“Officials at an immigration removal centre were too dismissive of reports from detainees claiming to be victims of torture, inspectors said today.”
The Independent, 15th August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The owners of a guesthouse who refused to allow a gay couple to stay in a double-bedded room have won permission to take their case to the Supreme Court.”
The Guardian, 14th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man convicted of child porn offences has walked free from court as the judge ruled sending him to prison would make him ‘dangerous’, in a dilemma the judiciary ‘face again and again’.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“As their papers go weekly or move online, court reporters are embracing Twitter.”
The Guardian, 14th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In the recent decision of NHS Leeds v Larner [2012] EWCA Civ 1034, the Court of Appeal confirmed that workers on sick leave are entitled to carry forward unused statutory holiday entitlement without needing to submit a formal request to do so.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 7th August 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“On 30th July 2012 Ingrid Simler QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, handed down judgment in JL-v- (1) Secretary of State for Defence (2) Leeds City Council (Interested Party) [2012] EWHC 2216 (Admin).”
Hardwicke Chambers, 6th August 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Directors of a charity cannot form part of an ‘organised grouping of employees’ and so cannot take advantage of certain legal protections when the service they provide is taken in-house, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has found.”
OUT-LAW.com, 14th August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“In a consultation opening today, the Law Commission is seeking views on how wildlife law should be modernised and simplified.”
Law Commission, 14th August 2012
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
Related link: Wildlife: a consultation (PDF)
“The case of the Cardiff Three – wrongly convicted of murder in 1992 – refuses to go away. Twenty years after a BBC Panorama investigation helped to clear the original men, the same team returns to investigate why the trial against the police officers accused of perverting the course of justice collapsed last year, and asks: is this the biggest scandal in British legal history?”
BBC Panorama, 13th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A disciplinary panel says the pathologist who conducted the first post-mortem examination on Ian Tomlinson is ‘dishonest’ and ‘liable to bring his profession into disrepute’.”
BBC News, 13th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Along with many others, today I find myself emerging from an Olympic haze. And alongside that morning-after blur comes a nagging feeling that it is time to get back to blogging. Why not start with a man who has watched the last three Olympic Games during what the High Court describes as an ‘enormously lengthy’ period of detention without charge, and whose last bail application was refused as it would be too difficult to keep track of him during the 2012 Olympics?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A teacher paralysed in a wellington boot accident has lost his High Court claim for more than £5m in damages.”
BBC News, 13th August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Anna Heenan, solicitor and David Salter, Joint Head of Family Law at Mills & Reeve LLP analyse July’s financial remedies and divorce news and cases.”
Family Law Week, 10th August 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2012
The Education (School Teachers’ Appraisal) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Education (Amendment of the Curriculum Requirements for Fourth Key Stage) (England) Order 2012
The Local Authorities (Mayoral Elections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (Specified Proceedings) (Amendment No. 2) Order 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Sumal & Sons (Properties) Ltd v London Borough of Newham [2012] EWCA Crim 1840 (08 August 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
BAA Ltd v Competition Commission [2012] EWCA Civ 1077 (26 July 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
FBME Bank Ltd v Elwes & Anor [2012] EWHC 2209 (QB) (25 July 2012)
RAR v GGC [2012] EWHC 2338 (QB) (10 August 2012)
High Court (Chancery Division)
McKillen v Misland (Cyprus) Investments Ltd & Ors [2012] EWHC 2343 (Ch) (10 August 2012)
Re Euromaster Ltd [2012] EWHC 2356 (Ch) (10 August 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“A triple murderer who attacked three prison officers with a broken bottle while serving a life sentence has secured an apology after authorities failed to properly investigate claims that he had been attacked by warders in his cell.”
The Independent, 11th August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A woman has won a six-figure sum at the High Court over the physical and sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather as a child.”
The Independent, 10th August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A judge has urged relatives of elderly drivers to think ‘very, very carefully’ whether they should still be on the road after a 90-year-old retired GP killed another motorist in a head-on collision while on the wrong side of a dual carriageway.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th August 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Four legal academics (and Guardian Law’s editor) pose legal dilemmas of the kind you’ll face at interview – and which should intrigue any would-be law student.”
The Guardian, 10th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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