Health and safety overkill to be challenged by official body – The Guardian
“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
Nursing regulator ‘poorly organised and weak’ – BBC News
“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
Man who shone laser pen at police helicopter avoids jail ‘by a whisker’ – The Guardian
“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
Common-law open justice lets in the light; Strasbourg not the key – UK Human Rights Blog
“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
Why the Abortion Act deserves to live – The Guardian
“The 1967 Act is a delicate compromise that has survived nearly half a century.”
The Guardian, 10th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Man found guilty of murdering his cancer-sufferer partner – The Independent
“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
Abu Hamza and Babar Ahmad can be extradited to USA, rules human rights court – UK Human Rights Blog
“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
Lord Carlile: extradition ruling is entirely sensible – Daily Telegraph
“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
OAP given Asbo for playing her radio too loud – The Independent
“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
How we changed the law on stalking – The Guardian
“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
Alternative Families and Children: A review of the recent case of A v B and C – Family Law Week
“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
Guidance : Care Monitoring System Guidance for Practitioners
Family Law Bar Association, 5th April 2012
Source: wwww.flba.co.uk
Clarification of the ‘public interest’ defence is badly needed – The Guardian
“Sky News’s decision to approve the hacking of emails belonging to John Darwin, the once-missing, presumed-dead ‘canoe man’, can be argued to be one of those finely balanced editorial decisions. The public interest argument runs fairly straightforwardly, after all. Darwin pleaded guilty to deception in March 2008 – you will recall he went out to sea in a canoe and somehow paddled his way from the north-east to the Panama canal, suggesting he was not so dead after all. But his wife, Anne, was going to trial – a life insurance policy had been cashed in by her – and it was at that point Sky’s journalist, Gerard Tubb, was given the green light to try to access John Darwin’s email communications. As he did so, he uncovered information that made it clear that Anne Darwin was in on the plot, and having shared this with Cleveland police, the broadcaster believes it helped secure her conviction and produced a very detailed post-conviction backgrounder.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Recent Statutory Instruments – legislation.gov.uk
The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Temporary Class Drug) Order 2012
The Offshore (Oil and Gas) Installation and Pipeline Abandonment Fees Regulations 2012
The Licensing Act 2003 (Permitted Temporary Activities) (Notices) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
The Alternative Provision Academies (Consequential Amendments to Acts) (England) Order 2012
The Offshore Installations (Safety Zones) (No.2) Order 2012
The Trade Marks and Trade Marks (Fees) (Amendment) Rules 2012
The Non-Domestic Rating and Business Rate Supplements (Deferred Payments) (England) Regulations 2012
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
Cigarette and tobacco displays banned in supermarkets – The Guardian
“Packets of cigarettes will disappear from the shelves of supermarkets in England on Friday and must stay hidden in closed cupboards, out of sight and – the government and campaigners hope – out of mind.”
The Guardian, 5th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
BAILII: Recent Decisions
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Nolan & Anor v R [2012] EWCA Crim 671 (04 April 2012)
Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
Solicitors Regulation Authority v Lawrence & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 421 (03 April 2012)
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
McGrath & Anor v Dawkins & Ors [2012] EWHC B3 (QB) (30 March 2012)
Aziz v Lim [2012] EWHC 915 (QB) (05 April 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Weszka, R (on the application of) v The Parole Board [2012] EWHC 827 (Admin) (05 April 2012)
Source: www.bailii.org
Is the UK shackled by its deportation rules? – UK Human Rights Blog
“In the wake of France’s apparently unencumbered expulsion of individuals on public interest grounds there has been a fresh outcry from the press about the shackles imposed by the Human Rights Convention on the UK authorities which other signatory states seem to ignore with impunity.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 7th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
Appeal court finds dishonest solicitor should have been struck off – Legal Week
“The Court of Appeal has ruled that a legal disciplinary body should have struck off a solicitor that had been found to have acted dishonestly.”
Legal Week, 5th April 2012
Source: www.legalweek.com
Special report: Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials – The Guardian
“In 2004, Fatima Bouchar and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, were detained en route to the UK, and rendered to Libya. This is the story of their imprisonment, and the trail of evidence that reveals the involvement of the British government.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Palestinian activist wins appeal against deportation – The Guardian
“The home secretary was ‘misled’ when she moved to throw a leading Palestinian activist out of the UK, according to an immigration tribunal ruling that strongly criticised her decision and found in favour of his appeal against the government’s attempts to deport him.”
The Guardian, 9th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
