“Mobile phone operator O2 will appeal against Ofcom’s decision to allow a rival firm to launch superfast broadband services later this year using its existing network capabilities, according to media reports.”
OUT-LAW.com, 30th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Government plans to introduce a cap on the extent to which the losing party to an environmental challenge will be expected to cover the winning party’s legal costs.”
OUT-LAW.com, 31st August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The Serious Fraud Office has launched an investigation into payments made after Barclays tapped Middle Eastern investors for emergency funds in 2008.”
The Guardian, 30th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An inquiry into child sex abuse by Church of England clergy in Chichester has found many children suffered ‘abiding hurt and damage’ because local safeguarding measures had fallen ‘woefully short’ for two decades.”
The Guardian, 31st August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Squatting in a residential building in England and Wales becomes a criminal offence on Saturday, meaning squatters would face jail or a fine.”
BBC News, 31st August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A nurse who stabbed her four-year-old daughter to death before attempting to kill herself has been jailed for 12 years.”
Daily Telegraph, 31st August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A drunk driver who ploughed into and critically injured a Paralympic champion cyclist who was out training for the 2012 Games has been jailed.”
BBC News, 30th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former soldier who tied a pig’s head to the gates of a Cheltenham mosque has been jailed for four months.”
BBC News, 30th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
High Court (Administrative Court)
TS v London Borough of Croydon [2012] EWHC 2389 (Admin) (29 August 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
Sparkasse Hilden Ratingen Velbert v Benk & Anor [2012] EWHC 2432 (Ch) (29 August 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Cartwright and another v Registrar of Companies: [2012] EWCA Civ 1159; [2012] WLR (D) 255
“The date on which the administration of a company was converted into a creditors’ voluntary liquidation was the date on which the registrar of companies registered the conversion notice on the company’s file at Companies House, not the date the registrar received the notice sent by the administrators, on the true construction of paragraph 83 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 as inserted. The administrators’ term of office was in general automatically extended if a conversion notice under paragraph 83 was duly filed.”
WLR Daily, 24th August 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Organisations can temporarily keep personal data records even when the information is no longer necessary for processing purposes, the UK’s data protection watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Local authorities and other public bodies must ensure that disclosing personal data about their employees under UK freedom of information (FOI) laws is ‘necessary’ even if they have established that it is “fair” to do so, a watchdog has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 29th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Evidence of ‘fundamental gaps’ in lawyers’ skills suggests that the current education system is not fit for purpose, according to a discussion paper published as part of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR).”
Law Society’s Gazette, 29th August 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson will succeed Lord Neuberger as master of the rolls when the latter becomes president of the Supreme Court, the government announced today. The appointment had been widely expected.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 29th August 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The Freddy Patel case shows how market forces inevitably lead to creeping deregulation if applied to the legal system.”
The Guardian, 29th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has revoked London Metropolitan University’s power to teach or recruit international students, leaving nearly 3,000 students facing deportation unless they can find another place to study within 60 days.”
The Guardian, 30th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Bedfordshire restaurant owner has been found guilty of being involved in a sham marriage scam.”
BBC News, 29th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Lord Justice Leveson is ‘loading a gun’ at the newspaper industry according to Chris Blackhurst, editor of The Independent.”
BBC News, 30th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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