“Football fan Garry Mann’s hope of avoiding two years in a Portuguese jail rests with a ruling by human rights judges today.”
The Independent, 27th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A senior lawyer, Deidre Clark, sacked from a leading city firm after she wrote a sexually explicit online novel is suing her former employers for £3.5 million.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Police insisted today they are doing all they can to monitor sex offenders as it was revealed more than 300 are missing in the UK.”
The Independent, 26th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Jack Tweed, the widower of the reality TV star Jade Goody, was today cleared of raping a teenager he had met in a London nightclub.”
The Guardian, 26th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Media organisations are to challenge a reporting ban on a landmark hearing at which four politicians accused of fiddling their expenses will claim they cannot be brought to trial.”
The Times, 27th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A number of High Street chains has been ordered to pay up to £20m ($31m) to 2,000 people who received chemical burns from sofas.”
BBC News, 26th April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former Cazenove partner serving a 21-month jail sentence for insider dealing should forfeit £956,863 in a confiscation and costs order, his prosecutors said yesterday.”
The Times, 24th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The prison population has hit a record 85,000 after Labour’s decision to end the 18-day early release scheme just before the election campaign got under way.”
The Guardian, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Much has already been said about Lord Justice Jackson’s proposals for success fees, after-the-event insurance, costs shifting and the like, but much less, if anything, about litigation processes, and their impact on costs. Yet it is surely unarguable that a streamlining or simplification of the litigation process would result in a reduction in costs.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 26th April 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“A teenager has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence for claiming a former colleague was one of James Bulger’s killers.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Suspected counterfeit goods being brought into the UK can be destroyed without going to court if the importer fails to object, according to new rules put in place by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th April 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“This is not the last we have heard from Sharon Shoesmith and her campaign to prove she was made a scapegoat over the tragic death of Baby Peter.”
The Independent, 24th April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Four politicians accused of fiddling their expenses are to begin in private their landmark constitutional battle against being brought to trial, The Times has learnt.”
The Times, 26th April 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A highly critical report into the death of Blair Peach, the anti-fascist campaigner widely believed to have been killed by police in 1979, is expected to be published on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman firefighter who resorted to sleeping with her boss in a vain attempt to end a campaign of harassment against has received a payout from her former employers.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The UK will come under increasing pressure to ban all smacking and corporal punishment of children as the European human rights body steps up pressure for a change in the law.”
The Guardian, 25th April 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teacher who put a ‘shocking’ child sex abuse video on a memory stick was caught after it was found by his pupils at a £1,200-a-term private school.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A ‘militant atheist’ who left explicit images in a prayer room at Liverpool John Lennon Airport has been given a six-month suspended sentence.”
BBC News, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man who was wrongly accused of training the September 11 attackers will be given compensation, the Ministry of Justice confirmed today.”
The Independent, 23rd April 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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