“The fight for Dale Farm, which saw 80 families evicted from an unauthorised Traveller site after a gruelling 10-year battle, is not over yet. Basildon council has confirmed it is set to start procedures to evict Travellers who moved from Dale Farm on to a neighbouring site.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The fate of a juror accused of contempt of court after causing a trial to collapse by carrying out internet research at home hangs in the balance after the High Court reserved its judgement yesterday. Dr Theodora Dallas’s actions led to the trial of Barry Medlock, accused of causing grievous bodily harm, to be abandoned in July last year after she revealed to fellow jurors he had previously been tried for rape but acquitted.”
The Independent, 20th January 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Britain is free to ban foreign doctors from working in this country if they do not speak adequate English or there are concerns over their medical ability, an EU Commissioner insists today.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Campaigners have lost a Court of Appeal battle to stop low-level radioactive waste being dumped near their Northamptonshire village.”
BBC News, 18th January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A former miner who killed his wife during a row over a cup of tea has lost his bid to overturn his conviction.”
BBC News, 17th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Metropolitan Police has succeeded in its appeal against a Divisional Court ruling (see previous post) that the use of crowd control measures – in this case, containment or ‘kettling’ – against Climate Camp protesters did not constitute ‘lawful police operations’.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Photographs that are digitally manipulated using imaging software can be original enough to qualify for copyright protection, the Patents County Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 19th January 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“The former wife of a Russian oligarch has won a divorce payout of £12.5 million after a judge ruled the postnuptial agreement she signed was ‘grossly unfair’.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A man accused of drink-driving after being caught more than four times the alcohol limit while riding his mobility scooter has been let off because his vehicle was too small to be classed as a road vehicle.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Solicitors are not going to sit back when welfare benefits and legal aid are withdrawn. We intend to challenge injustice in the courts.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A recent report by a Commission on Assisted Suicide funded by euthanasia advocates, Terry Pratchett and Bernard Lewis, ushered in by euthanasia supporter and Labour peer, Charles Falconer, and sponsored by Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), has found, predictably, that a legal framework should be investigated that would allow medical complicity in suicide. The fact that the 11-strong commission was made up of nine well-known proponents of euthanasia, led, inexorably, to an early-stage boycott of the inquiry by over 40 organisations, including the British Medical Association.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 19th January 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“The legal element of buying a house is regarded as a necessary evil, the part that always slows the transaction down. This isn’t necessarily true, of course. But conveyancing is proving to be just as much of a pain to the legal profession as it can be to the public.”
The Guardian, 19th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“On 17 January 2012 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed down its judgment in Othman (Abu Qatada) v UK. In a unanimous ruling the Court held that the UK could not lawfully deport Abu Qatada to his native Jordan, overturning the House of Lords (who had unanimously come to the opposite conclusion in RB (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2009] UKHL 10, [2010] 2 AC 110).”
UK Human Rights Blog, 19th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“John Kennedy followed his father’s wishes when he died, sharing the money from a compensation payout with the rest of the family, but he ended up in prison as a result.”
BBC News, 19th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Metropolitan Police has won its appeal against a High Court ruling over ‘kettling’ tactics used during the G20 demonstrations in April 2009.”
BBC News, 19th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A judge has fiercely criticised the quality of advocacy in mental health review tribunals (MHRT) as calls intensify across the profession for the compulsory accreditation of practitioners appearing for mentally ill clients.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 19th January 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Regina v Clinton; Regina v Parker; Regina v Evans [2011] EWCA Crim 2; [2012] WLR (D) 2
“For the purposes of the partial defence to murder of loss of self-control, where such loss of self-control was triggered by sexual infidelity that could not, on its own, qualify as a trigger for the purposes of the defence. Nevertheless, where an admissible trigger might be present, the evidence relating to sexual infidelity might arise for consideration as part of the context in which to evaluate that trigger and whether the statutory ingredients required of the qualifying trigger might be established.”
WLR Daily, 17th January 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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