“A former London DIY store cashier who became governor of an oil-rich Nigerian state has been jailed for 13 years for fraud totalling nearly £50m ($77m).”
BBC News, 17th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Last-minute negotiations over the text of controversial British plans to reform the European court of human rights (ECHR) are focusing on the criteria for screening out cases and the leeway each country is permitted to interpret convention laws differently.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A gas fitter has been jailed for three years for the manslaughter of a woman who died of carbon monoxide poisoning.”
BBC News, 17th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The teenager who killed pensioner Richard Mannington Bowes during the summer riots has been sentenced to eight years’ detention.”
The Guardian, 17th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An environmental campaigner’s legal challenge to a housing development has failed.”
OUT-LAW.com, 17th April 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
BUQ v HRE [2012] EWHC 774 (QB) (29 March 2012)
High Court (Administrative Court)
Source: www.bailii.org
“As the House of Commons prepares today to consider amendments passed in the House of Lords to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill, the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has called on the Government to accept these vital changes.”
The Bar Council, 17th April 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“The prison authorities had acted unlawfully in restricting childcare resettlement leave to prisoners who were within two years of their release date and had been allocated to ‘open’ conditions.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The Government has opened an ex gratia scheme to make payments to victims of terrorism who were injured in incidents outside the UK on or after 1 January 2002 and who continue to have an ongoing disability as a direct result of the injuries they sustained. From Monday 16 April 2012 victims will be able to apply for a payment under this scheme.”
Ministry of Justice, 16th April 2012
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“A trial at a London court collapsed last Friday after it was revealed that an interpreter employed by Applied Language Solutions had made a grave interpreting error.”
The Lawyer, 17th April 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A man from Wiltshire who has ‘locked-in syndrome’ has asked for an explanation on why he should not be allowed to die.”
BBC News, 16th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The police watchdog has announced a review into mounting complaints about racism in the Metropolitan police, warning that they probably suggest a ‘much wider disaffection and dissatisfaction’ with the force.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This piece asks whether, in the light of UK proposals for the reform of the ECtHR, and in the wake of the outcry in the UK over the Qatada decision (Othman v UK), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is taking an approach that looks like one of appeasement of certain signatory states.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 17th April 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Legally-aided advice desk at Clerkenwell and Shoreditch county court is a vital service for clients who may lose their homes.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Unelected judges do not take the views of politicians seriously enough in the increasingly ‘ferocious’ debate about human rights, an academic report suggests today.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th April 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Related link: Parliaments and Human Rights (PDF)
“Thousands of children will lose access to legal aid under government plans to shake up the system, campaigners say.”
BBC News, 17th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The attorney general is to meet MPs on the select committee investigating phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, in a highly unusual bid to ensure its final report does not prejudice potential court proceedings against any of the 45 individuals so far arrested by police.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An Asian former police officer who was racially abused by colleagues at Cleveland police then set up and jailed for a crime he did not commit has accepted compensation from the force of more than £800,000.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A British would-be suicide bomber jailed for plotting to blow up an aircraft has had his sentence cut after he assisted prosecutors in the US.”
BBC News, 16th April 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Removal of specialist support leaves those wrongly assessed vulnerable to poverty and homelessness, campaigners warn.”
The Guardian, 16th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
© Inner Temple Library 2025