“Julie Stather, barrister, of 42 Bedford Row suggests some ways to benefit children by strengthening the position of grandparents.”
Family Law week, 12th October 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Mugshots of convicted criminals are to be published on a Government website in a move to name and shame offenders.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A father wrongly convicted of causing grievous bodily harm and cruelty against his baby daughter has been told he can care for his children again.”
BBC News, 13th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Assumptions about fitness in older people should not be used to decide whether patients have surgery, according to a report by the Royal College of Surgeons and Age UK.”
BBC News, 15th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Britain will on Monday take steps towards opting out of a series of EU law and order measures in a move designed by the Tories to show that they are living up to their pre-election Eurosceptic pledges.”
The Guardian, 14th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Patient care is being put at risk by the European Working Time Directive, which ‘disrupts continuity of care and distorts clinical training’, say two Royal Colleges.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The government’s plans for a substantial extension of the use of secret evidence in the justice system have been heavily criticised in a new Amnesty International report published today”
Amnesty International, 15th October 2012
Source: www.amnesty.org.uk
“More than 100 people were convicted after year-long sting – but charity says they may have been lured into committing offences.”
The Observer, 14th October 2012
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk
“Five Royal Marines have been charged with murder over an incident in Afghanistan in 2011, the MoD has said.”
BBC News, 14th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The penalties for drug misuse should be relaxed so that possession of small amounts would no longer be a criminal offence, the government has been urged.”
BBC News, 15th October 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has ruled a car head on smash caused when a woman’s Ugg boots became trapped under the brake pedal, was ‘entirely foreseeable.'”
Daily Telegraph, 12th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“CPR r 36.13(2) did not permit the court to be told the position as to a Part 36 offer and consequently go on to deal with the question of costs at the conclusion of the first part of a split trial.”
WLR Daily, 9th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A property built as, and which retained the appearance of, a house but which was being used solely for commercial purposes was not a ‘house … reasonably so called’ for the purposes of section 2(1) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 so as to give the lessees the right to acquire the freehold compulsorily.”
WLR Daily, 10th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
R v Varma [2012] UKSC 42; [2012] WLR (D) 270
“The Crown Court had the power and, in most cases, where the criteria in section 6 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 were satisfied, the duty to make a confiscation order against a defendant following conviction for an offence in respect of which the defendant had received an absolute or a conditional discharge.”
WLR Daily, 10th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Byankov v Glaven sekretar na Ministerstvo na vatreshnite raboti (Case C-249/11); [2012] WLR (D) 269
“European Union law precluded the application of a national provision which provided for the imposition of a restriction on the freedom of movement, within the European Union, of a national of a member state, solely on the ground that he owed a legal person governed by private law a debt which exceeded a statutory threshold and was unsecured.”
WLR Daily, 4th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Public sector bodies will generally be required to disclose information even if it is stored in computer ‘recycle bins’, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th October 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Out of his shadow: The long struggle of wives under English Law (PDF)
The High Sheriff of Oxfordshire’s Annual Law Lecture, 9th October 2012
Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk
The Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2012
The Police and Crime Commissioner Elections (Declaration of Acceptance of Office) Order 2012
The Licensing Act 2003 (Early Morning Alcohol Restriction Orders) Regulations 2012
The Late Night Levy (Expenses, Exemptions and Reductions) Regulations 2012
The Education (Educational Provision for Improving Behaviour) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Ward v Allies and Morrison Architects [2012] EWCA Civ 1287 (10 October 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
A & Anor v Somerset County Council [2012] EWHC 2753 (QB) (11 October 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
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