“Women drivers in the UK will pay over £900 million more a year for motor insurance than they currently do as a result of ‘broadly negative’ changes to EU gender laws, the Government has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A report into the death of a prisoner has suggested he was moved from a jail – where he felt safe – because an inspection was due to take place.”
BBC News, 10th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lawyers for a prisoner who has been detained for more than seven years without trial have made a plea in the High Court for BBC television to be allowed to show the world his ‘prematurely aged’ face.”
The Independent, 10th December 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Watering down British laws ‘would send a dangerous signal to undemocratic states’, says Thomas Hammarberg.”
The Guardian, 10th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two parents have been cleared at the Old Bailey of killing their four-month-old son, who was suffering from rickets.”
BBC News, 9th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Moors murderer Ian Brady will face a public hearing on whether he should be returned to prison.”
BBC News, 9th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Solicitors outperformed barristers in two selection exercises for the judiciary completed earlier this year, the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) has revealed.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th December 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service’s ambitious plan to go paperless by April could be in peril following a refusal by defence firms to engage with it.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th December 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Cusack v Harrow London Borough Council: [2011] EWCA Civ 1514; [2011] WLR (D) 357
“A highway authority had power under section 66(2) of the Highways Act 1980, but not under section 80, to erect posts so as to prevent vehicular access to a frontager’s forecourt in order to safeguard users of the highway. If the highway authority exercised that power the frontager would become entitled to compensation under section 66(8) of the 1980 Act.”
WLR Daily, 7th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Employees working on oil and gas installations in the North Sea whose contract of employment provided for a repeating shift pattern of two weeks’ work on the rig, followed by two weeks onshore on non-working ‘field break’, were not entitled to take their statutory holiday entitlement during time when they had been scheduled to work offshore.”
WLR Daily, 7th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Islington London Borough Council v Boyle and another: [2011] EWCA Civ 1450; [2011] WLR (D) 355
“Guidance on the principles to be applied when determining whether a tenant occupied a dwelling-house as his only or principal home within section 81 of the Housing Act 1985.”
WLR Daily, 6th December 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, has issued a warning of the need to preserve the integrity of jury trial and the jury system. The warning came in the Court of Appeal Criminal Division’s Annual Review of the Legal Year 2010/11published today (Friday 9 December).”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 9th December 2011
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“A Welsh council has been issued with the highest ever fine levied by the UK’s data protection watchdog after mistakenly sending child protection documents to the wrong person.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th December 2011
Soruce: www.out-law.com
“A new oversight body will be set up under a new EU data protection regime to help regulators investigate and enforce compliance with EU laws, the EU’s Justice Commissioner has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 8th December 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“The UK Border Agency says ‘tighter controls’ will be introduced to stop some Eurostar passengers being able to enter the UK without passport checks.”
BBC News, 8th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“One of the last barriers to women being treated equally in the armed forces was lifted on Thursday when the Ministry of Defence announced that they will soon be allowed to serve onboard Royal Navy submarines.”
The Guardian, 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An election leaflet featuring claims about an opponent’s parliamentary expenses was defamatory, a high court judge has ruled.”
The Guardian. 8th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two men have each been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of deliberately setting fire to a Stoke-on-Trent mosque.”
BBC News, 8th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A taskforce has been set up by the Environment Agency (EA) to crack down on illegal waste sites in England and Wales.”
BBC News, 8th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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