“An RSPCA ad campaign that offered to care for pets if their owner dies has escaped a ban, despite the charity admitting that almost one in five animals in the scheme are put down.”
The Guardian, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Dr Freddy Patel acted with ‘deficient professional performance’ over his postmortem investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests, a medical tribunal has concluded.”
The Guardian, 21st August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The beginning of August was ‘judgment day’ for many aspiring barristers – offer day for both Pupillage Portal (the centralised pupillage online application system) and many non-portal pupillages. After a long summer of interviews the big question was whether all that hard work had been worthwhile – did that elusive pupillage offer await worthy candidates?”
Legal Week, 21st August 2012
Source: www.legalweek.com
“This paper looks at various recent developments in information law, as follows:
• Post-legislative scrutiny of the Freedom of Information Act;
• Handling problem FOI requesters;
• The Protection of Freedoms Act;
• EU proposals for data protection reform; and
• Other recent developments in data protection.”
11 KBW, 17th August 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“Some of the provisions in the Localism Act 2011 (‘the Act’) apply in England only, some provisions also apply in Wales, and some apply in Wales only. Application to England and Wales is set out in Annex A to the Act.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 17th August 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“This paper covers 5 topics:
(1) the Social Services (Wales) Bill;
(2) the Mental Health (Wales) Measure;
(3) the role of resources in decisions to provide services and challenges
to decisions about direct payments;
(4) challenges to decisions setting care home fees, and
(5) the relationship between community care and the best interests
jurisdiction.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 17th August 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“There have been many interesting developments in Welsh education law over the
last 12 months or so, and two significant changes on the horizon. This paper covers
the following subjects:-
(1) Recent school re-organisation cases
(2) Special educational needs update
(3) Article 6 and discipline of school staff
(4) School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Bill
(5) Consultation on changes to the special educational needs regime.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 17th August 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“For the benefit of anyone who has not worked in this area previously or recently, I shall summarise the basics. The relevant legal rules are found in the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/246) (‘TUPE’) which came into force on 6 April 2006. The most important change from the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 (SI 1981/1794) has been the expansion of the definition of ‘a relevant transfer’ to encompass a service provision change as well as a transfer of an economic entity which retains its identity. This is a complex area of law, in which it is often hard to discern any broad principle which indicates the correct answer to the case on your desk: it is essential always to keep referring back to and re-reading the TUPE regulations themselves.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 17th August 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“Higher fines for firms that fail to co-operate with regulators and potential criminal sanctions for benchmark manipulation have been suggested by the Treasury Select Committee in a report responding to alleged manipulation of market rates by major banks.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st August 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
High Court (Family Division)
R v R [2012] EWHC 2390 (Fam) (13 August 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Glowacki v Regional Court in Ostroleka Poland [2012] EWHC 2305 (Admin) (25 July 2012)
Jones v Government of United States [2012] EWHC 2332 (Admin) (25 July 2012)
Media Protection Services Ltd v Crawford & Anor [2012] EWHC 2373 (Admin) (16 August 2012)
Krolik & Ors v Several Judicial Authorities of Poland [2012] EWHC 2357 (Admin) (17 August 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012
The Export Control (Syria and Burma Sanctions Amendment) and Miscellaneous Revocations Order 2012
The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records and Registration) (Isle of Man) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records and Registration) (Jersey) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records and Registration) (Guernsey) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Green Deal (Qualifying Energy Improvements) Order 2012
The Green Deal (Energy Efficiency Improvements) Order 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“Legal precedent demands that tenants unable to meet unaffordable housing costs are legally homeless. What does this mean in today’s London?”
The Guardian, 21st August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jailed for his part in last summer’s riots, Michael feared for his future.But it was his time inside that inspired his work as a youth athletics coach, he tells Simon Usborne.”
The Independent, 21st August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Data Protection Act 1998 is increasingly being deployed as part of a claimant’s arsenal in defamation claims. The Information Commissioner has historically resisted policing DPA breaches in the context of allegedly defamatory expressions of opinion by one person about another.”
Panopticon, 20th August 2012
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“A man pleaded guilty today to raping three young children he had drugged and who were also forced to sexually abuse each other while he watched.”
The Independent, 20th August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“This is Richard Dawkin’s battle cry in response to the recent High Court rejection of the challenge by locked-in sufferers to the murder and manslaughter laws in this country that have condemned them to an unknowable future of suffering.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 20th August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Former England manager Steve McClaren failed in a high court bid over the weekend to prevent the Sun publishing a front-page story about an alleged extramarital affair.”
The Guardian, 20th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A shop worker who tried to claim a winning £1m lottery ticket belonging to an elderly couple has been jailed for two and a half years.”
The Independent, 21st August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“One of the government’s flagship academy schools has lost a legal challenge over its refusal to admit a number of children with special educational needs.”
The Guardian, 20th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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