“Immigrants who want elderly relatives to join them in Britain must swear they will not claim benefits for five years, under the Government’s latest attempt to limit the number of overseas arrivals.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Specialist Support Service (SSS) will be scrapped at the end of this month, the Legal Services Commission has announced following a consultation.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 12th June 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Website operators in the UK may soon have to identify people who have posted defamatory messages online, allowing the victim to undertake legal action against the ‘troll’ rather than against the website.”
BBC News, 12th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government’s Consultation on Equal Civil Marriage ends on Thursday 14 June: you can fill in the brief online survey here if you haven’t already. In the meantime, the Church of England is on the front pages this morning with its own response, which amongst other things, warns that ‘it seems extremely doubtful’ that the European Court of Human Rights ‘would uphold the right of a state to retain gender inequality in civil partnerships once the state had legislated for equal marriage’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 12th June 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Police forces are up to 28 times more likely to use stop-and-search powers against black people than white people and may be breaking the law, new research from the official human rights body reveals.”
The Guardian, 12th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The decision of the Secretary of State for the Home Department to refuse an extension of leave to remain in the United Kingdom was not invalidated by the fact that she had made no removal direction in respect of the applicant at the same time as or shortly after the refusal of the extension application.”
WLR Daily, 1st June 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Doctors will be in breach of the law from October if they withhold medical help to patients purely on the basis of their age, the home secretary Theresa May will announce on Tuesday in a tightening of Britain’s age discrimination laws.”
The Guardian, 11th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Three of the July 21 failed suicide bombers are using the European Court of Human Rights to try and overturn their convictions, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Major reforms of the libel laws will see a duty placed on internet service providers to try to identify internet trolls without victims needing to resort to costly legal action.”
The Guardian, 12th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Too many sex offenders are being released from prison without having access to a treatment programme at all, inspectors said today.”
The Independent, 12th June 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Regulating nanotechnology is fraught with difficulties. Current environmental law simply doesn’t apply on the nano-scale.”
The Guardian, 11th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An internet ‘troll’ who sent a threatening email to a Conservative MP has been banned from contacting a host of celebrities, including Lord Sugar.”
The Guardian, 11th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Human rights group Liberty is to apply for a judicial review into the inquest of a soldier who hanged herself after alleging two colleagues had raped her.”
BBC News, 11th June 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A union is taking legal action to seek compensation on behalf of workers it claims were blacklisted by one of the UK’s biggest companies.”
The Independent, 11th June 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A provision in a collective agreement applicable to a group of companies within the airline industry which only took into account experience acquired as a cabin crew member from the date of recruitment by a specific airline company for the purposes of grading in the employment categories provided for in that agreement did not constitute indirect discrimination within the meaning of article 2(2)(b) of Council Directive 2000/78/EC.”
WLR Daily, 7th June 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Regina v Majeed; Regina v Westfield [2012] EWCA Crim 1186; [2012] WLR (D) 172
“Where a sportsman corruptly accepted financial inducements to identify, in advance, occasions when during a match he would play in a specific, previously agreed, manner, the conduct of that sportsman, whose contract obliged him to refrain from doing anything that might damage the reputation of the club or board which employed him, was integral to the affairs and business of that club or board, who were therefore victims of such corrupt activities, even if the bribes were not intended to and did not influence the club or board in any way.”
WLR Daily, 31st May 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Sentencing Council’s definitive guideline on allocation, offences taken into consideration and totality came into effect on 11 June 2012.”
Sentencing Council, 11th June 2012
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