“The demonisation of young women is contributing to the failure to secure more convictions of suspected rapists, one of the country’s leading prosecutors warns on Monday.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers are earning ‘success fees’ totalling £66 million a year for helping patients to sue the NHS, new figures have revealed.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Plans to give communities tougher protection from anti-social behaviour will be piloted in the summer, the Home Secretary will say today.”
The Independent, 30th January 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Victims of oil spills, pollution or land grabs in developing countries will no longer be able to pursue claims in British courts against multinational corporations under legal reforms being pushed through by the government, aid charities have warned.”
The Guardian, 30th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A nurse who prompted an international search because of fears he could have malaria has been detained under the Mental Health Act for sexually assaulting a waitress.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Cameroonian playwright and her husband who are under threat of deportation from the UK have been released from a detention centre.”
BBC News, 27th January 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two judges attempted to speed matters up by listing it for a hearing in July. They acted after hearing that the Home Secretary is ‘considering afresh’ whether Asperger’s sufferer McKinnon should be extradited to the US to face trial for hacking into top secret US military computers in 2002.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“CCTV footage shows Robert Evans as he asks Daniel Worgan to stop making lewd comments to a group of girls at Shrewsbury railway station in July last year.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The mood in Strasbourg is optimistic that worthwhile reforms to the European court of human rights can be achieved, following Cameron’s speech.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
West Tankers Inc v Allianz SpA and another: [2012] EWCA Civ 27; [2012] WLR (D) 9
“In an appropriate case, the court had jurisdiction under section 66 of the Arbitration Act 1996 to order judgment to be entered in the terms of an arbitral award where the award was declaratory in form and, more particularly, where it took the form of a negative declaration.”
WLR Daily, 24th January 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A speech given by The Rt Hon Nick Herbert MP to the CityForum event on ‘securing strategic partnerships for police transformation’ on 26 January 2012.”
Home Office, 26th January 2012
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Cash payments for scrap metal will be banned and penalties increased, the Home Secretary Theresa May announced today, as the government stepped up action against the growing menace of metal theft.”
Home Office, 26th January 2012
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Statement from the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, concerning the discontinuance of the trial of eight former police officers accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in South Wales (R vs Mouncher and others).”
Crown Prosecution Service, 26th January 2012
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“So, after an anxious wait for the affected businesses, the Court of Appeal has confirmed today that the Minister was too hasty in the way he went about modifying the scheme for subsidising small solar power schemes.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 25th January 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Four men who disclosed details of bids relating to lucrative energy contracts overseas have been convicted of corruption charges following a ruling by the Crown Court.”
OUT-LAW.com, 27th January 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
“Independent inspectors are to consider the way prosecutors handled the biggest trial of police officers in British criminal history following its collapse last month. Keir Starmer QC, the director of public prosecutions, has asked the Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate to look at the trial of eight former police officers who were cleared of fabricating evidence.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jonathan Henk, a psychiatric nurse who forced himself on a patient he was secretly dating after discovering she was pregnant by another man, has been struck off.”
Daily Telegraph, 25th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Campaigners call for an overhaul of the organisation that investigates miscarriages of justice.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2012
Soruce: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 43-year-old man has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years for manslaughter after he killed his best friend with a scaffolding pole more than 20 years ago and pushed his body into a drain.”
The Guardian, 26th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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