damages for a claim under Article 1 Protocol 1 (right to possessions) may seem rather straightforward to a non-lawyer. Infinis lost out on some subsidies because the regulator misunderstood a complex legal document. It could not claim those subsidies any more, so it claimed and got damages from the regulator. But the relatively novel thing is that English law does not generally allow claims for damage caused by unlawful action by the state. And yet the Court of Appeal found it easy to dismiss the regulator’s appeal on this point.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th February 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Academies and free schools are to be invited to take over education in young offender institutions (YOIs) as part of a radical plan to create ‘secure training colleges’.”
The Guardian, 14th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The estate of Jimmy Savile and the BBC are being sued by alleged sex abuse victims of the late DJ and presenter.”
BBC News, 13th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Hopes that tens of thousands of GCSE English students might have their grades raised have been dashed after the high court ruled that measures exam authorities took last summer to combat grade inflation were lawful.”
The Guardian, 13th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lord Justice Goldring has been appointed by the Coroners for the South Yorkshire (East) and the West Yorkshire (West) Districts as an Assistant Deputy Coroner for the purpose of conducting the inquests into the deaths of the 96 people in the Hillsborough disaster.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 13th February 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to be expanded to deal with all serious complaints against the police, the Home Secretary announced today.”
Home Office, 12th February 2013
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Supreme Court, 13th February 2013
“Arrangements amounting to collective investment schemes within the meaning of section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, or more generally, were not inchoate or imperfect contracts that were displaced if their parties entered into a form of understanding or contract.”
WLR Daily, 8th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Rummun v State of Mauritius [2013] UKPC 6; [2013] WLR (D) 53
“Where there had been substantial delay in a criminal trial it was the duty of the court, whether at sentence or on appeal and whether or not the matter had been raised by the defence, to examine the possibility of there having been a breach of the defendant’s right to a fair trial within a reasonable time, and if so whether that should influence the sentence to be imposed. The court should consider the factors which had caused the delay, including the responsibility of the defendant for any delay, but was to exercise caution in respect of any decision by him to contest the case on grounds which proved to be unfeasible, since a defendant to a criminal charge was entitled to put the prosecuting authorities to proof of his guilt.”
WLR Daily, 7th February 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“FOCUS: The decision by the Supreme Court last month that legal professional privilege would not apply to advice from non-lawyers confirms how important it is for insurers to maximise the value of legal privilege.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th February 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“How the government has responded to Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations on press regulation.”
The Guardian, 12th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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