“The government has suffered a fresh series of defeats in the House of Lords over proposals to cut access to legal aid for children and in medical negligence cases.”
The Guardian, 27th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Consumers exploited by misleading and aggressive traders will have a clear and easy route to redress under reforms being proposed by the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.”
Law Commission, 28th March 2012
Source: lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
“A group of Mexican tourists burgled houses from Lancaster to Glasgow after they ran out of money during a holiday to Britain, a court heard on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 27th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke has today launched radical proposals to strengthen community sentences and modernise the Probation Service.”
Ministry of Justice, 27th March 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Planning minister Greg Clarke has said there should be a presumption against the building of more out-of-town shopping centres, and insisted the green belt would continue to be protected, as he announced the biggest shakeup of the planning system for more than half a century.”
The Guardian, 27th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The reverse suffered by the claimants in the noisy motor racing case case before the Court of Appeal last month was something of a body blow to common lawyers and environmentalists. So this latest development in nuisance litigation should be welcome news.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th March 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A father who killed a burglar with a meat cleaver after being subjected to harrowing attack used ‘proportionate and justified’ defensive force, a coroner has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 28th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Innocent people wrongly convicted of serious crimes are being routinely failed by the body set up to investigate miscarriages of justice, according to lawyers and campaigners. They will call this week for urgent reform of the Criminal Cases Review Commission – set up in the wake of high profile miscarriages of justice including the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four – on the 15th anniversary of the formation of the independent review body.”
The Guardian, 27th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: Miscarriages of justice? Cases that campaigners want CCRC to reconsider
“Television cameras are to be allowed into courts for the first time to film the sentencing of serious criminals.”
The Independent, 28th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Setting targets to appoint more judges from among women and members of the ethnic minorities should be considered if the judiciary does not make itself more diverse within the next five years, peers recommend.”
The Guardian, 28th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Are judges all white and male? Nearly – see exactly how the judiciary has changed.”
The Guardian, 28th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who carried out sex attacks on four young girls in the 1980s and 1990s has been jailed for 16 years.”
BBC News, 27th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“After all the furore over the proposed radical extension of the role of the private sector in policing, what should we make of G4S and Serco advertising to recruit probation officers?”
The Guardian, 27th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Victims and witnesses are suffering as prosecutors make mistakes in more than one in 15 cases and bosses fail to spot the errors, inspectors said today.”
The Independent, 27th March 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“‘No fault’ divorces should become the standard means for couples to separate rather than proving that one side is responsible for the breakdown, according to the most senior family law judge in England and Wales.”
The Guardian, 27th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government has been denied the opportunity to appeal to the Supreme Court in over its ‘legally flawed’ decision to reduce subsidies to businesses and homes which use solar panels to generate renewable energy.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th March 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Royal Mail is to get the power to increase the price of first class stamps while the cost of second class stamps will also rise to 55p to ‘safeguard’ universal postal service, Ofcom, the regulator, announced.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A student who admitted posting racially offensive comments on Twitter about footballer Fabrice Muamba has been jailed for 56 days.”
BBC News, 27th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
McGee, R v [2012] EWCA Crim 613 (09 March 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench)
ZH v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2012] EWHC 604 (QB) (14 March 2012)
Cairns v Modi [2012] EWHC 756 (QB) (26 March 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Golden Eye (International) Ltd & Anor v Telefonica UK Ltd [2012] EWHC 723 (Ch) (26 March 2012)
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
Phaestos Ltd & Anor v Ho (Costs) [2012] EWHC 763 (TCC) (22 March 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
PT Thiess Contractors Indonesia v PT Kaltim Prima Coal [2012] EWHC 690 (Comm) (26 March 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Annual Resolution Conference (PDF)
Speech by Sir Nicholas Wall, President of the Family Division
Annual Resolution Conference, 24th March 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
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