“Director of public prosecutions challenges received wisdom that heavy sentences for rioters worked as an effective deterrence.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Although CAFCASS was under a statutory duty in general terms to provide a scheme for the representation of children in care proceedings in England, that duty did not extend to a specific obligation to ensure that a particular child in an individual case was represented or that representation should be arranged in accordance with a precise timetable.”
WLR Daily, 29th June 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Reading the Riots spoke to people with various experiences of the justice system, including a judge, lawyers and a looter.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The High Court has condemned the current system of means testing in magistrates’ court and called on the Ministry of Justice to take urgent action to cut ‘unacceptable’ delays.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Oxford University Press, the global academic publishing department of the university, has been ordered to pay nearly £1.9m after two subsidiary companies bribed government officials for contracts to supply school textbooks in east Africa.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Short-term loan company Wonga.com has avoided a ban from the advertising watchdog despite more than 80 complaints that its ads failed to show that it charged up to 4,214% interest.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Rowley, R. v [2012] EWCA Crim 1434 (03 July 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Gallarotti v Sebastianelli [2012] EWCA Civ 865 (03 July 2012)
Frey & Ors v Labrouche [2012] EWCA Civ 881 (03 July 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Chhabra v West London Mental Health NHS [2012] EWHC 1735 (QB) (01 June 2012)
Stych v Dibble & Anor [2012] EWHC 1606 (QB) (14 June 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
High Court (Commercial Court)
Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd v North Sea Energy (UK) Ltd (Rev 1) [2012] EWHC 1823 (Comm) (03 July 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
“The Ministry of Justice has published a detailed breakdown of riot cases. See what the data says.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Collecting societies will be able to collect royalties on behalf of all rights holders and not just members under a Government plan that would require individual content creators to opt out of their systems.”
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“A jealous rival who beat a TV actor to death in a sickening attack over a prostitute they both loved was jailed for life for murder today and ordered to serve a minimum 30 years.”
The Independent, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Sentencing rulebook was ‘torn up and thrown away’, magistrate says, but prosecutors argue harsher punishments were justified.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Independent Police Complaints’ Commission (IPCC) is to recruit more investigators from outside the police service.”
BBC News, 4th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Prosecutors speak of their pride in the way the CPS and the courts rose to the unprecedented challenge of the English riots, but defence lawyers tell a story of panic and paralysis.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Was the remand system used appropriately, was due process sufficiently observed and were the stiff sentences justified?”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Foreign governments could be given details of Britons’ phone calls, emails and internet usage in another ‘deeply troubling’ part of new surveillance plans.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Britain must secure the release of a Pakistani man captured by UK special forces and held by the US in Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram jail without trial for more than eight years, his lawyers told the supreme court this week.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The NHS has paid out a record £1 billion in litigation claims in one year, it has emerged.”
The Independent, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A memorandum of understanding (MOU) to ensure consistent and thorough handling of cases involving undercover officers where there may be a criminal prosecution has been signed by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).”
Crown Prosecution Office, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Prisoners who took jobs outside jail have lost their High Court claim that a levy on their wages which goes to victim support is too high.”
The Independent, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A teenager who raped a five-year-old girl while babysittng her was spared a custodial sentence after a judge heard he had been ‘corrupted’ by internet pornography.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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