Local Government Law Update: 4 April (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 2 April (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 10 April (PDF)
Local Government Law Update: 10 April (PDF)
11 KBW, April 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“On 25 March 2012 the government issued its new planning policy on the provision of caravan sites for Gypsies and Travellers: Planning policy for traveller sites (‘PPFTS’). The policy document replaces both Circular 1/2006 Planning for Gypsy and Traveller Caravan Sites and Circular 04/2007 Planning for Travelling Showpeople and should be read in conjunction with the government’s National Planning Policy Framework (‘NPPF’) which was published on 27 March 2012. Both policy documents came into force on that date.”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 11th April 2012
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s legal advisers have secured a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that will see the extradition of five alleged terrorists, prompting the lawyer representing three of them to slam the judgment.”
The Lawyer, 10th April 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“What is your idea of a miscarriage of justice? Is it that Laura Johnson is likely to go to prison for ferrying rioters about or that the Guantanamo five will be executed if (most think when) found guilty by a military court. For some it is that people are sent to prison on weak or uncorroborated evidence. For others it is the limitations placed by the Court of Appeal on reviewing convictions.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 10th April 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“On 19 October 2011 the Government’s published its proposals to extend closed procedures, as set out in its Justice and Security Green Paper (and covered by the post on this blog).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
The Localism Act 2011 (Local Authority Governance Transitional Provisions) (England) Order 2012
The Overview and Scrutiny (Reference by Councillors) (Excluded Matters) (England) Order 2012
The Local Authorities (Overview and Scrutiny Committees) (England) Regulations 2012
The Local Authorities (Committee System) (England) Regulations 2012
The Local Authorities (Arrangements for the Discharge of Functions) (England) Regulations 2012
The Road Transport (Working Time) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing) Regulations 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“A cocaine dealer caught with £1.3 million of the class A drug and amphetamines valued at up to £450,000 was jailed for 10 years today.”
The Independent, 10th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An official voice to combat misuses of health and safety legislation is being launched by ministers.”
The Guardian, 11th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The body that regulates nurses and midwives in the UK is failing to carry out its duties due to institutional weakness, an interim review says.”
BBC News, 10th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A father of five who accidentally shone a laser pen at a police helicopter, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing, has been told by a judge that he had avoided jail ‘by a whisker’.”
The Guardian, 10th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“No, not a case about secret trials, but about the way in which newspapers can get hold of court papers in open oral hearings. And, as we shall see, it led to a ringing endorsement of the principle of open justice from the Court of Appeal, leading to production of the documents to the Guardian.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The 1967 Act is a delicate compromise that has survived nearly half a century.”
The Guardian, 10th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man was facing a life sentence after today being found guilty of murdering his cancer-sufferer partner, whose body was found in his van after he crashed on his way to dispose of it.”
The Independent, 10th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The European Court of Human Rights (Fourth Section), sitting as a Chamber, has found that five men accused of serious terrorist activities can be extradited from the UK to the US to face trial.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“After a ruling allowing the extradition of five terror suspects, including Abu Hamza and Babar Ahmad, to the US, the barrister and Liberal Democrat peer says any appeal will be thrown out.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An 87-year-old woman has been given an interim anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) for playing her radio too loud and banging her walking stick on the wall, a council confirmed today.”
The Independent, 10th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Just a year after starting a campaign on stalking, who would have thought it would become an offence on the statute book?”
The Guardian, 10th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Alex Verdan QC and Charles Hale, both of 4 Paper Buildings, counsel for the father in A v B and C, consider the lessons that can be learned by practitioners from the Court of Appeal judgment.”
Family Law Week, 5th April 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
Guidance : Care Monitoring System Guidance for Practitioners
Family Law Bar Association, 5th April 2012
Source: wwww.flba.co.uk
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