Presentation made by LSB Head of Development and Research at the LSRC conference
Legal Services Board, September 2012
Source: www.legalservicesboard.org.uk
“The plight of a man who had to be rushed to hospital hours after arriving in jail highlights the limitations of prison care.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Another defeat for the United Kingdom in Strasbourg yesterday. In James, Wells and Lee v. the United Kingdom, a chamber of the Court’s Fourth Section held that indeterminate sentences of imprisonment for public protection infringed Article 5 of the Convention.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th September 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The official definition of domestic violence is to be changed from March to ensure that thousands of teenage victims who are abused while in a relationship get the help and support they need, ministers are to announce today. It is also to be widened to explicitly include ‘coercive control’, which is defined as complex patterns of abuse by one partner using power and psychological control over another, such as financial, verbal abuse or enforced social isolation.”
The Guardian, 19th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The European court of human rights has ruled that indeterminate prison sentences (IPPs) breached prisoner’s human rights. There are over 6,000 IPP prisoners in England and Wales currently without a release date, leading a senior high court judge to describe them as ‘the disappeared’. 3,500 of these prisoners have already served their time but have no idea when they will leave prison.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government has for the first time been ordered to disclose copies of confidential letters that Prince Charles wrote to ministers.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Muslim man with extremist literature on his computer was jailed for a year today.”
The Independent, 18th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The European court of human rights has ordered the government to pay £6,500 in compensation to a mother who was forced to leave a council’s Gypsy site in Wales.”
The Guardian, 18th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jailing dangerous prisoners indefinitely on the grounds of risk without giving them access to rehabilitation courses breaches their human rights, European judges ruled today.”
The Independent, 18th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
High Court (Technology and Construction Court)
ADS Aerospace Ltd v EMS Global Tracking Ltd [2012] EWHC 2310 (TCC) (03 August 2012)
Smith & Ors v South Eastern Power Networks Plc [2012] EWHC 2541 (TCC) (17 September 2012)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Ace European Ltd & Ors v Howden Group Ltd & Anor [2012] EWHC 2427 (Comm) (17 September 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The case of the Cardiff Three was a gross miscarriage of justice which, 24 years on, remains unresolved. Can a report into the failed prosecution of eight police officers shed new light?”
The Guardian, 17th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Government Response to the House of Commons Health Select Committee Report of Session 2012-13: Government’s Alcohol Strategy, Cm 8439 (PDF)
Source: www.official-documents.gov.uk
“News International is now facing almost 200 fresh phone-hacking claims with legal action now confirmed from individuals including the former Labour party leader Neil Kinnock, former cabinet minister Stephen Byers and Louise Woodward, the former nanny jailed in the US for killing a baby.”
The Guardian, 17th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Complaints about doctors have reached a record high, the General Medical Council said.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th September 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“In November 2011, Mr Justice Underhill, former President of the Employment Appeal Tribunal was invited by Government to lead a fundamental review of the rules of procedure for employment tribunals. He was asked to ensure that the rules were simplified and provided the framework to manage cases flexibly, effectively, proportionately and consistently, providing certainty to all parties who participate in the employment tribunal process.”
Department for Business Innovation & Skills, 14th September 2012
Source: www.bis.gov.uk
“A ‘very wealthy’ Russian businessman today lost a legal fight with his ex-wife over the ownership of a house in London worth millions of pounds.”
The Independent, 17th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
The Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012 (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Amendment (England) Regulations 2012
The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2012
The Police and Justice Act 2006 (Commencement No. 15) Order 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“Four men have been jailed for a year long campaign of raids on supermarket cash dispensers using a circular saw.”
BBC News, 17th September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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