“A mother has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years after being convicted yesterday of murdering her young son.”
The Independent, 15th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government will attempt to make intercept evidence admissible in court, the Guardian has learned, in a move likely to bring ministers into conflict with the intelligence services.”
The Guardian, 16th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A white supremacist who became the first person to be sentenced for producing a chemical weapon was jailed for 10 years today.”
The Independent, 14th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The case has caused a stir because correspondence from the Prince of Wales will be used as evidence, in what has become a row over the most expensive piece of land in Britain and an argument between modernist and traditional architects.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th May 2010
Sourc: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The first acid test for Britain’s new government is not the economy, but whether it is capable of an act of simple humanity. Can Theresa May deliver on the repeated promise of Tory and Lib Dem leaders to end the torment inflicted by the state on Gary McKinnon, the hacker with Asperger’s syndrome, whom the Home Office wants to send to lengthy imprisonment and likely suicide in a US jail? His courtroom cruelty is scheduled to begin again on 24 May: the time has come to end it, once and for all.”
The Guardian, 16th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Campaigners for the computer hacker Gary McKinnon have called for support from the new coalition government in their latest bid to overturn a decision to allow him to be extradited to the US.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Barry George, who was cleared of murdering Jill Dando, accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages over claims that he was obsessed with Cheryl Cole and Kay Burley.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th May 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Watchdog rejects appeal, saying ruling will bring more choice and cheaper rates to payment protection insurance market.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“High court judge issues ‘whole life’ order to Anthony Hardy, who was given three life sentences for murder of women.”
The Guardian, 14th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The new Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition Government said that it will beef up freedom of information law and reduce the number of people whose details are held on the Government’s DNA database.”
OUT-LAW.com, 13th May 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“A council has been told it breached the Freedom of Information Act by failing to provide an AM details about the cost of employing education consultants.”
BBC News, 14th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A transsexual who started a High Court battle for the legal right to NHS funding for breast augmentation surgery will have to wait for a judgement.”
BBC News, 13th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A psychopath who bludgeoned a Teesside doctor to death with a hammer has been refused the right to a face-to-face interview with a newspaper journalist.”
BBC News, 14th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An eight-year-old girl who told her mother that two 10-year-old boys had sexually assaulted her, yesterday said in court that she had lied about the incident because she had been ‘naughty’ and was worried she would not get any sweets.”
The Independent, 14th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A solicitor with a double first from Cambridge and a spell at Rothschild’s on his CV was fined £200,000 and banned from the City yesterday for his role in helping boiler room scammers to terrorise and rip off at least 130 people.”
The Times, 14th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“More than 5,000 security guards in London’s financial district have been instructed by police to report people taking photographs, recording footage or even making sketches near buildings, the Guardian has learned. City of London police’s previously unseen advice singles out people who may appear to be ‘legitimate tourists’ to prevent reconnaissance by al-Qaida. The document, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, helps explain a number of recent cases in which photographers have been stopped and searched by police using section 44 of the Terrorism Act, after first being approached by security guards.”
The Guardian, 13th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A political activist today failed in her libel action over a journalist’s blog which referred to her ‘Baader-Meinhof’ link. In a ruling that gives bloggers some protection against libel actions, Mr Justice Eady rejected a claim by Johanna Kaschke , a Tower Hamlets-based Conservative, against David Osler, a Labour Party member, over an article that was written in April 2007.”
The Times, 13th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A severely disabled piano virtuoso has made legal history after the country’s last remaining secret court was opened for the first time.”
The Times, 14th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A drunk man jailed for a ‘prank’ attempted carjacking with an imitation gun has had his sentence cut at the Appeal Court in London.”
BBC News, 13th May 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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