Foreign national prisoners lose right to legal aid – The Guardian
“In April, new legislation will end legal aid for foreign national prisoners facing deportation.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
In Defence of Rights – London Review of Books
“We [Philippe Sands and Helena Kennedy] were appointed to the Commission on a Bill of Rights in March 2011 by Nick Clegg. The circumstances were not auspicious, and we were concerned from the outset that our composition – all white, almost all male, almost all lawyers and London-based – would undermine our ability to speak with any legitimacy. The Conservatives had come into government committed to tearing up the Human Rights Act, an early product of the previous Labour government seen by many of the new government’s Tory supporters (and some in the media) as little more than a charter for foreign terrorists and local criminals. The Liberal Democrats, on the other hand, strongly supported the Act and the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights that it introduced into UK law. There were eight members, under the chairmanship of Leigh Lewis, a retired senior civil servant who was hopeful that we might exceed the miserably low expectations of most commentators and come up with something useful.”
London Review of Books, 3rd January 2013
Source: www.lrb.co.uk
A Second Bite at the Cherry..? Applying for a Rehearing in Family Proceedings – Family Law Week
“Rodney Noon, solicitor, looks at the scope for bringing a family law case back before the first instance court and asking it to ‘think again’.”
Family Law Week, 8th January 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
High Court refuses to condemn US drone strikes – UK Human Rights Blog
“In this unsuccessful application for permission to apply for judicial review, the Claimant sought to challenge the Defendant’s reported policy of permitting GCHQ employees to pass intelligence to the US for the purposes of drone strikes in Pakistan. The Claimant’s father was killed during such an attack in March 2011.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 9th January 2013
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Analysis: Why a ‘terror bookseller’ won his appeal – BBC News
“Can someone be convicted of disseminating books which are arguably so extreme in nature they’ve played a role in encouraging terrorism and political violence?”
BBC News, 9th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Probation service ‘revolution’ means wholesale privatisation – The Guardian
“The justice secretary, Chris Grayling, is to outline plans for the wholesale outsourcing of the probation service with private companies and voluntary sector organisations to take over the rehabilitation of the majority of offenders by 2015.”
The Guardian, 9th Januaury 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Pub industry adjudicator plans put forward – BBC News
“The government has announced plans for an independent adjudicator in the pub industry to help struggling landlords.”
BBC News, 8th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Stephen Lawrence’s brother sues Met over race discrimination – Daily Telegraph
“Stephen Lawrence’s brother today launched a race discrimination case against Britain’s biggest police force, claiming officers harassed him due to his skin colour.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
ASA bans adverts over use of Jimmy Savile references – The Guardian
“The advertising watchdog has criticised a magazine and a clothing firm for attempting to drum up business by using images of the late Jimmy Savile in email campaigns, including one which features the disgraced ex-presenter wearing what appears to be underwear while smoking a cigar.”
The Guardian, 9th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Judge forced to revoke jail term after sentencing teenager for wrong crime – The Independent
“A judge was forced into an embarrassing retreat after he sentenced a teenager for the wrong crime, it emerged today.”
The Independent, 8th January 2013
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Police chief in high court battle to block successor – The Guardian
“A legal attempt by a chief constable to block the recruitment of his successor has been thrown out by the high court in London.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Wales child abuse: Judge appeal to Waterhouse witnesses – BBC News
“The judge leading a review of an inquiry into sexual abuse at care homes in north Wales has appealed for witnesses to come forward.”
BBC News, 8th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Ned Rocknroll wins Sun photo ban – The Guardian
“Kate Winslet’s husband, Ned Rocknroll, has won his high court bid to prevent the Sun from publishing ’embarrassing’ pictures of him partly naked at a fancy dress party.”
The Guardian, 8th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Legal challenge to put an end to court papers – Daily Telegraph
“Saying you’re going to end the legal world’s reliance on paper sounds almost as audacious a claim as announcing you’re going to stop banks paying bonuses. Graham Smith, however, believes his small London-based business is set to revolutionise the way trials and other hearings are managed all over the world by doing exactly that.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th January 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The price of equality? Gender and the assessment of risk – Cloisters
“The financial sector will no longer be allowed to use gender as a determining factor in the assessment of risk and therefore the price of premiums and benefits from Friday 21 December 2012.”
Full story (PDF)
Cloisters, 19th December 2012
Source: www.cloisters.com
Equalities: Two Years after the Equality Act 2010 – 11 KBW
“The introduction of the Equality Act 2010 was a landmark in non-discrimination law, bringing together (and making some amendments to) a myriad of different statutory regimes covering various types of protected characteristics. However, such is the nature of litigation, that very little appellate case law has, as yet, had cause to consider the provisions of the Equality Act in any detail. As a result, the very substantial developments which have taken or are taking place recently in the equalities field have tended to arise out of the previous legal regimes, or related regimes such as the European Convention on Human Rights.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 20th December 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
Regina v Sadighpour – WLR Daily
Regina v Sadighpour [2012] EWCA Crim 2669; [2013] WLR (D) 4
“Section 31(7) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 did not reiterate a requirement to satisfy an evidential burden, initially imposed by section 31(1) on a defendant in relation to refugee status, even when the Secretary of State had refused an asylum claim, and was apt to cover a situation where there had already been due consideration of the defendant’s claim to refugee status on the merits.”
WLR Daily, 11th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Unreliable Evidence – BBC Radio 4
“Clive Anderson and top lawyers and judges reveal why the wheels of our legal system turn so slowly and discuss concerns that Government proposals to speed up proceedings in our criminal courts could lead to injustices.”
BBC Radio 4, 2nd January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Landlord John Tatton forced girl to ‘pay’ for rent in sexual favours – BBC News
“A landlord who forced a teenage girl to ‘pay’ for her rent with sexual favours has been jailed for four years.”
BBC News, 7th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
