“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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.”
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Cloisters, 19th December 2012
Source: www.cloisters.com
“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.”
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11 KBW, 20th December 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
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
“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
“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
“Women and children awaiting trial are being kept too close to men in court custody suites, a watchdog has found.”
BBC News, 8th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Some 1,400 soldiers who were cautioned by the police may have been unfairly penalised after an error by the Army led to them being wrongly disciplined.”
BBC News, 7th January 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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